Facts

Here are a few fun facts:

-The main water line coming into our house broke last Thursday. It flooded the back part of our basement. Servicemaster has come every day since then.

-We have 13 industrial sized blowers/dehumidifiers going.

-They are loud.

-I am excited for them to leave.

-It could have been a lot worse, thankfully we have a drain in our storage room that saved us from a full basement flood.

-Little boys and clean bathrooms are mutually exclusive.

-Little boys have bad aim. (see above)

-Ashlyn is now in a girly room, in a big girl bed.

-Out of all the kids, she was the oldest when we moved her out of the crib.

-It was overdue.

-She loves her new room.

-So do I. It makes me happy.

-I will post some pictures when we finish the boys' room and the new baby's room too.

-Jace wants to name the new baby Alyssa or Sydney, both girls he is friends with at school.

-We don't know what to name her.

-Any suggestions would be appreciated.

-Can I really only have 53 days left?

-The fourth pregnancy goes much faster than the first.

-I am getting bigger by the minute.

-I don't mind, because so far all looks good, and the little one is growing well.

-Ten years ago this month was our first date and our first kiss. They were separated by only a few days...more than two, less than ten.

-In the winter I usually only wash my hair twice a week. Is that gross? I do usually use dry shampoo one of the other days. My hair just doesn't get that greasy. Or maybe it does and I am just in denial. (That doesn't mean I only shower twice a week. That would really be gross)

-The kids and I did a 5k on Saturday for a great cause. I say "did" instead of "run" because there was no running involved. Only walking. Or I think I might have had the baby right there. Thanks to Jenna and Brennan for walking it with us.

-Fall is my favorite time of the year for baking.

-Potty training is hard. Especially when your daughter is so scared of the potty she shakes with fright every time she uses it.

-I am really excited to see HP7 on Friday. The only tickets I could get were for 10:10pm and I told my friend that we are doubling with I must be getting old because that means I will be out past 1:00, which seems really late to me.

- I am excited to do another half marathon. It is on the calender for June 11, 2011. Tim is running this one with me. I like to tease him that I will beat him, but we both know that isn't true. He is too competitive and would probably run till he died before letting me win. Plus he ran 7 miles cold turkey once with me while I was training for my last race. Who does that? Like 7 miles is no big deal.

-If you want to join us, you should. It will be a good time. Let me know and I will get you the race info. : )

-I am getting really excited for Christmas.

-I have yet to buy one gift.

-I need to get on that.

-At Jace's parent/teacher conference his teacher said he was an exceptional student and always a pleasure to have in class, I love hearing stuff like that. We let him pick somewhere to go to dinner as a reward, and he picked "the apple place" aka Applebees. All the kids loved the spinich and artichoke dip. I was just happy we made it through a sit down restraunt dinner with out any major meltdowns or spills. : )

-Braxton taught himself to do a front flip. Then he taught Jace. Brax has no fear. Unless there is a dog around.

-His big blue eyes melt me, even though I try to be tough on him every once in a while.

-Here are some pictures of the last couple months : )

One of the boys favorite things to do is set the self timer on the camera and capture amazing self-portraits. Like these two.
They were two of about two hundred.

Jace turned 7. He had a friends party, a family party, went to Village Inn for breakfast and went bowling. And he was off-track, so no school. It was pretty much perfect.

Jace was the Dark Knight Batman for Halloween. He corrected anyone who left out the Dark Knight part, which is ironic because he has never see either of the two new Batman movies.

Braxton was Luke Skywalker. He has seen that movie and he was the cutest little Jedi.

Ashlyn was a ladybug. Her favorite thing about the costume was that it came with a ladybug "purse".

We carved pumpkins and cleaning out the inside grossed her out.

Here is our pipe that caused so much drama. After we got the water turned off.

If there is one thing I will do as a mother, so help me, it is teach my boys how to take care of themselves. That includes laundry, cleaning, ironing and cooking! If they end up single, they can survive, if they are married they will be great helps to their wives. Just like their daddy.

Lesson 1 was in cooking. Yesterday Jace made this pumpkin pie with minimal supervision by me. Here it is fresh out of the oven. He was so proud of it. We called in Jace's pumpkin pie and it was really good.

-Seriously, this baby has no name. Any and all suggestions would be great : )