It's been so crazy lately that I have barely had time to do any shopping for the holiday's, or clean house, or much of anything besides spend time with my son. I certainly won't complain about that though. The one thing I need to do, which I started two days ago, is to get my Christmas cards out. Hopefully I can finish addressing them tonight and mail them tomorrow. Although, I don't think I have enough.

Josh came home from pheasant hunting tonight. G and I missed him very much. We better get in good time with him though because he'll be headed out this weekend to go deer hunting.

This is our second Christmas with the Donahue's as our friends. The other night we played Scene it together, and we reminisced about last year's Christmas fun. Tonight we exchanged Christmas Ornaments. The first of many exchanges to come, I'm sure. They gave us this gorgeous Silver Bell made by Towle Silversmiths, which is engraved Christmas 2004. Thanks y'all!

I love Christmas ornaments. Its funny that they gave us one with the year on it, because I decided years ago (not too long after Josh and I got together) that I was going to ensure we had an ornament every year that had the year on it. We started dating in 1997...so I think I started the "anniversary" ornament in 1998...but I can't find all of them right now, so I'm really not sure.

For those of you who don't read the baby blog, but are interested, G crawled on his hands and knees last night! And tonight, when I said "Ho Ho Ho!", he looked up at the Santa on the mantle. I was shocked that he associated the "Ho Ho Ho" with the Santa on his own. For the last week I've let him look at and touch the Santa, and I say HO³ and he smiles, but I didn't think that he would know to look that way on his own when we haven't even looked at Santa yet! He's so smart! I'm so proud!