End of the Year

As the year draws to a close, I think of all the things that have happened to Jason and me. We've been through good and bad and we've had a lot of blessings. We both look forward to the new year, especially since that means our baby will be that much closer to being born. We're very blessed to have such wonderful and supportive friends and family. We hope that all of you have been as blessed as we have been this last year, and that your blessings will continue. Have a safe and wonderful new year!!

*I also downloaded some new photos to DropShots. I know it's been a long time and I'm sorry for that.

Merry Christmas

We were not able to make it back to eastern Iowa yesterday. The weather was not with us, and apparently neither were the snowplows. We did make an attempt. Made it to highway 30 and took the first exit(which happened to be interstate 35) back home. We spent the day watching movies from Netflix. We did make it to my parents in the early afternoon today. Mom, Dad and Marc were there. We had lunch and opened presents. We are very thankful for all that we received, but more thankful for spending time with family. We drove to Jason's parents for supper and played some cards.
Tomorrow we will spend the day with Jason's family and go back to Ames. Jason has to work early on Monday, so we can't stay longer. Hopefully we'll be able to visit again soon...when the weather is nicer.

Ready to Go

Our Pacifica has new wipers, new rear brakes and a new driver side headlight. We've wrapped all of the presents and have our suitcases packed. We're ready to go! Of course we've already had some snow today and we're expected to get more tomorrow, but Jason's ready to take on the snow! If it's not too bad of course. We're not that crazy!

We are excited to go to eastern Iowa this year, especially since it means that neither one of us is in the hospital! This will also be our last Christmas where we won't be toting around another person with us, and all the stuff that person will need. We're very excited and thankful and we want to wish all of our friends and family a very Merry Christmas!

Snow Fall

It has been quite the weekend in Ames. I'm really glad it was my weekend off of work! It started pretty warm on Friday (in the mid-40s) and sunny. Saturday morning we woke to it actually snowing. It had stopped around 10ish, so Jason and I decided to go shopping for some maternity work pants. (I can only wear certain material and certain colors, which of course I can't find both in a pair of pants that will fit.) On our way to Target, the roads were very icy. It's days like that I'm thankful that Jason works for CyRide and knows how to handle situations like that. We made it to and from the store all right. It did start to get very windy in the early afternoon and it started to snow again around six. Wouldn't you know that it was a blizzard outside and everytime the wind would rattle the windows, Zara would wake up all wide-eyed. We spent most of the day indoors and finally put up our Christmas decorations. We have our tree up, but nothing on it yet. We're still waiting to see if we'll wake up to pieces on the floor and a "innocent" looking kitty.
The snow apparently stopped around three this morning, but the wind was still blowing until about one. Jason is snowblowing the driveway and it is very sunny out. I worked on a few of my projects and feel good about how much I've gotten done. I'm not finished with all of them, but I feel a lot better spending some time on them.

Doctor Appointment

We went to the doctor today! The baby's heartbeat was in the upper 140s and the doctor said I should try to eat more protein. Jason was very upset to hear that, especially since we still have quite a bit of beef left! The doctor also decided to test my blood for my thyroid level since I haven't had that done since July. We go back the first week of the new year.

We haven't had any snow yet, just flurries. There are some days where it is really cold and windy so we still know winter. I spend quite a bit of time wrapped in a quilt on the couch. Sometimes Zara joins me.

The semester at ISU is over next Friday. The week after that, I work three days, then not again until the new year. I'm not really sure if I'm happy about that or not. The time off will be good and I won't really have to drive anywhere. However, I will miss getting paid. (It's part of the 9 month contract I have. I work one week in May so I have to have a week off some other time in the year.) I am hoping to get through quite a bit of my class that week. We'll just have to see how things go.