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December update

So December has been a super busy month for us as it is for everyone. Ours was made a little more interesting by Adam's knee surgery that was the 6th of December. He has been on crutches since and still has 2 more weeks to go on them. It was a little difficult for Jake to understand that Daddy can't pick him up but things are adjusting nicely. We kicked off the holiday season with Jake before the surgery with a few little train rides and a 'reindeer' (really a horse) ride. The train pictured here was around Atlantic Station, our outdoor mall. (I have very few pictures to post of our outings right now as our PC has crashed and I only have the pictures that are on our Mac right now. . . )

We also rode the Pink Pig at Macy's in Buckhead which is a longstanding Atlanta tradition. (again, pictures to come!)



We had our faux Christmas here in Atlanta the weekend before we left so we didn't have to haul all of Jake's gifts to Ohio and then back again. Santa visited our house and dropped off an exciting new tricycle and a ton of blocks!


We ended the Christmas season with our trip to Ohio for Christmas and Jake got to really play in the snow this year!



The trip was going fantastic until Jake got a virus on Christmas night and I feel like it has been a comedy of errors ever since. We were up for about 2 hours with a very sick little boy and then it was a chain reaction. I was certain it was because he had consumed too much junk food on Christmas so we went about our normal visiting routine and in turn have infected I think now 10 family members with this crud. Not to take all the glory here but I think I got the worst of it being 27 weeks pregnant and all. Our normal 9 hour drive took us 12+ while Grandma and I took turns telling Adam to pull over to get sick. I ended up in the hospital for a day in Labor and Delivery to receive 3 bags of fluid since I couldn't even keep down ice chips. But all that has passed now, thank goodness! Like I said, Grandma came home with us but unfortunately we had to put her on a plane to go home early. At some point before we left she had fallen and was having difficulty walking. With me being pregnant and Adam on crutches we had to call the squad on her to make sure her hip wasn't broken. Well, it's not broken and she really just wanted to go home, so we got her drugged up and on a plane home to visit her doctors. Please keep your fingers crossed for her because I just talked to my aunt and she's having spasms and now they have to call the squad on her all over again.

Our Thanksgiving

I am proud to say this is the first Thanksgiving in the 12 or so years that Adam and I have been together (9 of those married) that we have spent Thanksgiving at our house! We decided not to go to Ohio and the plan was for my Grandma to come here. Unfortunately, Grandma hurt her back and had a virus and was unable to make the trip, but we still had a great day. It was SOOO nice to be able to lay around on OUR couch for once. I did all the cooking for the first time and I'm very proud to say that everything was made from scratch! I did opt out on a big turkey since there was only 3 of us and cooked a 3 pound turkey breast instead, but we did have all the Thanksgiving essentials of stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn casserole, sweet potato casserole and cranberry sauce. Not to mention the pumpkin pie which was by far Jake's favorite!

It's a little sister for Jake!

I waited for my 2nd ultrasound just to be certain, and it is. . .It's a girl!

Here is her sweet little profile-


This is confirming it's a girl-it's like she's sitting on the camera, you can see both of her legs, and well, the fact that she's a girl!

Eeek--Jake's a spider

We had our little Halloween spider for Trick or Treat this year. Below are a few pictures from Trick or Treat and here are picture that Sprout Photography took for me to send to family.

Pumpkin Picking!

We headed up to northern GA (I thought we were going to end up in South Carolina!) to Burt's Pumpkin Patch with the soccer mom group. 4 adults and 5 kids. Jake LOVED it. I swear the kid was smiling almost the entire time. It took him a while to get over wanting to push the buttons on the Coke machines, but all in all it was a great time! Pictures here!

Jake and Mommy on the hay ride

Check out Jake's new shirt

Yep, you read right, Jake is going to be a big brother! We have held off on announcing it so we would be able to tell our friends in person while we were in Ohio for Homecoming. It was a very difficult wait, but well worth being able to tell people in person. I am currently 15 weeks and due on April Fool's Day (which just happens to be my Grandma's birthday!!!)

10 year Witt reunion

So this past weekend Adam, Jake and I made the trek to Ohio for our 10 year college reunion. It was so good to see all of our old friends.

Friday night Adam and I made it out for date night #2 since Jake was born:-) A big thank you to Aunt Linda and Gma for their babysitting efforts. We had a wonderful evening at The Elevator, our favorite Ohio restaurant, plus we got to meet up with a Becky, who wasn't going to be able to make it to the reunion.


Saturday we were super busy with activities on campus--some pictures here. I must admit for some reason I was a little emotional walking around campus. We walked past Weaver Chapel and it just seemed so surreal that Adam and I met at Witt, got married in the Chapel and here we were walking around with our son. It just seems like things have come full circle and I was so happy to think about how far we have come.

Another cool thing is that we now have a family picture standing on the Wittenberg seal, which you can only step on after you graduate, and we have a wedding picture in the same spot. The weekend was just so full of memories!