kids say the funniest things

So the other day I am getting ready and Carter comes over to me and says mom your belly is really big is that baby ready to come out yet? I said Oh I hope not, Carter Mommy still has a very long time left until the baby will be healthy and strong. Carter then says you mean it is going to get even bigger than that! Not so much the wording but his facial expressions were killing me. I love my kids even when there honesty makes you feel like a huge COW!

Getting Bigger

Last night watching tv, me and Ben were talking and I coul feel the baby moving like crazy so I put my hand on my stomach and felt it. I turned to Ben and said do you want to see if you can feel the baby so he put his hand on my stomach and totally felt it. We were so excited. I am only 20 weeks I will be 21 on wednesday so we didnt think we would feel it so soon so it was very exciting. We only know about 80% that it is a girl. Every time I go in she is very modest my other kids were like here I am so hopefully next time we will know for sure.

We are having a ........

Little Girl! We are so excited and we finally have an official due date August 28th.
We are very excited and especially glad that the baby is doing good. It was pretty scary there for a while but today to see the heart beat and know that our little woman is growing and developing right on schedule it brings a lot of comfort. Thank you to my wonderful sisters and all there love and support during the past 16 weeks. I couldnt have made it without you. I hope and pray that from here on out no more scares. Especially no more kidney stones good love like pregnacy sickness isnt mean enough throw that in there. No really I am grateful people have it a lot worse so I am thankful I can actually handle all that I just struggle with the problems with the baby more than anything. But for this week and hopefully the rest to come we are good. Thank you for all your love and support and prayers it really helped our family out alot.

Baby #4 here we come!

Yes it is true we are blessed to be having another little one in our home. It was a surprise and we couldnt be happier. We are still not 100% on the due date it is either august the 24th or september 1st. It has been a rough one but well worth it and we cant wait to find out what we are having. All the kids would love a little brother. Carter actually said Mom if it is a girl can we send it back and get a brother? I laughed so hard. He also said mom there are too many girls in this house I need a boy to play star wars and superheros with. I love my kids and no matter what we have we will be excited. We find out hopefully if the baby works with us on March 10th I will be 16 weeks that is when we found out what our kids were. So we will keep you updated!

random thoughts

I am having one of those days of feeling like you dont give enough thanks for the things that you have. In a moment things can be perfect and in a instant it can all be taken away. I am so grateful for my life, I have it better than I could ever imagined. I have an amazing husband and three beautiful, happy, healthy children. I am so grateful to be me and thank you to everyone that has been a part of my life even if it was as simple as a smile. I held my baby girl today in my arms and squeezed her so tight and told her how much I loved her and I didnt want to put her down and the best part is she held me close and gave me hugs and kisses and told me she loved me. What more could a mom want than a moment like that. It is great to be me! As the top of our blog states dont blink, truley in an instant the are all grown and life is passing you by. I dont want it to pass me by I want to be in it and live in the now and not worry about tommorow I want to see and be apart of every little thing. Sorry about the random thoughts it was just one of those days.

Sisters

A girl couldnt ask for better sisters! I love each of these women right here! I love that we all have such strong relationships with each other. We are there for each other rain or shine it is such a comfort to have them by my side!

Our very own pumpkins

okay so we decided to grow our own pumpkins in our garden this year! Wow what ever we did we did it right. We got 7 pumpkins all together, we had eight but someone took one it grew outside of our fence so what can you do! Anyways our kids loved watching them grow and when they picked them it was worth all the work! Well really what am I talking about I didnt really do anything but water here and there I cant take the credit on this one. Well if you have ever read the story book the berenstein bear with the giant pumpkin well I believe it was in our backyard it weighted over 100 pounds it was awesome it is the one Hallie is sitting on! We hope we have as good of luck next time!