About Time

 Well I just wanted to put this picture in because I thought it was cute of the two of us.  We don't have many of these and we should have more. Anyway baby #3 is on the way!  We are pretty excited, but I haven't been as anxious about this pregnancy.  The picture below is actually from a few weeks ago when I was 16 weeks along.  I've grown a bit, but no new pictures.  We have our ultrasound tomorrow, but aren't finding out the gender.  Thought it would be fun to have a total surprise at the delivery.  I am due June 7th and am super excited to be pregnant at the same time as my sister Megan.  (due end of April) I do have Gestational Diabetes again with this one and so have been having fun trying to manage that.  It's hard to be pregnant and not be able to eat all the things you want to when you want to.  Other than lots of nausea my first trimester and some interesting pains throughout the whole time, this pregnancy hasn't been too horrible;)

Quickly Christmas

Just thought I'd share a little about Christmas...only like a month late.

 Lincoln had a Christmas concert at the school and sung a few cute songs. One of them was "Countdown to Christmas" and the other I can't remember the name of.  He had been doing the actions for these songs for weeks.  At the concert he did the actions for half of the first song and then just sung like this the rest of the songs.  At least he was singing.

 I took a few pictures of their Christmas outfits.  These are two of my favorites.  I can't believe how grown up they look.

 Christmas jammies on Christmas Eve. This is one of my favorite traditions.

 Each of the kids with their loot.

More Catch Up

Todd's birthday was on October 24.  He turned 28 this year.  My mom made a small cake because that is not really what he likes, but we needed something for the pictures.  We also had some cheesecake with cherries.

 These two wanted me to take pictures of them with their animals one night.

 Todd reads the kids a story at night about 75% of the time.  I do the other 25%.  The kids love story time and always ask for a story if we forget.

 For Halloween this year Mercedes was a bumblebee and Lincoln was Darth Vader.  We had fun trick or treating around the neighborhood and got way too much candy.  I think we threw away half of it about 2 weeks ago.

 Lincoln really loves to play board games right now and we had fun playing Cootie Bug one night.

 These are about the only pictures I took during Thanksgiving.  Megan and Bri and their families came out and we had a fabulous time.  We stayed up too late, we played a lot of games, and of course we went Black Friday shopping.  Fun, fun.

 This little girl is a Daddy's girl to a T.  She loves to give him all of her snuggles.

 One day I decided to have the kids help me bake bread.  I don't do this kind of fun stuff with them very often, but we can always improve right.  I am too afraid of messes and also it takes about 3 times as long as just doing it myself.  They had a lot of fun though, and it was neat when we ate it to be able to say that they helped to make it.

Figured it out!

After thinking about it for a little while and not wanting to pay for space on Google (yet anyway) I realized that I could probably sign in as Todd and use his space from his Google accounts.  So although these posts for the next little while will have his name they are all still being created by Katie.  Anyway I wanted to put some of these pictures up and I know it has been awhile since I took them, but I am one of those people that  can't move on until I've done each piece of the timeline.

 In October we had a lot of gorgeous and very warm weather.  We used one of those afternoons to rake up some leaves and have some fun jumping in them.  Well the kids jumped, Todd and I raked.

 They have a little swingset out front of our house that has given us many hours of entertainment.

 My two little cowboys.  Mercedes will not be called a cowgirl, whenever you try to tell her that she is a cowgirl she will exclaim "No, I a COWBOY!"

 Trying to take more pictures of myself with the kids.  I don't want to always miss out being in pictures because I don't have my hair done or I want to "lose a little weight".  I want my kids to see that we had fun when they were little and that I loved them.

 Another great day in October when we went hiking on the Loess Hill's Trails.