Blizzard 09

Christmas Eve met us with what our weather men were saying is "a blizzard like Oklahoma hasn't seen in 100 years!" It dropped 12-14 inches of snow on us and ruined our travel plans, but we have some pretty cool 3 foot snow drifts to play in. :)

That 3rd picture down is our CR-V stuck in a snow drift and that's Chris' shovel handle sticking out of the snow beside it. We finally made it to Tulsa Christmas Day. It took us about 3 and a half hours to get there between the road conditions and delays caused by accidents along the turnpike. It was really good to see family and show off our newest addition to the family once we got there though!

The first of 4 Christmases

We had Christmas with Chris' extended family on Saturday. There were 29 of us and the kids had a BLAST. I didn't see Isla for like 7 hours. She got passed around like a bowl of popcorn. Most of the family hadn't seen her yet. :) We still have Christmas with Chris' immediate family, our family Christmas, and Christmas with my family in Tulsa. Whew! It's going to be a crazy week! I love it!

Selah Jade played until she couldn't hold her eyes open anymore and Noah never did slow down long enough for me to catch a picture of him. He played with his cousins for 10 straight hours. He was crashed in the car before we pulled off the street.

Then today, I took Chris to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra. He was surprised and he loved it. :) I'm surprised I could keep a secret from him - HA! Merry Christmas, Lovey. I love you!

Isla Morgan Mendez

December 8th at 3:30pm we welcomed Isla into the world. She was 20 inches long, 7 pounds and 5 ounces. She's perfect in every way.

Our babymoon date

Our friends, the Butenhoffs, were very kind to us today and watched Noah and Selah Jade while Chris and I caught a movie and got some Jamba Juice.

We saw Armored. It was really good. Not what I thought it was going to be, but it was a really good movie. Jamba was awesome as is to be expected. :)

We got home and the kids were still alive so it was a success. The kids had a blast and I think poor Rebekah was wiped out. I know Selah Jade was. At 5:40 when we got home she could barely keep her eyes open. Bedtime promises to be short and painless tonight. :) Love it.

2 more days! I'm really not so sure I've absorbed the gravity of what's happening. We're having another baby. Maybe when I'm holding her at 3am my mind will wrap around it.

Danforth & Bryant got robbed

Chris' branch where he worked until about 3 weeks ago was robbed today. As far as I know, they haven't caught anyone and the place is on lockdown. The store was evacuated and the police had people go out and sit in their cars to be questioned.

It's just really scary that this would happen at all when we're supposed to live in a very low crime area. The bank he works at now is only 2 miles from there. No one was hurt, but my mind can't help but dance around the possibilities. I don't know what I would do if anything were to happen to Chris.

I thought I may be in labor earlier today. I was hurting a lot. If that wasn't enough to stress me out, this bank thing sure is. I'll be glad when he gets home tonight. This is his last day of work before he's off for the baby. It will be nice having him home all week. It will be nice not to be pregnant too.

It's December 1st already?!

A week from today, we'll have a new baby! It's so exciting :)

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Ours was good. We got to see lots of family. I didn't do much because... well, I'm 9 months pregnant and not good for much. 

We got Selah Jade's 18 month pictures back. They turned out really cute. I'm always so bummed that I only got one pose. There was one I really liked of her holding a flower, but I only liked it in black and white and they wanted to charge me like $20/sheet for it. No thanks.

Christmas tree is up and all but a handfull of presents are bought. Have to finish up this week. I don't want to have ANYTHING left to do after this baby comes. I need to go ahead and het them wrapped, but Selah Jade can't even leave the ornaments on the tree. How can I trust her not to open everyone's gifts?!

We're getting Noah a Leapfrog Leapster 2. If you're looking for a gift idea for him, he'll need some games to go with it. Selah Jade is getting a play kitchen, so she could use some fake food or dishes.