Half Way Already

This week we are half way already, that's right, we are in our 20th week and going strong. I can not believe how fast the last 20 weeks have gone though. Recently, I have had many people ask for updates and belly pictures. Therefore, I thought it was appropriate now at 20 weeks to share. Hopefully this post will fulfill your requests.

I feel very blessed to say that this pregnancy has been very smooth and pretty easy. Besides a few days of feeling really tired and intense ligament stretching I have had no major side effects like cravings, vomiting or nausea.

Since we are 20 weeks, we do have our ultrasound this Friday that will hopefully show boy or girl as long as he or she cooperates. We will share this exciting news with you all sometime that day. We do ask that you please pray that the ultrasound goes well and baby is healthy.

Thank you for all those who have been praying for us regarding this pregnancy. We are excited and can't wait to meet our third blessing in March. Now onto the most asked thing, here are my (not so good) 12, 16 and 20 week belly shots.

Halloween Fun

Elyse and Caleb had the opportunity to be involved in many Halloween events this year, starting last Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Elyse's dance class had a Halloween celebration. They danced to Halloween music instead of their regular performance music and then passed candy around. Super fun and cute!


Sunday night, Nate and I hosted our annual small group Halloween party. It was so much fun seeing all the kids dressed up and then sharing candy. As you can see from pictures, in three years, the amount of kids has doubled and is just going to keep getting bigger.
The Original Five: Aiden, Willow, Mariana, Elyse and Mason
The New Twelve: Anika, Dieter, Aiden, Willow, Emmitt, Mariana, Noelle, Elyse, Caleb, Mason and Avery (Not pictured, Landon)


To end Halloween 2011, we took the kiddos trick o'treating. They did great and got their pumpkins full. It was extra special for me, because it was the first time I was able to go with the kids.

Hope you all had a memorable and Happy Halloween like we did!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from our little princess (Cinderella) and frog!

Letter "E" and Little Person

After dinner last night, Nate and I captured Elyse using her notepad. We then grabbed the camera to capture her writing the letter, "E" after drawing a very good and detailed little person. So proud of her and very impressed!!!

Overalls

One of my favorite reasons to have a little boy is being able to put them in overalls. I am not saying that dressing girls in overalls is wrong; it's just that personally I am not a fan of them on girls. However, I do think boys, especially Caleb, look way too stinkin cute in them!

Apple Picking

First off I have to say that we have the BEST neighbors! They all are so hospitable, helpful and dependable. We even watch out for each other's children when playing outside.

Our neighbors have two apple trees and have told us many times to come over and pick as many apples as we would like. Therefore, Nate and Elyse spent the last few minutes picking apples not at an apple orchard, but across the street :) They enjoyed doing it together and I am happy to say that we have a ton of bags of Honeycrisp and Braeburn to freeze and enjoy all year!!!
Special thank you to Brett and Lisa for your apples and being such thoughtful neighbors.

Pumpkin Patch

This past Saturday, Nate, my mom (Nana G) and I took the kiddos to a local pumpkin patch. The kids got to pick out their pumpkins, feed goats and see scarecrows. Elyse also got to go through a hay maze and jump in a giant blow-up pumpkin. It was perfect, a lot of fun and a very memorable, autumn activity. Below are a lot of pictures; we got a ton of good ones and I couldn't decide, so I posted a lot of them :)