20 Weeks

As promised to a few friends, here are some belly shots from this week. Ella is my photographer. I definitely popped after Thanksgiving and at my 20 week appointment finally gained some weight. :)

These pics were taken between 20 and 21 weeks. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

So here is how our Thanksgiving went:

Tom decided what an awesome idea it would be to brine the bird. So we did. And when you brine a bird you turn the oven up to 500 degrees and the bird cooks for 30min to get it started. Wellllll, it was 8 am and the smoke detectors start going off. Yeah. That was from our house. This building is so old that the detectors are EVERYWHERE. In every room, hallway, stairwell...and they are loud. Think school building fire alarm. Needless to say, we met all of our lovely neighbors downstairs in their pjs that morning. I am pretty sure this just gives them more reason to hate us besides the fact that my kids stomp everywhere when they walk. At least the firemen were friendly:)

BUT the bird turned out absolutely delicious so it was all worth it. We had some wonderful friends join us for dinner and we were very grateful for their company! God has been so good to us and we definitely don't need a holiday to remember that.

November Catch-Up

Well another month is flying by and here I am again as usual...catching up. It's been a really exciting month so far filled with great news. New place to move to, new car, new gender soon to arrive in this house...

But here is some of what happened in the 11th month:

We discovered story hour on post has improved tremendously since we last went two years ago!

I took the girls to Norman for a full day of shopping...7 hours with my kids and they were shopping champs. Tom, however, wasn't so thrilled with the total when we arrived home;) BTW, Ella used tortilla chips as vampire teeth in that pic.

And what is a month catch up without photos of Madeline napping? I think I take so many of her sleeping because it's my favorite time of day. ;)

We had an indoor picnic with our friend Louisa!

Madeline loves to act like the wicked witch. She cracks me up!

Baby P #3 is a...

BOY!!!!!!

Thank you to Kim Haynes for taking these absolutely adorable shots to help with our reveal!

We are really excited to welcome a boy into our world! 

Peace

Even though I am sad that Mitt Romney lost the election, I know what's most important in my world:

Because at the end of the day...nothing else really matters.

(PS. They do not normally sleep together. I put them in separate beds, but Ella must have climbed in with Madeline to keep her company.) Just melts my heart.

New Mom Mobile

I am no longer driving my little four door sedan. I moved up in the world of mom mobiles. I absolutely LOVE my new vehicle and feel totally spoiled by it. It has so many bells and whistles on it that I can't keep up. Ella asks me to play her Disney station on Pandora through the car and I know it can...I just haven't figured out how. The girls can watch movies now (only on long road trips is the rule). I can touch screen everything and call some concierge lady and she is so overly friendly that I really want to use her everyday just to chat. But I have held back on that;) I can't even count the number of cupholders this thing has. (The BMW only has 2. Yes, two. I learned that the Germans don't really care for that convenience.) I never have to dig around for my keys in my purse. As long as they are in there, I can press a button on the door to open it and then inside to start it. Most convenient feature ever, especially as a mom whose hands are often filled with grocery bags or kids cups or children for that matter. When we purchased our German souvenir back in 2006, we LOVED it. I mean we thought it was the best thing ever. Now, I find myself making excuses to get out of the house just to drive my new wheels. I heart it.

It's an Infiniti JX35

Summer 2013

Happy November! We received some really great news today. We will be headed to Newport, Rhode Island this summer. Tom was chosen to attend the Naval War College there for Command and Staff college aka MAJ schooling for those not familiar with the military:) He came home with some nice Sam Adams beer and told me to start celebrating. I think I screamed and then pulled a Tom Cruise and literally jumped on our couch. To say I am excited to leave Ft. Sill is an understatement. As much as I love our little post here, after 6 years, of living here I am very ready for a change. We will be a few hours from our NY family and that makes me beam with happiness. Until you have lived states and states away from family and friends you will never know what it feels like to be somewhat close to them again. It's like a breath of fresh air.

I am very proud of my husband. He was one of two air defenders chosen for this spot. He loves his job and works his tail off. It's nice to see hard work pays off every now and then. Even though we will only be there for less than a year, I am looking forward to what Newport will bring to us.

This is the Naval War College in Newport. Absolutely beautiful!