Pregnancy Photos (31 weeks)

Becca offered to take some pregnancy pictures of us while she was in town last week. She asked me several months ago if I was planning on having some professional pictures taken of us (while baby is in my belly). She knows how cheap much I like to save money and offered to bring her camera and new lens. I was thrilled, but never could have imagined how much I would LOVE these pictures. I am so grateful that Becca thought to do this for us. Here are some shots of the day...

Thank you a million! I love that we will have these pictures forever.

Christmas!

It flew by this year, even though we celebrated for about a week. We started on Wednesday night at my dad and Cindy's. We watched Carson open a few gifts and baked/decorated some gingerbread houses. Carson is going to be a year old about the time our baby is due, so it's fun to watch him and picture what our baby will be doing at Christmas next year. He has such a little personality!

JoDee's house. It was taste tested before I got a picture...

My house

The next afternoon we celebrated with the McDaniel family. They are in the process of moving into a new house (it's finished!), so while they were building, their home was next door in a trailer house manufactured home. We decided it was a must to celebrate one Christmas in the trailer. I didn't take a picture from our celebration, but it was a good one. Sara got a ton of pictures, so if I get a chance I will upload them later. We pre-celebrated with the family favorite Pappadeaux - so delish!

Robby and I decided to wake up early on Christmas Eve and celebrate our Christmas as just us before we have a little one crawling around. I told him I would make whatever he wanted for breakfast (cinnamon rolls and biscuits! - easy peasy). It was a really happy morning that I will never forget.

Here are a few shots:

Robby wanted some goofy onesies for our baby, so I stuffed a few in his stocking. I worked with a designer (Morning Loft) on Etsy to create these for Robby (baby). I highly recommend her!

Our new camera! (of course with Haribo's supervision)

After our Christmas we headed to Louisiana for our usual Christmas Eve celebration with Mom McD's side of the family. It's pure chaos and I love it.

We spent Christmas Day at Pappa and Granny's with Dad McD's side of the family. So much fun!

We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday Handsome!

I hope your day is filled with rainbow chip cake and lots of birthday wishes! Love you!

Purple and White at Christmas time

So my best girl, Becca, is in town for a few days and helped me coordinate a girls night with an amazing group of women that don't have the chance to get together often. We all went to Jr. High together (Go Panthers!) and share so many hilarious memories it's ridiculous - unless you didn't go to our Jr. High, then it's just probably annoying :)

Becca, Bekah, Lindsay, Monica, and Lisa came over ready to catch up on the past 8 years (oh, my gosh, has it really been 8 years since high school?). Monica and Lisa didn't go to high school with the rest of us, but they were always in the loop, at sporting events, or dating boys from our school.

Anyways, I cooked (Robby did most of it - because I'm not very skilled in the kitchen/my feet are fat) and Monica baked. We drank lots of wine (Lindsay brought me some sparkling grape juice, so sweet!), laughed, ate, and even brought back some old cheers/dances from the past. Oh man, it was pretty entertaining.

These are a group of girls that I might not talk to every day, month, or (sad to admit) every year, but once I see them it's like everything clicks and we are right back to where we have always been.

I was originally in agreement with Lindsay when she posted, "may the blast from the past pictures we took never see the light of day!:)", but then I saw them and couldn't stop laughing. Here are a few from our great night.

Lisa, Lindsay, Becca, me, Monica, and Bekah

Monica loving my boy, xoxo

Oh yeah! It was starting to get good.

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and amazing start to the New Year!

We'll just call you Chuck for now.

I'm pretty sure my baby roundhouse kicked me twice last night on my walk. I had to stop to make sure they were just kicks and nothing crazy was going on. Do you think he is trying to give me name ideas? Chuck Norris McDaniel...

Our halls are decked!

A few weeks ago we got the Christmas boxes out of the attic and started our search for the perfect tree. It didn't take long (mainly because it was dark and cold outside) to find it, get it home, and decorate it. What do you think?

Robby thinks our star looks a little trashy. He topped the tree after I finished the decorating and we couldn't stop laughing. It has a GIANT green clip on the back of it that attaches it to the top of the tree - maybe a little tacky. I thought it was an improvement since we had been using a Santa hat the previous 3 years AND I got this one for $.50 after Christmas last year! Maybe I will keep my eyes out for the perfect angel after Christmas this year.


Here is the outside. This is the first year we did lights and we both love how it turned out! The next morning Robby said he was a little disappointed the homeowners associated did not put the YOM (Yard of the Month) sign in our yard. I guess they must have just been a little backed up...

Sorry all of my pictures have been so dark and grainy. I have been using my phone A LOT lately because it's always charged and easier :) To be honest our camera is pretty terrible anyways, so they are probably about the same quality.

The other girls in his life...

Miss Independent (Maple)

And, Miss Not-So-Much (Haribo)

(I watched Haribo snuggle up against Robby with every turn, bump in road, or scary branch that came too close to the Polaris.)

We spent the weekend on the ranch enjoying some smores fresh air with Jaime and Maria. Hope y'all had a great weekend too!