Thanksgiving Weekend

Wow... I haven't posted in a month! Things have been busy and I went on a bit of a roller coaster ride of emotions there for a bit. Things are much better now and I'll try to catch up the month's events briefly!

After another frustrating experience at 25 weeks pregnant trying to find out the gender of our baby we were able to have a 3D/4D ultrasound where we found out we are having a little GIRL!!! The ultrasound technology in my doctor's office is very outdated and this other experience was MUCH better. They spent a long time with us going through each organ and watching it work in 4D. We saw our baby girl yawn and move around. It was amazing!!! Since the ultrasound we have celebrated knowing we're going to have a baby girl in our lives and started on the nursery... finally!

On November 20th, Michael's family had a fabulous baby shower for me. It is so much fun being around the women in his family... I'm so lucky to have married into such a great family (I know I say this a lot... but I mean it!) We had a lot of fun hanging out, eating some good food and I got some fabulous presents for Baby Lee... she is spoiled already! I'm really excited that Michael's cousin, Lindsey, is due next month and his cousin Brandon's wife, Kim, is due at the end of April. It will be so fun to watch them grow up together and be so close in age! Baby Lee has LOTS of cousins on both sides of the family and for that I am incredibly thankful because I have enjoyed having so many cousins that I am close to myself!

This Thanksgiving weekend we have spent a lot of time with family and just hanging out. Thanksgiving day was unfortunately spent apart which is kind of sad considering it was our first Thanksgiving as a married couple. Our family's celebrated at the same time an hour away from each other so after MUCH debate we decided that instead of skipping one we would just go our separate ways and then spend Thanksgiving evening at home just the two of us. It was a wonderful day, minus the weather, and we both had a lot of fun and lots of great food!

Saturday night we had a bunch of Michael's family over to hang out and it was great. We don't have people over often enough! The boys were able to play pool and the girls hung out with the adorable kids. We also played Apples to Apples which I hadn't played in a long time. It was a lot of fun even if Michael kicked our butts!

Today we attended a brunch for Michael's Aunt Robin's surprise 60th birthday! It is sooooo much fun being in on a surprise! It was nice seeing everyone on his Dad's side of the family since I wasn't able to make it to Thanksgiving. It was a great ending to a great weekend!

We didn't do any shopping this weekend and I was wanting to get out of the house this evening so we went to Meijer to walk around and pick up a few things. Man am I moving slow already... Michael was very patient as we slowly strolled through the store. It blows his mind that I am always wanting to go out and do something but am so miserable once I get there. It is going to be a long 13 more weeks! :)

Overall this pregnancy really has not been bad! It is a lot harder than I thought it would be but I am so thankful to be experiencing it! The baby has been moving a ton and I am loving feeling her move on the inside and outside! It has also been fun to have Michael get to feel her moving around too.

I hope everyone had a happy and safe Thanksgiving and that you are enjoying the holiday season!!!