Fall Colors at Stewart Falls

Last month we took advantage of the last nice weather Sunday and went on a hike up to Stewart Falls. It was such a pretty hike with all the Fall leaves and I love a hike with a great destination at the end, makes it all worth it.

Isn't it pretty?

This was the longest, hardest hike we've taken the girls on yet and they loved it as much as we did. The hike was 4 miles total and the girls were so proud of themselves for making it all the way. Im so glad that hiking is something we have done since the girls were really little, they have fun and never complain. They're such troopers.


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Parties and Pumpkins, Costumes and Candy!

I wasn't ready for summer to end, it seems like we just had the Holidays, and they always put all the Christmas stuff up way too early in the stores, give me a break, I can't deal with that right now....but a few Halloween parties and a visit to the pumpkin patch has gotten me in the mood for the Holidays. I've wanted to dress Aaron up as Harry Potter for years. Looking online costumes are $70+ so we had to figure something else out. Aaron already had the suit part with the sweater vest, white button up shirt, slacks, dress shoes. I found a black cape in our costume box, a pair of glasses and a tie that looks almost exactly like Harry's at DI. All we needed was a wand and we found a pretty good looking one among the sticks in Aaron's mom's yard in Delta. I think he makes a great Harry Potter, don't you? Tho I think he looks more like Harry Potter's Dad. I wish I had made time to put together a Ginny costume for me, would have been perfect, but the best I could do was witches for me and the girls.

Emma on her way to her Ballet Halloween Dance Party, had no idea she could be so sassy.

Chloe heading to her Preschool Party as Miss Kitty.

My Mom throws a Halloween party for the grand kids every year and it's so much fun for the kids. We got all 14 kids together for a picture and I took a ton and they all looked like this, someone blinked, looking the other way, or poor little Will unhappy and crying BUT

I got Lucky! My last picture I just happened to get all the kids looking, no one blinking, Will stopped crying and they're all smiling, amazing! And check out the wide arrange of costumes we have this year, my personal favorite was my niece Christine as Flo from Progressive, she looked just like her LOL! Will as Charlie Brown, Adorable! A mime, Pippy Longstocking, a giant banana and many more. Such creative kiddos.
Check out the spread! My Mom went all out for the food this year and she likes to work under pressure so she put off all the shopping and setting up till that morning so we all chipped into to get it put together.
We had cheese fingers,
rotten mouths,
delicious bones,
mummy pizzas,
and a severed hand in bloody punch.

After the party we headed to the Pumpkin Patch to pick out the perfect pumpkins. The girls loved the smaller sized wheelbarrows they got to push around, even though they were a little tough to push sometimes.







Decorating them is half the fun, and I found some fun ideas on pinterest this year.

The girls were so cute as we went Trick or Treating. They ran from house to house yelling at the top of their lungs 'Trick or Treat!' And then Chloe would end by saying in her sweet little voice 'Have a Happy Halloween,' she said they practiced at preschool. :) After an hour and half of trying to keep up with the girls, their buckets were full to the brim with goodies, we had to call it a night. Hope you all had a fun Halloween.

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Lil' Blessing

After 2 miscarriages, lots of pain and sorrow we have been blessed with baby #3 coming in the spring. Because of what happened before my OB wanted me to come in and have an early ultrasound at 8 weeks and this is what we saw. Just a little peanut but it's heart was beating so that was a huge relief. There was one concern tho, that dark rectangle shape on the bottom left is bleeding. So she set me up for another ultrasound at 12 weeks....
And this is what we saw. Isn't that amazing! In just 4 weeks it went from a little peanut to a little human with fingers and toes and the good news was that the bleeding was gone. My sister went with me and during the ultra sound both her and my OB said they saw a little wiener float by, but the baby was so wiggly and moving all over the place we couldn't get another picture. We'll find out for sure at my next appointment in November. Im already coming up with names but Chloe doesn't like any of them, she says we should name the baby Lovely, hmmm ;)
I debated over and over about wether or not I wanted to post this pic. Im in that awkward stage, too small for maternity and my clothes are getting too tight so I have nothing to wear. I've had to resort to using rubber-bands to button up my pants, if anyone has maternity clothes they can lend that would be much appreciated, mine are 6+ years old and way outdated. It seems the style now is tighter fitted shirts that show off your baby bump, my maternity bin is full of tent like shirts.

I definitely feel pregnant, something cheesy makes me cry at least once everyday, it's getting ridiculous! Nauseous all day everyday, whoever dubbed it morning sickness was full of it, mine is all day and gets worse when I lay down to go to sleep at night, but Im 13 weeks along now and am finally getting over the worst and starting to feel better, it's all worth it. The girls are so excited to have a baby brother or sister, Chloe asked me before I went to my last appointment if I was pushing the baby out that day, she is going to have a hard time waiting till April.

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