Justin's Birthday

We had some friends in Austin who had a family tradition of doing a pie night the week before Thanksgiving so you can eat and enjoy your pie without being stuffed full of turkey and everything else. We thought it was a great idea and continued it this year along with Justin's birthday celebration this weekend. We had all of his family over for a housewarming/birthday party/pie night.

We stuck Justin's 29 candles in a cheesecake and sang Happy Birthday

Tolan brought the stool out of the bathroom so he could reach to help Daddy blow out the candles. He had been bringing me the candles out of the cupboard all week and practicing up on his singing - he was very excited about Daddy's birthday.

Yay! Happy Birthday Justin! We love you!

As for the pie spread, here is the "before"

and "after"

It doesn't look like we ate that much - there is a lot of pie left, but we were all stuffed. It was a great way to kick off Thanksgiving week and Justin's 29th year! And we are grateful to be able to spend it with family close-by this year too.

It's A Girl!

I had my 18-20 week ultrasound on Friday (the 13th) and it looks like we are having a girl!

Every new baby changes the dynamic of your family, but I think adding a girl to a family of boys will be an even bigger change! We are excited though and I am excited to finally be able to buy cute girly stuff and not have to always be mad about the extremely unproportionate amount of options in the little girl section compared to the little boy section at the store. Now I can take advantage of it, although I've resisted and haven't bought a single girly item yet.

Anyway, while I'm posting about the baby, I thought I would post a belly picture too. My friend Erin never misses a photo-op, so this picture is from her. (Thanks E!)

I think I'm finally past the "is she pregnant or just fat?" stage and I'm looking pregnant, but not huge.

Now we have to start thinking about names. We are so bad at this. We don't have a single idea yet. So wish us luck, and we probably won't decide until they bring in the birth certificate!

Peasant's Feast

Luckily for us and the rest of Erin's friends, Erin is a great friend. She is one of those people who really makes an effort to maintain friendships, and that is why she has so many friends! She is always organizing events and get-togethers and now that we live back in the area, we get to participate in some of those events.

This week we got to attend her annual Peasant's Feast - Thanksgiving dinner with friends. This year, Rosalie's parents were kind enough to allow us to invade their home for the afternoon and I think everyone had a good time and left with a very full stomach. Here are a few pics that Erin took and I stole off her Facebook page:

Looks like we are about the only ones not wearing any Steelers paraphernalia.

Half time meant meal time! Everyone contributed lots of good food

Tolan in the mix

Logan, Tolan and Imogen kept themselves occupied the whole afternoon.

We sang Happy Birthday to Anna, and the boys wanted to blow out candles too, so we did it all over again for them.

The whole group

Thank you to Erin and our hosts, the Mercurios!

Halloween

Way overdue on the Halloween post, but here it is. I kept it simple this year and recycled some very old Halloween costumes - costumes that we wore when we were kids. I wanted some pictures of me and my brother wearing them, but my parents are undergoing a bit of a renovation in their house and the pictures are all packed away for the time being. But here are my boys as a bat (Tolan) and a dragon (Logan).

They don't care that their costumes are over 20 years old - they just can't wait for the CANDY!

This was at the ward Trunk-or-Treat. We also went regular trick-or-treating in our neighborhood on Halloween, but I didn't take any pictures that day.

And here is Justin pretending to eat the candy.

Even though the costumes were really old, the boys liked them and I even had a few people comment that they used to have some costumes just like them! They must have been popular back in the day.