Irony...

LOVE

This is my favorite picture from my session with Hillary!

Repeat of Last Year??

I hope so!! :)

More Pictures

Hillary finished my pictures from my session with her! She has posted a few on her Blog.
She did a beautiful job, but I hate looking at pictures of myself! I always feel like I look dumb, my hair is doing something funky, I'm making a funny face... you name it!
Anyways, she's sending me the whole session on a CD so I can't wait to get it and look at them all!
Thanks Hillary! I had a blast working with you. I hope we can do it again one day :)

'Tis The Season

We got all of our Christmas Decorations up last night.

This is such a wonderful time of year! You can't help but be in a good mood. :)
Here are a few pictures of the decorations:
(disclaimer: some of these pictures are really bad since I could not get the lighting to cooperate)

Our stockings... I know Avery isn't here yet, but her stocking deserves to be hung, right? lol
Jeff's first comment: "Avery's stocking is bigger than ours"... to which I replied, "That's the way it is supposed to be, dear. Santa will need to make sure to fill it up, too!" lol

A close up of one of our decorative trees... LOVE!

This Santa is my favorite piece that I have. He is hand made and his clothes are stitched from upholstery fabric. He makes me smile every time I get him out of his wrapping in the attic. Too bad he can't stay out all year.

I made this little beauty for our front door. The picture does not do it justice AT ALL!! I love it though. It's something different than the usual wreath that everyone has.

I got these reindeer from my mom and dad for Christmas at the Nutcracker Market in Houston. (that is a whole post in itself... but needless to say, if you love the Holidays and decorating your house with anything Fall or Christmas themed, this is the place to go!)

Week 30

Avery is just chuggin' along... Mommy is getting ready for her to get here already! It seems to be going by so much slower now! Good news, though, I got weighed at the doctor today and have not put on any weight since my last apt at 25 weeks. I guess the weight is just shifting around cuz I know my belly is getting bigger!

Maternity Pictures

This was my second session for pictures, but they were taken by my cousin, Tanya Pabor, so she was able to get them to be yesterday at Thanksgiving dinner. She did a great job! We had a blast. This is my favorite picture from the session.

Happy Birthday!

Today is my niece Annelise's first birthday. We celebrated last weekend with a party since her birthday is always going to be right around Thanksgiving. (She was a "Turkey Baby" last year). Maybe I'm just biased, but she is just the sweetest and cutest baby out there! Here's to a wonderful first year and to many many more to come! :)

Book Worm

Yes, I have turned into one. I finished book #2 of my list of Mitch Albom's books to read. Although I disagree on the theology basis of the book, it was still amazing and I highly recommend it. It makes you stop and think about how you interact with the people around you and makes you wonder who's lives you may have touched without ever knowing it.

"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."

"Life has to end, love doesn't."

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."