Thanksgiving, New Beds, Working Hard, Big News

THANKSGIVING

We have been busy since my last blog.  I will start with Thanksgiving week.  McKay had the whole week off from school and Kory took 3 days off as well.  It was a great week.  We mostly lounged around our home in our PJs.  We stayed busy at our home moving rooms around for the new beds, enjoying the kids playing together, going to places like the library and Carl's Jr. play place, putting up Christmas decor, watching shows, etc.  It was a fun week and I really enjoyed sleeping in a bit.  I feel terrible.  I did not take any Thanksgiving pictures.  I was going to but was so busy preparing food and I forgot to take my camera with me to the Thanksgiving feast.  Oh well.  We spent that morning in our PJs (of course) watching the Macy's Day Parade and the Dog Show afterwards.  I was busy making 5 pies, green salad, jello salad, and rolls.  We then went over to my brother Jared's home and enjoyed Thanksgiving with their family.  After we ate we watched a movie, played hide-and-seek and the domino train game, and had a piano recital.  We had a wonderful time!

 NEW BEDS

McKay has been wanting a bunk bed for years.  We told him someday we will get one.  We finally found one that we were happy with and got a good price on through Craig's List.  This was an early Christmas present for our kids.  We could not keep it a secret for long.  Right away McKay spotted it in the garage and was SO excited.  He did not know exactly what it looked like but knew it was a bunk bed.  He would often go out and just stare at it in the trailer thinking of what it was going to be like and asking us quite frequently when Christmas was going to be thinking he would get it then.  We left it there for a few days and then Kory needed to use the trailer to get some gravel so it was time to put up the beds a bit early before Christmas. 

 Here is Erica when the bed was in the trailer.

 This picture should be the first one not second one.  This is what we did during the Thanksgiving holiday, played a lot (in our PJs)!!!!!!

 This used to be McKay's bed since he was 3 years old.  Now it is Erica's.  Her bed was falling apart and we would find her almost every night sleeping on the floor because either she did not like the bed she was in and would rather sleep on the floor or she was falling off.  This time she is in a huge bed and is staying in it.  She loves it.  She will get her own room, lucky girl.

 Here is the bunk bed.  It has a desk and drawers on one side and shelves on the other.  Right now it is in the girl room (yellow).  We thought it would fit better here.  But after having it up for awhile now and contemplating the situation, we have figured out a way to get it into McKay's boy blue room.  That will be the next big project for Kory.  He will have to move this into the blue room and Erica's new bed into this room.  This way we will not have to paint in the future (we were kind of dreading that because it took forever to get these two rooms just right).

 Kason gets the lower bunk.  We transitioned him from a crib to this bed.  We were not sure how it would work out, but we have had very little trouble with him staying in his bed and he sleeps great at night.  It is a miracle (we had a lot of trouble with Erica transitioning when she was 2 and so we feared this happening again).  On each side of his bed there is a small space so we put the 2 crib matresses we have and stuffed them in the sides so he won't fall out of his bed and hurt himself.  We are going to have to think about something else when we need to use the matresses again in the future.

 This was McKay's dream for years, THE TOP BUNK!  He is in heaven.  I told him the only disadvantage to the situation is that he now has to share a room when before he had his own room.  He does not seem to mind at all.

WORKING HARD

Kory took advantage of the 3 days off from work to get some work done around the house.  Our back yard is a little swampy and so to fix the problem he dug holes in the ground and got to rent a machine to drill the holes and then filled the holes with gravel.  He also did this with some of our garden.  This will hopefully help the water to drain better and the swampy grass and garden will be no more.  He worked really hard shoveling and hauling dirt, and fixing sprinklers, and lots of manual labor.  I don't think he was used to it because he wore himself out and was exhaused each day.  He awarded himself with all the hard work though when he went to a BSU football game on Saturday with a good friend and enjoyed that.

BIG NEWS

We found out recently that we are expecting our 4th baby around the end of July next year!  This is not a surprise.  We have been trying to concieve for about 5 months.  We were in no hurry so this was a pleasant surprise that we are very happy about.  Morning sickness has kicked in and I am sick all day.  Sometimes it is really strong and other times I am fine.  Sometimes eating makes me feel better and sometimes it makes it worse.  Oh well, I knew it was coming and mentally I was preparing before it hit me.  This time also my pants don't fit me already and my hips have widened out and my stomach is already protruding!  I thought this was strange.  It has never happened this early before.  It's really not fun.  I have to wear sweats all day because they are the most comfortable thing I have and that fit me right now.  I am not prepared to get out my maternity pants quite yet.  I am now worried about what the future holds with this pregnancy and what my body is going to go through.  I am going to be huge!!!!  "Maybe its twins", my mom says and my neighbor.  I think if it were, I would be a lot more sicker.  I guess I will find out in December at my first Dr. appointment.  Until then, I think with each child I have, my body size is just going to increase.  Lots of fun.

Halloween

Halloween has come and gone.  It was a fun holiday for our family.  McKay was Zorro.  I bought his outfit last year when Walmart had costumes for $2.00.  It did not come with a hat though, so we spent quite awhile looking for one.  I found a simple black hat at Kidz Again for I think $3.00 and then went to a fabric store and bought the gold trim to make the Z and some more zing to the hat.  He loved it and looked great.  Erica started out as a witch for preschool and then was a horse for a Halloween birthday party she went to and on Halloween ended up a penguin.  Kason was a cow, just like last year.  I have been blessed with kids who do not request being certain things each year and I have to go out and find them the costume.  They are just happy being whatever we have on hand in our house.  It's great.  On Halloween night we went to the park across our street and walked around getting lots of candy that way.  It was pretty cold and windy that day so after we did the park thing we came home and no one wanted to go out to any houses, so we just stayed home and I worked, Kory worked in our garage, and the kids handed out candy to those that came to our door and thought that was lots of fun.  It was a quite, great night and we are still eating lots of candy left over.