Xander's birthday cake

PS-I'm putting in a Pampered Chef order and just need $33 to send it in, if anyone needs anything let me know. Elliott is loving his job at Raising Cane's. I go to the doctor on Thursday for a check up, I hope to have a picture up and give y'all details of how things are going.

What a scare!

I just love this picture of Cole and had to put it up. But today we went to the farm and had a scare. I don't know how many of you have had this same experience, but at the farm there are 2 huge ponds. Cole was walking around having fun and he took off and I yelled for him to stop because he was too close to the water. Well he walked right off the edge of the grass and went into the water. Luckily my brother-in-law Brian and I were there to jump in after him. All 3 of us got wet, of course I didn't have any change of close, but Cole and Brian did. My sister-in-law Alicia had clothes for me, thank goodness. This was the first time I have had a scare with him in the water, and I'm sure it wont be the last. But man, what a nightmare that could become. So thank you Brian for saving his life and Alicia for the clothes! Thanks for a great day, love y'all!

When we went up for Xander's birthday Lindsey wanted a picture with her nephew's, so this was the best picture I took because those boys couldn't sit still. If y'all haven't seen Zach's blog, I made his birthday cake and am very proud of it. He loves Sponge Bob.

Update

Here are some before shots of the garage and the bathroom downstairs before we made repairs, and before we got the house.

Bathroom after

Living room

More to come...

Love at Home

Ok, sorry for the long needed update. Here are more pictures of our house. Kitchen:

Cole's room

Hallway

Entry

Home Sweet Home

We finally found our home! We are in McKinney and loving it! After many repairs and kinks we are in. We moved in on Nov 22nd. With the wonderful help of our new ward we were able to get in. So please come visit, we are ready to show off our new home! We have even started staining our deck and Elliott built a work bench. Elliott has been so busy with the house on fixing things, I'm so thankful for a handy husband! Unfortunately he hasn't found a job yet and since AT&T cant install our TV and internet till Jan 14th its hard to get online!

And in other exciting news:

If you didn't know, we are expecting a baby girl in April! The nurse couldn't see any "boy parts" so she thinks its a girl. Cole is so ready for someone to play with. He already misses his grandpa!

Need a girl's Christmas gift?

One of my dad's customers just bought a huge warehouse and found it full of these dolls. They are porcelain and you can get the 2-3ft one for only $20 or the smaller one for $10. That's all I know about them. They are called The Palmary Collection and are usually over $100. Let me know if you want any. I think they are all different kinds, like my dad's is a Scottish doll.

October is already gone?!

Cole had fun at the Trunk or Treat, after he got the hang of it that I was passing out candy, he helped, he followed people around and put candy in their bags, he is such a good helper. We also went Trick or Treating and he enjoyed it also.

My mom and I went garage sale shopping the other weekend and found so many good bargains. I found these cute pajamas! Mom bought like $500 worth of baby stuff for her grandchildren for like $100. Great Deals!

I had his life jacket out for a couple days and he would get it and hand it to me to put on him and would keep it on for awhile. So cute, he did the same with his dinosaur costume also.

For playgroup last week, we went to a pumpkin patch, we wanted to play longer on the John Deer.

We got to feed the animals and go on a hayride!

Because Elliott bought motorcycles and my dad has a motorcycle he loves listening to them when they drive by and looking at them. Elliott was working on his and Cole just had to help!