I know a lot of people like The North Face brand jackets and pullovers. Although, in Texas there is not much of a reason to wear them and if you do it’s a short time. Have ya’ll heard of the college guy who started a company called The South Butt? I heard about this the other day and thought it was hilarious. He’s made a pretty good profit off of starting this online company and now The North Face is suing him! Awe! I know Terence likes the NF stuff so just wanted to share this useless knowledge!

Wow! The month of December is just flying by! It’s been incredibly busy at home and at work so I’ve just been exhausted when I get home. This past weekend we celebrated Christmas with Terence’s family and later this week I am going to a Christmas party for work. It seems like every day I have come home and had a TON to do! My back has sort of been bothering me and it’s been tough to get to sleep at night, but other than that I am feeling really well!
I hope my Mom, Dad, and Nannie are going to be able to come visit on Christmas weekend and this will be the first time for them to see the new house, so that is exciting! Still working on getting it all sorted and together. I think sister is about to pop any day now and I can’t wait to meet little Jarrett! His nursery is SO cute if you haven’t seen it look here.

Our crib was delivered today

I ordered this from Etsy to put on the wall in Connor’s room
This is a Christmas present from our niece Hannah. She molded everyone STUFF out of some sort of clay….this was Terence’s it’s supposed to be Santa Claus getting arrested….hmmmm
Her Dad is a police officer…maybe that was where she got this idea from? LOL!

This one is mine

It’s “a skull with makeup on it”

I didn’t get a ton of pictures of the night, but this is Joel and Rebecca

Terence’s sister is due a day or so before me and she’ll be watching baby

Connor next year when I go back to work

Here is Terence getting some practice in with our nephew Benjamin.

He looks comfy!

Table keeps getting longer and longer every year….

next year we’ll add TWO more chairs…oh my!

This is my mother in law’s crazy bread that kept growing in the oven,

but it was SO good and soft when it came out! Thank you all for a wonderful early Christmas and we are so blessed to have you as family 🙂

This year was my second year to help out with the bank’s travel club Christmas luncheon. I always enjoy going and seeing all our customers all together. The travel club is called “Roamers” and they are mostly retired folks who love to travel all over the world together. One day when I get older and retire I WANT to be a Roamer!

Me in front of the beautiful tree

This was our entertainment, this man had the most awesome voice! I think Betty found him on Crystal Cruises and he works there most of the time….so if you ever take a cruise look for Michel!

Our fearless leader, Betty

This is one of my FAVORITE customers!

Jimmy is always so sweet and always living life to the fullest!

Julie & Me

JoAnn & her husband BJ

The room was so pretty and the desserts they served…I wanted another one, but I don’t NEEEED it! It was some sort of chocolate mousse in a toffee shell

Table settings

Oh Christmas Tree!!! Oh Christmas tree!!!

I just woke up from a four hour nap and now I am going to go scour the kitchen because I am starving! Of course we have no food because I need to go to the store. Maybe tomorrow….

Hope you all are having a great weekend!

I used to not like eggnog, but over the years have developed a certain fondness to it this time of year. Just the smell reminds me of Christmas and I know it’s LOADED with lots of Paula Dean fat creamy goodness, but who cares! I say that now…because I am sporting quite a belly!
We’ll talk about that a few months from now when I am depressed because nothing in my closet fits anymore! LOL!

Clark & Uncle Eddie really like their eggnog (I think they had the spiked kind!)

And Godiva sells their eggnog truffles! Yum! I tried one the other day because I am a member of the Godiva Chocolate Rewards program and you get a free truffle a month!

And tonight I polished off a bowl of Braum’s eggnog ice cream….so good!

And let’s not forget the eggnog latte from Starbucks ya’ll! It’s my holiday fave!

What is your favorite holiday tasty treat or smell?

Peppermint, Gingerbread, Amaretto, Pine trees, Chocolate?

I know a lot of you fellow bloggers know my precious friend Summer. She is the sweetest, most whole hearted, wonderful person. She just finished her third IVF treatment and her little birdies are in Heaven now with Jesus. My heart just aches for her…..

You see – Summer, Bonnie, and I connected probably a little over a year ago as we were all trying to get pregnant and had very little success. We bonded like sisters and started talking every day on Gmail. We just had this instant friendship and still do, she has been such a blessing to me and Bon and I just can’t stand it that we are having babies without our TRIPLET!

Summer got pregnant first, and we were so thrilled! Then for some reason God decided to call that little one home and Summer lost her tube. Fast forward a year later and lots of medicine and shots and soul searching and all of that….Summer is still without her baby Brown. Sometimes we may not know why God works in the way he does…but I know there is a reason for everything. One thing I know with all my heart is Summer and Adam were meant to be parents to a child on this earth and they will be soon….I love you both and never give up hope!

Thinking of you always and praying for your baby blessing…love, Becky

This week has been a rough week, a lot of things have been going on and a lot of craziness is in the air it seems. I have hardly had any time to piddle and look at blogs 🙁

It’s harder to get to sleep at night now, not that I am complaining because I am not! I am thankful for this uncomfortable-ness! I had the glucose test at the Dr. office this morning and I passed. That sugar concoction sure did make my tummy sick though!

I don’t want this blog to turn into baby mania and plaster my child’s face to every post, because so many people I have met through blogging were because of their struggle to have a baby and I know that feeling oh so well. Of course there will be times I will post about Connor and there will be pictures, but my goal is to remain true to myself and still talk about my life as well and everything else in it.

Speaking of….

You know my love of owls! Here is my Christmas paper all under the tree in true “owl” style!

Hootie hoo! Hootie hoo! Cuteness alert!

Tis the season for Giveaways!

Kim is having an awesome jewelry giveaway & you can go

check out her Etsy store here

Also-don’t forget to enter my GIVEAWAY in the post below!

(I know everyone loves FREE stuff!)

While Terence and I were out Christmas shopping this past weekend I went into Sephora and was looking around. One of the sales ladies came up to me and we had a conversation that went something like this….

Sephora Girl: “Can I help you find anything?”
Me: “I’m just looking”
Sephora Girl: “This may sound weird, but can I ask you something?”
Me: “sure”
Sephora Girl: “How did you know that you were pregnant?”
Me: “I took a pregnancy test!”
Sephora Girl: “Yeah, but did you feel wierd or anything?”
Me: “Well, yeah I guess so I felt sort of dizzy sometimes and tired”
Sephora Girl: “I’ve been DIZZY!” “What do you think I should do?”
Me: “I’d probably go home and take a TEST and call your doctor!”
Sephora Girl: “Yeah I’m just nervous because I haven’t started my period”
Me: “Yeah I would take a test…..”
Sephora Girl: “I think I’ll do that later….yeah….”
Me: (OMG-Did I just have that converstation?) Because apparantly being pregnant makes me the closest thing to a medical doctor 😛 LOL! The whole thing just cracked me up, I would never just go up to someone and ask stuff like that!

I am giving away 1 full bottle of Murad Oil-Control Mattifier SPF 15.

It seems like we have been going, going, going all weekend long! Saturday we got up early to start doing some Christmas shopping because we celebrate with T’s family next weekend. Today we had the Christmas music special at church and I think Connor really liked it because when the orchestra played he just started kicking and kicking! I am still working on getting the house all ready because my Mom and Dad are going to come and visit in a few weeks! Yippee!! I am so excited for them to come…FINALLY! I don’t think they have come to visit since we moved to Texas, but we didn’t exactly have a place for them to stay either. We got a king size bed for our bedroom and are putting our queen bed in the guest room. It’s nice to have a BIG bed, especially since I am getting bigger too!

These are the euro shams for the guest bedroom (Mom & Dad’s room)

I also wanted to say a special THANK YOU to a new friend named Lisa. (I think her blog may be private) Lisa is all the way from Australia and she sent me the CUTEST baby clothes! She has a little boy named Ayden, and her blog is about his journey to get a new ear. She is a wonderful mother to three children and it’s been a blessing getting to know her. Lisa, this is so sweet and I can’t wait for Connor to wear all the precious outfits!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I love them all!