A very Merry Christmas and a VERY missed Gramps!

This Christmas was great. My sister Jen and her fiance

Scott came to celebrate with us. I was really happy to spend time

with them. I think we would have felt really lonely without them there.

It was great to go to the beach on Christmas in a short-sleeved shirt.

These three pictures were from earlier this week.

Like Boo's new doo?

Mother nature with the Mother load

Boo with normal hair

A belly picture for mom. Oh my gosh! Sorry mom looks

like Jenny accidentally stood in front of me.

Oh well perhaps another day....

Juny celebrating Christmas with us

The day after christmas my Own Grandpa (My dad's dad)

passed away. He got to be around a lot of his family

and die with dignity in his own bed.

This was the last time I saw him over the summer.

He was a hilarious man. When I was a kid he use to drive his motor home

to our Colorado house and let me give tours of his motor home to my friends. Only if I charged them a quarter. He never said a mean or unkind word to anyone and knew how to make

a joke out of anything.

He gave me my nick name Cat.

The hardest thing is that I can't be there now to help

comfort my Grandma and to honor and celebrate his life.

I am just hoping that he will pass our Ha Jyn as he is going up and she is coming down

to land. Hopefully he can teach her a few quick things like the real words to Jesus

wants me for a sun beam and how to enjoy life under any circumstance like he did.

I miss you and love you Gramps!

At our Utah reception

Right after my mission

Ha ha and Gramps last Christmas

Gramps and I

My Grandma and Gramps. Born two days apart

and married 67 years I believe. I hope Boo and I get that

much time together.

Christmas Trees, babies and maternity leave

This year marks Boo and I's third married Christmas

together. I think that my favorite tree will always be our first one

when we lived in Hawaii.

Here is our second one when we lived in Changwon

And this year's tree. Classy huh?

I made the star and everything.

This year we don't have a lot of extra space so

it is nestled nicely on our bookshelves.

Tis the season to have babies!

There are a lot of people who are due close to the time

of Baby Ha Jyn's arrival. I guess she is next!

My half nephew once removed and replaced.

(that's what I call my relation to him)

He is my Nephew and Niece Alex and Emma's Half Brother

Silas.

And my second cousin Owen!

Congrats to their new beautiful babies!

This week was also my last week of work.

I will go back to my job at the middle school around the second week

of march. Unfortunately I won't be able to return to my respite services job.

I am going to miss working with my kids!

Their Christmas notes to me were thoughtful and made me smile so I

took pictures so I could remember them.

In other new one of the wonderful people at our church gave us their

rocking chair. So far Juny loves it!

Stroller dream, Week 34, Thanksgiving, New crib and more

Boo and I have been searching for the perfect stroller for a long time now.
We like to go for long walks and I am going to work hard to get the baby fat off pronto
after the baby comes. So we knew that a jogging stroller would fit our style better.
Unfortunately the nice ones are freaking expensive! Finally we found one on Craig's list that we loved, it was almost new, great quality and Orange on top of everything else!
So we drove an hour and a half to buy it, bought it, opened up our trunk and found that it did
not fit! Big problem! I was so mad because I loved it!

But than today I received an e-mail from Aunt Ha ha and Ja Ja
and my Mom and Dad saying that as a Christmas/Baby gift they are getting us this.....
a BOB!!!!
The ultimate baby Stroller!!
We are so so happy for them to do this for us!

In other news I am now 34 weeks! Ahhhh
Over thanksgiving weekend we went
to the Monterey Aquarium with one of the
kids I am a Case Aide for.

My sexy body. Don't get jealous!

We went to the beach on Thanksgiving because we
heard there was 20 ft waves. It was pretty crazy.

Earlier we went for a walk and I decided
to buy a donut just in case I did not inhale enough
calories during the day. Shortly after I tripped on the curb, however
I am happy to say my donut survived without any injuries!

For Thanksgiving we were invited to Boo's
Professors house with some of Boo's classmates.
It was fun to meet them and brush up on my Korean.

I don't really like traditional Thanksgiving food,
but here there was a mixture of Korean and American
food making it the perfect meal.

In other news we were wondering how we would ever
be able to afford to get a nice crib.
The ones we were looking at were safe, but really ugly.
Randomly my student's P.E. Teacher Stacy asked me
if we needed a crib. Turns out she has had this crib
since her three year old was a baby but he never slept in it.
She said she wanted to give it to someone who needed it.
When we saw the crib I was so happy. We tried to pay
for it but she refused to take any money.
It is way better quality than we could ever afford.
It feels so much better knowing that the baby has a
place to sleep now. We feel so lucky to have such a nice bed for our baby.

November Reads

This Book was one of the best books I have read in a long time.
I picked it because it was a librarian's favorite pick for the month of November.
It tells a story of Pi who's family from India is on their way to Canada and die in a ship wreck.
Only Pi survives on the life boat with a Zebra,Monkey,Hyena and a Tiger. Eventually only Pi and the Tiger are left alive on the boat. It ends beautifully and with great irony.

I get to read everyday at work with my student for about 20 minutes.
During the silent reading time I have been reading Nancy Drew books that are on the
bookshelves. When I was little I LOVED Nancy Drew books. I remember I use to beg
my mom to let me knock a hole in the wall and look for secret passage ways after I read about Nancy doing that. Now I realize maybe Carolyn Keene was not the best author,
however she wrote books that got a lot of girls to read. The
one thing I hate about the books is that Nancy's best friend Bess is
always referred to as Nancy's chubby friend. Bess is always talking about
how she is hungry and wants to eat.
As a chubby girl I grudgingly could never identify with Nancy as
I felt I had more in common with Bess.

I read the Botox Diaries because I read a book by these
authors last month and found it to be a entertaining and easy read.
This one was as well.