Major update time

Merry Christmas! Erik and I decided to stay home this year since Erik has tons to do with his prelim exams coming up. We missed our families but it was kind of nice to not have to deal with the travel part of it we just got to stay in our own bed  and do as much or as little as we wanted. Sleeping in my own bed has become a big deal for me since I sleep with multiple pillows and blankets to support growing baby and keep my ever changing temperature taken care of. I don't think I've slept through the night in a few months I always wake up once or twice. I'm so glad we decided to get a new mattress last November or I would be in bad shape! Guess it's preparing me for the little amount of sleep that is to come! I do like waking up in the night and feeling little buddy wiggling around doing who knows what in there. He's kind of a night owl, hopefully we can change that a bit when he comes out! 

Erik with his new neck/pocket knife baby got him for Christmas. He loves it and I like it too, I kind of want one in pink at some point! 

Christmas bump! 22 weeks.

Christmas treats for our friends. They were so yummy I don't know why I didn't save more for us! They are rice krispie treat peppermint bark. Delicious.

Here is what they looked like individually. Really cute!

Taken a couple days ago. 23 weeks.

We decided to start our nursery projects this week since we had New Years Day off work. We cleaned up all our Christmas stuff on Sunday and cleaned up baby's room to make room for his cute cute furniture we've started working on. Erik and I bought this off of Craigslist about a year ago for a baby room for 20 bucks. I wish I would have taken a a before picture but it was just that brown oak wood color and had green plaid cushions on it. We decided we are making little buddy's room nautical themed with white and navy blue and then some red accents. We took this over to our friend's house the other day and painted it in their garage. Erik brought it home and did some finishing touches on it yesterday and we are going to do a few other little things to it and I am going to recover the cushions with a navy blue fabric. I will post a final pic when it is done (we are now waiting on a fabric sale at Joann's next week) We also bought a cute dresser that we are refinishing to go in the nursery as well. It's fun doing our own custom work and making it our own. 

Apparently we're really good at getting paint all over ourselves...this is the top or Erik's head

My custom white highlights...

And our awesome painted hands...after we had washed them once already mind you...

We are some pretty happy people. We have a lot to be grateful for. Going into the New Year makes us all reflect on the past year and we have been so blessed. We are both healthy, we love each other more than ever, we have a sweet little baby on the way, I got my new job this year that has been treating me so well, Erik is doing well in school and seeing some progress in his research. Not to mention our wonderful friends and family that do so much for us, our church family, a nice warm home to live in, food in our bellies, and joy in our hearts. We are grateful for the gospel in our lives, and have spent a lot of time this past month reflecting on Christ's birth and life and keeping him the focus of our holiday season was a huge blessing. What a wonderful year and what an exciting year we have ahead of us!