Weekend Trip Home

We went home for a very quick weekend- we left at 1:30pm on Friday afternoon (after Mark finished his Thanksgiving night on call) and got back to South Carolina at 2:00am on Monday morning. Unfortunately Mark had to get up and be at the hospital by 7:00am! While the time home was definitely too short it was wonderful to see our parents and some of our family. We were so grateful for the lower gas prices:)

We went to my sister's on Friday night and played with our nephews and then stayed up way too late hanging out with my sister and brother-in-law. We were able to get up early with the boys and play Saturday morning before heading into Louisville. Here are a few pictures:

Lucas dressed up in the Thanksgiving outfit he made at school.

Knox and Lucas getting sleepy and both wanting to snuggle with Uncle Mark.

I was able to go to a baby shower on Saturday afternoon for Mark's cousin's wife, Ashley, who is due in January with a little boy. It was a sweet shower with a wonderful devotion on Godly parenting by Marcie (actually the wife of the minister who married us and did our premarital counseling). Her three recommendations were to: love the baby's heavenly Father, love the baby's earthly father (aka my wonderful husband), and to include the baby as part of our family but not make the baby the center of the family. She reminded us that having a child was not when our family started, but that it was when we were married that our family was formed. Our children are additions to our families not the basis for it. I really appreciated her simple reminders and can't wait for baby Puckett to get here!

Baby Puckett once again received a little something while we were at home- his or her first Cardinal blanket in support of the Louisville Cardinals from Mark's parents. I also received a surprise from my mom- a Willow Tree figurine. Here are some pictures:

Baby Puckett's first Cardinal apparel

Pregnant woman Willow Tree figurine from my mother, Nana.