Lynn...it so nice to see your Christmas pictures. You did such a fabulous job on all your decorations, and your home looks so warm and inviting. Your trees and mantels are done so beautifully. Emily did such a great job on the Christmas Village and Nativity, and the Gingerbread house looks great. I see you even got to make those wonderful breads together. Just reading and looking at everything, gave me the sense of a very relaxing Christmas. You had the right idea. Seems we tend to put too much into all the 'fuss' that the simple enjoyment of it gets lost, and before you know it, it's over. I'm glad you got to share this with us. jane

Good Morning, thanks for our replies! I'm feeling better this morning except that Grant got up at 5:30 and wouldn't go back to sleep so I'm tired, but other than that, I'm okay. The cramping subsided and I dont seem to be nauseaus anymore. Its funny though, I woke up several times in the night, like I always do, and kept thinking I was going to go into labor. It's all I could think about. But I hope I dont, and I dont think I will. I think my body is just tired and Camryn is running out of room so whenever she moves, she's pushing on some internal organ that is uncomfortable.

I'd like to suggest taking a picture of the entire family instead of just your daughter for the Christmas cards. It'll mean a whole lot more in the years to come. I was looking through the photo album that my in-laws kept for their kids this weekend. FIL took pictures of the 3 kids and put them in the album every year, but there are no family pictures. It just seems like the missing years without everyone in there. In some cases, those are the only pictures of the family during those years that the relatives and other close friends have. You can still do a really cute picture with the whole family. Last year was our son's 1st Christmas. We did the basic pose standing in front of the tree. My husband and I wore Santa hats. My son wore reindeer antlers. The picture that we ultimately used for the Christmas cards is priceless. We got lots of compliments on that picture. This year, we're going to pose in front of either the state capitol or one of the downtown Christmas light displays. If ds cooperates, we are all wearing Santa hats. A suggested cute pose for daughter only is Baby New Year. Last year we posed ds up in front of the tv while we were watching the ball drop. Ds was nude, but the picture would have looked cute with him in a diaper. We used a beer bottle as a prop, but if you have the fancy bottle of grape juice or something else nonalcoholic, that would look cute also. We emailed the picture out to close family and friends as a New Year Greeting. We put a picture in ds's baby book for posterity.

What a beautiful gift and she did such a nice job. It's nice to be appreciated as a good customer. Jean