She is so sober. Abby really is having a good time here.


Meals with Abby are just painful right now. She's at the stage where she wants to feed herself, but not much food gets into her mouth, it's all in her lap or in her hair.


One of the things I love about Casey is that he can fall asleep on the floor with the children still crawling over him. Of course he's not sleeping here, but he was just minutes after the pic was taken.

Lookin' Good!

I am proud to be the first to display a belly pic of my beautiful sis-in-law Laurie! I think she's 16 or 17 wks (which is it Laurie?) along, and looking so cute in her maternity clothes! Oh I can't wait until May!

There are so many times she acts so old that I relish the moments like these.


Now if only he could figure out how to put his shirt on we'd be all set.


Tommy is working on his callouses.


Abby was cute today in one of Rachel's old dresses. I'm so glad I got to use them again!

Here are the boys demonstrating their "Supa Powas" (that's how Tommy says it).


Oh Laurie! I made your favorite cookies! (Don't worry, I saved you a couple in the freezer)
Debbie G. made these a couple years back for the Christmas musicale. I was in love. I submitted the recipe to a Taste of Home cookie contest in hopes of winning the $500 grand prize. But alas, I heard nothing.

Our Anniversary Date

We went to Bay City to eat at a Chinese restaurant for lunch. Casey had never been there before, he loved the food! After that we went to the candy store. We bought some chocolate covered peanuts and a couple other things. We ate it all.


We had a ball in the Antique mall. Casey bought this mug that says "Dad", and I bought a funnel, so I don't slop applesauce all over.


Cool chair. Yeah, I'm a dork.


It's a little chilly out, but my camera takes better pics outdoors.


It's hard to center a photo when smooching.


We dined at Applebee's for supper. You know it's a special event if we have appetizers!


We ALWAYS end up at Barnes and Noble!

Hot Date

Well tomorrow is our anniversary- 8 fun-filled pregnant years. OK, only half that time was prego time. We are very excited to be going out on the town tomorrow to shop, eat Chinese, probably shop some more, and then end up in a hotel in town. I'll spare you the details. But there is a hot tub! My mom is coming to stay with the kids. I wasn't going to ask Maude to come down because Sarah could pop at any minute, and I don't want her to miss that! Oh December is such an exciting month!!!

It's done!

My little bitty quilt is finally done! We stayed home from church tonight because I didn't want to be out in the dark in freezing rain- I must be getting old. So I finished this tonight, I even gave my best effort at mitered corners which they talk about in the quilting books. Joy M. will be so impressed, she said she would come to my house and help me if I needed her too. I love our church fam.


I thought this was cute of Adam and Rachel. They were helping me this afternoon put together the fake tree. It's up, but no decorations yet. I was uninspired to do that. Maybe Casey will do that while I'm at work tomorrow...