Holiday expectations

Well, it is pretty obvious that I don't blog here that much, but I think that might start a changin' in the next few months. Part of it is that it is the holiday season, of course. We seem to have gotten a late start this year, we only got our x-mas tree last weekend and decorated it the middle of the week (it took forever for the darn thing to 'fall'). It isn't the biggest or best tree we have ever had. But now that it is decorated, it looks pretty decent. The oddest thing happened while we were decorating it though, we (mainly me, though) both had our eyes start to ache a little. I think the answer is that we put a new type of lights on it this year. We tried L.E.D. christmas lights for just one of the many strings, and they are seriously bright. The lights look nice, but decorating while those lights are on might be a problem in the future. The nice thing about the L.E.D. lights is that they use less power and that they don't give off much heat (safer).

The holidays should be good. We just completed our favorite part of the season - toy and clothes donations. We usually go (wherever we are living) to a Salvation Army Giving Tree and try to help make a couple of children's holidays a little better. We also collect games and a few toys and make donations at one or more local places. In other news, the in-laws arrive this week for x-mas, and then we will head a little north to meet my parents at my grandma's after x-mas.

The major news of the season that we are expecting our first child in May! We are pretty darn excited about it, to say the least. We are steadily trying to make preparations for the big change that is coming. Danette is doing well and the second trimester is treating her better than the first, of course. We don't know the gender... but that is okay with me... we'll see how long that lasts, though - the first big ultrasound is in January.

As is pretty obvious from the history of previous posts here, there probably won't be that many, but I will probably use the blog to share news, pictures, etc with family and friends from time-to-time, especially about events related to the new kid on the block!

Happy Holidays!