Christmas

I know Christmas was over a month ago so hey, I am a little slow but better late then never.

This Christmas was spent in Virginia with Paul's Family. Heather was here from Utah so it was nice being able to spend time with her and have everyone together. For the first part of our Christmas vacation we went up to Stanton to Grandma & Grandaddy Cauley's. We drove back to Richmond on Christmas morning and were able to spend some time at Emaw & Grandaddy Butler's with the whole Butler family. Christmas is my favorite time of year. It is so nice just to have everyone together and be able to spend time as a family. Paul and I are so blessed to be able to surround ourselves with wonderful family and friends no matter where we are.

This is the gift that keeps on giving. Last year at work we did a white elephant gift exchange. The gift I brought was a toilet seat wrapped in plastic wrap with tootsie rolls in the middle. Everyone thought it was pretty funny except for the one that ended up with it at the end of the game. I felt bad so I traded it back for the gift I ended up with. I had to get my monenys worth and reuse it again so we decided to wrap it back up this year and give it to Heather. After that some one had the idea to wrap it up again and give it to Grandaddy Butler. I do have to say that is one toilet seat that we have gotten some good use out of. (Don't worry, it has never been used on an actual toilet)

Thanksgiving

Even though Christmas has already past I still wanted to include a post about Thanksgiving. This year it was a little different for Paul and I. Thanksgivings past have been spent with either his parents or mine. This year we stayed at home and Holly and Cameron came from Flordia to spend the Holiday with us. Even though it wasn't our usual Thanksgiving and the rolls didn't quite turn out like Grandma Johnston's (the second attempt was more successful) we still made a lot of good memories and had a lot of fun. Friday of course was filled with early morning shopping and seemed to last throughout the entire day. Although we did take a few breaks . Even though they left us with thier colds we were really sad to see Holly & Cameron leave. We enjoy spending time with them and really look foward to our next outing with them.


This year we tried something new and decided to fry our Turkey. It turned out really good. The best turkey I have ever had I think.

On Saturday we travelled to Wilmington to check out the Battleship North Carolina. It was cool to see but I would have to agree with Holly. Once you see the first few floors everything else kind of looks the same. The boys really enjoyed it though.

We even had time to squeeze in a Tinkerbell birthday party.

It's a Boy!

I have been terrible with updating our blog. I do have two good excuses though. One, things are just busy. Since Christmas is a busy time for retail I have been able to work a lot of overtime. Paul doesn't really seem to understand why I am complaining though because I am working pretty much the same hours he works every week. Oh well, I'm pregnant. And two, we are pretty boring right now. We don't really have a lot to blog about, unless you want to hear about hospital renovations or lip balm. Neither of which are really exciting.



Well now I do have a little something to blog about.



We are having a little baby boy!





We are pretty excited. Paul will finally have a willing fishing buddy. I was pretty anxious to find out what we were having because I wanted to start shopping but honestly since we found out three weeks ago I have only bought a couple things. I think it was because I envisioned buying all these cute little dresses and girly things. Boy clothes just aren't as fun. That will probably turn out to be a good thing though, at least for our check book. I think I could have gotten a little carried away with a girl. But like I said. We are totally excited and can't wait for April!