I have gone back and forth with having 2 or 3 kiddos. It's always the tougher days when I think people must be crazy to have more than 2 and I want to rule out the possibility but then the majority of the good days I think how fun would it be to have a little bit of a larger family than I had and to have 3 kids. John has always leaned towards only 2 and after finding out the ultrasound gender he surprised me by saying "well guess that means we will try again", because he still knows I would like a girl as well in the mix. I have been the one to lean more towards 3 and of course there would be no guarantee for a girl next time but I think how fun would it be to have 2 boys close in age then wait several years and have a little girl who would be protected by her 2 older brothers. I could still even see myself with 3 boys but then I think that would be God's way of telling me we need to stop there because 3 boys would be tons of fun but a handful and I couldnt even fathom 4 boys so I know 3 would be my limit :) But before I get ahead of myself we will see how things go with 2 and then decide in a couple years when I get baby fever again!
Friday afternoon Cory and I went over to my sisters house and we had a cookie baking day! We made all kinds of cookies....sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies, browines, etc and decorated some of them to give to neigbors, friends and to take to the Christmas party's. That day I also cleaned out Cory's room and prepared a little reading/sitting/play nook in a corner of his room that I think turned out cute.
Friday night was our church's adult Christmas party and that was a lot of fun for John and I! My parents didn't go so Cory actually went to their house and had a slumber party and he had a great time there. Then Saturday John and I prepared for our family Christmas/Gender reveal party at our house that evening. We made a gender cake with blue icing in the middle for the family to cut into and finished wrapping presents and cleaning. That evening was fun to see my parents reaction to the gender and they were both excited and my Mom is looking forward to adding another boy in the family since on her side it was always all girls and no boys! Opening presents was so fun to see how excited the kids got with their gifts and Cory loved all of his and could open them all by himself and his reactions were priceless. And he was so well-mannered, he always said thank you after opening his gifts without me telling him to say it, which made me smile. He got a big train set and LOVED it.....when he saw it he ran to it with the biggest grin and started playing right away and has played with it a ton so far.
The cake:
Our snack area before we put all the food out:
Cory playing with the balloon
Cory's excited for a boy!
Or is he??? Haha no more pics Mom!
Jen and Ken
My Mom and Dad and Clay cutting the cake
Yay for another Boy!
Passing out presents!
Cory opening his gifts
Car wheelie ramp!
Clay loved his Leapster Explorer!
Kayla loved her cookset!
Cory loved his train set!
Sunday was the kids Christmas party with my Church and picture with Santa. Cory was so tired from the day before that he actually slept through part of it and was sleeping when it was his turn to see Santa (my Dad) so we put him in his lap anyway half asleep and he had the most confused look on his face but just sat there for a minute for a picture and we picked him back up. We also got some good news over the weekend that we got aproved for the re-financing on our house that we applied for which we are switching from a 30 year loan down to a 15 year loan that would save us $75,000 in interest in the long run with the lower 2.75% interest rate so that was exciting to us. Also the appraisal report showed our house appraised for $30,000 over what we bought it for 2 years ago so it is nice to see that the market is picking up now! We do plan on staying in the house for 10 or maybe more years unless we outgrow it with more kiddos and need a 4th bedroom or when the kids get older it would be super nice to have a finished basement, but we are content where we are and the school sytems are great in Oldham County for the kids. Sunday we went on and let the pups open their stockings early and Cory will get his after Christmas and Florida trip. The puppies loved their doggie toys!
The pups stockings:
Lucky playing
Nick playing
Cory sleeping before sitting in Santa's lap.
When we sat him in Santa's lap he wasn't sure what was going on
I want my Daddy!
I am looking forward to our Florida trip and we leave Friday morning for a week. I just hope Cory will do well on the drive since we chose to drive but the nice thing is we are breaking it up to 6 hours to Alabama and staying the night with my Grandparents, then drive the rest of the way to Pensacola the next morning and will break up the trip like that on the way back as well. Hoping all will go smoothly and I will need to get busy packing and preparing for that this week. Have a very Merry Christmas!!
Wow, that is a busy weekend! You all have a lot goin on, and it all sounds wonderful!!!!!!!
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Congrats on Cameron!
And I love the pictures of Cory opening his presents!!!! What a wonderful day! I am excited for more reactions form Avery this year, but I bet next year will be even better!
Have a wonderful trip! You all deserve it!!!
We had sooo much fun this year with ya'll at our Christmas get together! Glad we live so close now and sooo excited about baby Cameron!
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