Oh, Christmas Tree!!

The weekend after Thanksgiving, Zippy and I took our annual trip out to Sebastopol to check out the local tree farms. It ended up being a beautiful day and we went to three or four different farms just because we didn't want to go home! It has become tradition for us to go to a few farms and once we find our tree, we head to the apple farm where they serve fresh apple cider and hot apple pie. Yum! Yum!

Zippy cutting down our tree

Zippy taking a break at one of the tree farms.
Zippy hunting for that perfect tree...

It is a little bigger than we needed but it was just too cute! We had to cut quite a bit of it off to fit in the house and the star still almost scrapes the ceiling....

My mom really wanted to get us a baby's first Christmas ornament but since baby isn't here yet, she found an ornament that reminded her of a fetus!! She is too funny-it is a cute little sweet pea with a baby face and doesn't look like a fetus at all to me!

We are enjoying our last quiet Christmas with just the two of us and dreaming of next year with the little one! It is fun trying to think of family traditions that we want to carry on and new ones we want to start.

Jingle Bells!

This made me smile when a friend emailed it to me this morning. The therapeutic horseback riding program where I volunteer (well, use to before pregnancy and will be back there again hopefully in the spring) had their Holiday Party. They made sock puppet horses and taped everyone singing "Jingle Bells". I just love it and it makes me miss everyone even more!

We're Back!

After some technical difficulty, I finally remembered how to get onto my blog and now have time to play with how to actually use it.

Things are going well with the pregnancy. We just went back last week for an ultrasound and it is amazing how much the baby changes in such a short time!

26 weeks

19 weeks

We are starting the third trimester now and I think I am feeling the first few symptoms of nesting. With all of my family and some friends back in Missouri, I have been trying to plan when everyone should come out....which is kind of hard when we don't know when Baby ZJ will actually arrive!! We still haven't started the nursery, I still can't decide exactly what to do. I have the color scheme in mind and it will have a monkey/jungle animal theme...but I just haven't figured out exactly how to execute the idea! Very frustrating!!

We had Zippy's Christmas party last weekend and it was alot of fun. They had someone there taking photos so I finally got a picture of Zippy and me!

Zippy and Jen - 27 weeks

I promise to come back more often but right now I need to get some Christmas shopping done!!