Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!  Being in my third trimester of my pregnancy, Mike and I decided that not traveling during the holiday season would be best.  So we spent Christmas here in Massachusetts, just the 3 or should I say 4 of us, including Mookie.  I'm not going to lie, waking up Christmas Eve morning was a bit emotional.  I thought of how my family was getting together at my sister's house and how we would be missing out on other holiday festivities with our close friends.  Being away from family and friends is hard, it's even harder during holidays or special occasions.  But, I also thought of how with us starting our own little family, it would be great to start some traditions of our own.  So the weekend before the holiday, we went shopping for our Christmas Eve dinner.  Well to make a long story short, the ham in the oven almost caused a fire and I ended up burning my fingers.  I decided to give up on dinner, we ate left overs, Skyped with the family, watched Christmas movies the rest of the night, and each of us opened one gift.  It still ended up being a good night.  Christmas morning I woke up energized and vowed that that ham was going to be cooked.  I made homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast, we opened a couple more gifts, and I started Christmas Eve dinner all over again. The sides were already made and the ham and pumpkin pie made it to the oven with success!  All in all...everything turned out great!  

I'm already looking forward to next year when we have our baby girl here with us celebrating Christmas with her family and friends.  I can already picture her ripping through presents and helping mom bake and cook.  We can't wait!

Santa!

One of the nice things about living on base is the great community services different groups on base provide.  Today, the Vet Clinic on base was offering Santa pet pictures!  I took Mookie down there and he got his first picture with Santa.  He was such a good boy and everyone there gave him such nice compliments. He's saving his candy cane treat for later!  

First Official Snowfall

Winter has officially started!  When I hear the beeps of the plows in the early morning hours and wake up to accumulated snow on the ground...I consider that to be the first official snowfall.  It's funny, when I send pictures of the snow to family and friends in Arizona they tell me how pretty it looks.  I would agree...the FIRST snowfall is pretty, but once you have to continue your daily routine in this mess, it's not so pretty! Mookie and I took a quick walk while the snow turned to freezing rain.  He seemed to enjoy it at first.  He seemed more hyper on this walk than normal...the snow and cold probably woke him up!  This is our second winter here in the Northeast and we're looking forward to making the most of it or sitting in our PJs most nights! ;-)

Mookie's first snowfall of 2013