We had our 20 week ultrasound...

Ladies and Gentlemen!

We had our 20 week ultrasound this morning! We are having a beautiful baby boy! Very excited for this new and different adventure for our little family. We got to see a lot of good views of baby this morning, including one where his hand was moving up by his face, as if waving to us. Beautiful! It made my heart happy to see a healthy baby swimming around in there. We will meet you in about 4-4.5 more months!

Its been forever!

Sorry it has been so long since I posted. I got a lovely text from my sister-in-law saying that she missed my posts. I have been exhausted/busy/forgetful and have neglected my blog.

Incase you haven't heard, I am pregnant with baby #2! Here's a really recent picture of me at 16 weeks. We are due Aug 11th and will find out (hopefully) on March 21st if we are having a Jesse Jr or Hunter Jr.

Hannah is very excited about the baby. She talks to my belly in a very high pitched squeaky voice and wants to name it "Apple Pear Mama". We are practicing taking care of her baby dolls in preparation for this baby. 

Also, since I am way behind on posting about Hannahs bday party back in January, here is a quick link to a slideshow that my mother in law shared with me from the pics on her camera. Enjoy! Hope to be back soon with more news and stories. 

Hannah's second birthday party

Christmas Time!

Hello All,

Here are some quick pics of our christmas and surrounding visit with Mom and Craig. We had a huge snow storm and mom and Jesse shoveled our drive way and front walk. Mom enjoyed the calorie burn so much she shoveled the walk multiple times and Jesse shoveled the shaded snow out of the back yard. We've had some pretty warm days, reaching almost 60 but it still hasn't all melted b/c there was so much snow. But enjoy the pics!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Thanksgiving! And Beyond!

I know this is behind, but we had a great thanksgiving. We watched the Macy's day parade, made a gingerbread house, had cinnamon rolls for lunch and had 14 people to our house for dinner. We had such a great (and busy) day that I hardly took any pictures. But here are the few that I did sneak in.

That night I was here.....

Thats right, thats me at Walmart on Black "Friday". I never thought I would be at WALMART on black friday but there I was. I'd like to say I'll never be back as it was terrifying and I got elbowed in the face-but I may if there is a deal that is good enough. And I got the kitchen I've been searching for on Craigslist for months, brand new at the same price its going for used. So I'm happy!

Then we decorated for Christmas. I realized that decorating with a tall, walking Hannah would be a lot different than any other year. We have much less decorations out than any other year and everything is about shoulder level or higher. 

This year. Notice everything is above the mantle. 

See how the stockings are hanging under than mantle and there is a small tree on the far right. Not this year! Not with Hannah and the other kiddos that are in my house frequently. It was much more simple to decorate this year.

While I was getting the tree ready for us to decorate, Jesse entertained Hannah with "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" which was his favorite book as a kid. She was pretty interested for about 5 pages. But its a long book with a lot of LONG words so it didn't last long....maybe next year.

Hannah got to open an early Christmas Present from her GaGa, PawPaw and Aunt Ashley-A beautiful winter coat that is also perfect for Christmas!!! She loved the little purse that came with it.

And today, before church......

The next week, Pops and Poni (or as Hannah says Pop Pop and Pap-po) came to visit. Again I didn't take many pics, but we got a couple in-

Hannah snuggling with Pap-po

Hannah and Maddy playing "Hop on Pop". They loved this game!

Well, thats all I have for now. Hopefully I'll get another post in before Christmas, but if not, enjoy the day with Family and Friends celebrating the birth of Christ. 

Silly Talking from Hannah

Yesterday, we were doing shopping for a Christmas Donation program through my church-Operation Christmas Child-and I was trying to tell her about God's blessing. Our conversation went like this:

Me: Hannah,  God has blessed us with so many things:our house, our dogs, food, clothes, toys, and blankets. 

Hannah: Yeah

Me: Hannah, what has God blessed you with?

Hannah: Peas!


The whole time we were shopping for the little boy and girl I had to keep reminding them that these toys were going to a boy and girl who didn't have any and needed these. She seemed really okay though out shopping, paying, and packing up all the toys. She seemed very confused though when we handed the boxes of toys over to a 40ish lady at our church. I guess I forgot to explain to her that we wouldn't be taking them directly to a child in Mongolia or South Africa and that we were just dropping them off at church.

I worked over-night last night and am very tired today so I'm being "lazy-mommy" and....

Me: Hannah, do you want to pick out a movie to watch? 

Hannah: Apple. Pea.

Me: What?

Hannah: Apple. Pea.

Me: Show me....and she brought me a Veggie Tale movie....OH! Apple and Pea! ha! 




And earlier today...

Me: Hannah, what should we eat for lunch? 

Hannah: Poo

Me: Poop or Winnie the Pooh? 

Hannah: Yeah.

Me: You can't eat Poo!!

Hannah: Yeah. 


And Here's a quick video for your viewing pleasure which has nothing to do with our silly conversations but I think is cute. This is my most recent Garage sale find-$7!!

We have our Computer back!!!

Hello all 10 of my readers, who I'm sure have been holding your breath while awaiting my next blog. Our computer is fixed!! Our virus erased our whole hard-drive so we basically have a brand new computer inside an old shell. I need to get the little info we had backed up loaded on here and all the pics from the last month and a half loaded and I will have a LONG update for you.

I am pretty sad b/c I'm not sure what pics of Hannah's life will make it through. Fortunately I have a lot of her first year saved to walgreens.com and different places. It will probably just take time for me to get them all reloaded on our computer and OF COURSE saved to our external hard drive like they should have been all along.

This morning Hannah and I are headed to a holiday craft fair to support the local high school. Not sure what we will find but hopefully it will be enjoyable. On Thursday I am helping my friend Amie at a craft fair. I love her products and her so I'm looking forward to this-go check out her blog and see her amazing things!

I'll get back to you quickly!! I'll leave you with a glimpse of blogs to come....

Computer STILL broken.....

I'm getting very frustrated. It's been over 3 weeks without our computer. Still waiting on a new hard drive from apple. I tried to email pics to the iPad to upload on here but it doesn't accept the pics on my blogger. So many times I've wanted to share-our Cabo trip, pumpkin patch, silly day to day moments, hannahs first time playing in the snow, driving a tractor and being in Houston while we were in Cabo, and most recently our Halloween festivities!! I am getting further and further behind on hannahs scrapbook. I NEED our computer back!

I just hope we can recover all the pics of our daughters life. I really don't care about anything else on there. Trying to be patient!

Enjoy this first day of "the holiday season"!! Thanksgiving is in 3 weeks and Christmas is in 8! I'm watching A Muppet Christmas Carol right now!!