while i am waiting...

for rachel to call to say that her baby was born, i thought i would write a little post about christmas...even though i really want to post about a new little someone that should be arriving soon. i got a call at one saying she got a call from the hospital to come in to be induced. i am so eager to hold this bundle of joy!!

anyway, christmas was a huge success. i have always loved christmas and having audrey here with us has been the only thing we have wanted for the past two christmases so it made our christmas to share it with her.

we had dinner on christmas eve dinner with my aunt rosemary and uncle kent at their house and then santa came, we read "twas the night before christmas" and opened some presents and everything was delightful. i have a darling picture to post of audrey in a hat that my cousin jennifer knitted for her once it is emailed to me. she looked so cute in it.

we came home and opened up a couple of presents (including new christmas pajamas) and watched "it's a wonderful life" and settled in for a long winter's nap.

dad and audrey let me sleep in until they couldn't take the anticipation anymore and came into wake me up. we went down and turned on some christmas music and helped audrey go through her stocking. it was so cute to watch her as we helped her open all her presents and see which ones she got excited about and the ones where she was unimpressed, haha.

dave spoiled me with a wii fit and a heartrate monitor as well as some fun ipod accessories, some new shoes and slippers and a few other fun things. rachel, jeremy and jj came over for our traditional christmas brunch (deviled egg and ham casserole and sweet rolls, orange rolls are so yummy) and some guitar hero world tour (that is what santa brought for dave).

i wish i had taken more pictures, but i am glad i took a couple at least!

audrey with her loot!


it took a few tries to get the above picture, she was very tired and she does the trick when she is tired of her bumbo. she leans all the way back and pops her stomach up. it makes me very nervous and she is only in that seat when mom or dad is by her side...


she LOVES to watch guitar hero, she makes me laugh so hard. you can see my new slippers in the background :)


she is our little thumb sucker!



she loves her activity gym! thanks ana and grandpa!



all dressed up in her christmas outfit


this one is actually from a few weeks ago when audrey and i were both sick, laying on the couch. i love this picture even though i am in desperate need of chapstick because audrey looks so funny in it. "how much formula did i drink last night?" haha.


this one is from last night when we were tending jj. when his parents came to pick him up he wanted to hold audrey so bad. it is so cute to see how much he loves her.


well those are a few highlights of our celebration. we missed our family members that don't live here and hope they had a wonderful holiday.

**RACHEL UPDATE** just got a text that said that baby will be here about midnight at this rate!! i am SO excited!