The finished product!

All right..so I gave a little sneak preview of Taters on her big school picture day earlier, but this is the final product!! My big Kindergartner, I think her pic turned out pretty darn cute..not that I'm partial or anything! :)

Happy Birthday Pappa Bear!

I have to give a belated shout out to my dad who celebrated his birthday on the 8th!
We had a little party for him, it ends up being more of a party for the grandkids! They had fun trying to surprise attack pappa with some silly string, and they had fun opening all his presents for him! Happy Birthday pops we love you!

Good Grub!

Why is it when you're pregnant your life seems to evolve around good food? Remember this name... PB LOCO! It's at Scottsdale mall, you gotta try it! If you're a peanut butter fan that is. This place lets you taste all different kinds of peanut butter..once you decide, you can get a specialty peanut butter sandwich grilled up with bananas and marshmallow creme, or nutella..served with a side of animal crackers! That's a pregnant girl's dream! :)


Thank you Kristen for introducing us to this straight up sinfully delish place.. I'm sure I will be visiting again very soon! Breanna is getting hitched in about 4 weeks to a guy who is allergic to peanuts! So she definitely had fun giving in to her peanutty desires one last time! :)

Friday for date night, Travis treated his little ladies to an all expense paid evening at Chuckee Cheese's! :) The girls had more fun trying to spend more tokens than they knew what to do with! I think Trav and I managed to have a little fun ourselves! Plus, I have to admit, the pizza is pretty good and you can't beat their salad bar!


This was our first attempt at trying to get their picture done.. Tate looks like she's passed out! We laughed so hard!
Luckily, the 2nd one turned out much cuter.. after all it was our last token! :)

WHIRLWIND!

All right..all right I need to apologize to all you out there for me being such a blog slacker! But, if I could sum up the last 6 weeks or so in one word, it would have to be whirlwind! I have been so busy "nesting" I guess some people call it, trying to get things ready before our little guy arrives but also juggling a million things in between! I'm not due till Dec. 4th, but I am carrying a lot of extra fluid which is causing me to measure one month larger than I should be, which pretty much means I am walking around 9 months prego, and also means there's a huge chance this little guy will be coming a little earlier than expected! So I have felt the sudden need to get my big prego rear in gear and start getting things ready! So, here's a few things that have been occupying my time in between!



I'm embarrassed to say, my food storage supply is pretty slim, so I decided with all the yummy fruit in season that I could get a good jump start! So my friend ChristiB. stayed up with me one night and showed me the do's and dont's of canning! We managed to can a full box of pears, if you notice the time on the clock in the pics that it was almost midnight by the time she left, and I hadn't even started my peaches! So, after one long night I now have a pantry full of freshly bottled peaches and pears! I also have a freezer full of yummy peach freezer jam that my sweet hubby and I stayed up and bottled last week! You guys know you love the apron!


Look at my poor baby! On Sunday night my little Peyton broke her left arm, she claims she just flipped off the trampoline! For anyone who knows this girl, knows that she's pretty crazy and this is sadly probably just a first of many for her! When my dad came carrying her in from the backyard right after it happened, the first thing she said in between sobs to my mom was that it was her fault cause she shouldn't of had a trampoline! Oh we love our sweet Peyton! Needless to say, Trav and I spent the rest of the evening at the Banner Gateway hospital ER..There was a waiting room full of people but somehow a cute crying little girl made her way right to the back without having to wait! What a blessing that was! Peyton melted the heart of all the staff and had them all waiting on her hand and knee! They all commented on how tough she is, she didn't even shed a tear when they put in her I.V.!
One of the male nurses was so impressed he went and got her a cute stuffed lion! We told them not to make this whole experience too fun for her or she might want to come back! Yesterday we saw a pediatric bone specialist, he had to set her bone back into place.. which pretty much meant pain! Once again though our little Sue amazed us with how tough she could be, she was more than pleased with the cute pink cast she ended up with! I'm just so grateful that it wasn't a worse break, and she will only have her cast for 6 weeks! We already caught Peyton in the garage yesterday attempting to ride her 2 wheeler bike! Needless to say, it hasn't slowed her down all that much! Thanks so much to all those people who have dropped off fun treats for her and who have called or text just checking in on her!

Here's me and my sisters and my mom hanging out at Polly's bridal shower the other night! We had so much fun seeing everybody and eating way too many yummy treats! We are so excited for her and her upcoming wedding!




Taters had school pictures today! I have to admit she looked pretty dang cute! Since I made her get her picture taken she wanted to take mine...As you can see my belly has grown quite a bit since my last bellylicious picture! This is the cute little guy brewing inside me! With all the extra fluid going on I've had to get quite a few ultrasounds, which some of them had to be 3D.. I've never had the desire to get one of those done, but since I didn't have a choice in the matter, I have to admit it was seriously one of the coolest things ever! I'm already down to my last 8 weeks, but with the upcoming of 2 weddings in the family, Halloween, and Thanksgiving right around the corner.. not to mention the constant threat that this guy is probably going to make his appearance early, I hope I will be able to squeeze everything in and that I will be ready!