What a wonderful Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas. My sister, Khim, flew into Portland on Sunday. I got off of work at 230 and Dylan, Khim and I drove down to Eugene. We had a wonderful dinner with Blake and Katrina (Dylan's brother and sister in law) and Michael and DeAnn (Dylans father and step-mom.) The next day we went to the movies and saw "The Golden Compass." We drove back to Portland on Monday night because I had to work for a few hours on Christmas Morning. So I was done at work at 830am and came home and took a nap. While I was sleeping my parents and brother arrived. We unwrapped some gifts and then Michael, DeAnn, Blake and Katrina came over. Our friends Jim and Sara showed up a few hours later. Dylan and I (with a little help) managed to prepare a wonderful meal for everybody. It was such a great Christmas. Little Riley got a lot of gifts and he isn't even born yet!!! It is hard to imagine how different next Christmas will be!!!

Oh Christmas tree

Monday morning I showed up at the doctors after 10 hours of fasting (including no water!) They took some blood which tested in the normal range. I then drank my glucose drink and they drew my blood 3 more times over the next three hours. It was a horrible 3 hours. I was bored, cold, hungry and thirsty. They told me that my doctor would call me with the results on Tuesday. Well Tuesday came and went with no call. Finally I got a call on Wednesday but I missed it. They left a message for me to call them back. I figured this was to report bad news. I was so worried! I called back and the person who I needed to speak with was unavailable. So I waited a torturous hour. They finally called back and said that my test did not indicate gestational diabetes!! Yippee!! So we could continue our day. We were at the book store at the time and they had a sale on Dr Sues books. Buy 2 and get the 3rd free so of course Riley got his first Dr Sues books. We also picked up a childrens Atlas but it was more for me.=) Our next stop was to Fred Meyer to pick out our Christmas tree. I had my heart set on this cute charlie brown tree but I did not get it. We got the pretty tree instead. So our tree is now up and decorated and the cats have not knocked it over yet. I will get a picture of it and post it soon. Happy Holidays!!!