Baby #3

excited to be welcoming a new little addition to our family next year.  Another baby boy for us. I was really really really wanting a girl and was hoping all my family and friends would be right in their predictions, but boy it is.  I'm still excited for baby to be here. {Although not sure how I'm going to handle 3 boys}  This baby is due on Nicholas 4th birthday, which I think would be so fun for them to share a birthday.
Brock wants the baby to come on New Years. So far I have been feeling great. although I do get tired every day at 3:00 on the dot. and usually put on a cartoon for the boys to watch while I lay down. but other than that I'm feeling great.

GRRRRRRRRRR!

Can you tell I'm mad. and can you blame me when my little garden goes from this:

 

 to this:

In just a few days.  GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!   Apparently here in New England (well East of the rockies actually) they have these "fun" little moths called Vine Borers that like to attack your vine plants from the inside out.  Literally over night your plants die, at least mine did.
Brock was very very upset about this, lots of tears.  They got our cucumbers, zucchini, butternut squash, and pumpkins.  Nicholas was pretty sad about it to. Mainly because his cute little pumpkin stopped growing!  Guess we will have to head to the pumpkin patch instead.   Hopefully we will have better luck next year. 

Our First Veggie!

We have been anticipating this for a long time. Today Brock and I went out and picked the very first veggie from our garden.  

 

a CUCUMBER!

Watching Our Garden Grow

 Is there anything better than watching a garden grow.  So excited to reap the benefits!

Turning FIVE!!!!!

5 questions for the birthday boy BROCK!
What is your favorite meal?  "that turkey bacon thing we had at Thanksgiving!"  (another tradtion we will need to continue)
What do you want to be when you grow up?  A football player.
What is your favorite thing to do at school?  play with my friends and centers.
What is your favorite Color?  Blue
What are you scared of?  red storms  (Doppler radar red storms)

Planting a Garden

The past few years we have spent our summer in Utah visiting family.  This year we stayed here and I decided it was the best time to have a real garden.  First step building our garden boxes. 

The Boys were such good helpers. We are all very excited to see how our garden turns out!  

Lots of happy tears...

I can't begin to tell you what a happy day it has been for my family. My mommy got married today.  We kept it simple with just close family. My mom had her kids there (all seven of us) and all of here siblings. We also believe  her parents were there with us too. There are not enough words to completely describe how completely happy we are for our Mom. After 18 years of being single she has found a man who is amazing in every sense of the word. We all love him dearly, not only because of who he is, but how he treats our mom.  Today our family received  major blessings.
 There were a lot of happy happy tears shed today.

(thanks Teresa for the great pic)
 But most importantly were the cheers expressed in Heaven.