Long Day of Posts!

Okay, so I think this last post is finally making us caught up for a little while... or at least until our church's Fall Festival tomorrow evening and other things we have going on this week. =)

I must say though that I don't think I can post all day like this again for a while - waiting on pictures to upload and accidentally deleting some of them to where I have to redo them can be exhausting! Not to mention our little Miss trying to type on the computer and deleting what I've wrote! But what can you expect from an 18 month old, right?

Anyway, so enough of my whining - these pictures are from yesterday (Sunday) evening. (This day also happened to mark my 35th week of being prego!) My parents (Nana and Pawpaw), Jason and I, and some of our friends met at my sister's house to carve pumpkins and to enjoy yummy food and fellowship. My brother-in-law had to work, though. We missed you David! But other than that, we had a great time!

As a side note, most of the really good pictures, like the one of me, J, and R are on my mom's camera because mine seemed to make the pictures come out sort of dark. My mom was also busy running around taking pictures, so somehow I managed to not get any of her, either! Oh well! Nevertheless, I still managed to end up with a TON of pictures. These aren't even all of them!

My sweet nephew Jaeden *youngest of the 4 J's

Jorryn*next oldest J

Joshua*second oldest J


Joshua's almost finished pumpkin.

And Jared*Oldest of the 4 J's (with Pawpaw)

My sister(or Aunt Sis) helping Jorryn

Rebekah loved to play with the scoop! She thought she was really working hard on those pumpkins! Although at one point I let her reach her scoop into Daddy's pumkpin just to see her get excited, and then before I knew it, a scoop of raw pumpkin insides went straight into her mouth! Yuck!

Daddy working hard on "gutting" his pumpkin

(left to right) Jacob, Ella Kate, and Brandie

It started getting dark on us pretty quickly so we had to move the festivities inside. This picture: Cristina helping Jared (his stencil was a Star Wars one that was really difficult!) and Jackie posing for a picture for her hubby, Jason.

Little Jacob was so much fun! He is just one month older than Rebekah and is a ball of energy!

R trying out the rocker.

Love this one! (except for the chili on her mouth)

Ella Kate and Rebekah playing together.

Jason's finished product! This was done from a stencil, but J worked hard, and it payed off! Way to go honey!

Gift Registry

Jason's cousin Staci was sweet and thoughtful enough to recently offer to throw us a baby shower for Noah! So we finally got around to getting registered last week! Getting registered is always fun, but definitely exhausting and might even tend to provoke a few tiny disagreements between the husband and me. But in the end, it was a relief to get it done and Rebekah thought it was fun to look at everything and I can't wait to be around the family to celebrate at the shower next weekend!

Target is one of my favorite, favorite, places to shop - for everything! (They gave us TWO scanners, which was great, because we were able to be on different aisles at the same time...this was also not so great as some funny things ended up on the registry without me looking! Thankfully you can go online and edit your registry! =)

Babies R Us can be a bit overwhelming if you've never had a baby and you aren't sure where to start. There are SO many products and so many things that they tell you you HAVE to have! And it makes sense that you need so much. So needless to say, I am so glad that we knew more of what we were doing this time around! There was a lady helping us that gave us a sales pitch on everything and then proceeded to point out when we were done that we only had 38 items on our registry! We just smiled and were thankful to be done!

J couldn't believe I actually brought my camera with us! I'm glad he at least humored me a little.

They don't look related, do they?

These were at the end of the evening, around dinner for us and bedtime for Rebekah, so that's why my sweeties don't look too thrilled.

Of course, once we let Miss Independent sit all by herself in the big chair, she was a happy camper!

Date Night

Last Wednesday night, Jason and I decided (spur of the moment) that we were LONG overdue for a date night, minus our little munchkin. So we played hooky and didn't go to lifegroup (oh but we still love you guys!) and let Pappy (J's dad) spend some time with Bekah so we could go eat at one of our most favorite places to eat - Texas de Brazil**! Mmmm, it was SO good. And let me just say that I got my protein in that night! As an added bonus and definitely a God thing, we ran into a friend that Jason used to know from church who is working there now, so we got to catch up with him and then he gave us a discount off our meal! Talk about an unexpected blessing! Afterward, we picked up dessert from Sonic and visited with Pappy for a little while and then called it a night. What a refreshing, fun date night with my wonderful hubby! We know we won't get very many more before our little Noah makes his debut!

**For those of you who don't know or who haven't been there, they have the most amazing salad bar, complete with soup, all kinds of greens, all kinds of cheeses, shrimp, salmon, etc. and then you go sit down and get a card that is green on one side and red on the other. When you put it on green, it basically means, "go" and servers dressed up in gauchos and button down shirts bring around different types and cuts of meat, cooked and seasoned to perfection. I'm talkin pork, chicken, lamb(which isn't exactly my favorite!), steak, and the list goes on! You can get them to give you as much or as little as you like, and they just keep coming around until you put out your red for "stop." The only time we ever put it on red is when our plates are full and we need to make room for more! And if it's not cooked the way you like it, they go and get what you want. I used to hear about restaurants like these and thought how disgusting all that meat sounds, but going there has definitely changed my mind!**

Anyway, now that I'm making myself hungry by talking about all that food (which is not too uncommon these days), I thought I'd share a few pictures. And just for the record, I did not have anything of the alcoholic nature to drink - I simply am REALLY good at almost closing my eyes for the flash or looking the wrong way, almost every time! =)

Fun with Daddy's Toys and a visit with Granna

Granna came over on the 16th for a visit. (She hadn't seen our apartment, and we may or may not have borrowed her steam cleaner and kept it for way too long and so she might have wanted it back. =) So we were super excited for her to come over and chat with us and love on Rebekah for a little while. Jason shared swat training stories and showed us all the stuff they have to carry and the fun "toys" they get to play with. Rebekah had fun playing with them too! The first picture is of his training bag (seriously, it could fit a dead body in there!) that Rebekah kept standing in and then jumping out of (with Granna's help). She also tried on the mask and thought that the headset was a phone. She kept saying, "Hewo?" and was putting the wrong part up to her ear.

**By the way, Granna (J's mom) also left for Portland last Tuesday to see a specialist for her inner ear problems she's been having for a really long time now. She's there for 2 weeks, while they run tests and see what they can determine and what they can do for. Please, please, keep her and the family in your prayers!**

33 weeks

Me at 33 weeks.

Boxes

Here are a some pictures from a few weeks ago. We made a trip to Sam's to stock up on a few things, and we used several of the boxes in these pictures to carry them into the house. Rebekah found one she particularly liked the most and since she likes to sit on everything like a chair, it was perfect. She likes to carry around bags or purses and tell us "bye bye" and head for the door. Then she'll play with the zippers on her bags and open and close them and put things in them. Sometimes she'll even include her play phone and my keys. She's not quite tall enough to open the doors yet (Thank the Lord!) but she thinks she is. =) The bag she has in these pictures is her lunch box. It was too funny!

Pappy's Baseball Game

Jason's Dad is on a men's baseball team. We decided to go check it out last Thursday night and I couldn't resist posting these cute pics of our little cutie playing with Daddy and the baseball. She was being so much fun. She kept wanting to throw and chase the ball around, chase after Daddy, and give kisses to Pappy through the fence. We were the only fans that showed up to cheer on the team (maybe because it was a weeknight and started at 7) but all the players thought Rebekah was great support! (My camera doesn't take the best night pictures, so I didn't get any of the game itself because they didn't turn out.)




These shots of Bekah bending over are my favorite! It was hilarious to watch!

The Dentist

Jason and I got our teeth cleaned last Thursday morning. Thankfully, our dentist is located right over by where my mom and dad live, so while Jason got his teeth all sparkly fresh, I was able to take Olivia and Rebekah over to my parents' house to watch tv and eat a snack. Of course my parents were both at work, but it was so nice to just veg for a little while. When he was done and it was my turn, he had someone come look at our car. (Long story short, our Jetta's been having some problems and we were referred to a guy who is a mobile service, so he came to us). Anyway, Jason had the girls sit at this little table and "color" (this was the first time for Rebekah to even hold a crayon, I think). They look so big!