It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas...

It is hard to believe that Christmas is only 4 days a way! Even though it was 60+ degrees today and sunglasses were needed, Christmas festivities are under way for the Schultes. We finished the semester on Friday and will be heading to Nebraska tomorrow to spend the holidays with Toby's family. I'm sure we will get plenty of "Christmas" weather there.

We've gotten to attend several great Christmas events already this year and the highlights are included. We hosted our lifegroup Christmas party this year. We went to dinner at Brio and then came back to our place for annual ornament (girls) and White Elephant (guys) exchange. As usual, it was a great night! We are so thankful for such an amazing group of friends to share life with. Though the guys were there, I only got pics of the gals from the night.

Last night, I hosted my Baylor girls for our "Girls Night" Christmas Party. It is such a blessing to have five of my close college friends in town. We try to get together often and always have an awesome time at our Christmas party. Dinner, a gift exchange, and a little Mexican train kept us entertained for the night!

Today Toby and I celebrated our last Christmas as a family of two. It is hard to believe that this time next year we will have an 8 month old little boy...we can hardly wait! We exchanged gifts, went to lunch, and watched a movie together. I am so thankful for such a Godly husband who will be the most amazing dad! As usual, he spoiled me with too many gifts.

Merry Christmas to you all!

It's a BOY!!!

We are so excited to find out that we are having a BABY BOY! Wednesday morning we went to Dr. Sadler's office with my parents for our 21 week sonogram. Within 3 seconds, the technician announced it was a BOY. Everything looked really good, but our little guy decided to sleep through the whole thing, even through the poking and bouncing. Because of that we get to go back next month for another sonogram so that they can finish measuring all the organs. We won't mind seeing our sweet BOY again! The tech also said it looks like he has long arms and legs...no surprise seeing that we were in the room with me (5'11"), Toby (6'3"), and my dad (6'4"). My mom was there too. :)

After the appointment we headed to Babies'R'Us to pick up a couple of things for our BOY. Although it was tough, I practiced self control and only purchased 2 sports-themed items. My mom bought a cute puppy set! We then enjoyed a celebratory lunch at Uncle Julio's before we headed back to work.

I feel like knowing that we are having a BOY has made it all feel real! We can't wait to meet him April 2010 and are anxious to start decorating the nursery. Enjoy the pictures!

Big XII Championship

Last Saturday night Toby & I were lucky enough to get great tickets to see Nebraska play in the Big XII Championship. We were unlucky enough to witness a last second, one point loss to the Longhorns. The game was close the whole time and a HUGE defensive battle.

Our seats were awesome and Toby even made national TV! He got like 15 texts at the beginning of the game that people had seen him when Texas ran out of the tunnel. My uncle also sent us a link to us in the background of a picture in the Austin paper. It is found at http://www.statesman.com/sports/mediahub/media/slideshow/index.jsp?tId=204637, picture 112.

Even though the Huskers lost, we were glad to go support the BIG RED!

Thanksgiving Break

I can't believe how quickly our break has gone by! We had school Monday and Tuesday, so we headed to my parents house on Wednesday morning and enjoyed a good time with the family. As always we had lots of good food and played lots of fun games. My seven year-old niece, Mary Grace, has certainly inherited our love for games! Saturday we all went to my Grandmother's house for our extended family Thanksgiving. As usual, we helped put up her tree before we left which makes my second tree to put up so far and neither are mine! I'm sure our's will be up before the end of the week. Dad and Andy were there too...sorry I missed them in the pictures. Please notice the great smile my husband has in the pic to the right. This is after about 6 attempts at a decent picture, I finally gave up. Here are some pics from our relaxing break!

18 Weeks

I can't believe how fast our pregnancy has been flying by! We are almost half way there and just three weeks away from finding out the gender. (Make sure you cast your vote on the poll to the right!) I've been feeling really good lately, my latest line is that if I wasn't getting bigger, I wouldn't know I was pregnant. No sickness has been a huge blessing the whole way through and right now it is hard to tell if I'm tired because I'm pregnant or because life is so busy for us! Toby's basketball season officially started on last Tuesday night with a big win. Between our jobs and church, games will keep us busy for the next few months.

We are getting so excited about having a baby! I think the reality of it all is starting to sink in. We've been talking about names, looking at furniture and bedding, reading books, and just thinking about how different our life will be this time next year. Until next time, enjoy this picture of Baby Schulte at 9 weeks!

New Bloggers

We've finally given in and joined the blogger world! Toby says that he feels that in today's times making a blog when you're expecting is almost like how everyone registers. It is a given. so, here you go! I've never been very good at journaling or anything like that, so I'm not sure how great I'll be at this. We also haven't been super great in recent years with taking pictures, but I'm sure our parents will make sure that changes in the near future!