Our December finale, sort of.

We FINALLY cleaned out what is to be the baby's room.  It's been "in the process" since we moved in.  It used to be filled with boxes with one little path that sort of led to the middle back of the room, then it was filled with Joseph's junk he got from Apple (thank you Apple for sending us so much paper), and now it is finally ready for a crib!!!  Just as soon as we get the crib of course all will be perfect.

Clearly the room is enormous.

As you can see, Joseph is working at the computer (at my sweet desk I got for $20 - WIN).  The crib will go where the TV and backpack are.  We will soon be getting rid of that TV because we got a new one and it's glorious - I love Best Buy.  Anyway, I LOVE nesting.  It feels so good to clean and get everything ready for little baby to enter into the world!  

I have been incredibly blessed by Heavenly Father with such a wonderful, helpful and thoughtful husband and to have this little baby on the way.  I can't even begin to describe my gratefulness to Him for such a blessed life.

I WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THAT PROVO HAS FINALLY SEEN THE BEAUTIFUL FACE OF FATHER WINTER.  Yes, it's happened.  It snowed.  And I was here.  (I'll have you take note that the last and first time it snowed, I was out of the state and it all melted before I got back).  All it took was one wonderfully fantastic night for there to be tons of snow.  I love snow.  It's so happy.  I'm so happy.  And I love wearing snow boots.  

Yay!

Our three ornaments.

We put up our Christmas tree just before we left for Iowa for Thanksgiving.  I couldn't wait any longer.  Really, I wanted to put it up several weeks before Halloween... but Joseph didn't like that idea, not to mention the fact that having a Christmas tree up at a Halloween party looks weird.  So I waited as long as I could and thought that it would be nice to come back from Thanksgiving with our tree up and decorated!

Our little tree is only about 4 feet tall and made of various types of plastic.  I ordered it from the most wonderful place in the world, www.christmascentral.com.  I don't know why I didn't know about this treasure trove before but thank goodness I know now.  Our tree was $8!  Best, idea, ever.

We literally have 5 Christmas decorations, a tree, a string of lights, and 3 ornaments.  All of which can be seen in this picture.  Did I mention that I made our 3 ornaments?  (I also made that little baby hat on the shelf there, it's small and glorious, yay babies!!!)

I have started the nesting phase of my pregnancy, which is nice because I'm able to keep pretty busy all the time.  Besides constantly doing dishes and keeping the kitchen clean (which is where we spend most of our time) I've started cleaning and clearing out our office/second bedroom/junk room/food storage room.  There are a lot of things I want to give to DI that I have no use for but have held onto for some reason.  My mother was also kind enough to send in our POD along with all of my furniture a load of the toys and things I played with as a baby/child.  Which is great, I don't want to get rid of my Polly Pockets, but I don't want them in my house either.  I have a stinking box full of them!  Fortunately, we're having a girl (WOOT) so I can introduce her to the world of miniature and she will love it.  That equals less toys that I have to buy.  I got rid of a bunch of stuffed animals and some blankets as well - believe me, I have a lot of teddy bears that take up a lot of room, and parting with them is such sweet sorrow.  But don't get confused, I'm only getting rid of half of them.  AND since Joseph is finished with his Apple job for this year we had to send back all of the things they lent us (including the billion boxes we had to keep to send everything back in).  So there's that.  Oh and the forrest of trees Apple sent us in hand-out card type things that can be recycled or something.  Pretty much all I'm saying is that the room will look fantastic in no time at all.  

Ahh!!  My wonderful mother is getting us the crib of my d r e a m s.

It's a mini crib (for the mini space we have) that converts into a toddler bed.  It's so fantastic I could barf. I cannot wait to get it all set up in baby's room!!!