Waiting for Jude

Megan has been one of my best friends for almost 15 years. She was my first friend in Louisville and in middle school, probably the hardest time ever to meet new friends. I have spent more hours of my life with Megan than any other friend. We have experienced and shared so many things in life together. We danced, attended grade school and college, and lived together. We were in each other's weddings, experienced lots of firsts and probably some lasts, laughed, cried and everything in between. I am so lucky to have a friend like Megan in my life and I am so so so excited to be a part of this next first she is about to embark on. That first would happen to be Motherhood.

Megan is going to give birth to a baby boy in one month. I am sad that I won't be there for his birth but I will get to meet him soon there after when we go to Louisville for the Derby. Megan is going to be an awesome mother because she is one of the most nurturing people I know. Lonnie will be a great dad too; I can tell by the way he lights up when he talks about the baby.

When we were home for Christmas I was able to help Megan finish decorating the nursery and host a shower in her honor. We had a lot of fun and Megan received so many wonderful gifts to help with the arrival of Jude. I can't wait to meet him and to share this next chapter of life with Megan.

If you look close in the background you can see the cute diaper cakes

I made for the centerpieces.

Yum Cookies!

Jessica knitted this beautiful blanket.

Monogramed onesies

All the girls, Megan is the first mom

Reagan handmade this beautiful mobile

The letters I painted for Jude's room.

(They were out of Js so Megan had to paint it later.)

Back on the Blog: Christmas Update

So I have been away from the blog for about a month now so I thought it was time to get back on. I am just finally getting back into the normal swing of things after the holidays. It was so much fun going home and seeing everyone and I'm sure I had several long blogs I could have posted about the trip but I'm just going to touch on a few of the highlights through the photos.

First, here is what our finished Christmas tree looked like this year.

Let me start by telling you about our drive home to Louisville. It was the night it started snowing a lot and Brian thought we should get as far as we could before we were stuck in New York. At 4 am when we got off the turnpike we had to get a hotel because we were traveling at 30 mph on the highway. Thank goodness we found a vacancy. And by morning the roads were cleared so we could make it home just in time to see Lindsey dance at her college basketball game. Her team is really good and I'm glad we were able to see her dance.

Another highlight was hanging out with Matt, Nikki, Whitney, Creed, and their children, especially meeting this new little guy Hayden. I think Brian and Hayden have matching hair.

Another stop while we were home was to the land where my parents are building their new house. It's so peacefully and beautiful. This is the view that they will see every morning out the back windows. I can't wait to see it in the summer.

Nikki and Whitney were great hosts and had a yummy cookie party.

We were able to get in lots of Foster cuddle time. This is our family Christmas photo.

We open our presents with Brian's family on Christmas Eve after church and we usually have lots of fun. Here is an example: Stephen-I think he was trying on all his presents at the same time but I'm not really sure.

Example #2 Brian and Andrew and their Dad got Das Boots to drink their beer out of. Stephen already had one.

Then on Christmas morning we go to my parents and have a marathon present session and it is so much fun also. Here is Brian checking out his new driver I got him. But his best gift was the new computer he got from my parents so now he can do all his work from home like reading X-rays.

Dad's fishing pole for the lake behind the new house.

This is Tony Lindsey's boyfriend and he joined us as well since his family lives in Bulgaria.

Meme was surprised with her new flat screen TV.

After presents the extended family comes over for a delicious dinner and family time.

This was a great Christmas trip home and we are so blessed.