Week of Celebrating

The first thing we celebrated this week was Sinterklaas!

For those of you who aren't Dutch, Sinterklaas and his helper Zwarte Piet come on the 5th of December on a boat from Spain and leave goodies and little presents for good girls and boys in their shoes. Zwarte Piet job is to take all of the bad girls and boys and put them in a sack and take them back to Spain. 

This is how to celebrate Sinterklaas and December 5th "Zwarte Pieten Stijl"

If you want, you can learn more about Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet.

Sinterklaas even made it to our house and got Brandon a new watch and left me a chocolate statue of himself! Thanks Sinterklaas!

someone found my chocolate Sinterklaas before I did.

Branch Party

We had our branch party this week and it was a lot of fun! it was a combination of a reenactment of the nativity story and a piano recital for those in the branch that are taking piano lessons from the senior missionary couple. They did great!

Baby Shower

I also had my baby shower this weekend! it was tons of fun. we played fun games like seeing who could change a baby's diaper the fastest blindfolded, who could tie their shoes the fastest with a balloon underneath their shirts without popping it, who could drink out of a baby bottle the fastest, and who could eat "baby poop" out of a diaper the fastest (don't ask).

We also ate a bunch of food, had a delicious cake, chatted, and got to spend some time by the pool.

Thanks everyone that came and an even bigger thanks for all of the gifts!

I got two diaper cakes, a diaper motorcycle, more diapers, wipes, baby clothes, baby bath supplies, some mula... feeling super blessed and jealous of Fletcher. Everyone loves him so much and he's not even born yet!

Unfortunately I don't have a ton of pictures because my friend that took all the pictures on her phone jumped in the pool to save a child from drowning with her phone still in her pocket. Good news is, she saved the kid.

We also celebrated Brandon's last soccer game of the semester and me finishing my online classes! 

Brandon scored an amazing goal in his last game and I got A's in both of my classes. BOOM!

Busy week. Fun week. One week closer to celebrating baby Fletch.