I'll have a blue Christmas without you....

Well, folks, as everyone is getting ready for this glorious time of year, all I can think about is having my husband come home December 30th at 6:50 p.m.!  Christmas just isn't all that exciting for me this year.  Don't get me wrong, I am having a great time in Florida and I love being around my family but man, I'm ready to get home!  I can't wait to see some snow (yes, I know, I'm insane)!  I'm also pretty excited to start packing up all of our stuff so we can move into our new house!!  I'm SOOOO excited about moving.  I love everything about our new house and the new town we're moving into.  The house is a historic 1927 home in a great neighborhood that was built back then by a prestigious builder for his mother.  It's got a great layout, all the original molding around the doors and windows, original hardwood floors and "powder rooms" in the guest bedrooms.  That's what they used to call half baths back then.  I love it.  :)  The town we're moving into is Moorestown, New Jersey.  Christian and I found this town back in the spring when we drove over to NJ to find towns that we would want to eventually live in since we knew we were going to be moving again.  We both fell in love with Moorestown when we ate lunch on their little Main Street (which we will live less than a mile from!).  So, it's got a great little historic downtown but it also has all the convenience of suburbia about 4 miles from our house (Target, Wegmans *my favorite grocery store ever*, Bed, Bath & Beyond, etc).  Plus, we'll only be about 20 minutes from Philly instead of 45 minutes like we are at our how now. So, if you can't already tell, I'm itching to get moved!  Plus, we should be in the new house by February 20th so we can celebrate our first anniversary there!

Speaking of anniversary, is it crazy to anyone else to think that I've almost been married for a year?!  If they say the first year is the toughest, this was a BREEZE!  I have loved every second of being married.... even the stupid little fights, the tough compromises, having to leave my job, moving to an entirely new city where I didn't know a soul, the many, many days I spend alone due to Christian being gone 50 percent of the time for his job, spending Christmas as a single lady, etc, etc, etc.  I have never been happier.  I am one lucky gal for finding such an amazing, funny, supportive, fun, exciting, loving, sexy :) person to spend my life with.  And, of course, he's damn lucky to have such an awesome wife too.  haha

**Pardon the interruption: I'm listening to Pandora.com and created my own Christmas music station and they're playing Judy Garland "Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas".... man, I love her voice!**

Haha, now back to the blog.... so anyway, a whole year!  That's crazy to me!  It has flown by.  One more thing that has happened within our first year of marriage is our trouble with trying to have a baby.  It's been a while now so I went to my doctor down here in Florida (Dr. Lile @ Sacred Heart if any of you are searching for the best OBGYN ever...) yesterday to talk to him about all of this stuff and he's sending me to have an HSG in the next two weeks to check out my fallopian tubes and make sure there are no blockages.  There are no other things on my end of things that point out any issues.  We know I'm ovulating b/c of tests I've done and my cycles are like clockwork.  Christian will be having his own test in January once we're back up north.  So, hopefully, we'll find out soon what is going on and we'll be on our way to parenthood.  Gosh, that's crazy to think about too!  haha  We're going to LOVE it though!

So, on to other topics.... I have yet to do any Christmas shopping.  I had really good intentions of getting it done today but I just couldn't get in the mood.  I REALLY don't like Christmas shopping.  Luckily Christian and I agreed years ago that we will never give gifts to each other.  We aren't in need of anything and if we ever are, we go get it at the time we need it.  We celebrated our first Christmas together with gifts back in 2008 and it was awkward and neither of us really used the gifts we received so it was pointless for us.  But, unfortunately for me, I can't use that same philosophy with other loved-ones. haha  But, there are only a few people I need to shop for so it won't be too painful.

Other than Christmas shopping, my week is actually getting pretty busy.  I was just asked by my old job to come in an work a couple days.  This was the job where I was a Case Management Assistant.  Man, I loved that job.  It was the one I left when I was offered the position with Studer Group.  Haha, sometimes I wonder about my sanity at that point.  ;-)  So, I'm going to hang out all day tomorrow with my old co-worker Angela and my old boss, Denise!  I can't wait!  Thursday, Alison is having craft day with her students at Molino Park Elementary and she invited me to come help out so I'll probably do that and then I may work back at ECRA again Friday if they need me.  Then, Saturday and Sunday are chock full of fun stuff!

Saturday is Ali's baby shower!  I'm sooo excited about that and can't wait to see all the cute stuff she gets for Baby Boy (who is yet to be named) Ohler.  After the shower, we have our family Christmas on my mom's side and then Sunday is family Christmas on my dad's side.  Lots of family time this weekend!  I love it.

Christian always asks me to say hello to everyone so here is his hello and Merry Christmas!  :)  I can't wait to see those of you I will see this week/weekend.  Love y'all!

xoxo,

Chrissi