Julie and Julia....I love it!

Here it is...another wonderful Monday, but thank goodness I do not have school tonight. It's a holiday week again, which means work could possibly be hectic. All I can say is that I am looking forward to spending New Years Eve with the Logan family across town.

We had an awesome time at Mom's house over the weekend. It is always nice to head out for Mom's cooking. There's just nothing else like it :) Kieran pottied twice in the big toilet while we were visiting so I am extra proud of him! We had some bad news as well...Mom lost one of her managers at work. Very sad news, but I believe he is definately in a better place.

Last night, Jared and I handed Peanut over to Grandma and Grandpa who went down to Haysville for fun and festivities with the Lewis clan. Jared and I headed down to Old Town and watched The Blind Side. It was an awesome movie! I was very impressed and it was a good story. We had some ice cream afterwards and headed back to the house.

I went to the OB-GYN this morning for my meeting with the nurse...medical history, etc. Next week I actually meet with the doctor and we should get to hear the baby's heartbeat. Very excited. And that brings us to now...we're watching "Julie and Julia" and wishing we could be awesome chefs. And eventually we will be. I keep telling my hubby to keep the faith. He will be a chef soon enough!

Merry Christmas!

Here's Kieran jumping on the four wheeler before Jared could get it out of the packaging, LOL!

Well, another Christmas Day has come and nearly passed which means I head back to work tomorrow to finish out the work week. We had a wonderful Christmas Eve last night. I got home from work safely in the nasty weather and got in a nice afternoon nap. Jared and I made Grandma Schulze's awesome pizza meatloaves and mashed potatoes for dinner. By the time we were done with dinner, we were tired, and Peanut was in no mood to settle down! Little man finally went to bed around 10pm.

My internal clock had me up at 5:30am, so I came out to the living room, turned on the heater to warm things up a little extra and just cozied up on the couch and watched "A Christmas Story." I put our breakfast casserole in the oven for breakfast (which was very yummy!!) and waited for my boys to wake up. Jared was the first to awaken on Christmas Morning. Kieran wasn't too far behind him.

Little man had bed hair, majorly, and was quite excited to wake up and find Santa Claus had visited. He especially enjoyed the Plex doll from Yo Gabba Gabba! We opened presents while the casserole was still cooking. I think Kieran had more fun with the little broom and dust pan we got him than he did with the four wheeler. He eventually ditched the broom and hopped on the four wheeler for some driving before breakfast :)

Santa Claus was awesome and brought me something extra special this year (besides the Ipod!). Jared managed to get a hold of a Santa DVD from KWCH-12 here in Wichita which featured Henry Harvey as Santa Claus and my favorite holiday friend, TOY BOY!! I had to put the DVD in right away, LOL. Santa and Toy Boy are my favorite! Thank you, Jared.

We had Christmas Dinner with the LeFevre's/Lewis' at Grandma Marcella's house. We had lots of yummy food and had a great time!! We even made sure Larry got his "Turducken," LOL...It was too much for old prego me, but everyone else seemed to enjoy it! Tomorrow we are traveling out to Independence to spend some Christmas time with Collin and Cassie and the rest of the family after I get off work.

It's been a great Christmas Eve/Christmas Day and I am extremely grateful for all of my friends and family that have made it so awesome. I love you all! Next year is guaranteed to be exciting since we will have "Peanut Number Two" to enjoy the festivities!