Let it snow

Yep - Houston got snow last week. It snowed for several hours, but only stuck for a couple hours afterwards. Here are a couple pictures of when it just started snowing, around 3:30. I was thoughtful enough to get the video camera out - BUT, apparently forgot to actually hit the record button until 5 minutes later. By then, the wet cold air was overshadowing the newness of snow for Carter. So pictures will have to do, you'll probably need to click on them to enlarge the photo and actually see the snowflakes ...

On Sunday, my girlfriends threw me a great baby shower. Though, I'd rather call it a "Baby Celebration." We sat around Joanna's large table and drank mimosas (well, I had OJ), chit chatted, decorated cookies and painted ornaments. It was such a wonderful time. I got lots of great things for our upcoming arrival, including TONS of diapers.

Today Carter visited Santa at the mall and enjoyed himself. He told Santa he wanted a sucker for Christmas - they were in a bowl next to him. Good thing he didn't see the corvette parked in the mall at the time. This was a marked improvement from last years visit. Check out the then and now pictures ...

I'm almost done Christmas shopping. Not too much to buy this year - which is nice and strange at the same time. Now I just need to make the dreaded trip to the post office to mail off a couple gifts. I did drop the Christmas cards in the mail though, so that is finally off my chest. With Thanksgiving so late this year, it was one less week of Christmas preperation. I can tell I'm not the only though - this time last year I had at least 20 Christmas cards hanging on my pantry door. Today I have two. Well, three - I put ours up there!

Oh, my doctors appointment on Monday went well. The baby is head down, but still sitting pretty high. So fortunately, baby boy won't be arriving before the New Year. I go back the Monday after Christmas. While I'd like the tax deduction for the year, he'd be a little small still. Hopefully we can make it until after Carter's birthday on Jan 8th. Ooh, I need to get planning that.