it has been a while!

well there aren't tons of pictures from the last week or so...but here are some pics of our house all decorated for the season. jackson was sick last week and this week was my turn...hopefully we will get back into the swing of things this upcoming week! :) hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season! 

Dave did such a wonderful job on the lights!!! he worked pretty hard on it and Jackson told him when he finished hanging them up it looked like we had a 'Christmas House'!

The playroom! Jackson, Suzanny and Lauren did this tree....Jackson wouldn't let Dave or I decorate the tree...only Suzanny! 

Jackson, Katy and Dave's stockings

Lauren, Houston, Allison and Suzanny's stockings

our Texas star stocking holders!

last trimester!

Well we are officially in the last trimester! Yesterday marked the 3 months till my due date! Gosh is goes by fast....but not as fast as the kids growing up! :) I still don't plan on finding out what the baby is, but parts of me is really wanting to know for xmas...i am trying to stay stong. 

In other news, Suzannah is coming home today and we are so thrilled to see her! The kids shirts are all ready and we are going to meet her at the airport tonight!!!! hard to believe we haven't seen her since the end of August. I know she will be busy at UofA, but at least we can meet up for dinner. Italy is WAY TOO FAR! I know she had a great time and I am so glad she did this.  She is also going to get to be here for the baby being born...she plans on cutting the cord (eww!). Pictures of her arrival will come later!!!! 

thanksgiving surprise!

we had a great Thanksgiving and then the Higgins family showed up the day after!!! It was a big surprise since they booked it 6 days in advance! Here are some pics from our great 4 days together! Their son Freddy is Jackson's best friend and they had so much fun!

We started with coloring!

Next we went to the Gentry Safari!

Building gingerbread house!!! they really liked this...and eating all the candy!

so proud!

I think it turned out really well :) 

watching the snow flurries....they were soooo excited about them! this pic was before church...it was fun driving in the flurries with the boys and Lauren! She had never really seen snow and kept pointing out different windows saying 'look'!

playing games with Uncle Jack!

and don't forget the hot chocolate!!!

our group photo....next year we will have two more kids in this christmas photo!

our cute kids!!!

they loved having the timer go off...and watching the red light!

teaching Freddy the 'Bellomy camping'! i think he knew we were missing the tent and hot dogs!

lauren's first snow!! she couldn't stop telling Freddy 'SNOW!'

she had so much fun :)

her favorite part was eating it!

yes, that is a snowman...and it's not as big as it looks :)

Jackson was soooo proud! i think it was 8 or 10 inches tall!

freddy and his family were supposed to be flying out while we made the snowman...but they ended up staying for an extra night (due to weather). We had steak and bought bath crayons for the kids for one last fun activity. 

we also squeezed in a homemade apple pie!  this piece came out perfect!!

Did I mention Stacy is pregnant too??? She is due May 3rd and I am due March 4th! our boys are only 5 weeks apart, it is so fun to be pregnant together again. Neither one of us are finding out what it is this time...i can't wait to see what we have :) I kind of hope at least one of us has a girl or Lauren is going to have 4 boys taking care of her and will never go on a date! 

(Dave will like that!! )

Well now that I have written this post I see why I was so tired yesterday! we were busy and did a lot...but it was worth every minute, it was so wonderful to see our Aggie friends and we were so blessed by their visit! can't wait till the next gathering (with all 9 of us I bet)!!!

First trip to the movies!!!!!!

Dave thought tonight would be a great night to take the kids to their FIRST movie! I was a little worried about taking Lauren (so was dave) but it turned out great!!!  Jackson was in shock at how big the screen was...Lauren was interested in the popcorn (and the movie too)! Lauren didn't even get out of her chair till halfway through the movie and even then she just sat in our laps and ate more popcorn. Everyone had a great time and by the end I was teary eyed. I just couldn't believe that we just sat through a movie with TWO children! When did all this growing up happen??? thank goodness we have another baby on the way, this is all happening way tooo fast! 

I do believe that every picture we took of the kids Jackson was just in awe and Lauren had popcorn in her mouth! Yes, I am the crazy mom who took pics when we sat down and when it was over! I just couldn't resist!!!! 

we asked jackson afterwards if he liked the movie and he said he liked going, but didn't want to see that movie again... "the lady that was mean to the lions was scary!" if you have seen the movie you know who he is talking about. It really is a cute movie and we laughed all through it! I do think it was a little mature for Jackson...but all is all this has been a GREAT day! 

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Today we had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving with our Arkansas family! Here are the kids making presents for out guests. We are so thankful for all the wonderful people in our lives and how God has truly blessed us here in Siloam Springs, AR! 

Not a big group of people, but we had a wonderful time!!!! so much fun and so many laughs! This is the group of folks we spend all our holidays with when we aren't with our family. Of course we were missing quite a few....but we look forward to Chrismas and the future holidays to come! (The McCord family and Ms. Alice!)

fun day at the park

We had a really nice day the other day...the high was in the 60's and we had to take advantage of it. we ended up staying almost 2 hours! Lauren had also just gotten a haircut right before we went...our little girl isn't a baby anymore!!!