Christmas Wreath

Here is the wreath that I made for our front door. I had to have Nick help me out with a few things. I had fun doing it and I only spent a little over $10 on the entire thing at Hobby Lobby.
Hobby Lobby had premade decorated wreaths for $30!! I like mine better...and it's cheaper!

Week 18

It's so hard to believe that we're already into the 18th week...it's really gone by so fast!! I am so thankful for so many things! We went to a doctor's appointment 2 Friday's ago to hear the heartbeat. Our doctor found it almost immediately and that was such a relief!! Last time our doctor couldn't find it and then we had to wait until the ultrasound 4 days later. That was torture then, so it was a wonderful sound to hear finally!! We also found out the results of the genetic abnormalities testing which is a normal procedure. Our doctor said everything looks great and we have a 1 in 10,000 chance of having a child with down syndrome. When the doctor said that, I teared up a little bit...I guess I didn't realize how much I was really worrying about this and once she said that, I felt this huge load lifted off of my shoulders. The whole appointment went well and my doctor said that even though I'm losing weight still, it's ok. I'm healthy and the baby's healthy! I think at that moment, Nick and I let ourselves get really excited!

Nick and I have been pretty busy lately. School's been very demanding on both of us. We had a curriculum audit and so we had to make sure we really knew the districts curriculum in case we had to talk to any of the people doing the research. The reason we had to have this done is because we are one of the largest districts in the state of Texas with a high ranking on our students' performance. They hired a group of people to come in and make sure everyone was doing what they were supposed to be doing. Of course it was talked up and we stressed over being interviewed and asked a million questions...the day of the audit for Nick's school, he never even had anyone come into his classroom to look/observe/ask questions. The day of my audit, one person came in with the principal for 10 seconds, looked, never asked any questions, and then walked out of the room. I guess we heard that we did a fantastic job and to keep doing what we've been doing all a long. A lot of stress for nothing really...LOVE IT! haha

Nick also started his after school tutoring program to make some extra money for the baby. He gets home about 2 hours later than usual 3 days a week. It's not bad at all and it's so worth the extra money. He told me he was going to be doing it again this year for the baby and my heart was warmed at the thought of his kind, loving heart towards our child already. Then the other day, we were talking and he said we would probably be using the money for a crib and/or travel system and other things that we might need. He had really been putting more thought into it than I thought he had. He's going to be such a great daddy!

Last weekend I went on an all day shopping excursion with my friends Paige and Leslie. We traveled 3 hours away to San Marcos, TX (close to Austin and San Antonio) to a huge outlet mall. We were there from 10:45am-5:30pm and had only been to about 8-10 stores! We did a lot of walking and we all wore ourselves out. I bought my first pair of maternity pants. My jeans were pretty snug and just not comfortable to wear when sitting down. Every Friday is jeans day at school and I really wanted to enjoy wearing jeans to work. They helped me pick out a pair of very comfy jeans! I'm thinking that I might wear them the rest of my life...(not really) haha!

This week is Thanksgiving break and Nick and I are so looking forward to spending time with one another and relaxing. We have plans to try and camp in the back yard (if it dries up outside and doesn't rain again this week!), put up Christmas decorations, and go to a couple of different friend's houses for Thanksgiving. I also am planning on making a Christmas wreath to hang on the front door, and I'm making some presents for friends and family so I'll be busy being crafty! I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!!