Merry Christmas

I hope everyone had a GREAT Christmas! I've talked with most of you or seen you but just wanted to put that out there in case i hadn't!
We had a wonderful time. We went to my mom's house (the best place in the world!) and had Christmas dinner over there. I made these amazing mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and a cold salad (actually Lueken's made the salad but shhh). My mom made butterfly fried shrimp, shrimp scampi, and prime rib. My grandmother made the pies. I'm sure there might have been a few other smaller things but ooooh it was SO good. We watched my boys open their presents and played a game later in the night. It was snowing so bad that we had to go home a little early so we didn't get snowed in and have to spend the night! LOL. The kids got SOOO many clothes and i couldn't be more thankful. Koi also got a battery operated 4-wheeler from my parents and Derrian got an electric scooter! Derrian spent the night and Ladie's daughters came later that evening and he got to play with my niece's. I love the holidays. On Sun. i got up and went to church, it felt really good going again but i almost fainted twice! When i got home it wasn't much longer until Ken and Debbie got here. They stayed for 2 nights and it was so wonderful to have them here.
The first night we made a deep fried turkey. Laura bought us the fryer and i HAD to try it out. We invited my grandpa over, Laura came, and her daughter Jessie and her husband Ryan came as well. We played a couple games after supper and that was a fun night too! Monday Debbie and I headed into town to do some shopping and spend a little time together. We grabbed lunch and spent the boys' gift cards to Walmart. (They got needed things instead of more toys). After lunch we met up with the guys (Kurt, Ken, Derrian, and Koi), tried napping, and then headed out to supper later in the evening. We went to the Chinese buffet, one of my fav's! Then watched the football game last night - LOSERS! They had to leave early this morning after breakfast and it was sad to see them go.
Now today Kurt is fixing his truck with his friend Josh because the heater went out. Hopefully that all turns out okay. I think i'm going to go take a nap since i just put Koi to bed.
Thank you for all the gifts from everyone and for the kids for my children. They got SO much stuff and should keep busy for quite some time! : )
Oh, my digital camera has also been broken, which is why there have been no pictures! But my mom let me borrow hers so now i can update again once i start taking some more.

It's a GIRL

So we found our we're having a girl! How crazy is that!?!? I could not believe it when she told us, i felt like at any minute she was going to say "oh, I'm sorry, never mind" or something along those lines. BUT, she never did : ) She said she was 95% sure. (They never say 100%). It's a hard concept to grasp but one I'm willing to work on : ) Just as the nurse stated "It looks like we got our Christmas wish". It's going to be weird raising a girl but so exciting.

Her name is going to be Macy Marie Goossen. Marie after my beautiful mother : ) You've done so much for me mom and i could never thank you enough. You've went over and beyond what a mom has to do for their child and i love you more than i ever tell you. You deserve so much more than "thank you" and "I love you" and this is the least i could do to show you how special and extremely important to me you are. I'm so excited to be bringing another one of us into the world, though i don't know how excited the rest of the world will be LMAO. We finally got our girl!!!!

I'm counting down the days until i get to meet this little person. I have a feeling she's going to look like me and that is so exciting.
Have i mentioned how EXCITED i am!?? haha.

Kurt is happy too and that's fantastic. I can't wait to see him holding his little munchkin. He feels a sense of accomplishment - dork : ) He said he "knew" the whole time, though i don't think he did. Everybody always "knows". I'm sure everybody would have said they knew it was a boy if it had been a boy too hahah.

Anywho, i have to finish cooking some food for Christmas dinner. We're going out to my mom's house today. I'm looking forward to spending time with my family and talking about the little monster-to-be.

Appointments

I know i've been terrible at updating, but darn it, kids are time consuming! When they go to bed.. i do too! However, i did want to say that everything has been going fine. I had a doctors appointment this afternoon and scheduled my ultrasound for Dec. 23rd!! YAY. Time to find out I'm having ANOTHER boy!

Speaking of which....

I just want to take this time and once again gloat to my favorite father-in-law that I WAS RIGHT!!! Upon leaving the clinic today, i called 411 to get their home number, for some reason i only have cell #'s, but anyways, i called just to tell him i was right and he was wrong and it felt ooooh so good hahah.

Well, Koi is in bed, it's almost time for Derrian to go to bed, so i must be getting myself ready for bed. My husband is going to be laid off here so i must make the most of the last few days i have my wonderful bed to myself. : (
lol.