Christmas

I am so disgusted that Christmas is already out!! (don't get me wrong, I love Christmas... but I also love Thanksgiving)

I went to the dreaded Walmart yesterday (I found a new grocery store so I don't have to go as often and I think it is also saving us money... can I get a woot woot?!) and we went in through the garden center (parking is better on that end of the store) and they had fake lighted Christmas trees out.... and one was frosted like it was supposed to be snow :O... HUH??   For a while I thought it would be nice to have a prelighted tree BUT part of the fun of christmas is putting the lights on the tree.... going OUTSIDE to see REAL snow on trees.... AND not doing it till AFTER Thanksgiving.  Is it even officially Fall yet?  Yep it is I just looked it up and it started on the 23rd but still can we have Halloween first?? Can we have Thanksgiving first??  I am just as excited for Christmas as everyone else and maybe even a little more but Thanksgiving is important too.  If we just glaze over that what would the pilgrims say......"If I had known it wouldn't be important I wouldn't have sailed that ship"......  I can see it now......can you?

Is it because people just want to get it done and over with?? If so, take a hard look at your life.  Where are your priorities at?  Try this year to not buy any gifts for your kids, try not taking treats to your neighbors, try not caroling, try to not have a big meal, try to not seeing your family, and try to live without Christ.  It will be hard.  It will be sad.  and you will wish that you had placed more importance on spending time with family, enjoying the cold dry weather, and having the Atonement in your life.

I didn't mean for this entry to be so condemning but I just feel so strongly that Christmas should happen after Thanksgiving and not before Halloween.  I also feel that the spirit of Christmas should dwell with us year-round.  I want to have a commercialization free Christmas.

What Keeps Me Up at Night

Here we have the feet that kick and tickle (all night last night and all day today)

 Her profile (check out the cute little nose)

 And here you can see her chubby cheeks

Being with child is an experience like none other.  I still get sick at night and go to the bathroom a lot.  We are starting to collect our baby necessities like we got our travel system (jogging stroller, car seat, and base), a swing, pac-n-play, and some clothes.  It is getting really exciting that it is about 3 months till I can start my journey back to normalcy.  I don't feel like I am "nesting" or that I have "energy explosions".
In other news- The weather the past two days has been really wonderful.  It is slowly starting to get cooler and I could feel fall in the air the past two days.  It has been cloudy and a bit breezy.... Just wonderful.  Some leaves are changing... just a trickle... but it is just wonderful.. I Heart fall and winter!

pictures

Hey, I have some sonogram pictures I want to put up but I don't know the best way to do it.
Can I scan them?
Does it turn out good if I camera phone them then bluetooth it over?
OR should I be taking like a disk to the appointments to copy them onto??? is that possible??

advice?