Christmas Cheer

As Christmas is fast approaching I am increasingly more tired. Christmas is usually my favorite time of year but this year it is taking a bit for me to love love love it! It doesn't help that every time I am in a store I see Baby's First Christmas ornaments, cards, onesies and all types of other Christmas clothes for babies. It makes me want Baby T here NOW! But I remind myself each time that next year will be amazing with our little guy who will be close to a year old and will enjoy a lot of the Christmas Festivities even if he doesn't understand them yet.

I did decorate for Christmas but it took me 4 days! It was quite nice though to slowly put things up. Last night as I was finishing putting decorations on the tree, I had kept the blinds up and something caught the corner of my eye. I look out the window and found two Bunnies (hares) staring at me on our front yard! It was so funny but weird! I tried to grab a camera but they had moved onto the next yard already.


This year we will be Home For Christmas. Which is very exciting but it is also going to be very tiring for this 33 week pregnant gal! Ben and I are not really doing gifts this year, we both want really expensive items real bad so we are getting those instead and not doing much else! Maybe stockings:)

And I got to pick up my Christmas Gift already! And I love it!!! I got a lens for my DSLR!! A Cannon EF 50mm f1.4 USM!! It is amazing! But it is going to take a bit to get used to! I just learned how to shoot fully in Manual mode which makes working with this lens so much better! All the pictures, except the Morocco pictures, were taken with my new lens!

Still learning my new lens! Our new ornament this year.

Decorating with fresh snow outside!

Love our little tree even if it looks tiny in our big living room!

One of my favorite pictures of Ben & I from 2 years ago!

Our stockings... The middle stocking is my stocking from childhood, thought Baby T should be represented:)

Our first Christmas party happened last weekend with our Care Group! It was a lot of fun. Great food (amazing turkey made my Maylee) and fun games :)

Hmmm delicious Appetizers!

Carla & baby Tripp

The Gamers :) Andrew, Steph, Andy & Maylee!

Our Group! Just missing Wilson & Trudy!!

Tonight we will be heading to another Christmas Party! It is Ben's work party... we will see how that goes... haha his co-workers are fun! We are going to a Moroccan Restaurant which is ironic as I was in Morroco December of 2004 & December 2005! I am excited to see how good this places tajine & cous cous are! Probably not as good as Monam cooking us tajine in the streets of Essouira!

My first trip to Africa, eating tajine & cous cous ... in Essouira December 2004

Monam making us tajine in the street! (December 2005)

What's left of the tajine! (December 2005)

Kadesha made us Cous Cous a couple days later for Julie & Chases birthdays!! (December 2005)

Going through these old pictures makes me miss these days but also makes me so happy that I am in Canada for Christmas and have a family of almost 3! Wow life changes so fast, I will never forget the memories of my three Christmas abroad! Many stories to tell Baby T one day!

Merry Christmas everyone!!