December Update

And here we are in December after a whole year of monthly updates. December: another month of travel (I went to three places within two weeks), I became an aunt again!, celebrating my best friend as bride-to-be, lots of Christmas celebrations with friends and family and, most importantly, announcing Baby McKay due July 8th!

Heath and I were never in a rush to have kids. We've always been on the same page for awhile as we really enjoy our time alone together and loving on our nieces and nephews. We've even pushed back our "let's start trying" timeline not once, but twice! We agreed going into year '30' that we would start trying to consider our options in case we couldn't get pregnant... you know, just in case. We were blessed with a YES pretty quickly and it's just been a whirlwind of emotions. When I first found out, I have to be honest and let you know I panicked and then I cried and then I didn't know how in the world I was going to bring a baby into my crazy world. Then I told Heath shortly after and his cheesy smile just reminded me of how thankful I am to be embarking on parenthood with him! We're all kinds of excited, we're scared, we're nervous, we're thankful and we are so glad we have the biggest support system of family and friends... especially because they've gone through this adventure before!

I still haven't fully wrapped my mind around being pregnant and I know women have different experiences. I'm looking forward to sharing some of mine in the months to come! I didn't have any morning sickness aside from a random day or two, but I had terrible food aversions. For someone like me who likes to prepare meals and cook often, I found myself not being able to eat the actual food I cooked because the smells really got to me. Heath will tell you that I don't really have any new cravings because I'm always craving something even when I wasn't pregnant - ha! This is true. I have a pretty big appetite so my biggest struggle is not using pregnancy to overeat :)

Here are a few pictures one of my best friends Megan took of us in time for our Christmas Day announcement and then pictures from the rest of the month!

Forever Friends Christmas brunch and Secret Santa... love these lifelong girlfriends!

Community Group Christmas Dinner... the guys stayed inside :)

Stockings at Glenda's... our favorite! (sorry pics are out of order)

Celebrating Nelly!

Jay and Nevaeh with their new sister, Gerselia!

Christmas Eve service

My favorites

Meal Marathon

Thanks for getting up to serve at 8am!!

Overnight trip to Waco to visit Shari

Sweet Audrey

Work Christmas dinner

Another one of Heath's 8th grade A team games

And another...

New stockings that Glenda made!

Christmas WyldLife Club

Hosted Nelly's bridal shower in Phoenix at the cutest tea place

Beautiful!

Hosted my family for Christmas morning brunch

Ashley and Andrea came by too :) Friends like family

We always travel on Christmas Day. Two years in a row to make it to the Thunder Christmas Day game!

Edmond Christmas with Heath's dad and Jennifer

Second Edmond Christmas with McKay side of the family

Kingfisher Christmas with Heath's mom and Kyle... then we went over to Grandma and Grandpa's for the Bollenbach side of the family!

Glenda's yummy cheese plate

Granny's scavenger hunt after we found our envelopes. Among the many things of getting older, one of them is being too old to no longer participate in this :( Hope it stops at 40!

Sweet Granny

And Papa!

Compass Christmas Women's Gathering

Went to watch Kameron's high school team play in the Whataburger tournament!

And last but not least, my sweet Chief actually using his new dog bed :)

And that's a wrap for 2017! I'm going to do my Year in Review post tomorrow because I'm all wiped out tonight. Heath and I are looking forward to traveling to Florida this week to celebrate at Nelly and Jeremiah's beach wedding!!! We can't wait to get out of this freezing weather :)

Until next YEAR,