Our little bun in the Oven

This is our little one. I am currently about 17 weeks along. This picture was done at 11 weeks. When this picture was taken we were sure it was a boy, now we are not sure. But, I tell you what, if this is a girl I will be very surprised. This pregnancy has been so different from my other two, I thought for sure it was a different gender. But, either way it is a baby and we are happy.

We are expecting

Most of you know by now that Aaron and I are expecting our third little bundle of joy. We are so excited! To have another little one join our family, is amazing. Each little one brings so much joy and different gifts. Every child is wonderful and I can't help feeling the desire to protect and love those children I see suffering in the world where they are having natural disasters and wars and other things like it.
Since about Christmas time I have been very sick with this pregnancy. I don't think I have ever felt this entirely sick before, for so long. After a while it is difficult to remember that I can be normal and accomplish the stuff I need to and want to. All I remember is that I don't have the ability to do much. In a way I feel worthless. I can barely take care of myself and my girls. In fact, sometimes, I can't take care of us. I have come to feel a greater understanding of those who are sick or unwell. Compassion, I have come to realize comes to us through our own times of weakness. There are many people who don't understand others weaknesses, and cannot tolerate them, in fact we all are probably guilty of that to some degree. My mother keeps telling me, you can have a clean house or a baby, which do you want? I know that is very wise and I need to keep that in mind, but it is still difficult to not be able to do something. In fact the worst part of that is the huge lack of desire to do a lot. And when I do do a lot of work it makes me very ill.
Well, that is just my way of trying to explain the way I have felt through this pregnancy so far, and to tell those of you who are sick with every pregnancy the entire time, I now have a greater sympathy.

Christmas time

Here are just a few pics of our Christmas Holidays. I am behind on my blogging obviously so I am just going to quickly skim through this stuff. We enjoyed time with our families. Aaron's youngest sister Amberdaun got engaged to Austin. So that was exciting for everyone. Aaron spent a lot of time working on finishing our basement but took time to have some fun. We had a good time and the girls love Christmas.

Halloween Witches! BOO!

We had a good time with our little witches for Halloween. Even though the girls were sick the week before, we still pulled together a fun night.

We went to Witches Night at Gardner Village. It was really really crowded, but we were able to salvage the night with a yummy dinner at Mimi's.

The two littlest witches were buddies, I couldn't get over the cuteness factor.

All the little witches hoping for a treat.

I am not a big scary fan. Ghosts, goblins, haunted stuff, unless it is all cartoony and fun. I like pumpkins, fun decorations, but if I see a skeleton, it just makes me cringe. I am sorry all you scary fans out there, but no, I just don't like it unless it is cute.

Pumpkin Time!!!!

Look at us, we picked our own pumpkins that we grew in our OWN garden!! WOOOO HOOOOOOOOO! I loved it. I am going to grow more next year because it was so fun. The girls loved it. We picked them then drew faces on them and later we carved Jack-O-Lanterns. This was us getting ready for Halloween.

Belle was thinkin' she was pretty Hot Stuff with her own pumpkin.:)

Miss Ella found a couple of pumkins underneath some big leaves.

We had a good time.

Fall Football

Aaron loves playing sports. It is so fun to watch him.

Belle and Ella loved it, even though it was Fricken Freezing Mr Bigles-worth!

I wrapped up our neighbors too! All the Daddies came out to play.

Well this is our August and September. We spent some of it recovering from the Trip from ...., and some of it recovering from the birthdays. But, mostly we just hung out. Which was OK with me. I am a person that prefers a simple life. I don't have to be busy all the time, in fact I prefer not to. I think it is nice to have periods of time to relax and just enjoy. The girls are so fun and entertaining. They have such big imaginations.
It was hot outside so we would go out in the evenings when it cooled off. Then when the whether got nicer we spent a lot of time in our garden and picking fruit and we canned and dried and made a ton of salsa. It was actually really fun doing all that food storage type of stuff. And I enjoyed having a garden this year.
I have been able to do a few projects at home and love the feeling of actually being productive. But, only when Aaron and I stay up till midnight. So many days I would get to the end of it and have no idea what in the world I accomplished. I do know that sweeping is a huge part of my existence currently. Man I keep vowing that the girls are going to be practicaly slaves when they grow up. I don't think it is possible for any children to be messier eaters than mine. I sometimes look at the kitchen, like I did this morning and just want to pull my hair out. I just don't know. I look back at all the stories of mine and Aaron's ancestors and think, Wow! how in the world did this woman feed all those kids, keep her kitchen clean and the kids cloths wearable and all that sort of stuff, with no space and no modern conveniences. It depresses me actually. Like, what is wrong with me. Maybe I have way too much time on my hands, or maybe I sleep way to much, or maybe I should never be enjoying myself. I shouldn't read or do anything for myself, like all the shows and professionals tell you to. Well, I guess I will just have to get better at it. It is tuff not being hard on yourself sometimes. Well enough of that rant.
So, after all that fun of bottling and stuff, September ended with some fun shopping with my mom. We got the girls some boots and cloths and some fun witches hats and stuff for the Witches night out at Gardner Village. Hopefully we will get to go.

These are many examples of why we don't let Children dress themselves. And why not to let children to themselves with a lot of things.