Merry Christmas!!!

Well, Christmas is over and I am still with child! :) I don't really know why I was thinking I would have this baby before the due date, but we'll see, eh? Hahaha! I've almost reached the due date, though. I have to say, as much as I wanted to have the baby before Christmas, I am thankful for the time I was able to have to make a bunch of gifts that I would not have been able to fit in with a newborn schedule! I made at least one crocheted gift for almost every family member! :) I'm very proud of the work! I found a pattern for a cute crocheted doll 2 days before Christmas, so I was working on them through those 2 days!!! It made me crazy too, since we decided that Christmas with my family would be at our house on Christmas day, with u being so close to the due date! It was so fun, but I stressed myself out by adding these 2 little dolls to the gift list, making them a high priority to finish before Christmas day!!! It ended up being fine and everything was cleaned and then re-cleaned (after the Christmas morning mess)! Hehe! I managed to make the dolls for the girls, a ball for Asher, scarves and mittens for all three kids, a scarf for Lee, and scarves for several other family members.






By Christmas morning (after my 2 day crochet-a-thon on the dolls where I stayed up until 3am 2 nights in a row) my fingers felt weird and kind of numb, and I actually had trouble ripping the paper! Haha! I was very glad when Lee agreed that the paper we picked for our gifts was a little harder to rip! :) At least I knew it wasn't REAL damage! Hehe! Just kidding! I was soooo tired, though! I really think that my hands were just still asleep, because later I was fine. :) I was able to do dishes, cook, clean and do all the things to prepare for the family to come over that night! :) We had soooo much fun!!! It proved to be uneventful, at least in the way of the baby coming! :) I have decided that I am going to just relax and take advantage of my "free time" before the baby comes and try not to get so bogged down on having him/her as much as I have been. It's a little hard not to get like that, only because of how uncomfortable it is at the end, but it's very neat to be pregnant and feel the baby moving. I'm going to just try and enjoy this time! :) So, my birthday down, Christmas down... now we wait for the baby's arrival and Zoe's 5th birthday on January 2nd!!! Which will come first?

Christmas and baby countdowns!!! :)

I love this time of year!!! We have so much to celebrate with the birth of Jesus!!! :) I have always enjoyed having my own birthday in the middle of the celebrations as well!!! :) Lots of different countdowns are going on right now: my birthday on December 21st, Jesus' birthday on December 25th, the baby's due date is December 31st and Zoe's birthday is January 2nd!!! :) Hahaha! So much festivity at our house! :) We got our tree up early this year, though not as early as some! Haha!





We were also excited to get some 4d sonograms of our little bambino #4, still managing to avoid knowing what we're having!!! It's soooo surreal, and makes me soooo excited to see this little one in the light of day!!! So sweet!



I love these pictures! It's amazing that you can even see the ear there in that middle one! I'm getting very anxious now! These were taken at about 36 weeks, and now we're at 38 weeks!!! I was thinking that we were going to have this little munchkin last week, during the full moon! I had a series of contractions for 24 hours, and it did prove to be some progress, but no birth announcements yet!!! :) Can't wait to report back to you all with pictures of the baby in my arms, but we'll see!!! ;)

Dressing up and stuff!

Our church had a festival for Reformation Sunday and all the kids, and even lots of adults, dressed up in Reformation clothing! Asher got some dress up stuff for boys since he's had to improvise with all of his sisters' stuff and all, so we were able to have a little knight and two little princesses to bring to church! :) They had games and snacks and crafts, and the kiddos had so much fun! :) Here are a few pictures of all their fun! :) Asher really didn't want to keep his costume on, so I only got one of him at the house with his on!







Here are a few updated pics of the baby bump! ;) Not too much longer, although before the new year would be nice! :) Only time will tell, and the Lord knows when this baby's birthday will be! :)

Birthdays and Punkins'

Well, I haven't updated in a while, so I guess I better get busy! I missed quite a bit, and can't believe that I even missed Asher's birthday blog!!! He had such a fun birthday since it was his 2nd birthday and he knew what it meant! It was really fun!

It was so funny! I did the cake balls for his bday too, and he blew out the candle and scarfed the cake ball down!!! As soon as he was done he said, "Again, again!" He wanted to blow out his candles again, so we let him start over with another cake ball and let him blow them out twice more and then we called it quits! Hahaha! Such a cutie!



Lee wanted to get Asher a remote control car for his birthday (Asher's, not Lee's, hehe) and Asher LOVED it!!! He had soooo much fun and Lee even let him use the remote control by himself!!!



My big boy was on the phone!!! He looks so grown up!!!

We also took two trips to 2 different farmer's markets to get some pictures with pumpkins (since I didn't find a pumpkin patch close by)! :) They had lots of fun! The first day was way too sunny and we went at the hottest part of the day, so they were really cute, but the pictures are of them all squinting and covering their faces!!! Hahaha! I had the girls bring their strollers so they would have to slow down for us! Hahaha! :) They did really good! :)





The second pumpkin patch we went to a little later in the day and although the lighting was better, it was still windy! Haha! I did get some pretty good snapshots of them though!










The last picture is cute because Asher saw some birds flying in the rafters at the Farmer's Market and he just couldn't believe it! I guess it seemed that they were inside, and he was laughing and laughing!!! He kept saying "Birdies flying!" What a cutie! :) I have more pictures to catch you up on, but I'll wait for my next post! Hahaha! I have to save something for next time! :)