So my life for the past few weeks has been a major ball of stress with one crazy thing after another. First it was Thanksgiving, then it was Enrichment... now it is digging myself out of the hole that I created by not doing anything but those to major activities. This week we are finally settling down and spending some family time with each other.
Thanksgiving was nice. Ryan spent all day cooking, for those of you that don't know he is the real cook in our house. He made a wonderful turkey, stuffing and gravy. I on the other hand spent most of the day cleaning, decortating and cleaning some more... the life of a stay at home mom right! We had 12 adults and 5 kids that came for dinner, a small group when you consider that my family has 12 kids and spouses and then 20 grandkids. It was a nice evening, but by the time it was all said and done I was having so many contractions Ryan actually wanted to take me to the hospital.
Enrichment night the next week was a great success. We had 50 women show up, which is a huge number from our ward. Ryan again cooked all day... I cleaned up after him, because we were having a babysitter come that night for the kids. Ryan made a pork tenderloin with a pomagranite glace, zuchinne spaghetti with a lemon sauce and garlic parmesan mashed potatoes. The food was a big hit, everyone thinks that he needs to start doing a cooking class in our ward.
Saturday we spent all day decorating the house for Christmas. With snow finally coming down I am in the mood for Christmas. We put up both of our trees, decorated the fireplace mantal, the entry banister and the rest of the house. The kids were so excited to be able to decorate one tree all by themselves. We have been playing Christmas music ever since.
Tonight we are going to Temple Square with the kids to see the lights. They both are so excited they can't wait. I am charging the camera battery now so that we can get some good pictures. Tomorrow night we will be going to the live Nativity that our stake does every year. Ryan was in it last night and says that the Spirit there is so amazing. We are going to read the Christmas story tonight for scripture time so that as we walk through the "town" tomorrow we can remind the kids about waht is going on. If any of you live close to me I would suggest coming to really get into the right Christmas spirit. It goes until tomorrow.
Sorry that I don't have any pictures to post with this... taking pictures has been the last thing on my mind the past few week.
Just so you all know I hit 26 weeks. I don't normally do this, but will you keeps us in your prayers that the baby will at least make for 10 more weeks? I would really appreciate it.
3 comments:
I can't believe all those contractions you're having. What are you doing going to all these places? You're going to pop that baby right out! Okay, I understand you need to do some fun Christmas family things.....
Just take it easy! I'll keep you in my prayers for sure.
Have fun tonight. :O)
I just don't want to ruin Chrismas for the kids. They are at a really fun age now and so I want them to be able to experience all of the things I got to as a kids. I take it really easy during the day and then we walk slow when we go somewhere... we actually let the kids walk too because it keeps our pace really slow. It seems to be working out all right so far.
Oh my goodness! Of course I'll keep you in our prayers!! It sounds like you had a great turnout, though, and WOW! That food Ryan cooked up sounds fancy! He needs to start a side business. ;)
*~*~*~*~sticky dust*~*~*~* for your baby! :)
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