27 weeks

The colors are awful as I was trying to get these done during naptime in a POORLY lit room with very little patience to fix the issue - but you can get the point for now... better ones to come over the Holidays:)

This one is fairly innocent.... just a regular old lady walking down the street hobbling a little bit as if she has some sort of pain in her lower back (because I do!) Seems to be struggling with carrying the 2 year she's with and you're thinking what is her problem...

Then she turns to the side and BAM - there it is... The Penthouse Suite Sir Metcalfe is residing in which is located directly on my bladder and which is holding enough weight in it to cause said hobbling and back pain and explains the struggle to also be carrying the 25 pound 2 year old.
3 months left.... I can do this!!!!:)

We've been busy!!:)

We have been busy preparing for Christmas just like everyone else around the world!
We are staying home for our first Christmas and are super excited that Katie will get to wake up in her crib and come out to see what Santa brought her at home this year. Traveling during the holidays is just really starting to take it's toll on us so this will be a nice break.
Plus we LOVE Cooking, we so both get to spend some quality time in the kitchen this year - which is sorely missed when we are not here - so we are anxiously awaiting our Pea Pod Delivery on Wednesday with all our goodies for a long weekend of family visits:)

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In the meantime, we made a gingerbread house.... Katie was more interested in the icing than the rest of it, but she LOVES arts and crafts:) So we have been busy trying to keep her busy!

We are going to start touring day cares next week and the week after and I think Katie is going to start going pretty soon after her first birthday for 2 - 3 mornings a week because she is just super bored at home and I'm starting to get super tired again (being in the 3rd trimester PLUS huge amounts of weight gain are exhausting me.) so I think it will be win win for both of us.
If we ever take any other pictures of my belly, I'll post them... sorry I'm usually the one behind the camera so we have definitely dropped the ball on this one :(

Happy Holidays - Hope you all have a GREAT 2 weeks :)

christmas card possibilty

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Possible Christmas card -

This year I am going to go out and buy real Christmas cards and include a 4*6 of Katie instead. I know I always HATE throwing away christmas cards with pictures on them when the season is over, so I figured this way you can keep the picture and throw away the card.

I hope to get them out in the next week or so :)

We're a little busy so I'm WAY behind schedule!!!! Sorry

Santa Train

We all took a special surprise trip today on the Santa Train. It was a 2 hour train ride that had some singing, carols, and a visit from Santa... here are some highlights - it was VERY successful!

Christmas Picture

I don't think we are going to get Christmas Cards out this year... I am just not feeling it and am kinda busy with other stuff... But I did try to get a picture of my lovely lady in front of the tree.... here are some highlights of our photo shoot.

I don't think we are going to get Christmas Cards out this year... I am just not feeling it and am kinda busy with other stuff... But I did try to get a picture of my lovely lady in front of the tree.... here are some highlights of our photo shoot.

Updates - Holidays

Just some pictures from our last few weeks including Thanksgiving and putting up our Christmas tree.

Katie and I went to the doctor earlier this week for a checkup and the doc said that our little boy was actually due closer to March 21. That's our only real update there:)

Watching Thomas before bed at Grammie and Grampies

Yes, she is wearing high heels!!!

Giving her cousins Phone advice!

She LOVED sitting at dinner with her cousins

Helping Decorate the tree.... kind of - she put all the decorations in the same place!

Cookie Pa-looza

Katie likes baking cookies.
Mommy went a little crazy.

The end result is a freezer full of 4 different types of cookies plus some banana bread bites all of which have been made in the past week! Today we take some out to do the decorating to get them ready for our trip.

I'm afraid she is going to ask to bake now every day for the rest of our lives:)

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These are the BEST LEMON Cookies I have ever eaten!!! I made them once by chance for the ladies at the library and EVERYONE wanted the recipe... I got it from Giada on the Food Network website. They aren't iced yet but the end result is a cross between an AWESOME cookie and an AWESOME scone! I made them smaller than they call for because I found them to be too big the first time I made them.
I will ice them tomorrow so they will be fresh for Thanksgiving... yum!!!