Yes...I am still here!  Baby is doing fine, family is fine, I am fine.  Thanks to all who have stopped by.  I have just really been busy between the girls and appointments and getting ready for Christmas that I really haven't had much time to get on line.  I apologize.  I do have to say that I probably won't have a very dependable blog for awhile.  We are getting really close to delivery time and I want to spend as much time with family as possible.

Life is going pretty well right now.  I am involved in a parent's group for the school district up here and have also been quite busy with them.  I built them a website and have been doing a lot of P.R. for the group.  All of that is pretty well set up now, so that is one less thing to have to worry about.  It will be an on going thing, but the initial set up was pretty time consuming.

Ashley has started basketball with the middle school and is doing well.  She made high honor roll and received great reports for her 1st quarter of school.  She seems to be balancing the social and school aspects pretty well.  She is really enjoying school, which is great.  Emily is doing very well and is just being so sweet lately.  I can tell that she is much closer to 2 1/2 now and really is communicating well so is much less frustrated most of the time.  She really loves playing out in the snow.  She practices making snow angels inside the house on the living room floor.  She seems to be excited about the baby coming.  She lifts my shirt up and reads her books and gives her lots of cuddles.

I am feeling well and cruising through the last few weeks.  We have our last ultrasound tomorrow.  I am looking forward to seeing her.  Since we are having a planned c-section, I already have an "appointment" at the hospital on Dec 15.  Just a few more weeks now.  We are going to spend Thanksgiving weekend getting Emily's baby things out of storage to get set up and organized.  Paul's parents will be here in a few weeks.

I am nearly done with Christmas shopping.  I finished up quite a bit of it online yesterday.  Just a few more things to get and that should be it!  I am excited to put up our tree.  We have white lights up outside but will add more Christmas decorations after Thanksgiving.

Thanks for your patience in dealing with my bad bloggin'! 

TTFN,