Announcement!

Today, we announced the wonderful news of our little one to our family. We had both sides of my family gathered so it was the perfect time to share the news of our blessing. This will be the first grandchild for my parents, as well as Jimmy's parents, and the second great-grandchild of my grandparents. Everyone was thrilled and excited about our news, and I think even a few tears were shed.

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Jimmy and I love love love Christmastime! We love that everyone is in jolly spirits and we get to see family and eat monkey bread. Since it is our first Christmas as a married couple in our own house, we decided to go all out with a real tree and full-on decor. I even made a wreath for our door. For our first Christmas cards, we enlisted our good friend Kevin Kovaleski to take some shots of us with our tree in the woods. He is a terrific photographer and I recommend you visit his site to view his work. The funny part is that we actually bought the tree at Home Depot for $20 and drove it INTO the woods to take pictures with it. Ha, I'm so lucky to have a husband (and friend) to humor me.

When we were leaving, there were people heading into the woods. They looked at us strangely, and we realized that they probably thought we had actually chopped down a tree in the park and were taking it home! Someone asked if there were any others back there and we had to explain that we had brought the tree with us... to the woods... right.

Some how, this one did not make it onto the Christmas card.