Finally with school and holidays out of the way, the boys were able to go and play a little bit in the snow up at the cabin. The snow wasn't as deep as it usually gets, but it already has definitely out done last year. It was pretty cold, but by the look of these pictures it was perfect!

Happy Late Holidays!! We had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving with Christina's family and then Christmas with Mike's family. It was so much fun to have almost all of the nieces and nephews around to play with and get extremely full at Chuck-a-Rama. We had a fantastic Thanksgiving but we definitely missed Dan & Liz's family as well as Aaron & Karen.

Christmas of course is another one of our favorite holidays and actually the whole week is a celebration since Mike's birthday is on the 26th and our anniversary is the 30th. We had a fun Christmas Eve with the extended Jenson side of the family. They have a party each year where there is a ton of great food, games, the Nativity scene put on by the little kids, and of course Santa Claus comes!

Beside Christmas Eve with the Jensons, our few holidays traditions have been to open our stocking and presents at home and then go over to Mike's parent's house for the family Christmas. This year Christina scored high with Mike with a whole box of Mike's favorite candy bars in his stocking.
Christina's favorite gift was probably the statue that Mike gave her of the couple holding the baby, and Mike's favorite was definitely his new snowboarding package, although the PB Twix were a close second.
All of the Loot! :-)

Just like the Habel parent's the Jenson parent's out due themselves for each of their kids for Christmas. There wasn't one present under the tree the night before Christmas; a tradition stemmed from Lisa, so Santa definitely had a hard night at work.

Well after two fantastic Christmas day celebrations we moved right on to another fantastic day, Mike's 25th Birthday! He joined the Quarter of a Century club in style by going to lunch at Chili's then to see the "I am Legend" movie, and then ended the night with a party of friends and family.

Wow! We can't believe how fast time has flown by! We have definitely been slackers with keeping you updated. So many fun things happened in the last two months that we need to get some pictures and tell you all about it.

For today though, we wanted to let you know that Christina had her FIRST baby appointment this past Monday, January 7th. Unfortunately Mike wasn't able to come because it was also the first day of the semester, so Christina's sister Sarah, who is a mother of 6, came along to be with her. There was a lot of first procedure stuff, like paper work, blood work, and full physical exam, but then the most exciting thing happened...THE BABY'S HEART BEAT!!! It was so exciting to hear and to really know that there is a little one growing inside.

Christina is currently 14 weeks and she already scheduled her ultrasound on Tuesday, February 11th. Hopefully we'll be able to find out the gender of the baby because we're dying to know!

Also, another exciting thing that happened last Friday is that we found a larger apartment to live in and we also bought our very first washer and dryer! We are moving up in the world! ;-)