Gotta love these kiddos!

Carleigh is going to be a great little mommy to this new baby. It really makes me smile to watch her with her baby dolls. She carefully supports the head as she brings the baby to her chest, and gently pats the baby's back while saying, "Shhh, it's okay baby." I never tried to encourage tv watching, but do allow the kids to watch some cartoons to allow the chance to get supper started, etc. Carleigh never watches tv though, never really seemed interested in any show. I have noticed that she is glued to the tv with a couple of shows though, Baby Diaries, Baby Story, Bringing home baby... are we seeing a trend? Well, I saw her doing something today, that she must have gotten from one of these shows. She repeatedly readjust the baby onto her chest, you know when the baby starts slipping, or wiggles a little bit, and you have pick the baby back up and re-lay the baby on your chest? That's what she does, but not every once in awhile, but over and over again! I love it! I just probably won't be able to leave Carleigh in the same room with the new baby without adult supervision.

I went to Caleb's school to eat lunch with him today! I loved how his face lit up when he saw me, wait...was it him seeing me or the McDonalds in my hand??? I may need to reevaluate that. I knew I was going to eat lunch with him one time this year, but wasn't really in a rush, until Caleb asked me to come see him for lunch. It made me feel so special. I know I need to take advantage of it now to come see him, especially in front of his buddies, because I'm sure things will change in the years to come. They had a couple of tables reserved for kids and their parents in the cafeteria, so I was excited to actually have that lunch time with my boy-just the two of us!

Carleigh just had her 2nd birthday party this last weekend! This came way too fast!! Really? 2?? Of course she showed no personality at her party, but once everyone left she let loose and we couldn't get her to stop talking! It was a fun day! Here are some pictures from her party!

My Caleb

Krystal & Carleigh

Dad, Aunt Robin, My Nana, Jared, his adorable Klaire, Beau

Lori, Dustin, Tarynn, & BJ

Heather, Brandon (Kristen's BF), Russ, & Kristen

Me & Heather and our pregnant bellies!

Beau & Blake

Caleb so excited about the bowling set Aunt Rita got Carleigh!

Sooooo....I went to Walmart today! By myself and loved it! Not to go get groceries, yes I needed to pick up a couple things, but it was more of me spending forever there just going down all aisles and looking at everything! It was so nice! I walked into the Christmas section and I have never really felt in to big of a rush to enter the Christmas season, but I am soooo ready this year! Maybe it's the pregnancy... I do just love this time of year! The smell of pumpkin, or cinnamin, they are both fabulous! The colder weather, apple cider, scarves & hats, homemade cookies.. just a few of my favorite things!

Just a few more random pictures!

Pappy (my daddy) and Caleb at Braums

First day of school

A little bit of UNT tailgaiting!

Russ & Lori (Beau's parents)

BJ and his girl Tarynn!

My girl has got the look!

Kiddos with Nana (Beau's mama)

God's amazing rainbow to remind us of his promises!

Me and my Mama!!

Daddy and Carleigh

Caleb supporting the Longhorns, he is such a Beau junior!

Updated Pics!

Daddy cleaning car and kids "helping", okay just playing around!

Daddy getting them!!

My precious kiddos!!

Carleigh with Mary Kay's
Amber Suede Lipstick

Carleigh after getting into my
Red Salsa lipstick, but it looks
more pinkish on her.

Happy and Healthy!

I had my doctors appt. today and found out that I only have the marginal placenta previa!! Thank you Jesus!!! I'm just embarassed that I didn't put all my trust in Him right away. After I looked up information about placenta previa, freaked myself out, cried, worried, cried, worried some more, I finally said Okay Lord, it's in your hands. I then go to the doctor feeling better about things only to find out I worried and cried for no reason! Why do we do this to ourselves??? Why do we stress about our lives when God already has everything mapped out for a reason? So I feel great! Heard the baby! He or She has a lil' heartbeat that sounds great! I gained 4 pounds! Another wonderful praise: I think Carleigh is finally done with her bug she had!! So she was excited to go back to school! I can't believe she turns two this week! As I'm trying to finish last minute details on her CareBear Birthday party I will try to put some pics of the kids up! Oh and I voted today! Thought I would go ahead and do it!! So now you go do it!! :)

My Beau! What a man!

Eight years ago today, Beau and I went on our first date! It was the DHS homecoming dance! Go Broncos!!! It was like a dream come true for me because I had liked Beau since 7th grade and this was now our senior year of high school!! He made me wait long enough right?? I would have to say he was definitely worth the wait!! I want to take a moment now to say thank you Beau! You are a wonderful husband, father, and friend! You make me so happy!! Seeing you play around with Caleb or just cuddling with Carleigh, it truly warms my heart! I'm very proud of the man you are and am soooo excited about spending the rest of my life with you!! You bring me lots of joy! I love you honey!!! I want to also thank God for bringing Beau into my life! I feel so blessed and special that God gave me such a loving husband!

20 week sonogram

I had a sonogram a couple days ago. Everything looks great with the baby. We still don't know if it's a boy or girl, but from what the sonogram shows, we think we just might have it figured out. Won't know for sure till the baby comes! There was one thing they noticed in the sonogram. The placenta is sitting completely on top of my cervix, which is called placenta previa. I have another sono in 4 weeks to see if the placenta has migrated up where its suppose to be. Please pray that it does! It can cause problems and early delivery if it doesn't, but right now is the time for it to move if it's going to. I know this is all in the Lord's hands and I feel so blessed that I have a healthy little baby growing inside of me!

School or No School??

I was so excited about Carleigh and Caleb going to school because that would give me the freedom to get all my stuff done then return to mommy duty after I picked them up from school. This week Carleigh has been home because she has some type of bug. I have enjoyed her being home so much though. It makes me wonder if I did the right thing to put her in school so soon. It's a great school and she seems to really enjoy it! There are only 4 more kids in her class with 2 teachers! Gotta love that ratio!! The selfish part of me wants to keep her at home with me all the time. I know she needs the interation with other kids though!! So now I'm contemplating keeping her home Tuesdays and Thursdays. Obviously I would be having the same feelings with Caleb, but he now being in Kindergarten has to be there! I still can't believe he's already in, his words, "big people school." So.. I will pray about what I should do with little missy and I know God will hear me!

I guess this is what it is to blog...

Well, I have never "blogged" before, but Krystal got me interested. I thought this would be a neat way to put up funny stories about the kids and update photos for friends and family. I really don't have anything to say at the moment except that it's really exciting that I'm starting to feel the baby kick even harder. Carleigh felt the baby today and jerked her hand away with a very shocked look on her face. It was priceless!!