'Tis the Season

I just spent 6 hours at church/church related activities today. It's the season of Christmas play practices, planning for Advent Conspiracy workshops and more baby showers...always the baby showers. Red Sea is, apparently, trying to set a churchdom record for most consecutive months/years in which someone in the church is pregnant. I'm pretty sure we haven't missed a month since we got here 3 years ago. Anyhow, the upcoming Christmas season promises to be a busy but happy one. We started out the holiday season with a bang by attending a friend's halloween/birthday party and winning the prize for the BEST COSTUMES!!! Not bad for 2 days work, if I do say so myself. In case you can't tell, Nathan is a garden gnome on a mushroom, Christy is a pink flamingo, and Ozias is the cutest garden gnome ever. We had a "lawn ornament" theme. Ozias is getting closer and closer to moving on his own, even though I'm doing nothing to encourage it. I have no idea how to babyproof our itty bitty little house so I'm just counting on him being immobile until the economy crisis is over and we can sell our house. Or maybe I'll put him in one of those hamster balls...kid size, of course.

Our birthday and a half was super fun with a surprise party planned by Nathan so well it was a complete surprise!! Although, after the party I found an e-mail in my mailbox from Nathan that said "Remember everyone, this is a surprise for Christy. She thinks I'll be at school, so no telling!" He had replied to all on an e-mail list and forgot to delete me. Lucky for him, I didn't check my e-mail that day. So now Ozias is not a newborn anymore (6 months seems to be the cutoff for that kind of thing) and I'm as old as my grandpa. (He just stopped getting older when he hit 29. We've been celebrating his 29th birthday every year as long as I can remember.)