Oodles of Fun!

Hmmmm where to begin? How about with the best Christmas gift ever. . .  a new car door!

CAR DOOR
For over a month now our driver side door has been broken (remember the previous post of us trying to glue it back together?) and we have had to climb over the passenger seat to get to the drivers side. Now normally I wouldn't mind this so much, but with an ever incressing belly, it has been getting more and more difficult and painful to climb over those seats. Those days are now gone! Thanks to my amazing husband,and his amazing dad, we were able to find a new car door and Jeff took off the old one and put on the new. A feat that he is very proud of. :)

Our new car door!

 

However, this new door came with a price as well, that of my big toe nail. :( On my way to pick Divinia up from school, Jeff called me and asked if I could come to the junk yard and help him put on the door. So Divinia and I headed over, not taking the time to go home and put on some proper shoes. Well as I was helping Jeff lift the car door up and into place, due to some miscommunication, we dropped the door on my foot. I cannot remember the last time something hurt so bad! Jeff says he is amazed at how well I handled it, but I think I acted very poorly and it was everything I could do not to cry like a baby. Seeing Divinia freaking out and knowing that if I did too would make things worse, helped me keep my cool a bit.

 

 I know I am going to loose my toe nail, but I am happy to say that I don't think my toe it broken. I can't tell for certain yet, as I am unable to put pressure on it, but I'm pretty sure it's just badly bruised. :) The cut was deep though and is still gushing out stuff two days later. I am lucky that it hit my toenail, thus helping to soften the blow and prevent it getting cut even deeper.

My toe earlier today.

 

I can honestly say that loosing my first toe nail was well worth getting a new door! I feel as if Christmas came early! :D

 

BABY SHOWER

On a happier note, our Chem. E. friends through me a baby shower! It was a mixed gender shower (original I know) because all of the Chem. E. students love to get together and the guys wanted to join in on the shower as well. I was so touched that they wanted to do this for Jeff and I! They are such a fun and inviting group of people! Jeff and I really love getting together with them. :) There are only 4 married Chem. E students in Jeff's year and I am the only one pregnant or even close to having a child, so the girls were just thrilled at the chance to buy baby items. :) The guys I think were more there for the food and company. Haha

We got a tone of REALLY cute and fun things! (They really spoiled us) We were really excited to get some Longhorn socks and shirt for our little guy. Gotta represent!

 

Yes I know these aren't the greatest pictures, but I wanted you to see his adorable longhorn clothes. :)

 

 After we played some baby shower games, at some food and opened presents, the guys didn't waste much time in pulling out the super Mario Wii games. Haha

 

 CHRISTMAM FUN

Jeff and I have also been to some fun Christmas parties and received some pretty interesting white elephant gifts. Our favorites however are. . . 

 





The Longhorn snuggie! We couldn't believe no one tried to take this from us! Guess everyone here has plenty of Longhorn items; just how in Utah county you can find an abundance of BYU items in many homes. :) We were more than happy to keep this one!

 



This is our other favorite W.E. gift. We gave two friends in the ward we love photography and one of our friends photo shopped the others' faces into this photo. Needless to say no one stole this from me, although we all got a good laugh passing it around! Definitely the funniest W.E. gift I have ever received!

We went to the Trail of Lights! While it was fun to go see, Jeff and I didn't think it was as good as The Festival of Lights or Temple Square. They were playing pop music (not Christmas) and while the tress had lights on them, all the cardboard figures didn't have anything Christmas about them. They were fun images of many TV and Movie characters, but nothing with a Christmas theme or even a Santa hat on their head. However, it was still fun to go and see with some of our friends. :)

 

 

We are just having oodles of fun here in Texas this year! Christmas is such a fun time of the year and we are truly blessed to have made some great friends to spend it with. It doesn't feel the same without our families and no snow, but we are still making some fun memories. :) Hopefully we won't have too many Christmas's away from our families. We love and miss all of you very much and hope you are having a FABULOUS holiday season! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!