We had a nice Christmas and kept ourselves distracted especially with Lucas. Christmas Eve we spent at Claire and Kevin's house and Dad came over and we had a nice dinner and unwrapped presents. We later went to the candle light service at the church which had a great turn out this year and we enjoyed it a lot. Later that night Lucas didn't sleep well at all and was up almost every other hour. So Christmas morning we didn't get up and moving as quickly as we had hoped. We had coffee and unwrapped the few presents we had between the two of us. Eric got a new xbox game and a blue ray player from his wife and Emily got a family necklace, Waterford wine glasses, and wine glass charms from her husband. Lucas got his exersaucer a while back but still enjoyed it that morning. After we had our Christmas we headed down to Joe and Marcia's (Emily's mom and dad) and had Christmas with them. They are always so generous.
Eric got: garage door opener, keyless entry, xbox controller, wireless xbox thing, xbox live, dress coat, and stocking stuffers.
Emily got: new flatware to serve 16, 3 new shirts, bunt pan from William Sonoma, serving platter from Crate and Barrel and stocking stuffers.
Lucas got: a sock monkey in a box (like a Jack n the box) ;), and a couple other toys and a walker which he is too short for.
From Don (Eric's dad) we got a generous amount of money that we are arguing on what to do with haha. Lucas got an awesome play center for crawling and walking that will last him until about 36 months. From Kevin and Claire, Lucas got a really cute farm ABCD toy and some swimming toys for the tub which we are excited to try out tonight. From Brian and Vanessa, Lucas got a fun table game and an activity center.
We must agree that Christmas is a nice time to get the things you need but Emily really enjoys giving more than receiving which can hurt my wallet some times. *haha*
New years Eve we are having a few people over like Joe, Marcia, Brian, Jamie, Micah, Don, and maybe Kevin and Claire. We don't have a ton of room but it will still be fun and we have a big tv to watch the ball drop. It will be nice to be at home instead of away from the home so we can put Lucas to bed if he wants to go down. We aren't totally thrilled about the upcoming year with the new health plan but we know God will provide for us and carry us through.
Before we got pregnant last September Eric had started on the basement. Then after we got pregnant he started on the nursery. Now Eric is back to working on the basement. We have our floor picked out and know how much everything is going to cost. He is working on the electrical work and then once that is down the dry wall can go up and then the floor can be installed. Hopefully it won't take too long so we can enjoy it a little bit before we put our house on the market. The plan is to move the office to the basement as well and have a guest bedroom available for anyone that might want or need to stay with us. We might even use the extra money we have right now for a king sized bed for our room, it would be nice. We'll have to upload pictures of the before basement and after so you get an idea of how much work was put into it. Emily is excited to decorate down there and already found a nice area rug at Marshall's.
Lots of things happening so there should be lots of things to blog about, hopefully we keep it up.
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