It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

The month of December is ALWAYS busy with my family, but add AJ's crazy bunch and we've got something going on every weekend! I can't complain because this is my favorite time of the year! I love being with our friends and family and this year it's so much more fun because we are telling everyone we see!

We started off our Christmas festivities with an Ugly Christmas Bunko party. I posted a pic of us in our 7 weeks, but here are a few more from the night. Oh what a night! 

The following weekend was our annual Steal-A-Gift party with my mom's side of the family. When my grandpa was alive he would buy a gift for all the kids until they turned 18. Once we were adults, he took us all out to dinner and afterwards we headed back to some one's house for a wholesome game of Steal-A-Gift (by wholesome I mean cussing, pushing, and shoving!) After he passed we kept the tradition going, but now we do a potluck before the gifts. This year was extra exciting because we were telling the whole family our little secret. My mom was dying for this night to happen-she's been holding it in since Nov 11th and it about killed her. I had a few different ideas of how to do our big reveal, but eventually settled with this amazing shirt I found on Etsy.com (my favorite obsession). I walked in with my jacket closed and the first thing my cousin asked me was what my shirt said. So I walked into the other room, undid my jacket and walked back out. My cousin and aunt went nuts! Then everyone picked up on my shirt and gave us lots of love! It's so nice to finally be able to share with everyone!

AJ and my cousin, his BFF

UGH I can't get the picture to rotate!

Last weekend was AJ's work party and in the same night our friends were having a Redneck Christmas party at their house. I promised I'd make both events, but didn't realize what type of energy that was going to require from me. We started off the afternoon by shopping for three hours-the malls are just insane right now. Of course nothing I tried on fit right, which led to a minor crybaby moment. I didn't want to be the only girl not wearing a dress, but I quickly got over it because I had no other options. AJ helped by reassuring me that I looked good.  After the mall we headed to the work party. It was such a nice experience to be taken care if by your employer. We have a full turkey and prime rib dinner with drinks all paid for by his company. There was an amazing raffle with prizes like iPads and $500 gift cards, but of course the two people next to me one something, but not us. We danced a little and then decided to head to the Redneck party. By this time it was 10:30 and I was already feeling exhausted, but I wanted to stop by for a least a little bit. We changed out of our fancy clothes and got down and dirty in our flannels. I'm so happy we stopped by because there were some amazing white trash outfits. We only stayed for an hour, but so glad we got to see everyone. Staying out until midnight really reminded me that I was pregnant; I was down for the count the next day.

Look at my handsome husband!



Yee Haw!


We had full intentions of finally getting our Christmas tree on Sunday, but I was too wiped out. This was also the reason I've had for every other day we should have gotten our tree. We spent all Sunday at my parent's house watching our Raiders win, taking a nap, and being the best taste testers for my mom's annual Christmas baking day. It was nice just to relax and be with the family all day. Since we didn't make it out for our tree on Sunday, we forced ourselves to pick one up on Monday night. It was so nice pulling up to Home Depot and smelling the magical smell of Christmas trees! We stuffed our 7 foot tree into my small SUV and my car smelled wonderful-a real life car freshener! Of course AJ had to jump into the picture and do something crazy.  

By the way-it's now Wed and we still haven't decorated the tree....

We have a ton of shopping left because, you guessed it, I have been too tired. That's what's on the agenda Friday and Saturday. Sunday will be spent watching Christmas movies and wrapping ALL DAY! I am so excited for Christmas when we get to tell the rest of our family about Baby J! Plus, I've bought the best gift for AJ and I can't wait for him to open it! He's going to be one happy daddy! Talk to you next week!