Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful thanksgiving. Now that we live 2 hours away from my family things...such as holidays and family functions are a little more complicated. There's the packing and schedule coordinating and figuring out what to do with the dogs. This year we added in a sinus infection and colds to the fun, but it was still a great weekend.

We spent some time exploring Papa's woods.

 And Grammy let the littles help her make the pies. 

 This little guy enjoyed his first Thanksgiving!

 Grady ate more salami than turkey.

 One thing that I enjoy about being out of town guests is the extra down time spent with family that would normally been spent at home. Friday brought an ice storm and we spent the day lounging, playing games, drinking coffee and eating pie. A pretty perfect day!

We returned to Oklahoma to the aftermath of a pretty big ice storm, and no power. Luckily, the power returned shortly after we got home.

Welcome Baby Marshall

Welcome to the world Mr. Marshall Cruz!!! We are so thankful for a smooth and safe arrival of our healthy little bear. 

 (It was so smooth your Dad even slept through part of it!!) 

 When we asked Grady what day he thought you would come he said, "2". We thought he was way off, but he was way close. We tried hard to get you here before midnight, but I guess you didn't want to share your day with the groundhogs.

 We had a BIRTH-day party, but you couldn't have the cupcake so Grady ate it for you.

 We love you Marshall and thank the Lord for you! We are so blessed to have you as our baby bear!

Baby Bear Digs

I had a lot of fun putting together another little boy nursery. I love combing pinterest for ideas and then pulling it all together. I decided to go with a woodland theme this go around. I had originally wanted to go with a mint wall color, but couldn't resist the green ikea shelf which meant I had to go a different route with the walls. My favorite part of the room is the trees that I painted, I was pretty pleased with how they turned out.

Baby Boa is a...

We had a gender reveal to announce the gender of baby #2. We had our sonogram tech. put the sex of the baby in an envelope and then we delivered it to my sister. My sister got to be the first person to find out, and then she got to stuff the pinata (that took an insane number of hours to make) with items correlating with the sex. It was a lot of fun to actually be surprised at the gender reveal this go around.

I went with a pumpkin theme, since I am nuts about fall and we found out in the Fall.

 Team Blue. 

 Team Pink

 We let Grady pull the strings!

 BLUE!!!

 My sister loved being the first to know!!

We were so excited to be having another little guy! Cheers to brother bears!!!

Baby Boa Pregnancy

I obviously didn't document the pregnancy through posts, but I did take pictures. That counts for something, right?

Overall this pregnancy seemed tougher then my pregnancy with Grady, but I think that was just because I had Grady to chase. That being said I have been blessed to have to really great pregnancies. I experienced some nausea and heartburn, back aches and headaches and of course the FATIGUE, but it was nothing compared to what others, aka my Mom, experience(d).

When we asked Grady what he wanted to name the baby he said, "Boa Constrictor". So we are calling this babe, Baby Boa for the time being. 

A big announcement (about a year late)

This comes as no surprise, but it has been a LONG time since I blogged. Life is busy, good busy. Sometimes I think I should forget about this 'ole blog, as I have never really been consistent, but for some reason I keep coming back to it, so I'm going to give it a go again.

So the biggest thing that has happened since I last blogged is this...

Yep, we announced last August that we were expecting again. We were so excited!!!

100 days of happiness

So I'm going to try this again, ya know, the whole blog thing. We will see how long it lasts. Hopefully at least the length of the 100 days of happiness challenge my sister and I are trying to complete.

Day 1:

Nothing makes me happier than this little face. Words cannot describe the joy he brings me! We spent the day hanging as a family after church. He boycotted nap time so we spent some time in the kiddy pool.