Tarynn Paschall

I can’t believe that it’s already the middle of November! Thanksgiving is next week. How in the heck did that happen? In any case, I’m extremely excited for the holidays. Last year around this time I was having my baby shower, organizing Kaelyn’s room, and counting down the days until I hit full-term. Little did I know miss K wouldn’t show up until 40+ weeks! I remember going to target and debating whether or not I should get a “Baby’s First Christmas” onesie. After all, my due date was only ten days after Christmas. A girl could hope, right? And now I have a walking, somewhat talking, expressive 10.5 month old little girl to experience the holidays with. This sure beats being pregnant!

Josh is taking a week off in between Christmas and New Years, and we’re headed off to Oregon to celebrate. I’m really not looking forward to the drive, but I think we’re going to attempt to drive through the night so K will sleep for most of the trip. As of now, the plan is to drive up to Albany to stay with my aunt and uncle/cousins, grandma and grandpa, brother and little sister, as well as my little sister’s mom (haven’t quite figured out what to call her yet, lol). We’ll probably stay there from Christmas to the 29th, and then we’ll drive down to Roseburg to stay with Josh’s grandparents and parents/siblings who will be up there visiting as well. Then we’ll head home on New Years night in order to make it home by Monday January 3rd. I’m secretly hoping we get snowed in and Josh has to take two weeks off instead, so pray for lots of snow! ;) Speaking of snow, I’m so stinking excited to get Kaelyn in the snow! Especially for her first Christmas. At least she’ll get to experience what Christmas weather is supposed to be like, even if it’s only this year! Since Christmas weather in our hometown is usually bright, sunny, and about 85 degrees. I bet she’s going to love the snow and sledding. Such fun stuff!

Then we come back and it’s her birthday 4 days later. So I guess it’s probably best that we don’t get snowed in after all. Her first birthday is definitely something I can wait for. I’m excited, but I can’t believe it’s already been a year! It seems like just a few months ago I was finding out I was pregnant. It really does go by too quickly once you have kids. With our next I’ll have to remember to stop blinking. It seems like every time I do another 2 months have gone by. I need a rewind and a pause button already…

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