It's Christmas Eve and we are spending a few days over at Ryan's parents house. We got a beautiful big real tree of our own this year, but because we knew we wouldn't be spending Christmas at our own apartment, we opened a couple of presents this morning, had a nice cooked breakfast, and enjoyed the tree a little more before heading off to Salem.
Portland has been pounded with massive amounts of snow this last week. It's beautiful, but...wow...they don't know what to do with snow here. If we were in Utah the snow would have been plowed away no bother and everyone would be going about like normal. But in Oregon none of the little towns are plowed AT ALL! It is a living nightmare to try and drive. Everything shuts down... work, school, church are immediately canceled. We haven't had church for the last 2 weeks. It's nuts. I swear people in Utah would be on the floor laughing at these Oregonians.
It has been nice to have Ryan home a little more though. Jack likes to look at the snow from inside the house and then go out and stand in it for a little while, but he's not real fond of being cold, so we haven't been out in it too much.
Ryan and I celebrated our four year wedding anniversary last week. We had a nice Jack-free evening together and enjoyed some Indian food. The time has flown in and we are very happy together.
In fact, we are expecting another little addition to our family come June. My due date has been given for June 16th, which is the day after Jack's birthday...ha...of course they never come on those allocated dates. Maybe the little one will come on Jack's birthday instead to spoil Jack's thunder!
We are planning on finding out the sex of the baby and will have our second ultrasound in a couple of weeks. This second pregnancy is already panning out to be a little better than the first. I am still very sick, but since I'm not teaching at elementary school this time around, I can take some medication which controls the vomiting and nausea fairly well. It isn't full-proof, but I'll take it. Unfortunately, I am already starting to show. How depressing. I guess my muscles aren't quite what they used to be. But, I can already feel the baby moving which is fun.
Well, Merry Christmas to everyone and a Happy New Year!
