Thoughts on my mind..

1. Baby (I just got back from a dr. appt)

2. My sister! (Her family is coming in 3 days, her husband will be working out here for THREE weeks!)

Ok, so about the baby. I officially have less than 3 months left! Yay. And with just talking to my doctor today sounds like we'll be induced early which knocks off another 4 or 5 days. We haven't for sure set the date yet, so I'll just keep quiet on that until we know for sure.

This pregnancy has had it's ups and downs. I don't like to compare it with Katelyn's and say one was better than the other, they both have been pretty good and have had their differences. I'm starting to feel sick again which is not fun. I think once I get bigger it's just hard for me to keep food down because I feel so full and squished. I'm feeling good about everything though, the baby movement, weight gain, working out, getting things ready.. I can't complain.

Ok, number 2. My sister and her family are coming in on Monday! Her husband Matt is working out here for THREE weeks. Yes, Katelyn and I get 3 whole weeks to spend with Lu and Ellie and just hang out! I'm really excited. It's kind of a bummer the guys will be working and going to school, but whenever they can we'll get some fun in with them too! I think Katelyn will love having Ellie around and I'm excited to see how she is with her.

Don't they just look so cute together? 

That's all for now.. it's almost Halloween and I'm excited! :)

Visitors! & an EnGaGeMeNt!

Well, Nick and I finally got some more visitors here in Oklahoma. We always love when family comes to visit and we get to show them a little bit of our world.

This time it was Nick's parents.. known as "Nana" & "Papa" to Katelyn.

The whole week before they got here I kept telling Katelyn they were coming and every day she would ask if they were here. I told them they were coming on an airplane so whenever she heard an airplane she would jump and say "Nana! Papa! Airplane?" Then finally the day arrived when she got to see them! She was very very happy. And very very sad to see them leave. After they left (just this morning) she heard an airplane and again asked "Nana? Papa?" and this time I told her they were going home. She was pretty emotional for awhile.. like bawling when they walked out the door, but after a few minutes she calmed down. It may have been because Nick left with them and she might have thought he was leaving her for good too!

We had a lot of fun with them and are so so glad they could come out and visit. It really means a lot to us.
Here are a few things we did:

 Went to the Cowboy Museum. We had never been, but had heard about it so decided to try it out. It was very very cool! And they had free admission the day we went, so even better ;)

 Katelyn outside the museum

 In the children's area of the museum on the horse saddle. So she likes it now, just not when it's on the horse!

 Our little fam in the front of the museum

We went to the park a couple of times! Anything for the little babe :)

We went to a place called POPS. I've wanted to go since we got here to Oklahoma and we've planned it, but actually never went through with it! So I was glad we went. It's pretty neat and they have a TON of soda. Just hundreds of different kinds of soda bottles all displayed.

 We found out it was built pretty recently too, in 2007. The building was pretty cool.

Nick, Katelyn, and his parents in front of the place.

 Nick, Katelyn, and I in front of it. A little glimpse of the belly.. about to hit 28 weeks tomorrow!

 See? Like I said, tons of soda!

We all chose our very own :) I got a cherries n cream. Nick got a green apple soda. Steve got a cream soda, and Lilian a root beer. I liked mine and I think everyone else liked theirs too!

We also took a trip down to Nicks school and got to see all of the fancy and pretty intense things he does! I'm so impressed with Nicholas (of course right ;D..) and I know his parents were too. 

We had a short and sweet time with them and again were so glad they took the time to come!! 

Can't wait to see them in December! I will be about 37 weeks when we go out there, but my brother 

Nathan just got engaged!!

over the weekend so I am not missing the wedding!! :) I'm so happy for him and his beautiful fiancee.

Aren't they so cute? :) This is the only picture I have of them, so don't mind my face right up in there.

Congrats big brother!!!

Countdown

There are officially less than 100 days until our baby boy arrives!! And we are very very excited :)

Love this little girl

The other day Katelyn and I finished a craft project for her door to her new bedroom. It was a lot of fun.

 She was so excited to begin

 Got my brush mom

 

 Painting away..

 I actually told her to paint the paper toward the end because she would make the paint smudge on the K by pushing on it haha. It worked, they don't really care where they do it as long as they can do it right??

 All done
 Added a flower and some ribbon and here's the final product:

Now she's ready for her big girl room :) We'll be doing more projects before the baby comes for her room in the future.

We love to play outside and we love to have fun together. Katelyn loves to give us tons of hugs and kisses. She is the most huggable little girl ever.

She gets a little emotional at times. The other day we were about to eat and she was very hungry. Nick and I were talking and probably goofing off taking our time. And she started pouting and pointing to the food saying MOMMA eat! It was so silly I had to take some pictures.

Baby Boy

I haven't written much about this pregnancy and I wanted to take some time to write a little bit.

First, finding out we were pregnant again was such a wonderful and amazing thing. We were both thrilled and very grateful to be able to have another baby.

Before we found out what we were having I wasn't set on wanting either a boy or girl in particular. I thought a girl would be great because then she and Katelyn could be really close and best friends, but a boy would be great as well because they still could be best friends and we would have one of each!

When I found out we were having a boy I was so excited. I couldn't believe it. I thought we were having a girl. Now that I know a little boy is on our way I get so excited and nervous at the same time. I'm just so happy I can experience the differences and good things of having a girl and a boy. I get nervous because I've had sweet little Katelyn to take care of all this time and boys are different, I don't know how it will be. I'm not just talking about being different as a newborn, but being different as teenagers and dealing with all that.

I can't wait to see how much this little boy is like his daddy. I keep telling Nick he'll really be like me because Katelyn already reminds me so much of Nick :) I can't wait to see what he looks like. What color of hair he will have, what color eyes he'll have. I can't wait to decorate his room and think "blue" instead of think "pink" (boy do we have A LOT of pink).

I'm just about 25 weeks along. This pregnancy has gone by fairly fast, however there are days when I think "Can it just be January already??"

It's exciting to feel like I'm going through the exact same things I went through when I was pregnant with Katelyn. I was pregnant during Halloween and had a huge belly during Thanksgiving. Christmas was spent here at home. It's all just reminding me of 2009 and it feels nice to think back on those days when we were expecting Katelyn. They will be almost exactly 2 years apart.

I don't really feel sick anymore, so that is nice. I feel huge (I'm scared to think of what 9 months will feel like then). I feel him kicking more and more every day, but he doesn't seem as active as Katelyn was. I don't really crave anything. I haven't had heartburn NEARLY as bad as I did with Katelyn. That is one thing I am so thankful for, because I would be up for hours at night when I was pregnant with Katelyn just sitting there in pain.

Everything else is very well. We just can't wait for January 11th (or sooner) to get here so we can meet our little guy! I'm just absolutely thrilled to be having a little boy!!

Posts

I'm about to do a bunch of random little posts. Posts that I want to document in case one day I make my blog into a book or just print the pages for our kids to read some day. So here they go! There are a few below this.

Katelyn's Crafts..

As Katelyn is getting older I'm trying to find more things to do with her and spend time with her instead of getting on the computer or something. I decided that she's getting to the age where she can do quite a few crafts and have fun with it. I would love any ideas of crafts you've done with your kids because as I've started I know it's hard to come up with things.

So the other day I wrote a post about my crafts... here are Katelyn's crafts

We got her her own craft box and labeled it. She has it in her own drawer in the office now to use and store all her projects.

We've only done a few crafts like stamping, and puppets, and drawings, but I am thinking of more fun things to do! So share your ideas if you have any :)

She has done cheerio bracelets, she likes that and they are fun to do if you haven't tried it with your kid. Next I want to do hand prints and foot prints. And then holiday crafts for Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc. It's nice because it kind of feels like a little "school time" with me and her. I miss teaching so teaching my daughter is very special and the best teaching I can do right now.

Here are some pictures of her with her box. She was so excited to get it and put things in it. She gave me some really cute cheesy smiles :)

 So excited!!

 I love my box

She loves that little doggy puppet in her hand and carries it all around the house and says "woof woof"