34 down, 6 to go!

the holidays

Aaron and I couldn't get over how fast the holidays went this year! December flew by and along with it Christmas and New Years. We spent Christmas in Pittsburgh and were so excited to get to spend time with everyone, especially Kels in from Nevada! We drove out to Pittsburgh on the 23rd, which made Christmas Eve and Christmas Day really fun and relaxing for us. Erika, Todd, and the boys moved in with Grandma to take care of her, so we ended up having our Anderson Family Christmas at Grandma's house for the first time in a long time. It was really nice celebrating in the house that I spent so many holidays in as a kid. We drove back to Philly on Saturday night and got to celebrate Christmas with the Windles on Sunday. Diane made chicken papikash, a traditional Hungarian meal, which is my absolute favorite! New Years was spent with 65 of our closest friends ;) haha Jess, Faith, and Revee threw a party at the Farm and we had lots of fun with plenty of sparkling grape juice involved... well at least for Sara and I.

our christmas card

christmas at our house!

only our dogs pose like this for food...

30 weeks!

after 7 years of asking, Erika finally gave in and let Aaron buy Aidan a gun ;)

to which Aidan was obviously excited about

Ethan too!

and Bebe :)

all of the Anderson cousins at Gram's house

prego for new years ...

only Aaron...

 New Years with Bry and Sara... haha and as Aaron said... hmm, one of these things is not like the others (in a sing song voice) ---hey, we can't all be 6'4!

We are looking forward to quite an eventful year and are starting the countdown to the arrival of our little guy - only 8 weeks to go! Happy 2010 Everyone :)

winter storm

The weekend before Christmas Philly was hit hard with a crazy snowstorm. We went to bed Friday night with no snow and woke up to about 4 inches on the ground! It continued to snow really hard all day and we ended up getting over a foot of snow!!! We were actually on the outer edge of the snowstorm with parts of Philadelphia receiving over 2 feet of snow!

Aaron and I love snow and operate on the policy that if it's going to be cold that there should be snow on the ground :) So, needless to say, Aaron and I were really excited with all the snow. The dogs both love the snow too and we took them out Sunday to play in it. Sadly, the snow didn't stick around for Christmas, but we enjoyed it while it lasted! Here are some pictures of our first snowstorm of the winter and the dogs (obviously) loving it :)

thankful

Last Sunday was the soccer banquet for the Downingtown East girls soccer team that I helped coach this fall. My favorite thing about coaching was the players. They were crazy and funny with so many personalities. It was a fun season and the girls played great. We won the District 1 playoffs and beat their major rival Downingtown West to win the title! At the banquet, they gave me a HUGE basket full of cute baby stuff. I am so thankful for the opportunity to coach and especially to coach such a great group of girls. Here are all the great things they got me including their favorite which was the shirt that said "my mom is hot" haha and Aaron's favorite- the "spit happens" bib :)

She's not fat... she's pregnant

Being pregnant has had it's funny moments. People really say the craziest things... just last week a student made a comment about the end of the year and I said "well Brendan, I won't be here" and he said why? Then somehow at 26 weeks pregnant I shocked him by telling him that I was pregnant?! I said "well Brendan, did you think I swallowed a soccer ball?" haha he must've thought so! Over Thanksgiving, we met our friends Steve and Helene Norris for coffee and Steve proceeded to introduce me to his brother as "not fat, just pregnant" haha A woman that I work with actually made 3 comments in one day about my growing bump! I don't really mind the comments, and they always make for funny stories later ;)

I did want to add some pictures of my growing bump for my friends and family that live far away that haven't seen me in the past few months. So here is your baby bump update:

21 weeks

22 weeks

24.5 weeks

26 weeks

Halloween

Aaron and I have been (what seems like) non-stop busy for the last 3 years. Because of this, we always miss our friends annual Halloween party. This year we finally were able to make it and got excited about brainstorming some costumes. Since I'm pregnant, we had a few less options, we decided to use the pregnancy for a costume idea. We decided on the lead roles from the movie JUNO. I dressed up as Juno MacDuff and Aaron was Paulie Bleeker. We got pretty close to looking like them (you can compare for yourself with the movie covor) haha we had a great time and were glad we could finally celebrate with friends!

here are a few pictures of our Halloween:

CAUTION: You are about to see a whole lot of my husband's thighs ;) haha

JUNO

my real life Paulie Bleeker

Juno

:)

fall fun

Last year at this time, I found this hilarious dog costume at Goodwill and thought for 99 cents I'd try to fit Marley into it... he didn't love it. haha I just found the dog costume while organizing a closet and decided to torture Kai with it before I sent it back to goodwill ;) I sure am glad these dogs love me and put up with my harassment :)