Christmas & 25-26 Weeks!

Christmas has come and gone yet again! ...and so has our vacation and break from work :( BUT I'm actually okay going back to work because I have an even better vacation to look forward to in just 3 months...time with our sweet baby girl!!

25 & 26 Weeks pregnant:

We had a busy but fun break!

December 23rd: Enjoyed Christmas celebration with the Powell family in Florence with dinner and the annual games of Bingo!

December 24th: Went to Sumter. Visited with my Dad and Jane, attended Christmas Eve church service, celebrated Christmas with Taylor and Caroline's family. So much fun watching the kids open all of their gifts!

December 25th: Christmas with my family in Sumter and then hit the road again for the beach to celebrate with Joseph's family.

December 26th: Happy 28th Birthday Joseph!!! Joseph doesn't exactly love the date of his birthday and I can understand why but we try to make it semi-special every year. Next year I am going to make him wait and open his birthday presents on his actual birthday so it's a little more exciting!

December 27th: New York City here we come!! We left early Thursday morning and flew out of Myrtle Beach to NYC for a little anniversary trip. My sweet sister allowed us to use her Hilton hotel points so we stayed in the super nice Double Tree suites located in Times Square. I have been to NY recently but Joseph hasn't been since elementary school and didn't stay in the city so it was a good experience to stay in the crazy, touristy part of the city! It was a wonderful trip!

We visited: Times Square, Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree and skating rink, American Museum of Natural History, 9/11 Memorial, China Town, Wall Street and the Bull, Central Park, and various shopping locations :)

December 30th: Flew back home and lounged around recuperating from our trip and getting ready for the new year!

December 31st: Packed up Christmas, cleaned our house, and celebrated New Year's Eve via a very low key evening. Kim, Zach, and Jeremy came over for grilled steaks and we watched the Clemson bowl game before watching the NYE ball drop in NYC (Joseph & I both agreed we were very glad we were not still there in the mix of that chaos ;)

January 1st: Mckenzie and I did a little New Year's shopping while Joseph stayed home and watched the Carolina bowl game. I got home in just enough time to see the amazing ending! Proud of the Gamecocks this year!!

And today we returned back to work. It's hard to believe that it's actually 2013 already! We were engaged in 2010, married in 2011, got pregnant in 2012, and will welcome our daughter into the world in 2013! What a great few years!! We thank God for blessing us so richly and ask that He continue to do so and work in our lives throughout this next year!

SO much to look forward to in 2013: Our baby, Morgan and Adam's second baby, Kim and Zach's babies, Rebecca and Branford's wedding, Lyndsay and Breck's baby, hopefully a diamond for Mckenzie ;), and I'm sure there is much more to come!!