Christmas Time Is Here

My parents left last Wednesday to go home for awhile. Wednesday, I ran around with Guen doing returns and some xmas shopping. I had lunch with Priscilla that day. When she walked into the restaurant, she was coming from the ob/gyn's office where she found out that she was having a boy! I was the first person to know, even before her mother. I am excited for Priscilla, she has her little Bianca and now baby boy is on the way. That evening Ryan's mom came over and Ryan and his mom took care of Guen while I went to have dinner with Sarah and Barbie at Lupe Tortilla, or really I just visited since I was still so full from lunch.
Thursday, again was a day of running around with Guen doing more returns/shopping for xmas. Again that evening, Ryan's mom came over and had dinner with us. I actually had no lunch/dinner dates this day. As Ryan would say, I am a lady of leisure with all the eating dates. I say, no wonder I cannot lose these last 10lbs of pregnancy weight with all these lunch/dinner dates and with the holidays here! Over Wednesday and Thursday, we finally got the tree up.
Friday, Ryan was off and we headed off to do xmas shopping again.
Saturday, a repeat of Friday but we headed into the big city. Guen wore her Santa outfit which she received many compliments from strangers as we shopped. We also met up with my sister for lunch at Pappy's. After finishing up most of our shopping, I had the great idea of going to the Galleria for a quick stop to return something at JCREW. BAD IDEA. First of all, it was not a quick stop. It took forever to find parking and then just to navigate the mall we had to fight off people just to make it to the next store. Needless to say we were exhausted after this big day and had to bail on our night out to Lights in the Heights with Barbie that evening. Sorry Barb! I know it was fun but I promised myself next year that I am going, I have always wanted to see that festival. Maybe next year Guen will be able to appreciate it more and the weather will be better.
Sunday we went to church and my baby was an angel again. I made some fajitas for lunch, yum! Ryan went to do some last minute shopping again while I stayed home with Guen and wrapped all the presents we have bought. I watched My Sisters Keeper which was awful! Very predictable, very sad. Oh well, it passed the time while wrapping prezzies. Sunday night my dad came back into town since he had a doctor's appointment in the medical center on Monday.
Monday, my dad took off to his appointment early and Sarah came over to visit. We went and had lunch at yummy RJ Goodies. Delicious! That evening I did some more wrapping and called it a night. Hope you had a great weekend!

Counting down...

I was just counting the days I have left til my maternity leave is up. I only have 22 more days left. It is flying by, probably because I am so busy. Let's recap what I have been up to starting with this past Wednesday. My work made me come in for a mandatory meeting from 10am-2pm. Can they do this when you are on maternity leave? I did not investigate but I thought what if I did not have childcare yet (fortunately my parents were here to take care of Guen while I went). Anywho, I went anyways cause I needed the pay since I have officially ran out of PTO (Paid Time Off). It was good to see a bunch of my peeps at work too. But I guess I'm officially a bad mother for not carrying pics of my baby with me at all times because everyone asked to see pics. I will be prepared for next time I go to work, lesson learned. On a side note, Ryan told me to make my blogs shorter, so here is my attempt. Thursday, went to Huntwick's Mom's Group Cookie Exchange Xmas Party. Friday, there was snow in Houston! That evening we went to our Sunday School Xmas Party. Saturday, I went to a 1st birthday party of some former NICU graduates where I was their primary nurse. It was at a great restaurant called Raffa's Bistro in Kingwood on the lake. Sunday we went to church and took a Sunday drive to get outta the house. Monday was Ryan's suprise Christmas/Baby Shower Party at his work. Now I am home getting ready for the events for this week. I gotta get up the xmas tree!

Ryan's Suprise Baby Shower...



Triplets 1st birthday...

Guen's first snowfall...

Turkey Weekend

We had a great Thanksgiving that included a 1st road trip to Nana's house in San Marcos for Guen. On Thursday, turkey day, we got up super early and headed out right after her feeding around 830am. We made all the way to San Marcos and that is when she started to get upset and wanted out of the car. We feel very fortunate that she slept the entire way. We had a lovely turkey lunch with all the fixin's and desserts made by my mother (see pics). We all layed around in our triptophan induced comas and slept away the afternoon. Guen was passed around all day that day and I never saw her except to feed her. It was nice for me. Ryan and my sisters and Tootie's boyfriend Chad went to the local bar of Showdown that evening and then headed to the outlet mall for some midnight shopping madness. I stayed home with the kid and slept which I did not mind at all considering that they did not get home til about 430am. Ryan ended up with a really bad sore throat for the rest of the weekend. Friday morning Ryan and I went out to the outlet mall so I could have my turn and then we just layed around, went for a drive around my old town, went for a walk in my old neighborhood and called it a day. Saturday morning we got up early to leave. Ryan was still feeling bad and I just wanted to get him home. We were supposed to go up to Austin to see my friend Randi but we had to bail. We got home and unloaded the car and got ready for the evening. That early evening we were invited to visit some old friends, the Estes, they have not seen Guen yet. We then came home and Ryan's friend Alan, who was in town for Turkey Day came over along with Aaron, Chris and Sarah Homer. They all visited til about midnight but I was so tired from the San Marcos road trip home that day, I went to bed around 10pm. It was good to see all of them. Sunday we had every intent of going to church but Ryan's throat was still hurting and since we had such a big weekend and stayed up late the night before, we did not go. Instead we rested some more and then Ryan's Aunt Janet, who was also in town for Ryan's mom's illness from the previous weekend came over to see Guen. We visited a long time with Aunt Janet, Uncle Bill, and Ryan's cousin Andy when my parents came back into town for the week to look for houses. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

New Hair
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Bath at Nana and Pappy's House for Turkey day weekend....

Randy, Allison, Samantha and Guen