Almost Christmas!

Welcome to our winter wonderland!  After a pretty lame (but cold and icy) storm earlier this week, we finally got a good, substantial, White Christmas kind of snowstorm on Wednesday/Thursday... leaving our neighborhood like this for what is likely to be most of the weekend!  We may not get falling snow on Christmas, but it'll be nice to have some on the ground while it's a typically beautiful Colorado day full of blue skies and fresh, chilly but not too cold air.  We only had to dig our car out once (thankfully), and so far, this big-ole-pregnant lady has not fallen on the ice (knock on wood).  :-)

We've had a great week so far (despite Matt having to work most of it, and thus, driving in the awful snow on his long commute...), and I can't believe it's Christmas Eve tomorrow! The week has seriously flown by with the church worship team Christmas Party at Moe's on Tuesday night (bowling and bbq, can't beat it!), Bryan getting into town and catching the Jam Knights at the Empire on Wednesday night (as the snow was coming down!), and grabbing drinks with the few friends still in town for my birthday last night at a new bar in Baker called Crimson Canary.  I'd say it's been a good week!

Pics from the Empire:

A few snapshots from Crimson Canary:

And now that we're only 3 short weeks away from the due date, we're hoping to get the hospital bag packed, car seat installed, and laundry cleaned and put away for little Benjamin!  The doctor has tentatively scheduled an induction on January 5th pending the findings of our next ultrasound... so we're just sending up prayers that his bowel is developing well and that there's no more growth/expansion of the loops they've been seeing or perforation all together.  We likely won't know much til he's finally here with us, and that is okay with me.  We're excited to be celebrating this season of rejoicing in Christ's birth, and we are just thankful for His grace and mercy every day.  I know we'll get the strength we need to get through whatever may come.

Off to prepare for a delicious Christmas Eve lunch with my sister and Matt before the family rolls into town tomorrow night.  Can't wait.