Christmas, Snow, and Pregnancy Update

December has proved to be quite a crazy month! On December 11th, I was in a minor car accident--a fender-bender, really. I was stopped behind a truck at a stop sign, and he just reversed right into me. I guess he was in the middle of the road, but I tried to get out of the way and couldn't. No major damage, just the bumper and hood. I was a little shook up and went ahead and got checked out at labor and delivery at the hospital. The baby and I are both fine.

It started snowing here on December 16th and continued to snow for about a week. The pictures in the slide show are from the second day of snow, and at that time there was probably only a couple of inches of snow. Stephen made two snowmen, and the puppies had a blast demolishing them both! By the time this storm was through, we got close to or over a foot of snow!! The snow is finally starting to melt away, but we still cannot get out of our driveway. There is such an accumulation of snow and ice that our little car can't handle it. So we've spent the past week and a half stuck in our house...talk about cabin fever! Our neighbor was kind enough to take us to the grocery store in his four wheel drive on Christmas Eve because we were pretty much out of everything!

I decided to decorate for Christmas this year, and I'm really glad because it has lifted my spirits and made it feel like Christmas. It has been hard being away from our families this holiday season, and I think decorating really helped. I even went ahead and made Madden a stocking!!! A couple of weeks before Christmas, we took some pictures for Christmas cards in front of our tree. They didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, but we did find one for our card at least.

As far as the baby goes, I'm finally 36 weeks! Due to the bad weather, I've had my last two doctor's appointments canceled, so I'm getting a little anxious to see him. At my last appointmet at 32 weeks, I had another ultrasound to determine the approximate size of the baby. Based on the measurements they guessed he was already 5 1/2 pounds!!! Of course they can be off by a pound, but he's looking like he's going to be a really big boy. My doctor said I'll probably have to have another ultrasound before he's born to see if he will be too big for me to have or if I'll have to have a cesarean. I'm hoping to see him soon, but as of right now my next appointment isn't until January 5th!