My little Crayons

For Halloween we really love to put together family theme costumes. My husband heard about a local campground that hosts trick or treating mid-October, so we decided to get things ready and go! We had a few friends that went with us too (that aren't pictured). They went along with the theme as coloring pages, a paint brush (her hair was the brush!) and a painters palette.

Here's a group shot of our family...




P.s. I realize many of you already saw this on Facebook, but I wanted it here for my own reasons :O)

Bitten by the craft bug

Most of my days are so filled with the ordinary obligations that I don't often get inspired to many 'extra' things. This week, however, I had an itch to do something crafty.

I started off by making this FALL sign for my shelf,


and then Amanda and I had a TON of fun making different scarves out of old t-shirts!

We went in for our 20 week ultrasound today....

It's

A

GIRL!!!!


I was certain that we were going to have a boy, but being wrong is good too. I'm beyond excited!! :O)

Breaking the silence

The last month has zipped by packed with lots of activity!

We repainted our dining room and installed new flooring. Ian built a nice big table and new (much sturdier) benches! Isn't it pretty?






Amanda turned 11 and had the privilege of getting her ears pierced.


Leenie (Kathleen) turned 2 and is just as adorable as ever....yes, I am biased just a wee bit.


Aaaaand, we hosted our 2nd annual Sims Birthday Bash! Essentially this is one big 'ole birthday party a year instead of hosting a friend party for each of the kids on their individual birthday's. It was perfect weather this year and we had a blast. I do believe that the kids' favorite activity was the face painting.


Ian seemed to like roasting the pig! It turned out SO yummy.

I've come to the realization though that I should not try and be the host and photographer. We simply didn't get enough photos to document the day because I was too busy! :P

Lets see....we also started back to full time school work and extra curricular activities like music lessons, band, AWANA, & a science co-op.

I'm 18 weeks along with baby #10 and feeling pretty good. We go in for a sonogram in a couple of weeks to get a peek and hopefully get to find out baby's gender. : )