Gingerbread Houses, etc

On Tuesday, we had Papa Sam(he's been out here working in Lincoln), Lenna, Hannah, Mason, Addi, Jordan, and Jordan's niece Chamea (who also plays at Iowa Western) over for chili and making gingerbread houses. I was a little stressed out when I couldn't get to the store until after 3 (see Tired post), but it all worked out and I was even able to straighten up a little before people got there. Brad also got home a little early and helped with the cleaning. I think it was a success. The boys enjoyed it. It will be a fun little tradition. No offense to anyone, but I think it might just be our little family next year...it's a lot of work!! I don't know how my mom did it with 6 kids every year! The cleanup alone was enough to put me in a coma that night! Thankfully Brad is very helpful and cleaned up most of the gingerbread stuff.

Maybe someday I'll be awesome like my mom and make the gingerbread when Donovan and his sister are old enough to appreciate it! For now, we'll stick with graham crackers.
I think Donovan's favorite part was squeezing out his own frosting.
I don't think he understands the concept of loading it up yet. I'm sure that will come next year since he's been able to pick something off of it every day since. Some may think that's gross, but I don't really care, he enjoys it and I think he'll be just fine:)

I know I've been complaining a lot, but I'm actually feeling pretty good now. I'm tired and sore of course, but I think I can make it 2 more weeks without being too miserable. Brad is being very cooperative with the naming process. He finally opened up a little about it last night without being silly (very rare to have even a semi-serious conversation with him) and we feel the same way about naming her. We're trying to find a name we can imagine calling her all the time, but it's really hard to imagine. None of the names we've found have really jumped out at us. It was pretty cute last night when he was explaining how he felt about trying to imagine holding her and saying, "my sweet little...." It's pretty much exactly how I feel. There are so many names I like, but it's so hard to imagine actually using any of those names every day. I do remember having second thoughts after naming Donovan, but that has grown on me and he is definitely a Donovan! I guess we really shouldn't stress out about it, just pick a name we both like! Maybe we'll pick 2 or 3 and decide at the hospital. That's what we did with Donovan. If anyone has any name ideas, feel free to send them our way :)