Visitors! :)

I previously mentioned that my sister and her family were coming into town soon. Well, they came. And they left. The whole THREE weeks went by so fast. And now I can't believe it just came and went, just like that.

We had so much fun together. Mostly just hanging out every day talking about mom stuff, crafts, or random stuff girls can talk about all day. I didn't mind just sitting around the house all day, just having the company was awesome.

I got to spend a lot of time and give big squishy kisses to this little girl:

ooo, I could just squish those little cheeks all day!

Katelyn LOVED having Ellie around. Which I find a good thing considering the baby will be coming soon.

I think at times Ellie thought "Ok.. Mom.. Aunt Dana... who's gonna save me here?" Katelyn liked to get really close to her and call her name "Ellie! Ellie!" or pat her head, squish her cheeks, tickle her toes. It was cute, but I'm sure Ellie was wondering why she was being attacked haha.

 

One day we had to give Ellie a bath. I told Katelyn we were going to bathe Ellie and she got really excited. Then she realized it was JUST Ellie getting a bath and she started crying asking if she could go in. I had already given her a bath earlier that morning, but I decided it wouldn't hurt to let her go in again! They had a lot of fun and Katelyn kept trying to put water on Ellie's head to help clean her. 

They were here during Halloween and that was a lot of fun. Katelyn likes to squish cheeks.. I think she might get that from her Uncle Ike... Although I really like to squish and kiss her cheeks too. So she tried it out on Ellie...

 poor Ellie can't stop the torture

 but they love each other :)

We also both got a date night! We switched one weekend and watched each others kid so the other couple could go out. It was really nice because Nick and I don't get date night often. We had a lot of fun with Matt & Lu & Ellie!! So glad they could come!!

It was sad that they had to leave, but in a month I will see them AND all of my family again in Colorado for my brothers wedding! I'm so excited to see everyone since we won't be traveling any where else after that because the baby is coming.

Halloween!

Halloween was quite fun this year. We had a ton of activities going on and it was a busy and fun weekend. I liked dressing up as a kid and going out trick or treating, but I think it excites me even more that we get to dress up our own kid (and myself :) ) and share all the fun with her!

Katelyn was Minnie Mouse for Halloween. She loves Minnie. I attempted to make her a costume, which turned out, but I was also sent one from my awesome cousin. So she had two to wear (which was a good thing because right before we went out to one of the activities she got one costume dirty and we had to change it).

We did a few different things:
Friday night- Storybook forest
Saturday night- Ward Halloween party
Monday night- Neighborhood block party & trick or treating

My sister of course was (is) in town so that was even better!
Here are some pictures from all the events!

Getting ready to go out

Her trick or treat bucket

CHEESE!

With lil lady bug cousin Ellie!

Katelyn has this little thing where she likes to squeeze cheeks... :)

Here's the costume I made her

Getting her all ready and bundled up, luckily it wasn't too cold

Storybook forest, this year she could go up all by herself and get the candy, such a big girl

Playing a bean bag toss game

Ward Halloween party

Let's dance!

Dancing with daddy

Katelyn didn't want to stop. As soon as we sat down and let her go she ran right back up in the crowd and started dancing away. It was so cute.

She would copy everyone.. and she'd clap when the crowd would clap, she'd slide to the left (after everyone) when the song said "slide to the left" she is quite the little party gal.

Dancing with Mickey Mouse!

Our trunk or treat. Nick did a Christmas theme :) haha, with a little tree and lights and snow. He was a ski bum, I thought it all worked out great.

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Going on a hayride at our neighborhood block party

That's all for Halloween. I love this time of year and can't wait for all the other events like.. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Katelyn's birthday, New Years, and then.. another baby! BUSY busy.

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!!!