The Last Week or So

Today is Jeremy's 30th birthday and mine was Sunday. We had a fun party with our family and friends. Here is the group with tacky, Christmas sweaters. It was pretty funny.

(Seated beside me is my best bud that will be in America for 6 months! So happy!)

Instead of presents, we had people bring preemie clothes to our party. We will take them to the NICU at Presbyterian Hospital on Christmas Day to donate. Haven came home from the hospital 2 years ago on Christmas Day, so we thought it would be nice to do something for them. Five of the kids at our party all started out smaller than these tiny clothes. We are so thankful that they are all growing and thriving.

We have already had 3 or 4 snows this year. It has been very pretty and Haven has enjoyed seeing it. She tasted some snow this day and said it was pretty.

Haven looks like such a big girl in her Sunday, Christmas dresses. It's hard to believe she is already a little girl and not a baby.

We didn't put up all of our decorations this year. We knew that Haven would love to play with some that could be broken and I personally didn't feel like putting it all up, just to have to take it all down. But our tree turned out pretty anyway. This year we also have new stocking holders and we hung a special ornament on the fourth one for baby Jovie. She already has a stocking to match for next year, but it just needs to be monogrammed.