So, Just A Bit of News......

Seeing as how I haven't posted in months, I have a pretty good reason!

We are joyfully expecting baby number 4!!! I am almost to 22 weeks. It's been a very different kind of pregnancy ( is it a girl?!!!) with massive amounts of heart burn and nausea but I'm still thrilled to be given the chance to do this again!

Here's a sweet picture at our ultrasound last week. I can't tell if it's a girl profile or if it looks like a boy!? We decided not to find out just like with the last two! It will definitely be a wonderful surprise for our family!

The boys are really excited and curious about everything this time around. Two out of 3 are rooting for a girl! I can't wait to get through the rest of this pregnancy safely and see this precious new baby!

October Randomness

So, later in October we decided to transfer Noah out of his crib and into the boys' bedroom.  I was pretty nervous about having all 3 of them in 1 room!    We got ready for our first night and Noah was very excited to be with his brothers!  (And is that a throw up bucket by the bed?  It probably is?  Just keeping it real!)

 

I won't say this as been a bed of roses...there are days/nights that it's very hard to have 3 in 1 room, but they just love it.  They will talk (usually a ton) as they go to sleep and it's just really sweet.  I wouldn't trade it for anything!

 

We still were working hard for our homeschool days and Matthew usually jumps in to do some work too.

 

Matthew had a fall fest at his preschool that was fun.....

And we got ready for Halloween by carving a pumpkin!

 

All 3 boys wanted to be Big Al, so I was happy to let them!  They looked so cute!

Boo!

 

 

We took a few trail walks and enjoyed the few warm days left and I'm glad we did because our winter was a complete nightmare!

A Road Trip to Tuscaloosa!

We had a fall break in October, so I decided that I would take the boys to Tuscaloosa for the week!  We left VERY early when it was still dark and we got to watch the sun rise as we were on the road.

I know my grandparents really enjoyed seeing the boys for a few days because they can't really get out here to see us.

I always travel with my bouncy house because it's instant fun when there's not a lot of toys around!

I was very excited that I got to go to my favorite restaurant, Taco Casa!  I dream of taco burgers and the only place I can get them is here, about 2 times a year!

My next favorite restaurant of all time is City Cafe!  It's tiny and you have to wait in the longest line imaginable, but it is so worth it.  It was one of our favorite college places to eat lunch!

We spent some fun time just hanging out with my grandparents.

Then I decided we should go to an Alabama game.  That was a little bit hard with all 3 boys, but they were thrilled!

Luckily, Dad helped me wrangle the boys and we went to the A Club room to eat lunch before the game.

Judd and Jennie came to meet us at the A Club room as well and we all enjoyed a great meal!

We literally watched the team run in and play 1 play and then ALL the boys were just done.  It was naptime and it was a long day for them, so we decided to go ahead and leave.  I was sad, but it is what it is with tired kiddos.  

At least we had fun for the time that we were there!

On the way out of the stadium we decided to stop off at the newly built Alpha Gamma Delta house.  I had not been to Tuscaloosa in a long time, so I was shocked to see the beautiful new house.  It really was amazing!  I tried so hard to wrangle the boys so they wouldn't break anything or make college girls decide they didn't want to have kids one day!  The new house mom invited the boys into her apartment and gave them food, candy, and let them play with her little dog!  She was so kind to them.  It really was so sweet of her to acknowledge that they were kids and they were going to bang on the nice piano!

I mean, what can you say?  The University of Alabama does sorority houses right!  It was beautiful!  I'm so glad I got to run in and look around while everyone else was at the game!

Later that evening Noah just wasn't acting right and he just laid in the floor screaming and wouldn't get up and he just cried and cried.  I got a little worried and decided I may need to take him to get seen somewhere and then it dawned on us that the ballgame was getting out and 80,000 fans would soon be flooding the roads of Tuscaloosa.  As a last resort, we took the back roads to DCH Northport so that we could avoid most of the traffic heading to the highway.  He threw up while we were at the ER and we got an X-ray of his belly just to make sure.  He ended up being ok and we were back for bedtime.  Poor guy!

It was a long week but a good week.  As you can see, the boys passed out on my grandmother's couch one night!

Pretty soon, it was time to hit the road again.  Since I was alone I had to make sure I did this trip as quickly as possible.  I learned that if I packed our breakfast and lunch and then just handed it back to them, then it could save us up to 2 hours on the road and money as well.  So that's what I did and it as worked out so great doing it this way.  I pack everything the night before and just toss it back with some fruit and a juice box!  Genius!

Arkansas bound!  It was a fun fall break trip!

October Fun!

Back in October we had some really fun things to do!  We were excited that fall was coming!  We took a picnic to a park....

and visited a nearby pumpkin patch for a picnic another day.

We did not do a good job at the grass maze, thus we will not be doing a real corn maze!

Life with boys...finding a toy snake in the wash!

Sometimes it's nice to just stop and read a book when they want you to.  They're only little once!

I took these 2 yahoos with me on a Walmart trip and they insisted on carrying the Bible in with them.  How could I say no?!

I braved the area craft fairs and took them all by myself one afternoon.  It went better than I expected!  They did pretty well.

They even got to ride the cow train all by themselves!  They are growing up so fast and getting so big!

September Wrap Up

So I'm trying to get caught up on the blog month by month, so I'm just picking a few of the highlights from each month!  

We began to find a groove in how to homeschool on our at-home days.  I'm probably still not perfect at this (with 2 other littles at home) but I feel like it's an ever-evolving thing and we'll just go with the flow and live and learn!  I have been so proud of all the things John Michael is learning!

Just a snapshot of life at our house!

I found this picture of when the boys tried to "help" me clean the hardwood floors.  Nice.

We saw "Planes" at a drive-in theater!  It was so much fun!

I quietly and sadly realized our once three-crib house had slowly dwindling down to ONE crib and soon, NO cribs.  

We bought a set of bunk beds from a friend for the boys' room and they were so thrilled!  It was almost time to start the transition of Noah into their room in a few weeks.

I found this cute picture of Matthew being my biscuit cutter-outer helper!  I think he likes to help cut the biscuits out so he can sneak pieces of dough!

I love catching quiet, still moments like these when they have no idea you see them.

We had one last batch of tomatoes from the garden and they were so yummy!

And we reveled in something new to us: a child that can read!  I have NO idea why it's been so amazing to watch this year, but I've just been amazed that within only 3 weeks of school starting, JM was learning to read small things like the "Dick and Jane" books.  We were so proud and he was so embarrassed that we were so proud!

September is always a strange month.  You can't quite kiss summer goodbye because it's still so hot, but football season has begun, school has begun, church activities have picked back up, and fall feels like it's just waiting to burst forth with that first early morning cold snap.  September was a good, slow month of getting back into the swing of real life after the break of summer!