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Turkey Day 2008

I decided to take some last minute pictures once we arrived at my parents' house for Thanksgiving dinner since we were all happy and clean. I hope you all had a wonderful day. We feel so overwhelmed at this time of year for the many wonderful blessings that we have been given. If I'm looking a bit large it's because I only have 6 weeks left. Don't be a hater. If you can't say something nice...you know.Sarah wasn't cooperating, so I'm glad she smiled in the group shots.

I think this is my favorite picture that I've ever taken of Blake.

Raegan is just a sweetheart and really wanted to have this flower in the picture. You'd never guess that she had thrown up all night. This was her third year in a row to be sick on Thanksgiving and the only two days out of the year that she has ever thrown up. We just expect it now. And, like I said, Sarah wasn't cooperating, so no individuals of her.

Oh, Sarah!

So I was just sitting at the computer and my belly was bugging me so I had my shirt pulled up so that it could 'breathe'. Sarah just walked in to talk to me and proceeded to pull my shirt back down over my belly without saying anything about it. Curious, I asked her what she was doing and her answer?

"I'm just modesting you up." Yay, she's 3 and she gets it!

picture from family night at Bounce U

HELP!

Every day I find myself going through the same routine. It's not just any mundane routine, although I am getting tired of it quickly. I have reached the point in my pregnancy where I have an insatiable thirst and there is nothing, I repeat NOTHING I can do to quench it! Not only am I extremely thirsty, my only source of satisfaction is ice. I am personally keeping Sonic in business buying their ice by the bag-full. I find myself many times a day standing with the freezer door wide open, shoveling ice into my mouth as if I were a chipmunk storing up for the winter. I. cannot. eat. it. fast. enough. I'm sure I'm driving everyone crazy with all the crunching and I realize it's totally rude, especially in public, but at this point, I really don't care. So love me in spite of my rudeness, please. I also have been "enjoying" 2 1/2 weeks of bed rest. That's the part that I'm getting tired of. For some reason my doctor thinks that it's too early to have regular contractions and already be dilating. Ok, I'll go with it. It's humbling, and VERY hard to watch as the ladies from the relief society show up to clean my house. They did EVERYTHING, people! They even moved the microwave and cleaned my fridge! What a wonderful group of ladies, it was rough to just sit back and watch them work so hard.

From Sarah...

Yesterday as we were driving in the funny car, Sarah yelled, "Mom, hornk the horn!" I thought it was very cute. Isn't that what a horn should do? Hornk. Hornk.

My blonde moment....or year!

In my defense, the husband was just as clueless as I was! About a year and a half ago, we bought a digital video camera that was pretty inexpensive, but worked for the time being.

Well, about 6 months after the purchase, (last November)the camera unexpectedly quit working right as we were starting to record Raegan's very first ballet recital! I was so sad! We didn't have any kind of power cord or anything to charge it with so we just chalked it up to a really lame sauce purchase and left it at that. Throughout the year as it has sat at my desk, there have been multiple times where I have almost thrown it away...Jake too. He HATES clutter! Saturday night as the kids were eating dinner and the husband had run to the store, I was thinking to myself, "Man. These kids are so funny right now. I wish I had a video camera!" I proceeded to take out the old camera and I popped the side of it off and there were two AA batteries staring me in the face that needed to be changed! In the 10 minutes that Jake was gone, I had fixed the camera and made some really great videos of the kids. He was totally impressed by my battery changing ability! In our defense, what video camera needs AA batteries? That's right, we're cool.

Halloween 2008

This year was a lot of fun because the girls ventured away from the

traditional princess costumes and opted for these:

a "cute witch" which I think she pulled off perfectly... she's even beautiful as a witch.

and "Thuper Tharah" which was another winner and totally her own idea. Doesn't everything about her just scream, "super?" Blake chose this costume...a Storm Trooper (TK421), which he bought in June with his very own birthday money from Grandma Sparks. This Halloween was so easy... no sewing, pinning, painting, etc. LOVE IT! The kids got so much candy that we even handed out half of it and they still each have a full bucket! This is at the end of the night ...checking out their loot, way past bed time..

and one very sleepy super girl, minutes after being tucked in!