Party, rearranging fun, and Spaghetti Squash!

We had a small party for Lenci with just our little family at Chucky Cheese!!! She had soooo much fun! She couldn't stand waiting for her presents, so we let her open them at home before we went! ;) She was extremely animated for the pictures, as usual! What a doll! I love giving her gifts because she just loves what she gets!!! :) We also got cake balls for her instead of a cake! They're so fun and you can pick lots of different flavors, although Lemon seems to be the family favorite!!! It was fun for her though! We put a candle in three separate cake balls and let her blow them out! She loved it! :) It was a nice little family party and all the kids had soooo much fun! :) We got her a Fancy Nancy book, a pink pony, a little puppy with a bow and a real leash!!! :) She LOVED all of her gifts...and her cake balls! :)










I have been "de-stuffing" our house and I am so excited that I have had lots of help from my sister and some great friends from our church who have helped me!!! ;) It was two separate occassions, but my church friends helped me to declutter the bookshelf in the living room and my sister helped me rearrange and switch things around in the kids rooms so that they are more functional!!! ;) Our house is small, so I am really trying to focus on getting rid of LOTS and then having a garage sale!!! I'm getting better and better at getting rid of stuff! ;)









I have also been learning more about what I can eat since my midwife put me on the no sugar/white flour diet to prevent gestational diabetes. I was 2 points away when I was pregnant with Lenci and 1 point away when I was pregnant with Asher, and so we are on this prevention diet and we have not had any reason to think I have it this time at all!!! :) I will share more recipes as I go along, but I may not put pictures of them all! Hahaha! I just thought this was so interesting myself, so I took pictures to share. I made spaghetti squash to eat with my spaghetti meat sauce!!! The rest of the family tried it, but they had noodles with their meal. I found a recipe for it online that had microwave instructions for the spaghetti squash preparation. I heard that baking it works better, but our house just heats up so fast when I use the oven!!! So, here are the pictures of the spaghetti squash "noodles"! :)




All you do is cut the spaghetti squash in half and get the seeds out. Put the spaghetti squash into a microwave safe bowl with 1/4th cup of water inside of it. Cover it and cook it for 8 minutes in the microwave. Carefully remove the (hot) bowl and use a fork to scrape the "noodles" out of the spaghetti squash! :) Add your spaghetti sauce, or whatever you want to eat with it, and ENJOY! :) Let me know if you try it! The texture is different than noodles, but it works when you can't have spaghetti noodles and that's what's on the menu for the night...or if you just want to try something new!!!

Happy 3rd Birthday Lenci!!!

Today is Lenci's 3rd birthday!!! I cannot believe she's actually THREE!!! We're having a little family party on Lee's day off on Wednesday, so I decided to do some special things with the girls during Asher's nap time that we haven't gotten to do in a while! The great thing is that God let it rain a nice cool, steady rain today! Lenci has been begging to get her umbrella out, so that's what we did! I let them jump in the puddles and they got all drippy, so then we came in and I made them some nice hot chocolate!!! (I had coffee!) I love rainy days, so it was soooo fun to take lots of pictures of them! Then after hot chocolate I gave them an early school activity to do! I found little dry erase alphabet placemats with a marker at Target in the dollar section and they were marked HALF OFF!!! I gave them as a birthday present, but she'll get her big present when her daddy can be with her to open it up! ;) How fun! Just thought I would post some pictures from our fun Rainy Day Birthday!!!












Happy 3rd Birthday, sweet Lenci!!! :) You're getting to be soooo big!!!

A little bit normal...sort of! :)

Well, things have gotten a little more back to normal! :) Lenci is slingless, but her arm still has about 2 weeks to be fully healed! I have recovered from two bladder infections, praise the Lord (not at the same time, hehe)!!! :) One thing that is different is that my midwife has put me on a no sugar no white flour diet to prevent gestational diabetes! I was 2 points away when I was pregnant with Lenci and 1 point away when I was pregnant with Asher. I was measuring about 4 weeks ahead at 12 weeks and measuring 2 weeks ahead at 17 weeks so she decided that being proactive is better than being reactive! I cannot eat any sugar, flours of any kind, potatoes, corn or any things like those things! I am learning to think more about the wonderful things I can eat like most fruit (excluding banana's), veggies, and plenty of protien! :) It has been hard, but I look forward to Sunday's because I was given permission to splurge one day a week!!! :) I have also been feeling baby #4 more these past two weeks!!! :) I love this stage! I'm at 20 weeks now, that puts me halfway!!! Crazy!


Asher got a hair cut at the same place that Lee gets his cut at the end of July!!! :) It's soooo cute, cause they cut his the same as Lee's!!! So, this time we got his hair cut professionally rather than putting him through the confusion of a home-made mommy and daddy hair do! Hahaha! Poor guy!




So, I can't really think of anything super exciting, other than the cool front that we've been having!!! Something about the cooler weather makes me feel like the heat WILL end!!! I love the fall!!! This nice weather gives me a glimpse of the wonderful weather to come! :)

I'll leave you with some silly photobooth pictures the kids and I took today!!! :) They all had lots of fun posing for these! Hehe!