The Brothers Family

(our Christmas card this year!) Wishing our friends and family a Merry Christmas! 

And the cookies are made. The gifts are wrapped and under the tree. The stockings are full and we're ready for all of it! Tonight we made cookies and frosted and decorated them. We will enjoy them this week (I also made Spritz cookies last week - a family tradition in my family) and Julian will set out a few tomorrow night for Santa. Tomorrow we will celebrate Christmas with my family and then on Christmas day we will be home just our own little family. Dustin has worked 43 hours of the past 80 hours. To say it has been out of control busy for him at work is an understatement. He's home for the next couple of days and I couldn't be happier to finally have him at home. He's worked the weekends a lot lately while things at work have been hectic so we're ready to have some time together. Wishing all a very merry week ahead!

I took this picture last Monday. Tomorrow I will be 21 weeks pregnant so this photo was right at 20 weeks. I am carrying this baby girl much, much higher than I carried Julian. He was down so low and I already feel her up pretty high. With Julian I felt flutters in the beginning but with her, I felt kicks from the get go. She is a kicker! I'm just glad they don't hurt yet. She's most active around 10:30pm - a night owl like her mama. I'm feeling good and just staying busy with Julian. I'm enjoying my own little personal space heater lately with our frigid, below-zero temperatures. Too. Cold.  We got our tree and house decorated finally last night - the tree has been up for a week with just lights on it. Julian is having fun looking at the ornaments and playing with a bucket of jingle bells I gave him. We've been listening to Christmas music and dancing around the house all week. The snow and cold has made it finally feel like Christmas. We're excite...