What a trip!

Just for the record, I would not recommend driving 8 hours when you are 8 months pregnant. It is not fun and it sucks. . . that being said, we had a great trip to Ohio for Christmas and it is even better to be home! One thing I definitely do not miss is the cold! We were wondering if our car temperature went negative, but luckily it didn't get that cold to find out.


We arrived late Friday night the 19th because my aunt and my grandma were throwing my 3rd and final baby shower on Saturday the 20th. Wow, is all I can say. I am still in awe that we fit 28 people in my Grandma's living room! It was amazing--the decorations, the perfect invitations, and everyone coming! We got so many gifts, it was unbelievable!! (more to come on that. . . )Here are some pictures from the shower.

The worst part of the whole trip? I either had the 24 hour flu or I ate something that did NOT agree with me at all. Monday I spent the entire day sicker than I have ever been before. I was so disappointed that we didn't get to meet our friends Becky and Roni for dinner in Columbus. That had to be the biggest disappointment of the entire trip. Sorry, Becky!

Tuesday, still feeling icky, I convinced Adam to have professional maternity photos taken. I can't believe how beautiful they turned out! I certainly don't feel that beautiful, but I just can't stop looking at them they are so amazing! (I scanned in the proofs, they are coming through grainy, but here they are).


Tuesday night we did Christmas with Adam's family, it is so fun to be around kids at Christmas time! It is so great to just watch them rip open their presents and get so excited! Here are those pictures.

Wednesday we did Christmas with my family, which is always fun (pics here). I thought my poor Grandma was going to go into a full fledged panic attack when we lost power for almost 2 hours when she was trying to get the cooking done. We still don't know why we didn't have power, but we passed the time by making Adam put together our stroller that we got at the baby shower. It's super scary to think that soon I'm going to have a baby to put in there!

Saturday it was finally time to come home!!!!!! We had so many gifts from the baby shower and Christmas we had to load the car the night before. . .Needless to say it almost came to the point where we were going to have to ship stuff home, but as you can see, Adam made it all fit!