Tis' the Season

Oh well, we are officially 3 days away from Christmas! It seems that Christmas comes earlier and earlier every year. I just remember as a kid it couldn't come fast enough and now it just seems like yesterday I was putting all the finishing touches on our house with decor! Our weekends have been filled to the brim with family time and lots of food, which usually I love but this little guy doesn't seem to like sweets all that much so I have a plate full of Christmas cookies that I made with my niece that I can't seem to eat and even a Tupperware dish full of buckeyes in the fridge that are just too sweet for me to eat!

But all in all, I am really treasuring this holiday for it is the last one for just Chad and I. And although I am excited for next year and what will be to come, it is just such an adjustment and one that I can't really plan for and just have to learn to deal with the unexpected! We celebrated 3 years of marriage last week and spent a night out on the town and then finished up with doing some shopping at Old Navy for Wesley, although we didn't get anything for him, it was fun doing it together and wondering what colors he will look good in and more or less will he even fit into a 3 month onies for too long. And Wesley has his first official piece of camo courtesy of his Dad, Chad ordered a bib for him, that I am sure will get a lot of use. Chad says the camo is for "inspiration" Ok!

Sunday morning while Chad was out deer hunting freezing cold! I went to church and froze as well! Since most of Nappanee was out of power, the church was too! But, you know while we were sitting there in our coats, gloves, scarves and hats. Pastor Dave got up and said "this was planned, this is nothing unexpected, only to us" and I love going to church and hearing the Christmas story, but you know it just never changes but Pastor Dave decided to preach about what Jesus's real name was and that was Emmanuel "God with us" and how no matter what God is with us. And it just put a new spin how the birth of Jesus and the life that he lived. I was thinking about that more and more this morning as I was driving to work about "God with us" and just how everyday he is, he was sitting in the seat next to me listening to every word I was saying. He was with us when we went through the good times this year, through the laughs, and the hugs, and even through the tears and the heartaches this year. And I just kinda sat back and remembered all the times that he was with us. And even though he is with us everyday and while we are heading into times that there is a question mark on it, he is going to be there every step of the way. I just thought that was so powerful and something that we often forget as well!

Well, here's to a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year : )

Enough said? His name is Wesley and we are still deciding on a middle name .. but now the cat is out of the bag : ) : )

Ok just a little bit longer...

Ok, so I know that I said that I would post on here what we are having .... BUT not all of my family know's and I don't want them to find out on a blog or on Facebook. So, I promise I will re-post on Friday since we will see the remaining of our family on Thanksgiving Day. But, I can report that the baby is very healthy, it had a full belly of food : ) I am right on my due date and the baby was weighing in at a whopping 10 ounces! At one point the baby got so mad that we were moving it around that it kicked the nurse doing our ultrasound! But, Chad and I are so excited more or less that we just got a good healthy report from the doctor we didn't really care what we would have just that everything was healthy and now we can start calling the baby by name which makes it so much more real now! But, I promise by the weekend I will post what we are having!!

Life's blessings...

Every morning, I have this routine and it always involves watching The Today show while I am getting ready, I feel that that is my morning cup of coffee, to rev me up on my news and get me through my day but it just seems that everyday it gets more and more depressing in the news, so and so is closing, another place is filing for bankruptcy, and this company needs help, and the needy need more help and it just got to the point where I just thought "why" what is the point and I have thought how much worse can this get? But, it was just through all of that one day when I was driving to work and just spending my 20 minutes worshipping and talking to God, that I realized that through this whole economic crisis, I have a home, I have a job, I have food to put on the table, I have so many things to be thankful for, not only because the holiday season is approaching but just everyday! It just amazes me that despite the fact that you can have nothing, you can still have it all! I know for me personally it has been hard to not be bummed out, but I tell you what I have become more and more excited this year about Christmas and spending time with our families, and just enjoying the company of everyone this year, I have had to restrain myself from getting my Christmas tub out and start making it look a lot like Christmas in the Burkholder household .. but I will wait until this coming weekend to do all of that : )

So, today is the big day for us! We get to have our first ultrasound and find out if this little thing kicking me is a boy or a girl! I had to spend extra time this morning just asking God to go before me in this appointment, because the devil is just creeping in my head saying "what if your blood results came back bad," or "what if they find something," and it has been almost a burden instead of excitement, and so I just spent some time almost just meditating on the goodness of God and no matter what how amazing he is and that we should spend this time in excitement to see what an amazing miracle this is that we get to see grow before us! So, I will have to let everyone know what we are having come tomorrow : ) : )

Updates ....

Ok, since Jessica asked me to update I will! I did enjoy a nice long weekend I had some time to use up for work so I had a wonderful weekend of being out and about, it wasn't very relaxing but oh well! On Friday I headed up to Old Navy at the the old Scottsdale mall and went looking for maternity clothes and I must say that it isn't depressing because it is kinda fun but yet it is depressing because I can't go to a lot of my favorite stores but all in all it was successful! My mom and I went to the pitiful Michigan State/Ohio State game and needless to say after my mom said we weren't leaving after the first quarter I just sat contently with my popcorn and nachos and enjoyed my time : ) But, we did find some really cute outfits for the baby to support the Spartans and despite Chad's comments the baby will look cute! Sunday, I went to lighthouse place and shopped more for the baby then myself, I must say it was a bummer going there because Motherhood maternity didn't have good sales and didn't have a good selection but I got some basic things and things that were needed but I did enjoy going to Baby Gap and Gymboree and buying just the most amazing little outfits, I was looking at them and thinking "how will any baby ever fit in these, these are just tiny tiny little things!" But needless to say this baby will be the best dressed on the block!

I am finally feeling better and definitely getting my appetite back : ) I can make it through the evening without having to attempt not to hurl and I don't have to take naps on my lunch hour anymore! Although my pants are a tad uncomfortable I must say maternity pants are a good send I use to hate the elastic waisted pants but not anymore : ) Plus they give you more room when you are ready to eat a full course!

I have been spending my weekends alone Chad has been out every chance he can get deer hunting, which is fine because I have more time for me and can catch up on my shows or my reading materials but so far no deer yet : ( But, in time I am sure that nice buck will come by and allow us to have meat for the winter!

Well, there is nice little update for you : ) Enjoy it!

Cravings and heartbeats!

Well, we did get to hear the heartbeat yesterday at the doctor's office! It was an amazing sound that I don't think I will ever forget! It didn't take long to find it which was encouraging and it sounded like a little train going up a hill and the second time around when they brought Chad in after my exam it took a little while to hear that little booger but we finally did! So, know it is just the lovely 4 week visits and in December we get to find out what we are having!

Ok, so the other night I went to Martin's to get some things for supper and I was standing at the seafood counter waiting on the man to give me my fish and I was just looking around and spotted a bag of Lay's salt and vinegar chips, well then my mouth started watering and my stomach started to growl so I got my fish and pratically ran over the chip aisle, and got my bag of chips. The only weird thing about my craving is that while I was still shopping, I popped open that bag of chips and started eating : ) Despite the fact that I ate about half of the bag it fulfilled that craving!

Well, that is pretty much it for the Burkholder household .. have a great weekend : )

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Yea, so I have no title to put in there so a star seemed apporiate : ) Well, I am attempting to blog here at work so we will see how far along this will go!

But we had an amazing vacation : ) Oh I loved it we had absolutely beautiful weather with the expection of Sunday where it rained all day long but we spent some days going through some smaller towns and enjoying all the antique stores and the craft stores, well I did Chad not so much! But we went to the beach every night and made me wish badly that we could attempt to afford a beach house! You know just for the weekends and summertime! But with the lovely Apple Festival in town, we were kinda stuck in our house for the weekend but we did go up town once to do something at the barber shop and I got my Bouthans (sp?) and my elephant ear as well! And Saturday Chad and I went to the MSU/ND football game and Chad so nicely sported a MSU t-shirt and enjoyed a wonderful victory as well! Despite the fact that we got lost and had a slight meltdown mainly on my part it all went pretty well!

Ok, so in my last post I just pretty much left everyone hanging but we are pregnant : ) Which we kept secret for about 4 weeks and the longest 4 weeks of my life mind you but I wanted to get past where I was when I miscarried the last time and wait until my doctors appointment until we finally reveal the big news! But everything seems to be going well... eating seems to be a day to day thing, I never know what is going to go down completely but I have learned that this baby doesn't like sweets but loves chocolate and mexican food : ) But next week I head to the doctor again to hear the heartbeat which is so exciting! But at this point has anyone else not felt like they were completely pregnant? Because I mean my pants and food tell me I am and this is such an early stage but it is like when I go to Target and look at Maternity clothes that even though I am not showing I still feel a little funny being in there .. but all in all it has been an experience to say the least!

I will leave you with some fun pictures from our vacation....


Ok so shutterfly is currently having "issues" so I will post this at a later time!

Oh by the way....

I am pregnant : ) April 20th .. mark it on your calendars : )

Has it been this long ...

Gosh, has been over a month or more since I last blogged anything? Either on here or Xanga! Gosh, I need to get off my lazy butt and blog about stuff! Well, expect for not much going on in the Burkholder household! But, we are getting ready for a week of vacation : ) Chad has shut down the barber shop for a week and we are taking off for South Haven, Michigan for a week of just pure relaxation and eating at really good restaurants : ) Which is pretty much all that I care about at this point, just getting away and just enjoying a couple days away with my husband! Then it is back home and dreading the god awful Apple Festival. I wouldn't mind it so much if I wasn't right there by it and we were putting much stuck in our house for those 3 days but... the only good thing that comes with that is the food and the fact that I can just walk right up to town and get it : ) No having to find a parking spot or anything!

I am definitely loving this cooler weather, I get giddy inside about the leaves changing color, and the weather getting cooler in the day and putting summer behind us and looking forward to Fall! I think that Indiana hands down has one of the best fall seasons around .. the only downside is having to hail all of our leaves down the alley way to have them picked up .. but oh well hopefully we can enjoy the next fall in a different home!

It seems that after summer our weekends and weeknights just get filled up to the brim, it seems that from August to January we are on birthday over loads, holiday over loads, and wedding over loads, and with that comes deer season, where I will become a hunting widow for the next 4 months... oh well at least I can flock to the deer widows and hang out with them too : )

Well, that is pretty much all that is going on .. I will make sure the post some pictures on our vacation as soon as I get the hang of using blogger instead of xanga .. change is hard*

Alright well I am going to be a follower and say goodbye to Xanga and hello to Blogger : )