The Baby Diaries Chapter Two

Here's the next installment of the Baby Diaries!

The Christmas House

On our second date last year Aaron and I took his little niece Cali out on a drive to look at Christmas lights. Keeping with what I hope will be a regular tradition went out on a drive again this year. A few people told us about "Candy cane Lane" which is supposed to be a street of really decked out houses.

When we found it, we were disappointed. The street was lined with candy cane decoration, but the houses weren't really decorated as ornately as we were lead to believe. However in our search for Candy cane Lane we came across the ultimate Christmas house.

The house sits on a corner lot with a lot of land (an acre or an acre and half). It has every blow up Christmas decoration available. With lights on all the trees and lining any stationary object. Aaron who usually hates Christmas blow decorations conceded that he liked the blow up decor in this case. It was so amazing we went back a few nights later and took pictures to share with all of you!

Santa's Sweat Shop

Since I've been pregnant I've had no interest in sweets, hence I really haven't gotten into holiday baking this year. Aaron however, LOVES holiday treats and was thrilled to find a recipe book with Nanny-Jo's (my Grandmother) holiday recipes in it. He made caramels, peanut butter cups and fudge.

After making all the goodies it was time to wrap. I ended up cutting a bunch of cellophane (one of the most unruly substances known to man, yuck). I made it clear that I wasn't happy having to wrap each piece of caramel in a little cellophane square. Aaron started to joke that this was Santa's sweat shop. That cheered me up. We got all the candy wrapped (with curled bows and all) and have been giving them away to friends - which have been complimenting me on my cooking skills!

The Baby Diaries Chapter One

I've started a video journal of my pregnancy. Enjoy!

Our First Christmas

Aaron and I have really enjoyed having the Christmas season together. As most of you know we had our first date on December 15th, so the season has special meaning for us as a couple. We've really had fun decorating our house for Christmas. I don't think Aaron knew how much of a Christmas geek he married until I pulled out all of my decorations - but he's taking it well. =)

It's interesting learning how to incorporate each others traditions into the holiday. We're comparing sugar cookie recipes, debating on what our Christmas eve will be like and what traditions we want in the future. It's been fun seeing the season from another person's perspective.

For Thanksgiving we went to St. George, Utah to stay with my family. On our way down we went to IKEA and got some ornaments for our tree. We also got a wreath for our front door and one for inside the house. We also went to Cost co. Our car was so jam packed that I couldn't put my seat back!

For FHE (Family Home Evening) the Monday after we got back we decorated the house. We put on Christmas music (even though I've been listening to Christmas music since October. What can I say? When you are morning sick you do whatever it takes to make you feel better.) and pulled out all the decoration. I don't think we realized how many we already had between the two of us! The house now is set for Christmas.


















One thing I know is that neither of us thought when we began dating in December of 2006 that we would be finding out the sex of our baby a year later. We'll find out officially on December 21st! It's been an amazing, very blessed year!

We'll try (or more correctly I'll try) to keep this blog up to date so you can see what the Idaho Petersons are up to. Aaron and i are both very close to our families so it's hard to live away from them, especially this time of year.

Here are some pictures of our decorated house. Now if only we could get a nice snow...