Christmas Plans

I can't believe that Christmas is just around the corner, next week! David and I will get to spend our first Christmas together here in Memphis. We're still deciding what to cook for our big dinner...David just mentioned to have some sushi for appetizers so we'll have to figure out the rest pretty quick here.

David will be leaving Christmas day for a roadtrip but we planned it out so I will be flying to Arizona that day to spend some time with the fam. He has a long roadtrip at the end of December and begining of January so I am going home for 11 days and will only miss two of his home games, they are even away on New Years :(
I was lucky to have gotten a free plane ticket from a bump I took last January flying here to Memphis, so it worked out perfect since I had to use it by the end of December!!

Beautiful "Winter"

The last two winters I've been very thankful to be out of the snow and in some great weather. Last winter I was in Arizona and frequently visted David in Memphis, where there is no snow! This year we are here in Memphis and we're had great weather, even though sometime I still feel it's a bit cold but I truely do appreciate and am grateful to not be in snow. I do miss it at times..I told David that snow is really fun to visit, like if we were to go to Vanderhoof and spend a whole day outside building snow forts and huge hills to sled down and also playing with Tucker and David would play with Chiefy and then we go inside and drink some hot chocolate with marshmallows and warm up, that is when snow is good :)

Yesterday was beautiful sunny day with blue skies and a temp of 50 degrees. I took some pictures when the sun was setting on my way home from running some errands. The sun sets early at  4:45pm and it's completely dark by about 5:30pm.

Good Morning!

David & I have been doing good living here in Memphis. We love our apartment and have really made it feel like our own place. We live on a golf course which was beautiful when we got here and through the Fall, but now since the leaves have fallen and the grass has died I'm really looking forward to seeing the trees bud this Spring. It has been fairly cold lately, 30-40 degrees (or -1 to 4 degrees celsius haha) but David is really liking the chill in the air. The funny thing is that it's frosted over outside with some frozen water surrounding the golf course and people are still out there playing all 18 holes.

David's hockey season is going good and it's been a lot of fun being able to go to ALL of the games at home this year!! David's coach had emailed him before we got here to let him know that there was a billboard of him, we forgot about it until one day we were driving down main street and I saw him up there

Everything is going great with the baby! I've had 2 appointments and the 3rd one is on December 23rd. My first appointment was at 11 weeks so we got some ultrasound pictures, got to hear the heartbeat and saw the baby kicking! The appointment coming up we would be able to find out if it's a boy or girl but we are going to leave it a surprise, but I am super excited to see how much the baby has grown from 11 to 20 weeks!

Yesterday was the 1st day that I felt the baby moving around. I've been waiting for it for awhile and knew it had to come soon and yesterday morning I was laying in bed and just put my hand on my stomach and felt some really faint movements. When David got home from practice he wanted to feel the baby too and was able to each time we put our hands on my stomach.

On Monday night we finally decorated the Christmas tree and Advent wreath! I got up super early on Black Friday to go get our $25 prelit tree from Target, which was the easiest tree in the world to set the tree had been up for about a week before we put some ornaments and tinsel on it and now we have a bit more of that Christmas spirit feeling at our apartment! (now we just need some stockings and a star!)