Oops! I skipped Christmas.

I'm going to take a step back here and show some of our Christmas fun. It was our first Christmas together since we've been married and it was wonderful. We stayed at my parents house and the madness began at 6:15 am! We Shraders do it big, and we do it early. Here's a glimpse of Jake first thing in the morning wearing the adorable jammies his mom gave him the night before. A little embarrassed, he ran from me and the camera... but I was able to get his best side :)

A bit snug his jammies were, but super super funny, and he literally lit up when he opened them Christmas eve. My mom does Christmas eve jammies every year too. This year she decided to go with the boys favorite football teams.

Tuff, aren't they? baha

After opening presents and enjoying the best cinnamon rolls in the WORLD we headed over to Jake's fams house where we opened MORE presents. spppoooiled. Really though, we were. The boys played X box and had their annual foos ball tournament while us girls napped and watched Christmas movies.Once we got back to our place I was freezing so I put on Jake's silly jammies to warm up.

I LOVE them! and now they are mine :)

Christmas really was so wonderful. Jake especially had a fun one. He got an X box, new ski boots, new ski coat and pants, tires for Haru, and lots of clothes. I got LOTS of clothes, few pairs of shoes, perfume, lotions and a facial WOO!
I'm already looking forward to next year when we have little one celebrating with us.
Here's our little place decorated. All lit up and smelling like cinnamon

HALF WAY THERE!

Goodness I'm awful at updating this. I love checking out everyone else blog and it seems like most people update pretty frequently.. I'm just bad :(

So I hit my 20 week mark yesterday. Officially 5 months pregnant and half way there. Wow. It really seems weird to me that it's flying by. I figured that pregnancy would feel like forever. Maybe that's the last half when I'm super uncomfortable. eeesh.
I have my second trimester ultrasound in 2 weeks. WE ARE JUST DYING TO KNOW WHAT'S INSIDE ME! I convince myself that I'm having a girl one week and then I just KNOW that I'm having a boy the next. The truth is, I don't have a flippin idea and I am just so excited to put a he or a she to the it. Well... aaand to start looking at bedding, and nursery stuff, and everything else because a lot of things are gender specific. We did already score an awesome crib. My wonderful friend Nicole babysits for a gal who was getting rid of all of this absolutely gorgeous baby furniture. Soo we bought a crib, changing table and glider from her. It's beautiful and we saved a BUTT load. Well my parents saved. Since we got it all for what a new crib would cost they bought it all for us. Love them.

I never thought that I would get so excited about baby furniture but honestly, I'm more excited about this baby's crib than I was about my own bed (and my bed rocks!)
I'm ready to see it all together, but for now we have no where to start putting anything together. We are in our apartment until our lease is up in May. We are house hunting and we have been for about a month now just seeing what's out there, and what options we have.
Talk about stressful! and I'm addicted... everyday I jump online to see new listings. I need to just stop because we have a long time left in our lease so putting down an offer right now isn't even an option. I'm worried though because I'm going to be as big as a house when we do move and just be pretty much worthless because I won't be able to life crap. BUT that is what brothers are for, and between Jake and I, we have a few :)

A couple more complaints I have at the moment
- My back KILLS me and has for like 2 months now. Thank goodness for icy hot. I smell like it pretty much always.
- My Skin feels like sand paper and I wish I could take a metal scrub brush to it.
- Maternity clothes shopping is awful and hard and not fun at all.

On a happier note, a couple of things I love are that I'm feeling this baby move! and it's the size of a cantaloupe which is just cool.