December

On December 5th, I felt the baby move for the first time! It was still a couple of weeks before Carson was able to feel it, but it was exciting to be able to feel the baby growing inside of me. I was feeling much better by this time but still had very little energy and had to take things slowly.

On December 21st we had our 20 week ultrasound and found out that we are having a baby boy!! We didn't tell our parents about our appointment because we wanted to surprise them. We were able to record the ultrasound and so we made a copy of it for each family and mailed it home wrapped in a blue bib to open on Christmas. It was a great Christmas surprise!! We will call him Miles Thomas Snipes.

We stayed home again for Christmas this year and I am sure glad we did because it ended up being a White Christmas! It was very exciting for us. We've celebrated Christmas before in Orlando where temps were in the 80's! This was also Rylie's first snow so we took the dogs out the next day to play and we all had a blast!

Rylie's first snow on Christmas night

Right after Christmas we headed off to Charleston for Carson to photograph a wedding for a friend of his from Clemson. It was fun to work with Carson coordinating everything that goes into photographing a wedding. It was much more intense than we had thought but we somehow made it through the day and had a great time doing it. We got to stay right on the beach so I got some sunrise photo's one morning as well.

21 Week Baby Bump:

When we returned home, Carson's family was here to visit for a late Christmas/New Years family gathering. We did a secret Santa exchange with the extended family and had a nice visit for a few days.


To end this year, here are our family Christmas pictures. My parents decided to be in ours this year (normally it's just the kids) but I don't blame them since they have both lost 80 lbs each this year!

The puppies wanted a photo of their own too!