hello again, blog.

hey there blog.
i know, i've neglected to post for like umm, forever.
but lots of things have been keeping me busy over here. 
like christmas, and new years, and baby showers, and snow storms, and premature labor. 
here's an update:

christmas:

it was really fun to decorate the house.  not so much fun to undecorate it.  thankfully mom helped me... when she came up to visit last week and everything was still decorated (oops).  it's hard to climb up 9 foot christmas trees when you're 9 months pregnant!

baby showers:

 

our sweet family friend, nadyne, threw me a lovely shower in maryland over new years weekend.  mom was in newfoundland to be with poppy before he passed away, so it was especially nice to be with church friends and family and celebrate the little one during such a tough time.

mandy and steph threw me a shower at deluxe in wilmington with all of my wilmington girlfriends.  i love these girls and we had such a nice time.  mandy and steph really outdid themselves, and i got a lot of really nice things!  it's so fun to get together with the wilmington gals and celebrate big life events... there are a lot of weddings (and i have a feeling more babies!) coming up this year! yay!

snow storms:

 

we've had a few.  this was our most recent on wednesday night.  snow is way more fun when you don't own your own house and have to shovel your own enormous driveway.  we had to cut down a bazillion branches the next morning and drag them through the yard just so we could make it out of our driveway!  it was pretty though.  and my favorite part of snow storms are always snow days!  especially the mornings:

 

beautiful blue skies

 billy makes breakfast!

 and the whole world looks like it's covered in vanilla frosting.

okay you're basically all caught up now.  i promise i'll pay more attention to you in the upcoming weeks.  mostly because i'm becoming less mobile.