Quick Blog...

One of these Days I will make time to update my blog! I've missed Christmas, and New Years (not that we did anything; we put the kids to bed at 8, watched a movie, and went to bed at 10:30). But I feel bad. I do have some pictures to post.

I have been feeling great lately! I'm getting bigger so I finally look pregnant. I am reading the Hunger Games again only for the second time. I want to read the Twilight Series again because it has been a year since I last read them, but I swore I would wait 2 years before I read them again because I have read them at least 4 time now! But clearly I 'm obsessed with the story, so I watched the movies this week which makes me want to read them more because the movies suck and don't do the books any justice! But like i said... I'm probably a little obsessed.

My family is healthy. I've been writing music again (which is harder now that the kids broke the disk drive on my piano so I can't record my music), so if it's not written down its gone!

I spent 5 hours at my sewing machine last week putting together a humanitarian quilt for out church activity. Tory hates it when I do quilts, but I really enjoy it (except the whole being pregnant, on the floor, and sitting for too many hours at the sewing machine which caused my lower back muscles to give me pain for 2 days). I get it from my Grandma Willis. She is here visiting our family from Missouri. She is staying at my parents house. I went over there today and helped her... you guessed it : tie a quilt!

I just finished registering Chase for Soccer this summer. The last game is 1 week before the baby is due! This will be our first year trying the life of "kids being in sports" wish us luck. So since I've spent the last 45 min at the computer I'm done for now, but promise to try to get more updates soon!

I'm Pregnant!!!

I guess this news won't come much of a shock to anyone since I'm already 5 months along, and most people already know! This first picture was taken on October 26. The baby has it's hands above it's head.

So the 10 week ultrasound was great. No visible problems. Healthy baby!

3 Days before Christmas we got to find out what we were having...

A BOY!!! (Of course; you can't get everything you want in life)
He was beautiful, so cute Yawning, Sucking his thumb; just beautiful, and healthy!

He was measuring right on schedule!
I tried not to get my hopes up for a girl, but I still cried pretty hard about 2 days after we found out.

I am just grateful he is healthy. Now I just have to by more dresses, shoes and jewelry for Camrey, because I only get 1 girl to dress-up!




So now I feel this little guy moving inside me a lot. I was trying to keep a pregnancy journal for myself, because I don't plan on having more kids, but I haven't written in over a month. So much changes so fast.

Now all we need is a name... I have plenty of girls names picked out, but that's not going to do me much good!

Morning sickness is finally starting to go away and I have a new level of energy. We are both doing great!

October Trees

All through the month of October, the kids spend most of their time in our neighbor's yard. They have a nice tree in the front with plenty of leaves to play in.

Amy has 2 girls around the same age as my kids. Amy and I actually went to high school together one year!

Her oldest daughter, Ashlynn is in Chase's class at school this year, and Addison is about a year and a half younger than Tyler.

They aren't home half the time my boys go over there with their rakes, but they don't mind.

Camrey never wants to miss out on the fun either! She wants to be where the boys are!

And on this day, The little girl across the street came to play too. Her name is Kayla (she has a pink shirt and is holding a rake with her back turned). Her 20 yr old brother started his own lawn care business and mows our lawn for us some times!

Tyler and the bus.

As I have mentioned before, my little preschooler Tyler rides the bus to school 4 days a week. This has been a great blessing for me. One less trip to the school a day, and it allows Camrey go down for a nap just before Tyler catches the bus. I put her down and 30 min. later walk him to the end of the road!
Now that it is cold outside we sit in the car and wait, but these pictures were taken a month or so ago when it was still warm. He rides his bike to the corner, then he likes to climb in the tree is someones yard (hope they don't mind), and we pretend to play hide and seek.

Our new game is naming the colors and types of cars that drive by while we wait for the bus.

Tyler doesn't like loud noises so he plugs his ears when the bus pull up.

He seems so little on that big bus! Only preschoolers have to be buckled in on a bus!

Halloween (October 31)

What do you do on a snow day when school's are closed... Catch up on blogging while the kids play in the morning!

Camrey's hair was just long enough to pull back into a Tinker Bell pony-tail! I found this costume at Other Mother's for $7!! and the shoes for about $3, (Kmart had them for $10).

I also found a yellow "Belle" dress for $6 and couldn't pass it up! They had Snow White, Cinderella, but I exercised restraint and only bought the two, (she can be Belle next year!) Camrey loves to dress up especially in Belle's dress! She's such a girl.

Tyler, of course, was so excited to see a Mario costume! He wore it every day for about a week after we got it. I finally had to hide it until Halloween, he was starting to wear it out!

Chase wants to be a fireman when he grows up! The first costume we got was a plastic coat with an ax from Walmart, which ripped within a few days. So I returned it and got this one from Kmart. No ax, but it lasted longer.

Chase begged me to carve a pumpkin, so one morning right before we had to leave for school I hollowed one out for him. I had been promising him for days, and there hasn't been any time in the evenings, so I did it before school.

We carved out the face when he got home later that day!

We did a Trunk-or-Treat on Saturday the 30th, and a short Trick or Treat on Sunday to the people on our street and some "home teaching" families. The kids had fun and got plenty of candy!

My Weekend...

Friday; I had to make 24 cupcakes for the school "Monster Mash" Family dance. Tory got off work a little early and got packed up for the scout camp out he was leaving for at 5:00. He watched the kids after school because I volunteered to help decorate the gym for the party. Then when I got home he left. That evening at 6:30 we were all dressed in our costumes: Me- Jessie from Toy Story, Camrey- Tinker Bell, Chase - a fire man, Tyler- Mario. We went to the school and had lots of fun. When I got home at 8:15 I realized we lost a tinker bell slipper, so I got p.j's on the kids and went back to he school... lucky me we found it! So Camrey got to bed at 9:00 instead of the usual 7:30, and the boys in bed at 9:45 instead of 7:45! Camrey woke up at 4:30 starving because she didn't eat her dinner and the boys were up "dark and early" at 6:45! (You put them to bed 2 hours later and they still wake up before the crack of dawn!)

Tyler got the flu bug around 2:00 Saturday just about a half hour before Tory got home. He was throwing up about ever 15 min. I didn't even have time to eat a bowl of cereal before I was running to catch the next wave. So Sat night I slept on our old queen mattress (p.s.... if I haven't mentioned it, we finally got a new mattress for our bed a week ago!) in the living room with Tyler. Lucky for me he was done throwing up by 8:00, Not so lucky... at 4:00 a.m. I started throwing up, then an hour later so did Chase!

So for the next 2 hours I took care of Chase while I my self continued to be sick. Finally at 7:00 I was out of energy and Tory had to take over!

I am so grateful for my husband!!! He totally stepped up and took care of everything. I was in bed literally all day Sunday. Thank goodness today I feel well enough to take care of my kids, (not entirely better, but good enough) and Tory is back to work. He got a flu shot this year, so hopefully he will be spared. And little Camrey had a short flu bug last Wed. or Thurs. so hopefully she won't get it again!

PS. Mc Donald's is by far the most painful thing I have ever thrown up!
With Tyler being sick I didn't get a chance to grocery shop and we were
out of food, and I was starving. So I asked Tory to run to Mc D's and
get me a burger... Had I known what was to come I never would have asked!