Family Halloween Party

While Stacy and her family were here, we had a fabulous family Halloween Party. The kids (and some adults, minus myself...you know how I hate to dress up) dressed up, we had games, great food and of course, treats. Good times were had by all.

All of the cousins (minus baby Andrew who decided to stay in Utah) dressed up in all their Halloween glory.
Making sticker skeletons with Eva, I mean Dorothy.

Doing the pumpkin walk. I saw some good dance moves during this game. Steve decided to be a cowboy like Davis.

Davis decided to forgo the 'no hands' rule of the donut eating contest. He enjoyed every bite.

A Visit to Huber's Pumpkin Patch

We decided to take advantage of the beautiful fall weather a couple of Saturdays ago and headed up to Huber's Farm to pick some pumpkins. Davis is at an age where it is just so fun, it is all new and exciting to him and he actually gets what he is supposed to do! He had a hard time deciding which pumpkin he wanted to take home with him. The deciding factor ended up being size because he couldn't carry most of the pumpkins he tried to pick! The picture below shows the winner:

Everytime he sees his pumpkin on the porch when we drive up, he says 'There's my pumpkin, mom'. I think it will be a sad day when the pumpkins get old and have to be thrown away!

A couple of projects

So here are a couple of projects I have recently finished....FINALLY the 'candle' quilt. I spilled a melted candle on this a couple of years ago when I was first working on it. We did everything we could to get it out, but after finishing it and washing it, it sort of looks like a kid might have went pee pee on it. You can't tell unless you really look closely. I am really happy with how it turned out. So fun to actually have a finished quilt that I did all by myself, start to finish! (It only took like 3 years! Hopefully the quilt I am doing for baby girls room doesn't take that long.).

The Moons have been staying with us so I made my beautiful niece, Mylee an Aunt Summer special apron while she was here. I think she liked it...she wore it all night when I gave it to her! I really liked the fabric on this one.

Happy Monday

I hope everyone had a conference weekend. We listened to most of it over the internet because the cable channel wasn't working on our main TV. It was great especially during Davis' naptime so we could really pay attention!

Our brother in law Sheldon is staying with us for a few weeks doing a medical school rotation at UofL. It has been nice to have him around! He helped us..okay he did most of the painting of our basement on Friday. I have been planning this room re-do for a few months and had everything ready to go (we didn't paint down there when we moved in and the color has been killing me). I love how it turned out. I'll have to post some pictures. Sheldon, you are amazing and you can stay with us anytime!

We watched Jen and Keith's 4 kids while they went on a trip for their anniversay last weekend (Friday night through Tuesday). It was really fun and I loved getting to spend the time with the kids. Lets just say it was complete chaos. I have a new found respect for people with several kids. I don't think I am cut out for it! They are such great kids, it is just busy and they are busy and wow, I was tired when it was over! I'm so glad that Keith and Jen got to have a trip together.

Davis is loving his playgroup/preschool class he goes to at my work on Wednesdays. He keeps telling me he goes to school on Wednesday and church on Sunday. He was a little upset when we didn't go to church yesterday. His current obsession is trains, especially the Thomas trains-and we don't have any of those. I think they are ridiculously expensive and haven't come across any in my bargain hunting so he loves to go to Aunt Jen's or to Jo's to play with them. He does stay busy with the great Ikea train set that Grandma Wright got him awhile back.

Baby Girl is just kicking away these days. I have been feeling so good, I am trying to enjoy this phase of pregnancy, before I get too huge and miserable. I am almost done with the 'candle' quilt and I will post a picture when I finish the binding later this week. Then I have to get started on her room quilt and bumper. Can I just say I love the internet? I really have no idea how to do this stuff, but you can find a tutorial for almost anything!

Pictures of the Little Lady

Okay, I finally got Steve to scan these for me. The first one is a 3D picture and I think they are a little creepy looking, but it is really interesting. We didn't get these with Davis so I just think it is crazy. It was really cool to see them during the actual ultrasound. Apparently when you are further along, they are super amazing and you can really see what they look like. It took awhile to get these facial shots because she had her face stuck in the placenta! I think she is pretty cute, though.

It's a....

Girl!!!

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I really can't believe it! I am so excited. I really wanted it to be a girl and I really thought it was, but I didn't dare hope...we just don't have great girl odds in our family! Steve wanted it to be a boy so that we would have 2 boys together, so I think he was pretty shocked. I am just happy as could be and now I can't wait for her to get here. But so much do...so many things to make!

I can't get my scanner to work so when Steve gets back in town I will have him figure it out and scan her cute pictures for you all to see.

Random Pictures of what we've been up to...

I am officially the worst picture taker ever, but here is a little of what we have been up to lately...

Davis was climbing over the railing of his crib every day so we decided to go for the toddler bed so he didn't break his head open one of these times (the crib sure was nice while it lasted!). He is enjoying the freedom, unfortunately! We had several days without naps which wasn't fun for anyone. We finally turned his door knob around so we can lock him in his room until he falls asleep. So now, he plays around for awhile and finally falls asleep since he can't get out.

This is the result of no naps. Steve took Davis for a run at about 6:30pm and he fell asleep.

This is me and my cutest niece Eva on her fourth birthday. I made this apron for her birthday present. She wears it well!

My greatest friend Carrie and her husband Bob came down Chicago to spend Labor day weekend with us. We had a great weekend and it was so fun to spend time with them. I didn't take very many pictures but we did stop for a pose at the temple after church.

We also fit in a mean game of pounce with Jenny and Keith. We are still waiting for a rematch after some close games.

We had a surprise visit from our friend Brett a couple of weekends ago. He and Steve went to grad school together and the two of them together just crack me up. He flew into Kentucky just for the day and stopped by. It was so fun to see him.

Last but not least a shot of my crazy and beautiful miamaid young women class. We had an activity at my house a few weeks ago and as wild as they are I just love them!

I also have to mention how excited I am about BYU football this season. What a great way to open the season the last 2 games have been. The hardest part is how we don't get very many games on TV here. We have to enjoy the games we do get. I love my Cougars!

Lastly, we find out the gender of our baby on Tuesday. I am pretty anxious to find out. You know how I love to plan and get ready for these things. Any predictions?