Christmas season is upon us

Here is the sonogram from Friday. Baby Haines #3.....baby girl #2 :) We are soooo excited. Looks kinda scary here, but I think all sonogram pics look kinda scary- lol. You can see her head (on the left, she is looking down) and her spine really good. She had her legs crossed and tucked up underneath her most of the time, so it was difficult to get a good shot of her female parts. That's ok baby girl.....we still saw :) She was comfy. I'm now 18 weeks and 5 days along.

My Christmas cards have officially been sent out, and it's funny, I am still getting people from church coming up to me, congratulating me, saying they didn't know I was pregnant. One lady didn't find out until she ready our Christmas letter. And another lady came up to me just last night, congratulating me. It's still hard to tell, unless you look real close. I'm getting a small baby bump, but most of the clothes I wear are big and loose, so it's still hard to tell. I've thought I've felt a few flutterings in my belly.....but nothing definate....like I KNOW that was the baby. Feeling the baby kick and move around in me is my absolute FAVORITE part about being pregnant. There's nothing like it :) (that's actually probably the ONLY part I like about being prego- haha)

Anyways, on to other news. Christmas season has officially hit full force. :) I LOVE Christmastime. I love the pretty Christmas trees, the lights, my kids' excitement over every little thing, the plays and productions, our church's amazing choir performance every year, the parties.....I could go on and on.... :) I went to 3 Christmas parties this weekend. One Friday night, for the ladies at our church, one Sat night for our ABF class at a friends house, and one Sunday night at church with another ABF class. And, Christmas party #4 is just around the corner. Tomorrow night to be exact, and it's at my house :) It's our annual ladies MPact Christmas party. Sure to be lots of fun!

One night last week, my sister asked me to take some pics of her family by the tree, so I got some good shots while over there, then had to snap this adorable one of the ornery 5 year olds. Thought it turned out pretty cute. :)

Also on Saturday, we took the kids to Lilly's school. They were having a craft fair there, and Santa was there in the afternoon. So we got to go visit Santa. Here are the kids telling Santa what they want. Isaiah said "cars" and Lilly said "dora". no surprises there. :)

Hope ya'll have a great week..........we'll 'talk' soon!