Top Ten!!

Yet another great weekend! We spent this weekend at my mom and dad's with our family and celebrated our Christmas. We had so much fun opening presents, playing games, and spending time with everyone. Here are some events from the weekend:

10. Seeing everyone open their Christmas gifts!

9. Finding out our entire family has some major eating issues!

8. Playing Loaded Questions with Yellow Buddy

7. Dustin thinking his spouse has a great talent for "selecting a mate"

6. Knowing that the females in our family feel the same in the middle of the night. Either "Seriously, leave me alone," or "Get off of me."

5. Knowing the males in our family think about "Sweet, sweet love..." LOL...

4. Jerome continually reminding all of us that he brought a movie we could watch instead of playing all of our games...(he was not successful at distracting us!)

3. Emily finding out most of her in-laws are crazy jealous of her personality and features: tan, good abs, skinny, and her patience. (Can one really be a Ringger and possess patience??)

2. Knowing where to find Micki if we only have two hours to live because a nuclear bomb is going to hit us

1. Of course...spending time with everyone this weekend. Thank you mom and dad for hosting all of us! It was a blast!

Nursery In Progress

With Brian off of work a few days we have been able to begin getting the nursery ready. We started off last weekend with Mom and Brian painting the walls. Then this week Brian assembled the crib and changed doorknobs and hinges. We moved in the changing table....a great Craig's list deal my mom found and sister picked up....as well as the glider. We changed blinds, added a curtain rod and curtain. We also cleaned the carpets. Geesh...we accomplished a lot...but still have a ways to go!

We still have the eye sore ceiling fan...I didn't take a picture. Hopefully Dustin and Brian will get that changed some weekend while Emily and I watch and deliver them beverages of their choice :) We also have to paint the dresser and get that ready to go. So really...not too much more...at least until we have our first baby shower and start buying stuff to fill it up!

Some of the pictures show the crib, changing table, glider (going to be covered in brown instead of blue), the green wall, the chocolate wall, Brian putting together the trundle drawer under the crib, and Brian taking a break in the glider :)

It makes it so real and is so fun to think that their will be a little person laying in that bed before we know it!

The weather outside is frightning...

Well Christmas vacation got here one day early! Good for me...bad for you all who had to get out and drive...yikes!

Usually today is the day we arrive in Jamaica. Now I just think that Dustin and Emily are enjoying our sunshine for us down in the Bahamas. So very jealous! Maybe they will check this out and the picture of the fantastic weather they barely missed. I am so happy they flew out yesterday and not today!

It is amazing how much ice there is covering everything! Keep warm and drive safe everyone! See many of you at Christmas!

Countdown

It is funny that I never got out of school mode....I still count down till Christmas break! Only four days left! I talked to some parents the other day at school, and they aren't looking forward to the time off near as much as I am. They get their kids at home for two weeks while I get two weeks away!

Prego Belly

How do all those supermodels look pregnant and sexy?? I just don't get it. I always thought it would be fun taking pictures of a prego belly....well not entirely "fun" but oh well. So don't expect many pictures to follow this one. I have a feeling the bigger the belly gets, the less the pictures will appear. Anyway, we are now six and a half months along...almost 27 weeks. Wow, I can't believe it. March will be here before we know it!

WhAt?!?!

How in the world can shirts fit just fine one day and not the next!?!?!?! I have had some very frustrating mornings to say the least. Ugh!

Is it Friday?

It seems that this week took forever! Maybe it is the fact that I am counting down to Christmas break. I think I am worse than the kids. I am ready to shut down my brain for awhile!

My class has such big hearts this year (well, most of them). Instead of doing a gift exchange within our class they decided to buy gifts for a needy family and wrap them at our Christmas party. How fun! We are also writing letters to Santa and delivering them to Macy's where they donate a dollar to the Make a Wish foundation for every letter to Santa they get. They are so excited. One little boy even said, "I wish we could see the kids' faces Christmas morning when they see their presents." I wish I could loop with this class forever...do I really have to start over with a new one next year???