The Smiths: Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year. It started with our annual Friend Christmas party at Lindsay and Tyler's house. We had dinner, watched Elf and made gingerbread houses. We had a great time! Then we had a Christmas party with each of our families. I had to work on Christmas day this year so our day was a little rushed. We had to visit with everyone that we could by 2 PM so that I could get to work on time. Work actually wasn't that bad, it was just a normal day at work. Although, I was a little disappointed that there wasn't any dinner or dessert provided for the staff. I thought that the administration would show some sort of appreciation for the staff for working on Christmas! That was pretty lame. I'm not sure why, but I didn't end up taking any pictures this year. The only pictures were of Presley's cute Mrs. Claus outfit! She looked adorable :)

One thing that bummed me out is that when I was looking through pictures that other people took of me over the holiday, I noticed that my face is getting wider!! Ugh. I knew it would happen when I got into the third trimester, but I hadn't noticed it until I saw pictures of myself. I'm also bummed that my belly button has become an outie, which I'm super self conscious about, and people keep pointing it out! Who does that? I'm not sure why, but that was one pregnancy thing that I was dreading. lol I hate that you can see my belly button through all of my clothes, even my scrubs! Also, my stomach is getting so big that I can't wear certain scrubs anymore. I never thought that would happen. Hopefully I don't have to buy new ones :(

Pregnancy update:

I am now 31 weeks and 6 days pregnant, I have about 56 days or 8 weeks to go! It freaks me out to see Valentines decorations at the store because that means my baby will be here soon! I can't believe it! The discomforts of pregnancy have definitely set in, my ribs hurt sooo bad!! I wish they would just separate already! I have a hard time bending down, getting up from a sitting or laying position, I have to pee a lot, I get frequent heartburn, I get the occassional painful kick and I hate that I can't find comfortable pants. Maternity pants don't fit me, so I'm pretty much stuck wearing prepregnancy jeans with a rubber band. And yes, I do feel like I'm getting to the complainy stage of pregnancy. lol

Even though I complain about all the discomforts of pregnancy, I am still super excited to meet my little Dominic. There are times I wish that he would just come already, but I really don't want him to be too early and have to stay in the NICU for any amount of time. So I try to not be selfish and think like that. But if he wants to come around 37-38 weeks, that would be ok with me ;)