snowman and more.

Hey everyone! Hope you all are keeping safe and warm! We don't have a lot of snow up here but the boys sure did enjoy making a snowman. Pop even went to school and told his class all about it. :) It's been so cold out that it's been really hard to get the boys to go outside to play, specially since I have NO interest in going out, but randomly I can get them out for five minutes or so. lol.

Ryan has one more day of classes and then Tuesday through Friday are finals!! So Saturday morning Ryan will wake up a college graduate!! I'm not sure he is anywhere near as excited as I am. I'm also extremely proud of him. (and myself!! It's been a long 2.5 years!)

I had a doctors apt. on Thursday and baby's heart sounds great. My doctor asked if I've been having any contractions or cramps and I said yeah, so she checked me and baby is "low, low, low!" and I'm dilated 1 cm. She was super surprised, I really wasn't. Ryan and I had just been talking about how low baby looked. So I am 35 weeks along, 5 to go...maybe...

Pop picked out this book from the library and the boys were really excited to decorate their own hats like Lena did in the book. Here's them hard at work, and their end results!

Take care!!

bubble fun.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We were very blessed. Warm house, great food and Darin was even able to stop by for a while. :) The boys had lots of fun picking on Grandpa! And as always it was great to play with Grayson.

Last night the boys decided they wanted to take a bath in my tub. They tend to forget that I have one and my bathroom isn't finished...yet...so I don't really like them in there. (They have a tendency to splash, just a little bit.) But I figured they could use a little bubble fun. And that is one thing my tub is great at...making bubbles. :)

Eagan was going around the house taking Thanksgiving pictures yesterday morning. He got this one of me, and numerous pictures of Kit and Dexter and a few of the dogs too.

I defiantly do not like winter. As most of you are well aware of. This morning all the beauty of a Minnesota winter wore off as I had to walk my Netflix to the mail box. But I was able to get a picture of what winter is best for...snow angels. Eagan made this one, which I had no idea he made until I woke up the next morning and opened my bedroom curtain. It turned out pretty perfectly. :) Made my day.

Well until next time, stay safe, take care and stay WARM!

I'm back!

Believe it or not we finally got our computer fixed!! So maybe, just maybe I'll be able to keep up with this blog! Which will be really nice being baby will be here in two months or so!! I will send out emails when I post a new page--that way you don't have to keep checking back to see if I've posted. Here are a few pictures from while I was gone.

30 weeks pregnant

my boys (and dexter)

the boys at the Renascence eating their pickles!

eagan and his great grandma. isn't this picture amazing?!

ready to go trick or treating!

I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving! Remember all there is to be thankful for. :)

fyi

just so you all know...
i haven't forgotten about this blog at all...but i did get a virus on my computer that will not let me upload pictures. go figure. so until i get it fixed (which i don't see happening anytime soon...$$$) i won't be able to post. but i will send out an email letting everyone know when i get this back up and running. sorry i didn't post earlier, i kept trying to get it to work. anyway...take care, stay safe and warm and hopefully i'll get this going again. love to you all.
kristen

eagan writing!

eagan practicing writing his name! he is so proud.

eagan just loves writing. his school has a letter of the week and he is getting pretty good! he got a gold star last friday for writing his name so well. he is also getting good at patterns and rhyming. he knows his alphabet and is counting almost to twenty. i'm so glad he is in preschool...it has really helped me know exactly what i should be helping him learn. plus pop is getting a great head start! :)

piper

on tuesday we added another pet to our family. piper is a 3 1/2 year old terrier-dachshund mix. preston and i found her at the humane society in brainerd. she is such a cutie and for the most part really good. riley and her have such fun running and wrestling. i have been told that she will be the last furry member that i can add to our family and that our "fish bowl" is full. (ya know...every fish needs so many gallons of water in the tank) so no more trips to h.e.a.r.t. or online pet adoption sites. i'm such a sucker for a cute face!! lol. anyway, say hello to piper!

fantastic fall

the boys being silly with the pillow cases that i made. :)