24 Weeks on Dec 24th & Christmas 2009!

We hit Kinsley's 24 week mark on Dec. 24th - Christmas Eve! And what a great Christmas! We missed being with Philip's family this year as they were all up in PA - just wasn't the same. But we couldn't make the trip up there with being preggers and Philip's knee surgery that we managed to thankfully squeeze into 2009! So, it was Christmas with my family this year! After a few days of recuperating from the knee surgery last Monday, it was finally Christmas Eve! We went to church with my parents and Dan and Ang, then off to Ted's for dinner before back to their house with our pups to spend the night. As you can see from the Christmas morning pics above, Santa definitely knew where we were staying this year! Don't you just love Christmas AM pics - everyone looks so fresh-faced! We had a great time gift-opening... we even got a special gift addressed "To: Mommy and Daddy, From: Kinsley" for her to use once she's here...and Hunter had a great time opening his gifts, as you can see! And then a family tradition at the Marshall house on Christmas morning: Beignets! I think they are actually better than the ones at Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans! I am not sure why I decided to take a bare-belly shot in front of the tree AFTER I had taken down about 6-7 of those beignets, but I am pretty sure that Kinsley thought that they were as delicious as I did! So here's my growing baby bump shot in front of the Christmas tree at 24 weeks - next Christmas will be amazing with her in our life!