2009...Bring it on!

We enjoyed a nice end to 2008 and the ringing in of the New Year in Tulsa, OK with our BFFs, Brian and Stacie. We flew in on New Year's Eve, they picked us up, and we headed straight for the party, compliments of the company Stacie works for, and benefitting Juvenile Diabetes.





How many times can one pregnant chick turn down alcohol in one evening? The answer is many on New Year's. Oh and how I craved it! I had intended to take a sip of champagne at midnight but never did. And one particular gal insisted that a couple glasses of wine a week would be fine for me. I refuted that with a recent study that indicates that even minor drinking during pregnancy makes your child more likely to have behavior disorders later in life. (Really, I just feel like rebelling whenever anyone tries to push their advice these days, so I abstained.) However, the Nutt's and one-half of the Barclay's lived it up. The pregnant DD took care of all of them...

The rest of the weekend, we pretty much just hung out and ate. We ate a lot! Stacie grilled awesome steaks and we went out for my all-time favorite: Hideaway Pizza!! If you are ever in Tulsa or OKC, you gotta have it. It's lucky I don't live there anymore or I might have some serious addiction problems. We also visited a little restaurant where the girlfriend of one of David Cook's bandmates is a bartender. Very exciting I know :) She shared pictures of spending New Year's in Las Vegas with the band and gave us all the scoop. On Friday, we took a little road trip to Arkansas and were able to visit Jeremy's grandparents while Stacie attended a funeral. It was a bonus trip! And it meant buying chocolate truffles and peanut butter fudge from the Kopper Kettle of course. Kudos to the Nutt's for a fun trip and especially for giving up their bed for 3 nights to keep prego comfy!

We flew back in to Dallas today where it was a balmy 83 degrees in Flower Mound on January 3rd! We enjoyed it by getting out for a little exercise, which I felt I desperately needed after all yummy fattening food that was consumed the past few days.

Now that the holidays are over, I have realized that there is nothing standing in the way of the arrival of Noah! He is only 14 weeks away!! Which means 14 weeks of thumb-twiddling, with nothing to occupy my frantic brain. Well, nothing except all the nesting stuff. We have a nursery to paint and I'm getting to work on my registries this week with Allison's help.

Here's to the year of Noah...Cheers!