I'm glad we had time to make sugar cookies together. Christmastime does not seem complete without them. I frosted the cookies while Ben and Curt decorated.  Lots of sprinkles and chocolate chips!  Ben loved getting slippers and a robe with his "Christmas Eve" jammies. He does love to be cozy. We decided to move up our present opening a day early because we thought I might end up in the hospital on Christmas. But, today is the 27th and still no baby. So we were a bit off on that one.  Santa brought the Lewis Hamilton car that Ben had asked him for. He was very excited!  The new pirate ship has been a favorite. He has played with it a TON a last few days.  Ben also got a few more pirate dress-up things. I've heard "Aarg!" a lot lately. :)  My parents came yesterday for a visit since my dad has this week off of work. We're hoping that I'll have the baby while they are here, but I'm not sure that is going to happen since they head home tomorrow. Ben ...

We went to the family VB party at the Lutheran Ice Center this past weekend. They had the Christmas party there last year and we had a lot of fun going back again. I had to skip out on the ice skating (with being pregnant and all), but I enjoyed watching Ben and Curt out on the ice. There were also several inflatables for the kids to climb on. Ben had no fear at all this year and went wild on them!  Ben also got to meet Santa. He was really looking forward to telling Santa that he wanted the Lewis Hamilton car from Cars 2. If you have seen that movie and have NO IDEA who that character is, that's because it is only in a few minutes of the movie. It's a pretty cool black race car and I'm glad that Santa (Curt) was able to find one at the store. We're still waiting to see when the baby will be born. I'd rather not spend Christmas in the hospital. That is looking more and more like a possibility. Ben and Curt have picked tomorrow as the day. So, maybe we'll have...

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I have been really slow with updating my blog lately. I fear that it will only get worse after I have a newborn in the house. :) I still have a few things that I would really like to get done before the baby arrives, so hopefully she doesn't decide to come too early (although a little early would be nice). Curt got me a new camera for my birthday. I still need to learn to work everything on it, but I am excited to have such a nice one before the baby is born. I took it with when we visited our families for Thanksgiving, but I completely forgot to get it out the whole time we were with Curt's family. I really need to do better with documenting our visits. Here are a some pictures from the last few weeks. (I promise Ben has more shirts than his Detroit Lions jersey, but it is a favorite). :)  Curt and Ben love to play video games together. Sometimes when Ben wants to "play" with daddy, he really just wants to sit and watch Curt beat the levels.  After playing a whil...