Merry Christmas!

We've had a Christmas marathon going on since Saturday.  We've had family Christmas time every day with the big closing tonight at Grandma Schulte's.  It was another great year full of memories...

December Favorites

I haven't done a favorites post in a while...


Venus Embrace Razor 
I have been buying Target disposables for as long as I can remember but one of these Venus Embrace razors was in my November Birchbox and holy moly...I LOVE it!!!  I will definitely continue to buy the refills for this :)

Oke Doke Corn Puffs
YUM! It's buttery goodness!

Amazon Prime Membership
I've had the Amazon prime membership for a little over a year now and I can't say enough good things about it.  It's $80 a year and it gives you two day shipping on all prime eligible items, streaming videos and more.  The two day shipping definitely comes in handy this time of year

Michael Buble Christmas Album
This actually came out last year but I still love it just as much this year.  We have Christmas music on every night while we're making dinner and these songs have definitely been added to the Christmas music rotation

Boppy Maternity Pillow
I don't remember being this tired when I was pregnant with Benjamin.  I'm sure it's just a combination of being pregnant AND having a toddler running around the house.  The Boppy maternity pillow David gave me is amazing.  It's my night time best friend

Bigelow Vanilla Chai
This stuff is good! I buy it at Target, not sure if it's sold anywhere else - but since I'm practically at Target every other day I've never had to look for it anywhere else.

 

For the Love of Trees

Ya'll know I'm CRAZY about Christmas, so it's only fitting that we have not one, not two, but THREE trees.
We have the fake tree in the living room, a small real Frasier Fir in the bay window of the kitchen and the newest addition is the freshly cut tree from PeaRidge which we decided to put under the pergola in the backyard.
And you better believe if we had more stuff downstairs I'd have a full size tree down there too, but we just don't have much down there yet so I'll save that for next year - watch out David because 2013 it's ON!

Here are a few pictures from our annual visit to PeaRidge

 oh yes I did...fabulous!

David thought that tree was kind of scraggly looking but I LOVE that little tree

 Our little lumber jack

It's kind of crazy to see how big the group has gotten.  I remember when it used to just be me and David along with Mike and Katie...I'd say we've increased by a few :)

I tried to talk about Santa a couple of days before we went to the tree farm knowing they have a Santa there but Benjamin still seemed a little skeptical at first but it only took a minute for him to warm up and start talking about his love for choo choo's

I'm kind of bummed this one came out so blurry but I still think it's cute

Holy Cow!

I'm pretty sure you've probably heard by now that we found out what we're having :)

Thanks to pinterest and the amazing help we got from Kevin, Jessica and my Mom we were able to find out in a very fun way :)
We started out with a few balloons - 2 pink and 2 blue 

Kevin and Jessica had our sealed ultrasound picture and took care of filling the box with either blue or pink

We took a few pictures in anticipation

I know I look sorta terrified in the picture but I promise it's pure shock and not devastation:)
Can you believe it?  A GIRL!!!!!

I'm still kind of in shock.  And I may or may not have accidentally knocked Benjamin off the chair with my flailing arms - he didn't seem to mind though, he was just excited to see those balloons

This look pretty much sums it up - just trying my hardest to soak it in.  I will cherish these memories for the rest of my life

I'm still here!

I had a slight hiccup with blogger - apparently I ran out of storage.  Total bummer.  But since I love looking back on some of these posts and they go back a couple of years I really didn't want to start over so I decided to make things work with the original :) So I'm back in business baby!!!  But oh so very behind...so let me try to catch up.

Let's rewind to Thanksgiving

So cute to see Great Grandma Carter and Benjamin reading together

 And it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without a little football action :)

It's crazy how warm it was on Thanksgiving this year, but I'm not complaining - it gave us the great opportunity to get some very cute pictures outside

I'll try to get completely caught up by the end of this week - so much has happened in the past few weeks!