Christmas 2006

This was a very unique, but special Christmas. It lasted for almost 4 weeks! Rachel and Stephen had a baby boy named Andrew David on Wednesday December 20th. I finished up school that Friday, but unfortunately, Jason was in his hardest month of residency. He had to work almost every day, until the day after Christmas. He and I celebrated Christmas here out our new home. It was a really special time--our first Christmas by ourselves, in our new home. Then I drove to Beavercreek to meet Andrew and spend time with Julia, Rachel, and Stephen. I ended up getting some sort of food poisoning or illness and was nauseous and sick from Christmas eve until Wednesday after Christmas. Julia and Stephen did a lot of work, while Rachel took care of Andrew, I was out of commission on the couch, and Jason was working hard in Indy. Wednesday, Jason joined us and we all celebrated Christmas together. Jason had to leave the next morning, and I joined him back in Indy that weekend.

Thanksgiving at the Hall's House

Thanksgiving was really fun. Julia, Rachel, and Stephen came for the entire long weekend. We had fun doing crafts, cooking, exercising, talking, relaxing, spending time with our new friend Matt, and celebrating Thanksgiving. Jason had to work that day, but he had all of Friday evening and Saturday off. So, Saturday we got to celebrate his birthday and spend time with him. Julia organized crafts (We called them projects so the boys would not be as threatened by "crafts".) We painted bottle cap magnets, waxed leaves, and made a fleece blanket for Lori. On Thursday night, we waited outside of CompUSA to get good deals on electronics. Then Stephen slept outside of Best Buy, in a less than desirable area, to get a flat screen, LCD t.v. for us (We're setting it up in the picture). On Saturday, Jason and I wrote a thank you card to Stephen, and on the bottom we wrote that he would make a great uncle. This is how we broke the news to them that we were pregnant!!

We're having a BABY!!!!

Right before Thanksgiving of 2006, we found out that there is going to be a new little Hall in the family. I was late, so we took a test. We were sure it would show us one way or another. But, there was the minus mark and a possible sliver of the line to make it a plus, but we couldn't tell if it was there or we were imagining it. I had pictured that when we did learn we were expecting, I wanted to go to Texas Roadhouse to celebrate (you can never have enough of those biscuits). Even though we didn't know whether it was positive or not, we still went to celebrate a "might-be-pregnancy". This is us at Texas Roadhouse, after "maybe finding out". I took a test the next morning and it did the same thing! We waited five more days, and then finally took another test. This one gave us a definite and almost immediate plus sign!!!!! We are really excited. Daddy's been working hard to bring in the big bucks and Mommy has been feeling well over all--just hungry all the time.