1st haircut!

A few months back Kael had taken a pair of scissors to Audrina's hair. It was nothing super noticeable, but, he had cut a few good chunks off in the back and some got chopped from around her face/chin.

 

I was holding off giving her a cut, I loved her long hair so much!

After trimming off a good 4 inches I'd have to say I think it looks MUCH better! I love how clean it looks and she looks a tad older.

Adalee Beth

We welcomed Adalee Beth to our family on December 10!
She was born at 10:25am and weighed in at a whopping 9lbs8oz!

We are now a family of 6!!! Wow :)

Audrina loves "HER" baby!

 A proud big brother, Kael!

 Kenton helping Daddy get Adalee ready to head home!

She has been such a content happy baby so far!
We are SO in love!

So much to be thankful for!

I hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving and was able to spend it with family and friends...

We enjoyed our Thanksgiving dinner at Joe & Carols this year. Of course I didn't take many pictures but I did take a few of the kids making some fun yummy, chocolate turkeys!

I told myself I would NOT go out shopping on Thanksgiving! With most stores opening so early this year, I feel like its pretty unfair to all employees who have to spend their day working...but lo and behold, after talking to some friends at church, we headed out until about 1:30 am. It wasn't an all nighter (like I've pulled I the past) but I found a few deals and we had fun!

I'm thankful I was able to enjoy Thanksgiving at home but, we're are STILL anxiously awaiting this little girl! My due date is Sunday. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Onto November!

The 3 year old loves her belly/back scratches, after a few minutes she was out...

 

We celebrated Corey's 29th Birthday back at the beginning of the month. One more year in his 20s... I love you, old man!

This month has been absolutely flying by! I'm not too sure where the last many months have gone actually!

Hunting season is upon us, and I'm very thankful Corey happened to get one on opening weekend. The limit this year was 1 so he has been done for a few weeks already (Yay, for me!)! He was kind of bummed that the day after he got his deer someone sent him a text of an enormous buck that's out in those woods somewhere... But his wife is more than happy that we can wait on having a deer head hanging off the wall... for at least another year anyways!

Kael starts basketball practice tomorrow! He is so pumped! I'm not sure when or how many games they will be playing but they have practice every Saturday (which is just as exciting for 5-6 year olds I'm sure!) Corey is coaching again this year and their practice started last week. Kael went in almost every day with him this past week. Corey said he did an awesome job keeping up with the jr high kids at their practice, and even finished their laps around the school ahead of a few of those older boys! I am definitely not a huge fan of basketball, but, I can't wait to see Kael play!

I have a good start on my Christmas shopping which I wanted to have done already. And started some baking. I baked and froze cake, many loaves of pumpkin bread and some cookies. This pregnant lady has no will power and most has been eaten! Oops. Not sure if I will get much done after baby comes so hopefully I can find time to at least make more pumpkin bread, my favorite! And I also have a bunch of my decorating done too. I normally wait until after Thanksgiving but... ;)

It's been a looonng pregnancy and I've been so ready for it to be over for a long time! Anxious for this little baby girl and anxious to not be pregnant anymore! I am 39 weeks so any day would work for me! We already spent the night in the hospital last weekend for a false alarm! So disappointing! After 3 hours of  having strong contractions every 1-3 minutes things just slowly started tapering off and then stopped! So, after 7 hours in the hospital they sent us home :( What a tease...but she will be here before we know it, and I am more than looking forward to holding her tight and covering her in kisses :)

Mr Kael

Kael and I had a date tonight! We headed to Pizza Hut to use his Book It free pizza... 

It was so fun to have a few hours to ourselves. 

Something that rarely happens :)

A bit more October...

These are mostly from the iPod which I need to quit using as my main camera because I can't stand the quality of them...!!! 

Kael lost his first tooth! He was so excited! After it being loose for months it finally came out!

A first snowfall had the kids pumped to head outside!

Had to deal with almost a month of sickness. Everyone but Corey ended up getting sick! Severe stomach pains and a fever that lasted 3-5 days and then it would get passed on to the next... I thought it would never end!

Yikes...we saw some high temps...

My sister got ENGAGED!!! How cute is the pumpkin carving idea!!?!?!

Congrats again Jess and Justin! Love you guys!

The big day is September 6, 2014!!!

A spur of the moment decision to head to Minneapolis for the night with no kids (Thanks Mom/Dad J!!). It was relaxing and very much enjoyed!
View from our hotel room downtown...

Uncle Matt stopped for a few nights. The kids always love him and fight for his attention!

This was October

A month of pictures...

Our last weekend of beautiful weather we had fun at the pumpkin patch...

Raking up leaves...

Always wants to be 'a helpa!'...

Our little dreamer...

 We had fun at the Penny Carnival the Sunday before Halloween...

 ...And Happy Halloween!

dancing in the rain

While Kael is gone to school I try to get Audrina to go outside and play but she usually would rather stay inside without her brother.

But on the days its raining she begs to go out...

She stayed out for over an hour jumping in puddles and playing with worms!

Too fun!

a campin' we did go...

At the beginning of August we made a camping trip to Gogebic with Corey's parents. It was church camping weekend so there were quite a few others around, too!

We pitched our tent and enjoyed our time, busy kids, early mornings and all.

 Corey and Kael out fishing in the Kayak

 What a gorgeous site right on the lake! Too bad the weather wasn't a bit warmer for swimming!

Games with Grandma!

Lil ragamuffin playing in the dirt...

Kael and his buddy Gwen spent lots of time collecting (dead?) crayfish. 

I love camping but haven't been much up for it the past few years. I keep telling Corey I can't wait until the kids are a bit older then I will get back into it again! With busy little ones I think once a year is working out good for us...

for now ;)