happy thanksgiving and here come the holidays!

Bailey had a "Harvest Feast" at Preschool last Tuesday. She was pretty stinkin' cute in her 'Pilgrim Girl' hat and her place mat that she made. She used the place mat at home for every meal, and then at Guh W's house for the turkey dinner. Good thing it was laminated!

We had Thanksgiving dinner at Guh and Papa Wallace's. It was DELISH! The Stewarts, Morgans, and Arcinegias were also there. I made SIX pies and sweet potatoes as my contribution. We had Traditional Pumpkin, Double Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake, Pecan, Chocolate Cream, Peanut Butter, and Banana Cream (Bailey's specialty). It was a lot of pie, but everybody got to take almost a whole pie home for left overs! YUMMY! PS: It was 80 degrees on Thanksgiving!

The day after Thanksgiving we put up all of our Christmas decor and outside lights. Both of the kids were really excited about the decor, and Benson is having a hard time just 'looking with his eyes, not hands.' But, Bailey, the decoration security, is never far and quick to 'remind' him. He loves the "dar" (star) on the tree, and the "hohohohoho's" (santas) on the fireplace. Bailey helped me decorate the tree and Benson is now redecorating it for us. Everyday we have to move more ornaments up the tree. The bottom two feet of the tree are pretty bare, but safe. :)

JUST THREE DAYS UNTIL THE BABY COMES!!!

what a turkey

I had to post these pictures, because this is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time! This is my niece, Laura (14 mos), wearing a turkey hat that my Aunt Pam (fabulous knitter) made her. I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this, and had to share. She's so stinkin' cute!

Don't forget to guess on "Prize Per Pound!" (See post below!)

prize per pound

Okay....I only have 9 days left.!!! It's time to make our guesses about how big Brynley will be. Here's some info to go off of: I will only be 37 weeks. Benson was born at 37.5 weeks, and was 7lbs 2 oz, 19 inches, and I had gained 12 lbs during the pregnancy. Bailey was 41 weeks, and was 8lbs 9oz, 21 inches, and I gained 50 lbs during the pregnancy (YIKES!!). I have not gained ANY weight during this pregnancy. I am still down 2 lbs from where I started. (Woo-Hoo for me! I guess it's my consolation prize for having such a miserable time. Or possibly a result of barfing everyday?) To see how big my belly is, check out the "Baby Shower" post, I haven't changed much. I'll try and post a belly picture later. Everyone who reads this MUST guess! The winner may get a prize courtesy of Guh Leseberg. Let's just say, FLAMINGOS will be involved.

Oh, and you can also guess if she'll have hair or not. Bailey had a head of curly dark brown hair, Benson had a skimming and mullet of medium brown hair. Brandon was pretty much bald (not much has changed!), and I had a fair amount of BLACK hair.

Here's my guess:
6lbs 10 oz, 18 inches.
Skimming of dark brown hair

Bailey's Guess:
2 lbs 0oz, 3 inches long. :)
"just a little bit of black hair"

holy hand-me-downs!

I don't normally take pictures of my dirty laundry, but this isn't really dirty, and none of it's mine. It's all BABY clothes! I went thru the several boxes of hand-me-downs from several different sources, and washed and freshified the clothes. This baby is going to have a ridiculous amount of clothes. Best of all...FREE! Thanks to all for the hand-me-downs, or hand-me-arounds, as some of these were Bailey's and have gone to two other cousins before coming back to us. Gotta love it...cute stuff, hardly worn, but worn by many. I say these clothes definitely got their monies worth out of them! Oh, and this was only about HALF of what was given! And the outfit Benson is wearing, also a hand-me-down. His whole winter wardrobe is courtesy of his cousin, Gavin. (I took a picture of him by the laundry so you could see how high the piles were stacked!) Again, thanks to everyone for clothing my children!