Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Wow I cannot believe that 2009 is upon us already! Its amazing how quickly the year went by and how many wonderful blessings God showered upon our lives. A small recap for David and I this year: We bought a house, experienced our house being built, got a beautiful dog (Sadie),got pregnant!! (yay we are expecting in May!!), moved into our new house, David received a promotion at work and finished his class, I unfortunately moved to first grade (but I am surviving), and we found out we are having a boy which we are naming Matthew Gianni (which means God's gift, calm believer in God's grace.. which he truly is a gift from God to us!). So there it is a very small recap on the amazing things God has been up to in our lives.

This Christmas was wonderful.. our first Christmas in our house. David and I spent it here in warm sunny Florida. Its crazy when the day of Christmas we are wearing shorts, t-shirts and tanktops while the rest of our family spent it bundled up in the snow! We did have a good morning opening presents and eating our Christmas breakfast of biscuits and gravy (yum!). We cleaned our house (really a three day job we accomplished in a few hours) and got ready for my mom and brother to spend the day with us. It was wonderful we ate lunch which mom and I cooked. She brought the sides and I actually baked a ham... yes my first ham ever and I must say it turned out pretty good! We opened presents from mom. Yes she is very excited about being a grandma because Christmas was all about Matthew. David and I got some stuff but the majority was for the baby.

Our New Year's was pretty quiet, we stayed home. David had to work so that was stinky. By the time he came home I was already in my PJ's. After a delicious pizza dinner, he played some of his new Playstation games and then fell asleep. Yes my hubby who loves to stay up late actually fell asleep before the New Year came. At 11:30 pm he was completely knocked out so me and Matthew welcomed 2009 by ourselves reading a book.. ( I know very exciting life we lead!)

New Year's Day we spent painting the nursery! All we have to do now is pick up our furniture which will be sometime this week! (Photos of this will be posted at a later time) We also hung out with our friends Pete and Melissa. They have a beautiful baby girl so it was kind of neat hanging out with them and seeing what life would be for us in just a few months. I also got to play Wii for the first time and that was pretty neat. I think I want one of those for my birthday!

On Monday I start work again and I am not really looking forward to it. I like staying home and doing things around here. But the reality of it all is that we need to work. Good thing the kids will not be there on Monday so at least I get some time to clean up and get things settled before they arrive. We will see how things go this next half of the year.

Until then enjoy the photos of our Christmas!