12 weeks

I'm pretty sure that everyone that reads this blog already knows this, but just in case....

Jeff and I found out at the beginning of July that we are expecting our third child. Biologically. After 10 years of no birth control and a miracle of God, I am actually pregnant. And amazingly enough am having a "boring, normal pregnancy" according to my midwives. LOL At this point I'm officially 12 weeks along (well, a couple days past 12 weeks) and am due around March 11th.

Even after an ultrasound at 8 weeks, lots of weeks of being nauseous 24/7, taking humongous prenatal vitamins and hearing the baby's heartbeat beating as strong as can be - it's still very surreal. It's hard for me to believe that this is happening to ME!

I think I MIGHT believe it when I can feel the baby move and when I am as big as a truck. LOL We'll see.

Take me out to the ballgame

This event happened a couple weeks ago, but due to my grandfather's death it got slightly overlooked...

My brother works for an awesome company that buys season tickets to the local Triple A baseball club. We took advantage of some of those great tickets and took the family to the baseball game on Tuesday the 23rd. I was anticipating an evening of whining, complaining, fighting, and ending with us all coming home by 8pm.

I'm SO glad I was wrong in ALL my assumptions.

We had the. best. time. ever. I could not have asked that my children behave better, have more fun, or spent more quality time together. It was simply the best. However, the best part for Kaelyn was that she was asked to play tug-of-war with Rubarb (the team mascot) ON the field in the middle of the 6th inning. She learned a lot about baseball while she was "counting down" the innings until she got to meet up with the fun squad, meet rubarb and make her way onto the field. She pulled and pulled and pulled until the backup catcher came out of the dug out and "assisted her" in winning the game. Rubarb, of course, was devastated that Kaelyn won and Kaelyn was ecstatic that she had defeated him! LOL It was darn cute. I wish that I would have charged my camera battery before we left as I wasn't able to take a video of it. I did however catch a few pictures of the night. :)

We came home very late, stayed for the whole game and had tons of fun. I can't wait to do it again. Thanks Jason for getting us the tickets!!!

Grandpa Van

Today I lost the first of my grandparents. I am so thankful that I KNOW that my Grandpa Van Gilder (Grandpa Van as we called him) is dancing on streeets of gold and singing sweet songs of praise to Jesus right now! And if I know him, he's talking everyone in heaven's ear off. While talking to Kaelyn tonight about Grandpa's death, she again suprised me with her thoughts that are so beyond her years. We were talking about how Grandpa is in heaven and how much happier he is now that he can walk and dance and sing again. She then said, "You know the best part mom? Grandpa gets to see his (earthly) mommy and daddy again! He must really like that". That's so true Kaelyn. While we will be sad here on earth that he is gone from us, we have to remember not only is there a big reunion party going on up in heaven tonight, but that we WILL get to see him again! On the glorious day when we see Jesus. So, Grandpa - thanks for leaving our family with an amazing family history. Thanks for instilling in my father the love for Christ and the importance of a relationship with Him so that he could pass that down to us. Thanks for showing our family how a marriage can last as long as your did. Rest in peace Grandpa. And enjoy your party with Jesus.

Tea for Two

Last week I was having a totally stressed out day. I had tons of work that needed to get done, Cooper was starting his lovely 2 year old tantrums and once he was down for a nap all I wanted was ME time. It turned out that during the time I was trying to get some work done, Kaelyn had set the kitchen table for a tea party. Complete with name cards and everything. So, I took a few minutes out of my crazy stressed out day to have tea with my baby. Even though I really didn't WANT to take the time out of my day for that, nothing could have made my day better or sweeter.

I mean - who could resist THIS face...

A new outfit for the Coopster

Today I finished this outfit for Cooper. I absolutely love it. The giraffe is about 11 pieces that I "appliqued" on the shirt. The shorts are from a fleece that Cooper picked out all by himself the last time we were at the fabric store. I'm so excited about how it turned out.