MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!

Merry Christmas. Here's my sweetie all dolled up like Bob Kratich (sp?) from Scrooge ha, ha, ha.

We went to see Gram last night and she was so delighted to see Scott in his top hat and long scarf. She kind of didn't know who he was at first, but when she did she laughed. She's 98 (or something like that) and is amazing, she's with it mentally, just not there physically. We had a great visit.






Here's a full picture view of Scott. He's wearing my Christmas present to him, the boots. I bought them for him to complete his Halloween outfit, and yes he did get his present early. He wore the boots with his outfit when we went to Salem for Halloween. I like this look for the holidays! He bought me a diamond ring by the way, it's beautiful. I tried to take a pictre of it but the glare kept on over-exposing the picture (ha, ha, ha).

It's been a crazy two days, Scott didn't work yesterday but we spent the day running around like crazy people. We had last minute errands and then had to finish with the Christmas stuff and clean the house (not that Scott wanted to), visit Gram and then went to Aunt Lorraines for dinner, all fun! The theme for yesterday? "WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!!".

That theme has carried over for me today too, Scotts working -- Jan, nancy and I went to church at 8:30, I'm running over to Anita's shortly for a visit and then to Peter and Terry's for a mid-day Christmas dinner. Then home, cuz Scotts needs to be to work by 5:00 am tomorrow.

AHHHHHH. We werent ready this year at all. Hopefully we won't be in the same position next year, it will be our first year with Jade! I can't wait! Oh, speaking of Jade, check out the room. we are making progress, maybe it will be ready by the time she comes home!

Love to everyone, I'll post more Christmas pictures tomorrow.

BABY UPDATE #4

So, by now most of you should have received our latest update. As you know, our timeline has been pushed back a bit and it completely bummed me out. I'm the most impatient person on the planet, so waiting is extremely hard for me. Good thing Scott is my complete opposite!

Anyway, I was complaining to Suzie the other day that I didnt feel like doing anything to prepare for the baby's arrival (as you all know, the babies room is coming along "nicely" :), she told me to get over myself and to start to do stuff. So, I took her advice and decided to have a bit of fun. I went shopping last night and picked Scott up some "cool" baby outfits for Christmas. Ya know, he's the one who want's to dress her in leather and "goth" outfits (tee hee).

I went to one of his favorite stores "Hot Topics" and picked up the onesies you see in the picture. What a riot, the guy at the checkout counter said "boy, some little girl is going to have a rockin' Christmas!" and I said yes she will (next year!).

Anyway, it was fun and it made me think about all of the fun Scott and I are going to have with Jade-Su Raven Casey when we get her home (that's her name, we might add her Chinese name to the mix too, so she'll have the longest name in history, but with our family it won't matter cuz she'll probably have a nick-name before she gets home!). I'm gonna want all of the cute little girl pinks and blues, and Scotts gonna want all of the cute little Rocker Girrrrllll blacks and purples. Soooo, I decided I'm going to have to do a clothing check before we leave Jade with anyone, especially daycare, cuz I don't think it's appropriate for a little one to have "Social Distortion" with a skull and cross-bones on her shirt (ha, ha, ha).

We will NOT be bringing these onsies to China, ya know the old wives tale about always wearing good underwear, it's when you don't, that something will happen to you and everyone will see it! We can't take that risk because we both already wear tube-socks.

This is Jade's room, it's got potential :) Mom, remember you told me you'd come up in January to help with the room . . .?