Friday, November 29, 2013

Thanksgiving

For this first time in 4 years our family stayed home for Thanksgiving, just the 4 of us...and last time we did this of course, it was just the 3 of us.  Caleb went out and got us donuts and breakfast sandwiches and lattes for breakfast :)




Dinner turned out pretty well.  Our table probably wasn't as full as if we would've gone home, but we have lots of leftovers for a Thanksgiving casserole for dinner tonight :)








And then after dinner we were one of those families everyone was complaining about that went shopping Thursday night.  We had fun and got everything on our list.  Christmas shopping at half the price!

And we realized after we got home we forgot to eat the blueberry cream cheese pie!  Unfortunately neither of us like the typical thanksgiving desserts.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Monday, November 18, 2013

Thursday, November 14, 2013

9 Months

Arya turned 9 months on Monday!

She went to the Dr today and weighs 19lbs (50th percentile) and 27 inches (50th percentile.)  So she's right in the middle for everything.

At 9 months she:
- Stands really well on her own.
- Is a pro furniture surfer.  I think she may be an early walker like her brother.
- She took her first few steps on her own.
- Which, of course, means she's pulling up onto everything.  She's been doing that for about a month.
- She's making the transition to more food and less formula.  She's started doing mostly finger foods switching from puree.  She loves loves chicken, cheese, and pretty much anything else...except fruit.  She doesn't really seem to love fruit, which is really odd to me.
- She's started shaking her head like she's at a rock concert.  We're not sure where she got it from, but it started out as her dancing and has turned into a quite often occurrence.
- Sleep still isn't the greatest.  Good nights I get a 12-5 stretch.
- She says a few words and knows her Mama, Dada, and Casen are.
- She finally got her second bottom tooth!  She's the complete opposite of her brother in that aspect.  He already had 8 by now.

Here's our pretty little lady at 9 months







her hair is finally growing :)



Monday, November 11, 2013

I'm so thankful this year Caleb is home safe and sound.

Thinking of everyone who has served and is still serving.

And so thankful.


And still couldn't be more proud of my husband.





Tuesday, November 5, 2013



Aryas favorite game...and her cute little raspy voice :)




Monday, November 4, 2013

We have nothing blog worthy happening in our lives lately.

The normal work and taking care of children :)

But we did get a new addition to our family....Caleb's new baby.  He is pretty excited since it wasn't supposed to come for another few months and he's been waiting not so patiently since July.