Merry Christmas To All And To All A Good Night

Merry Christmas everyone!

I hope you've all had an amazing day / weekend celebrating the birth of our Savior with family and friends!

I know that this has been a really challenging year for us and it was so nice to be able to just sit down with all of our families and just share some time together, forgetting all that has gone on for just a bit.

I was up past 3am wrapping gifts and I'm actually surprised that I'm still awake, but it was worth it to wrap the gifts for my family.

Over the past few days I've had quite the comedy of errors while cooking and baking.  I thought I just might pull my hair out, but my mistakes actually turned out to be a hit.  Go figure. LOL

On Friday we gathered at my aunt and uncles house for my dad's side of the family Christmas.  I got to see family that I haven't seen in months, if not since last Christmas.  I had Kyle take a picture of my grandma and me.  She has Alzheimer's and while she knows who I am right now, I don't know how much longer that part of her memory will last.  It's a picture that I'll treasure in years to come, I'm sure.

Saturday, Christmas Eve, I spent the entire day making a trifle.Kyle and I drove separately to his parents because he went golfing so I didn't hold this trifle on the way there.  Instead, I barricaded it in the back of my car.  Got to the inlaws and it had tipped over.  I was so sad!  But it ended up not being quite the catastrophe that it looked like at first, thankfully.

At the inlaws we ate, hung out, played a game of "Telephone" but on paper.  Never played it before but it was fun and the end result was pretty funny!  After that Charlie Brown read us the Christmas story.


Then we opened gifts.  Just gotta say that we were beyond spoiled!  Definitely don't deserve all that was given to me.

My MIL with one of the gifts "The Kids" gave her.
We gave her the frame for Christmas 2 years ago and we finally filled it this year. ;)

Chewy is such a good sport.  We buried him in the remnants of all the gifts.
He says Merry Christmas!

We didn't get home till after midnight and then I still had gifts to wrap.  So I stayed up past 3 am, like I already mentioned.

I set my alarm for 7:30 am because we were supposed to be at my sisters at 9 am.  I guess I turned my alarm off instead of hitting snooze because before I knew it, I was waking up and it was 8:50.  Oops!  I sent my sister a text that I had gone to bed at 3am and just woken up and that we'd be there when we got there.

Kyle and I did our Christmas together like we like to do and we took our time.

Chewy was helping.  You can see some of the tissue paper hanging out of his mouth.  heehee

We eventually made it to my sisters at about 10:45 and we had breakfast and then opened gifts with my mom, sister, BIL and nephews.  It was kind of a quick visit with them because they had to move onto her inlaws and we had my dad's house to get to next.

This year for Christmas I made a lot of gifts, which I've never done before.  I made my mom, sister, SIL and step-mom jewelry boards.  I got the idea from Pinterest.  I'd say they were a hit.  Yay!  I also made my sister three ribbon necklaces.  I'll post pics of both this week because I didn't get good pictures of my mom and sister with their gifts.

Evan helping Kingston get the tape undone on one of his gifts.  Such a good big brother!

After we left my sisters we went home for a little while and then headed to my dad's house.  We nibbled on some food there and waited for my nieces to get there.  My step-sister will be going over there tomorrow with her family so we didn't see them for Christmas this year.

My dad always likes to carry around these mason jars filled with ice water, especially in the summer time.  When we went to Florida, we walked into The Rainforest Cafe store and saw this and I had to get it.  Yeah, it's not a mason jar but it's a frickin huge jug "water bottle". LOL  Kyle brought 10 shot glasses home in it. That should give you an idea of just how big it is. ;0)

Not sure if you can really see it, but I feel like I need toothpicks to keep my eyes open at this point.
This was right before we left my dad's house.

We've had a very, very blessed Christmas but I can say that I'm looking forward to getting some sleep now!

And with that...

Merry Christmas To All And To All A Good Night!

Facebook Is Not My Friend

Today I was out and about doing some last minute shopping and I happened to check Facebook when I got  back in the car.  One of the first things I saw was one of my BEST FRIENDS sharing that she's having a girl.

Um....

I didn't even KNOW she was pregnant to begin with!

I've been texting with her the last couple of days so I sent her a text:

"Why am I finding out from FB that you're pregnant?"

And I waited for the response.

I got a call from her a few minutes later.

"Meeegggaaaannnnn....."

"Yessssss?"

Then she apologized.  She said that she thought I already knew.  I asked her how I would know if she hadn't told me.  She said that she made a post on FB a few weeks ago.  I told her that, again, I wouldn't have wanted to find out she was pregnant from FB then either, especially since she IS one of my BEST FRIENDS {since 3rd grade!}.

She said that they had told everyone at her daughters birthday party, which I wasn't able to attend because it was the day we were leaving for Florida.

Anyway, it just hurt my feelings that I had to find out from Facebook.  My friends and I don't talk often so usually when I DO receive a phone call from them I can predict the reason why they're calling but I still would appreciate a phone call, at the least, instead of finding out online.

*sigh*

Facebook can be such a bitch sometimes!

I told her that I forgive her and I told her Congratulations.  I AM happy for her.

I'm just being left in the dust left and right.  It never gets easier to hear the news of someone's impending birth.

I guess while I'm on the subject, since I've been meaning to post about pregnancies and infertility for awhile, I'll also mention that my sister-in-law and her hubby have been married for three years.  I know that getting pregnant is at least on their mind.

Kyle talked with his mom recently about something else and the subject of Heidi getting pregnant came up.  I guess my MIL said that my SIL is worried about how we'll react if she does get pregnant before me, which is likely since we've been TTC for 9 flippin years with no pregnancy in sight.

While I'll eventually be happy for them, it is going to be SO bittersweet!  She is six years younger than us and it's one thing being past up by my friends my age, you know?  But being past up by those that are so much younger than me just stings really badly!

When we first got back from Florida, my mom and I went to dinner and we had a really honest conversation about quite a few different things that we've both been holding back on.  One of the things I had been holding in since I was in like 9th grade or something like that.  I didn't think I would ever tell her but I did.  The wine probably helped.  Liquid courage and all. ;0)

Anyway, I don't remember if I ever mentioned it here, but my {ex}step-sister is pregnant with twins.  I saw a picture of her the other day and she's gonna pop soon but I can't remember her due date.  I found out she was pregnant when she was about 12 or so weeks along.  Again, it was another punch to the gut.  It is my DREAM to have twins.  I've seriously wanted twins for as long as I can remember.  And now she is having twins.  I haven't seen her since back when I first found out.  We're not close. But I'm just waiting to see the announcement on FB that her babies are here.

So when we were in Florida, my MIL and I were walking through the largest Disney store there is.  We were in the Princess part of the store and I saw a Tinkerbell dress and I said that it was SO cute and that one day when we have a daughter, I didn't care HOW much the dress was, I would be buying one for her.  My MIL said that Gramma would buy one for her and then I said something about her having her daddy wrapped around her little finger and HE would be the one to buy it for her.  It was just another bittersweet moment in my life.

Back to the dinner I had with my mom, I was telling her about this conversation between my MIL and me and I just started crying, right there in the bar of the restaurant.  Thank God it was dim lighting because I felt like a moron bawling there but I couldn't stop the tears {and I don't cry often, I guess I needed a good cleansing}.  Then I was talking about how my step-sister was living out my dream.  How it's not fair and how it hurts especially with her because we were so close growing up.  It hits just too close to home.

My mom sat there and cried with me and it was nice that I could share my heart with her since it's not often that we sit down and have these type of conversations.

This time of year the infertility just hits me so hard and it makes it even worse with all of these different pregnancies popping up and impending births just around the corner.

I would just like to know when it's gonna me MY turn.  I mean, seriously.  What is there to learn with 9 years of TTC under our belt?

Anyone got an extra $30 grand laying around they want to donate to the "Megan & Kyle Infertility Fund"?  Cuz I certainly wouldn't say no!

Gifts In The Making

This year I'm doing things on a very tight budget so I'm making some of my gifts.  While I'm not going to tell you exactly what I'm making, because I'm don't know which family does and doesn't read my blog, I'll show you just a snapshot. 

Any guesses?

Are you making any gifts this year? I'm still looking for a few ideas even though Pinterest is my best friend these days.

Internet Down

I don't know what's going on with my internet buy it is being seriously obnoxious and I'm about ready to pull my hair out!
 
We have internet but for some reason it won't connect to my laptop except for sporadically.

So...I'm not trying to be absent but my internet is making it difficult to get on here and while I can post from my phone it just takes longer and the formatting isn't how I like it.

Please forgive my absence and  hopefully things will start looking up soon!

Here's a few pictures to hold you over till I can get on here again.

I'm Crafting

I feel like I need to do a bullet point post on my life right now because I'm so behind, but right now I should be getting in the shower since both my mom and my MIL will be here in about half an hour, but I just wanted to post and let you all know that I'm alive and kicking, just busy crafting, among other things.

Aren't they so stinkin CUTE?!  I love them!