THE NURSERY!!

We'll it is pretty much finished except one wall, which I think I have figured out just need to buy the stuff for it and white frames for the two pictures on the one wall. I will honestly admit I am not great at decorating, putting colors together and making my house look like it is out of a magazine. I feel the nursery is the same thing. I wanted that teal wall with white wainscotting (however you spell it) black and white accessories and everything to be modern and perfect. However as I walk into Macie's room every day and think about her playing in hear and sleeping in hear and just calling it her room it just seems perfect. I don't even know her yet, what she looks like, her personality, nothing but I just feel so warm and peaceful when I walk in hear and feel this is what was meant to be. So I do I love her room, others may not but I think it is going to be so perfect for her. One month today and I will hopefully be laying her to sleep in her bed.

THE BASEMENT!!!!

We'll we have lived in this house for 4 years and finally about two months ago we decided we have had it and we are getting our basement developed. With Macie's room no longer being a den Mark's school, teaching and young men's book are all over the kitchen. I have very little storage upstairs so my basement has had stuff just everywhere, and I am sick of having 1000sq feet of unusable space. So we called around set up appointments and yesterday finished off the last of the big projects that needed to be done. We'll my parents did. All that is left is baseboards, the bathroom fixtures, and a big closet we are going to have custom made for our one wall for more storage space. I can't wait to have full use of my basement, a bathroom downstairs for when guests come, a den, and a play area for our family. The two bedrooms downstairs were already developed when we bought the house and framing of the basement and drywall around the outer part of the walls. We still had to drywall the ceiling, the bathroom, storage room and stairs. We had to still mud, tape and paint all the walls, tile the bathroom, and put it together, and get carpet. With Mark being so busy we decided to just hire everything out. It might have taken a little bit more out of pocket then we would have liked but made life so easy for my crazy busy husband. Then my wonderful parents came up this weekend and tiled the bathroom for us. Everything looks great and we are so happy with the outcome.

THE WINNER...

Of course like last time is Marky Mark. I thought the votes would be a little closer this year as I put so much thought and effort into my picture, but no Mark clobbered me again. It is kind of sad when your hubby is more artsy than you. I told him tonight as we were looking at pictures of our Halloween costumes that he will probably be making the kids costumes in the future seeing as he made ours this year.

HALLOWEEN!!

We had such an awesome Halloween this year, best one yet. It started with handing out full sized chocolate bars to all the cute little tricker treaters. We bought 40 bars thinking we would have more than enough as the past year we bought 96 bars and only handed out 10 leaving us 86 full sized chocolate bars to try and get rid of. Well this year 40 wasn't enough, almost but not quite. We probably got about 46 trick or treaters, thankfully though we had a couple small ones to hand out to the last stragglers. Well once that was all done our party began. We invited a couple of friends over to play games, eat food and have some good laughs, and boy did we have some good laughs. We played some mad gab were the Edwards totally and completely destroyed everybody. Then some squash were Mark and I were the experts and winners of that game. The night ended with a game that had me laughing so hard I thought I was going to go into labor. Heck everybody was laughing so hard, I would not have been surprised if we all peed our pants a little bit. I don't know the name, but you write a movie quote, then pass it to the person beside you who reads the quote to themselves, then puts it behind a stack of papers and draws a picture to that quote, then they pass it to the next person who looks at the picture and writes a quote to the picture, and so on and so on. So much fun. Almost everybody dressed up, and I think we all had a blast.

I went as a Black Widow Spider and Mark was my Web



Tiffany and Graham were Fred and Wilma


Kristi was a tri-athalon participant

Dan and Indy were creative and Dan had cars taped to his shirt and Indy's shirt said the Indy Fyfe Hundred.

PUMPKIN CARVING NIGHT!!!

Well it is 2 days before Halloween and we of course had to have our tradition of carving a pumpkin, baking the seeds and watching a scary movie. This year though our tradition included some great friends (the Low's) they joined in on our fun and carved some pretty sweet pumpkins. I of course opted out of carving a pumpkin and volunteered to clean the seeds and bake them. I also spent the night getting my costume ready for our Monday night Halloween party. Mark and I are matching our costumes this year and I can't wait. I love these traditions we have started in our small family and how it helps bring us closer together.


Mark's pumpkin this year is dedicated to the Hall Family


Tiffany's scary pumpkin


Graham's awesome art work



The reason for my massive gut JJ :) hopefully a baby is the reason

HALLOWEEN COLORING CONTEST!!!

So seeing as it is another holiday coming up we thought it was time for another coloring contest. Again thank you to Kitscoty Meats Grocery Store for supplying the pictures. So please help us out with determining a winner and put other A or B in the comment section of whichever picture you like the best.

A




B

CAN YOU SAY HUGE!!!!

Holy cow the belly decided to explode this past month. Compared to pictures from the last month I can't believe how much it and she has grown. No wonder it is getting more and more uncomfortable everyday to sit, sleep, drive, and do pretty much anything. I know I am not quit ready yet to have Macie come but I am definitely ready to be done being pregnant. It has been a pretty easy pregnancy and everything is going so well but 9 months is definitely a long time to never feel 100% . I have to admit I can not wait for the day that I can sit in the hot tub, sleep in a comfortable position and go for a nice long sweaty run. I do have to be so grateful though for how stress free and wonderful this pregnancy has been compared to the horror stories I hear from women, lets just hope and pray for good labor.

SWEET GIFTS!!!!

Mark had class tonight and when he came home from teaching he had sweet gifts for all his girls.

Flowers for Me

and the cutest shoes ever for Macie

YOU THINK THEY LOVE THERE DAD???

As we were sitting as a family watching the stamps football game I look over and I see Molly and Lily just squished as close as they can into Dad. Well Cobalt was feeling pretty left out and thought she deserved a spot on his lap as well and made her way over to cozy on in. It made me think what it might look like if there was a baby in there as well. 2 months from today is my due date!!! Honestly though how cute it this. I love it.