How we celebrate the holidays in the 'Burg

This Saturday, you can see (and I quote from our local newscaster) "beautifully lit tractors, horse trailers, and other farm equipment."

Does this seem odd to anyone else?

If you know us, you'll get it...

"Everywhere in nature we are taught the lessons of patience and waiting. We want things a long time before we get them, and the fact that we want them a long time makes them all the more precious when they come."


Joseph F Smith

Joseph F. Smith's words are how I feel about ALL my babies, but this next one especially! A little over 2 years ago, my doctor told me that I wouldn't get help getting pregnant (like I had with Brady) unless I first lost some weight. A few months of grumbling, a move, 95 lbs lost, and a miscarriage later, we are more excited than words to be expecting baby #3! I don't say all this to have anyone feel bad for me, but to help you all feel a little bit of our immense and indescribable joy and happiness!!! I feel a little guilty that I got the blessing I'd been praying for when I know of so many yet unanswered prayers. If I've learned anything from our 'wait' and months of 'trying' its that our lives are in the Lord's hands and I don't want to be anywhere else.

So baby #3 is due May 18th and is cookin along nicely. The kids are excited. Lainey gets it a bit better than Brady, obviously, and is really hoping for a sister. (me too!) We'll see!

Better late than never...

A cute little witch and a Charlie Brown ghost. The ghosts on that cartoon are so much cuter in animation than when you try to do it in real life! By the end of the day, the eye holes turned into a head hole and I was Brady's maid of honor, carrying his train of white fabric all around town! Wasn't Brady's favorite costume. Lesson learned, next year will be Spiderman. By the way, I post nearly zero pictures of Brady, and here he finally is and all you get is an ankle!!!