We've had a lovely Christmas and we're looking forward to an exciting New Year. Our little family will be growing this year and we can hardly stand the wait. I can feel myself getting more and more round everyday as I'm officially in the third trimester now. I'm learning to deal with insomnia lately. Typically, I wake up at 4:30 in the morning and lay in bed for at least 45 minutes before I can fall back asleep. Sadie is just easing me in to the coming months.
For Christmas this year, Spencer and I knew we were going to be a lot tighter on money so we decided to do one gift for each other. Spencer got me the most beautiful hand-made wood rocking chair. It fits my back so well that I find myself sitting in it just because it makes my back feel good. I have a feeling the rocking chair, Sadie, and me will be spending many late night hours together. For Spencer, I got him an ultimate sports gift, plus a guitar book. (He's been telling me lately that he wants to learn how to play the guitar.) For his sports pack, I got my dad to help me make him some Steelers pajama pants, I gave him a Steelers scarf, hat, and gloves, and I got him a Polomalu picture. The top off of the gift was that I got him a signed picture of James Dye (one of Spencer's favorite childhood BYU players) and I got him the signature of the official "Big Ben" Roethlisberger himself. Christmas turned out great.
Although I was expecting a small Christmas, Spencer's parents were bent on spoiling us. They gave us so many gifts including cute clothes, shoes, baby things, home decorations, and a brand new video-recorder! We were shocked to get the recorder. That's something we've been wanting so badly. We were expecting to have to search for one on ebay or at DI and we never expected to have one so nice. We're really excited to have a way to record our new baby.
So, with the New Year approaching, we're evaluating some New Year's goals. In Young Women's today we talked about how important it is to write down our goals. So here it goes... I'm going to be better about journal keeping... mainly through blogging. I'm also planning on being better at taking care of my home. I've noticed that while I was working 40 hours a week (8 hours a day) I would get home and be too tired to really take care of my home. Since I'll be reducing my hours to 20 hours a week, I'm going to get better habits in place. I'm going to pick a room a day and maintain it--instead of waiting till everything is piled up and trying to have a marathon. Granted, I have to get to the maintaining stage. That means I need to get my house to ground zero... Can I just say that's the project for the next couple of weeks? Spencer has goals to be able to maintain his grades while trying to work and volunteer--and prepare to be daddy. It's going to be quite the year!
