MY 'SPECIAL' PEOPLE

As many of you may know, I absolutely ADORE my family.... they are loud, obnoxious, crazy, and rather 'special' people, but they are the absolute best...

Today I decided that I wanted to add them to my blog, because they are so far away and so easy to miss...

I didn't choose the most glamorous pictures, cos then you would be looking at a slide show of someone elses family... my family is VERY FAR from glamorous, so I chose pictures that show the true colours of the nut house that I grew up in, with the people whose genes I share.

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BRRR...

Winter it seems, has arrived.
Yesterday we had our first 'decent' snowfall. It snowed pretty much all day, and settled well.
We have had snow in the past weeks, but mostly just little flurries, that barely settled on the ground... yesterday was a good snowy day... and completely dreary in my opinion, but today, it's gorgeous outside... blue skies and white snow everywhere.

Of course, it's freaking freezing, but I guess you can't have one without the other.

Here are some pics I took yesterday of our first good snow fall.




MY FACE CLEARLY SAYS IT ALL... lol


This is how it looks outside today... it's days like this when I like snow!

ENTERTAINING AN AFRICAN...

pparently it doesn't take much to entertain me... LOL.

Jake and I recently ordered a new trash can from Costco...they had a great deal on a 13 gallon one, and a bonus feature is that it is censored, so it opens automatically so you don't have to touch it...
Well, I am not generally one for gadgets and electronics, but our trash can arrived this morning and I decided to unpack it and set it up etc... before I knew it, I was giggling in delight at this new 'toy'... I am such spaz. LOL :)

Here is a video of our AWESOME trash can. LOL

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BABY HAS WHEELS

Recently Jake and I made our first 2 purchases for the 'Bean'... the first thing we bought is a crib linen set. It is Classic Pooh and just the cutest. We chose that one because it is very neutral coloured, so we can use it no matter what gender baby we have. I am hoping to get a cherry coloured crib, but I don't know for sure what we will end up getting.



Our second and biggest purchase is a Chicco travel system... I never thought I would be so excited about getting a pram (stroller). We hadn't planned on buying one any time soon, but we saw it in Babies R Us and between the store discount and the online Chicco rebate, we would save $60 if we bought it now... so of course we were easily sold and bought it. It's great. I can't wait to use it.



On other exciting news... I am literally counting down the days left until our big 20 week scan... our scan is on 23 December, so exactly 3 weeks from today... I just can't wait to know if we are having a boy or a girl. Between us and our families, the opinions on gender are about 50/50, so we really could end up with either. LOL.

Murpheys law, the Bean will be a stubborn little thing at the scan and not play along very well, and we will leave still not knowing what we are having and still calling it, 'Bean' or 'It'. LOL... Jake has said on a few occassions, that the Bean is definitely my child... stubborn, difficult and unco-operative. LOL... we'll see. :D

STUFFED...

Well, it's Thanksgiving today, and the day is nearly over... the title says it all... We are STUFFED.
It was great (thanks to Michelle & Kelly for kindly hosting the day). Jake & I spent Thanksgiving with the Daltons, the Farrs and the Giordano's... we had a fantastic time. As always, and as is tradition for any good Thanksgiving, there was too much food, too much dessert and we all ate far too many servings of it all. LOL Thanksgiving is one of those occassions where you start the day with the mindset that you will intentionally eat more food than is humanly possible...WHY?... because it's just too darn good not to do that. Thanksgiving most definitely isn't the weight watchers friend. :D

Of course there is plenty left over, so Jake and I will once again be stuck into more turkey, more mashed potatoes, more corn, more stuffing, more gravy, more pudding, more pie and more of whatever else it is we managed to cart home with us.

By the end of today, I think we all had our Thanksgiving bellies on... so Tara and I weren't the only ones looking 'bigger' anymore with our preggy bellies. LOL.

Cybil pointed out what we call, 'the shift'... it's the thing that everyone starts to do at things like Thanksgiving, when you have already eaten far too much, but have a 3rd serving of food in front of you anyway, and although you are turning green just looking at your food, let alone eating it, you kinda stretch your body upwards and sorta shift to the side... as though the last 2 plates of food you just ate will 'shift' to the side, so that you can make room for the next mouthful that you are insistent on fitting in too. LOL... Well, if you looked around the table today, you would notice a few bodies all doing the 'shift' once in a while. LOL... why do we do it to ourselves???

Unfortunately I didn't get any photo's of our great day... but then again, who has time to fiddle with a camera, when you are diligently concentrating on eating yet ANOTHER plate of food???

Well, as we would say in South Africa, "Maagies vol, Oogies toe"... (in other words, my stomach is full, and now its time for bed...lol) The perfect way to end a great day... stuffed on some sleep inducing turkey and a whole lot of delicious side dishes... YUMMY!!!

OUR BEAN HAS SPROUTED

So this is just a quick post... Over the last week or so, it seems that just suddenly my preggy belly has 'popped'... it's not huge, but it's definitely there, and I am loving it.

Jake keeps staring at it too... LOL.. I think we are both a little surprised at how suddenly it stuck out, because a week ago, I didn't have nearly this much belly. LOL.
Who ever thought I would enjoy having a 'big' belly :D


14 WEEKS & 5 DAYS