Twas the Night Before Christmas

Today is Christmas Eve- our first as a family of three. It hasn't really felt like Christmas today...55 degrees and wearing shorts all day...hmmm. We stayed in town this year due to the Murano being in the shop and a rock slide on I40...who wants to drive 9 hours with a baby who has mastered the sound of squealing cats? I thought by staying here in our Chrsitmasy decorated home that it would feel like Christmas but I guess my memories will always be in Morganton. Julia's Christmas memories will be here in Nashville under our Nashville trees.

We did start the day off with a visit from Santa! Laura's Dad dressed up and played the part well. Maybe next year my Dad can do the job! Julia liked Santa and wasn't scared like I thought she may be. Instead she sat on his lap and told him what she wanted...in Santa/baby talk of course.

Santa I want...

Santa with Julia and her best friend Lilly.

She is really such a funny girl. I find myself laughing at her. She's always laughing and being silly. However, if you put an audience in front of her she tends to freeze. Atleast now she doesn't freeze in front of the camera lens. I guess after five months of having it in her face she is starting to warm up to it

Just being a silly girl before Santa arrives.

Tomorrow is the big day. It's what all the parties, shopping, planning, cutsie outfits and believing have led up to. The celebration of Christmas Day - the birth of Christ.

I am so blessed this year to be able to celebrate this day with my new family. This time last year I had no idea of the true blessing that was growing inside me. I had no idea of the beautiful life that would come with the arrival of my beautiful little girl - my sweet Julia. I am truly blessed and look forward to celebrating all of my blessings tomorrow.

To blog or not to blog....Blog it is!

So I started this blog last year with every intention of keeping it going. Well, deep into the months of pregnancy it fell to the wayside. Now that I have a beautiful baby girl and a family that is changing daily, I would like to start blogging again. I've also started to focus on my interest in photography and figure this will be the best way to share them with my thoughts while taking them. I have every intention of keeping it up now but whether or not I do will be a different story.

As I am a stay at home (SAHM) mom now, I seem to only journal about mommy events. I love it though. As one person said this blog will be the way our baby girl sees how she grew, changed and what I thought about it. I wish our parents could have done something like this. I would love to have known what my mother was thinking when I would spit up on her new silk shirt (I have learned to no longer buy dry clean only fabrics), what she thought of my poop and if it was a topic of conversation for her and my father and if she was as crazy in love with me as I am with my baby girl.

So wish me luck with this blog. I am really going to try to keep it up and remind myself that this will be a gift to my baby girl. Maybe my facebook postings will fall to the wayside but look at this face....She will thank me one day and I'm sure when I'm old and gray I will look at these postings and either laugh, cry, scream or just say "Ahhhhh".