Brady's 7!!

Well, Brady's 7 today! SEVEN!! It's crazy to think he's that old!!!! He was able to read most of his cards this year by himself. He's really doing well, sounding out the words and figuring them out. At times he gets frustrated, but that's to be expected.

We had a birthday party with four of his friends on Friday. We went bowling. It was fun! It was interesting with 5 boys. Whew!! They all bowled very well and had a great time. I know Brady really enjoyed it! Bethany even bowled too, the ball went Verrrrry slowly. I keep telling everyone think of the scene on Uncle Buck! hahaha

Today after church we went out to eat Brady's choice. He either wanted to go to KFC or Long John Silver's/A&W-go figure! He's 7! haha We ended up going to KFC and then he got a RootBeer Float for dessert at A&W. We don't think the float is what he expected. ;) We came home and opened up his gifts from us and the rest of the family. Thank you guys!

I think he enjoyed his birthday weekend very much!

Some pics:

Van

Well, I honestly can't believe I'm saying this but we are now owners of a minivan. Seeing #3 is coming shortly we decided to pony up and get one. We got a 2002 Honda Odyssey, it has some miles on it but it's still nice. We figure this is a nice transitional vehicle and we aren't paying out the rear for one. So far I like it, it's alot easier to get Bethany in and out. She can actually climb in now, where with the Durango I had to lift her in every time and that was getting more and more difficult. I was VERY sad to see the Durango go. It really was a great vehicle that was very comfortable. But times change so here we are, I have the mommy van, I feel older now. Guh! :)'

Happy

We went to my 28 week appt today and I'm happy to say that our prayers were answered and the previa is gone! My placenta moved up so I don't have to worry about any complications with that!

We are so happy and relieved!

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers!
Amanda

Trick or Treat

The kids had a lot of fun this Halloween, Brady was an Army man and Bethany was a butterfly. Kirk took them around the neighborhood and I stayed home and passed out the candy.






On Saturday, we went to our friends Joel and Jenny's House for a Harvest/Costume Party. We had a really fun time. I don't remember the last time we sat by a bonfire and roasted hotdogs and marshmallows. Kirk and I did dress up! Picture below. I won a prize too! Wahoo! We had a great time with our friends, it rounded the weekend off wonderfully!


Can you Guess?
I'm the oven and Kirk's the baker, and of course "baby" is the bun!


To end this post I think we should all join together in singing a Halloween classic that my son sang for a week...

"Trick or Treat smell my feet give me something good to eat, if you don't I don't care I'll pull down my underware..."

Oh, you know you're singing it!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!

Snow?

We officially had our first snowflakes today! We almost always had snow by halloween in Medina, but I think since we've lived in Marion this is the first I can remember it being this early around here.
It is really pretty, but I'm glad it's still too warm to stick. :)

Cameron Annual Pumpkin Carving

Saturday was our annual pumpkin carving day. We look forward to it each year. Mommy ends up doing most of the carving and daddy is usually left in charge of pics and cleaning off the pumpkin seeds to roast. Brady helped clean out his pumpkin this year. Bethany did not like the gooey mess. She was not a happy camper when she saw the pumpkin insides. We did get her to hold some pumpkin seeds and actually pick a seed out of the pumpkin but that was it! She was very into how she wanted her pumpkin to look..."not scarey, round eyes, round nose, and a smile mouth with 2 teeth" she seemed to be pleased with the outcome. Brady had very specific wants too..."3 triangle eyes, a wierd nose and a pointy mouth that was smiling and had pointy teeth and ears that looked like B's for Brady." He helped carve some of it this year, he did pretty good.
When we went to the Pumpkin patch we found a pumpkin that Kirk and I thought resembled me, it's very pear like(we tried to take some pics, but I think it's hard to see).

We are really looking fwd to Halloween: trick or treating and the parties! Just a few more days!!

Birthday

Happy 32nd Birthday, Kirk!!!

Just chilled out at home and spent time together. The kids love it when it's our birthday's! They were really excited to give their gifts they made and got for daddy.

Football, Patch and the Orchard

We had a busy Saturday but it was a nice family time. We started out the day going to Brady's football game. He made his first touchdown! He really did a lot better this time, he actually ran instead of standing and watching everyone else run. ;)' He's getting the hang of things now I think.



We then went home for a potty break and then headed over to the pumpkin patch to find some pumpkins. I don't think they had as good of a crop as last year and the pumpkins that were still in the patch were way out this year too so we didn't go and pick any ourselves. We found some nice ones, we'll carve them in a couple weeks.


We then headed over for a quick trip to Lawrence apple orchard. It smelled so good! We bought some apples and some cider and headed home.

It was nice just to hang out together and watch the kids run around.

I love fall and all it's colors, the coolness, crispness.

Pregger pics-24 weeks

Alright, I said I would post some prego pics of me for the gussing game. I've been putting it off, but my friends said I looked "so cute" today, so it gave me enough good self esteem to take the plunge and post some.

So here ya go:







NO LAUGHING!!

Rachel Joy!

Saturday we were able to take a quick trip to Pittsburgh to visit our new little niece, Rachel Joy!
She is so cute, you really forget how little newborns are.

The kids were able to play with Abigail too, Bethany has been talking about her a lot ever since we got back. Abigail is so funny, she has this mischevious grin!

It was really nice to catch up with Eric and Christy too!!

Here are some pics of Rachel:





Don't you just love that little pucker! ;)

Funny

I had to post this because it's so cute...So I'm sitting here at the computer and Bethany is in the playroom playing with her dollhouse. All the sudden she says as she's playing "Honey, will you help her with that please" then rattles other stuff off.

They really do pick up on things. A little scary to think about at the same time. Definately makes me put myself in check!