Busy Christmas Week

Well we are coming down to the wire on our first Christmas together. Carly is super excited about Santa coming this week. Every time I ask her who is coming she says "Ho ho ho... Santa" in a whisper. She is really looking forward to making cookies for him Thursday and then getting to open the presents on Friday morning. We are looking forward to wrapping them and at this point it will probably only be on the presents for like 36 hours. But it will all be worth it. I am certain we will be video taping it since one of Jacie's presents to me was a video camera (which works great and I love it... Thanks Baby!). Speaking of the video camera, I got to open it early in honor of Carly's Christmas Program at school with her kindergarten class. It was great watching her sing and dance to Jingle Bell Rock. If you don't believe me (and I know that you actually do but that is not the point), you can check out the video here. It is about 18MB to download but I am working on trying to get a streaming version uploaded.
In other news, we have a former Christmas surprise (love you honey!). We had intended to wait until Christmas Day to tell people but Jacie caved to the peer pressure at the DMV and started telling people. We were going to alternate between saying girl and boy every time someone asked but it didn't quite work out that way. But we have told most people but it is still good to say that we are officially expecting a baby boy in June. It is even better with (2D and 3D ultrasound) pictures!

A foot!

Correctly referred to as Skeletor Face

His Back as he decides not to play any more

Boy Confirmation 1

Boy Confirmation 2

His side profile

For most of the 3D pictures he decided to hide. Like this one

Starting to come around

Just kidding!

She did manage to get one of his face in 3D

I think Jacie is still a little paranoid that the ultrasound lady might have gotten it wrong but everyone that has seen it seems to be pretty certain it's a boy. We have our "official" (we did this one separately to have some Christmas news) appointment on the 13th so it will just be double confirmation then I am sure.

Christmas with the DMV

Well, working at the DMV sure has it's drama attached, and the yearly Christmas Party is no exception. My first party working there was 2006, which was a blast. Then 2007 was really bad, and because the people from the Carson City office have 1000 and we only have 100, they tend to exclude us. The 2007 party resulted in turf war and drama. Reno DMV wasn't invited to the 2008 party, ha. Our new director who took over earlier this year made sure this party wouldn't be a bust, and that Reno was included. It was held at the Peppermill Casino (Same place we wished everyone could have stayed for the wedding) and was a lot nicer than years past (It's usually held at the Silver Legacy.) All season long people at work have been calling it the "Prom for Adults," and once we got in, Ray realized why. He dressed up all handsome-like (And with a tie to his utter dismay!) and I did my best to not look 8 months pregnant instead of almost 4. The evening consisted of our table getting pretty sloshed, and hooting things during the raffles (I, of course, don't need alcohol to participate!) We had a good dinner, danced, and just talked with a bunch of good people. The worst part of the DMV is the job itself- definitely not the people. Even my supervisors were getting crazy on the dance floor! We were there until about 10:30/11:00 pm and then drove home in a horrible blizzard. We probably passed 3 or 4 accidents on the interstate during the way. I'm sure Ray has mentioned, we have gotten almost 3 feet of snow in the past 2 weeks. We have so many people from California transplanted here, it makes for terrible road conditions.
Today we picked up Carly from her dad's and then went to take pictures for our Christmas Cards. My little sisters boyfriend is an aspiring photographer and does and awesome job, especially getting the moments you didn't know where there. During the session, Carly and my little sister, Jordan, engaged in a snowball fight, and Carly would run up to about 1 foot away from her before throwing it. The fight ended when Jordan accidentally got the Princess in the face, and started some tears. Carly really wanted to build a snowman, but our snow was so cold at first it wasn't sticking, so we will try to do that tomorrow and take some pictures. When Carly got home tonight, she realized the tree had presents under it, (Thanks Grandma Dawn, and Grandpa Tony!) And she asked about 3 times if she could open them.
We will be mailing out Christmas Cards and presents this week to everyone, so watch the mail later on! We have a baby appointment this Thursday, but it doesn't sound like anything too exciting. The big ultrasound is scheduled for January 13th, but any child of ours is bound to be difficult and either turn away or cross their legs! Hopefully one of us will be updating with some more snow pictures later on this week!