Christmas

Christmas has always been my favorite time of the year. Even better than my birthday- even as a kid. I mean, whose family comes from all over the city and state just to wish you a happy birthday, unless of course, you're the oldest person they know and they like that they are related to you! In my experience, when you have a birthday, you were lucky if you got your birthday dinner that day and not three months later! LOL
Anyway, I digress and have lost my train of thought and so, must begin again!
Christmas is my fav- yeah, whatever! I'm excited because it seems like Dustin might have already gotten me some presents. And maybe some of the things I asked for, too. Smart man!
But really, I'm looking forward to seeing the family at Aunt Rhonda's house. It's the one time a year that the family will most likely be together in it's entirety.
I have always loved that part the most. The presents were nice, but I just loved the feeling of being surrounded by people who cared so much about each other. It was wonderful. I hated when it was over!
Now that I'm older, I anticipate other things, but that's still my favorite thing about Christmas.
Now I have my daughter to immerse in the love of a large and diverse family group. And she likes presents!

Holiday Banquet

So the Fellowship FWBC Annual Holiday Ladies' Banquet is finally over. And it was wonderful and beautiful. Everyone's table was gorgeous. My favorite, well, besides mine, of course, was Beverly's table with her pretty blue dishes. And of course, I once again forgot my camera at home. I'll have to get aunt Kathy to email me some of her pictures.
I'm glad Chelsea could make it and loved having Cynthia at my table. And I thought the program was fun and neat and Hannah was the cutest part of it.
I'm already looking forward to next year!

December First

Dec. 1st is the day that I decorate for Christmas. So Faith and I did the tree yesterday. I got colored lights this year and had to put the blinkers on them. She loved it, but go upset everytime I had to unplug the to insert a blinker. She had fun. She got really excited when we showed Dustin, screaming and laughing. Dustin's face just lit up and they were so cute together.
My favorite Christmas ever already!

My mother says "Genius", I say "Nightmare"

So my 'angel baby' has learned to climb. And pull herself up and stand against things. My mom says that she's a genius. I, however, live in fear of falls and head knocks. Both of which we have already experienced, at least three times a day. Oh, and no matter how often she crawls head first into anything, she expects it not to be there.
But she is so smart, too. She hears and understands when I say no. She stops nd looks at me. She crawls out of our bedroom if I leave the door open a little bit. It is so cute!
She'll crawl into our bathroom before I realize it and when I go to get her she crawls like crazy to get away from me, giggling like a loon. So adorable!

This was a draft I evidently never posted, so here it is. I have to go finish the other one.

It's a girl! Or it is until it's born.....

The ultrasound yesterday confirmed Dr. Suarez's assessment that the baby is a girl. She was extremely active the whole time. She directly kicked the doppler thingy several times and was moving constantly. After the first ultrasound with Faith, she barely moved much at all. She just happened to be in a good position to say she was a girl when they did the last ultrasound.
And I love my doctor this time around and will so be recommending her and coming back to her the next time around. Which I hope is like five years in the future this time, not 13 months.
I have two names in mind, but I have to hold on to them for a bit until Dustin decides what he thinks.
Thanks for being interested, y'all.

Angela ships out today. She leaves at 1900 hours and will arrive in Iraq around the same time tomorrow. She'll have a couple days to adjust and then I don't know exactly where she'll be but she'll be doing convoy security.
I am terrified and doing y best to leave it all to God. Which is a lot easier to say than to do.
Just wanted to say.

Another day, another thing goes wrong....

Dustin took today off to work on the steering on his truck. He got only so far and now he's stuck. Or was at two p.m. when he called home. I was hoping when he said he was taking off to do that, that it would all be so easy. Should have known it wouldn't be!
More later.
He fixed it! Then he came home for about thirty minutes and left again to go to class. Now he's home and we're about to go to bed. But hey, tomorrow, I have an appointment and we have grocery shopping to do and someone promised me he'd take me to Hobby Lobby!