I'm back

Well, it's snowing again. I believe this is the fifth snowfall we've had since early December. We would normally be on our way to church about now but decided not to go today. It's snowing pretty hard and it's terribly slippery from all packed snow from other storms. So we'll stay in and listen to one of Craig's (pastor from Calvary) old sermons online. Edward is taking this opportunity to sleep in so I thought I should finally update the blog.

I spent 12 relaxing days in NJ over the holidays. Edward had to come back and work a few days between Christmas and New Years, but he was with my family most of the time. Basically we did a whole lot of eating, lounging, and tv watching (numerous seasons of Arrested Development). The few days Edward was gone I ventured out to Lancaster, PA to visit a friend from Messiah College who I hadn't seen since 2001. I then drove to Kennett Square, PA to visit Kristin, a friend who taught with me in Virginia.

We came back to New Haven two weeks ago and my latest project has been planning the nursery. I'll keep those details under wraps until I have some pictures to post. We took a tour of the Yale New Haven Hospital as well as a smaller hospital in the area and decided we'll deliver at the smaller hospital. I signed up for a childbirth prep class, we (my mom, sisters, and I) found a date that works for my baby shower (!), and we had a 24 week checkup on Thursday (all is well). Baby Shuman will be here before we know it! I still have to get Edward to scan in our ultrasound pictures...I'll bug him about that today. Oh, and Baby Shuman is extremely active. Each day I watch my belly doing a crazy dance as he somersaults and elbows and kicks me. It's quite entertaining.

Here are a bunch of pictures from the last month (in no particular order):

My old Messiah friend, Gwenyth, and her adorable daughter, Hannah

Reunited after 8 years!

I forgot to take a picture with Kristin. She is the beautiful bridesmaid on the left.

Christmas Eve at the Garcia's.

Maddie on Christmas Eve

Snow on New Year's Eve

I don't like squirrels but I felt bad for this little guy outside our window in New Haven. He was curled up like this for over a half hour until some other squirrel came and tried to knock him off the branch. He looked so cold!

Christmas tree on the New Haven Green.

Last night was date night at Ikea (swedish meatballs, great shopping, dollar ice cream cone--doesn't get any better!) and we found this great (and super cheap) dog food stand that we just had to get for Piper. She has outgrown her puppy bowls so these bigger bowls are perfect, plus she doesn't have to strain her neck anymore to reach her food and water. She loves it!

Poor Piper looks pretty mangy. We aren't so good about brushing her.