sisters make everything better

this morning we went to my doctor's appointment (more on that in the weekly update) and then filled up the car with gas and then headed to target to kill a little time before picking up our free lunch.  you see, my blogging sister emmy had a living social voucher but no restaurants in her area to use it on so she offered it to me.  in my area they were mostly all in denver but one happened to be right by my doctor's office.  so this morning after my appointment, i called emmy and she got everything worked out for me so that baby girl and i could have a delicious and free lunch!  thanks emmy!  and she kept me company on the phone throughout all of the driving, target, etc.  it was fabulous.

while we were at target, baby girl found a few things she wanted to take home with her.  i know i've said it a million times but i'll go ahead and say it again... i hate spending money.  hate. it. 

so instead, i took a few pictures of her with her items and then we said goodbye to thomas and abby and actually made it out of target with ZERO purchases!  amazing!  although if i'd thought of it at the time i totally would have picked up some pumpkin seeds because i've been craving those like crazy for the past 36 hours.  it's okay though, i think we're going to carve pumpkins while we watch the debate tonight for fhe.  are you praying for mitt?  i am!  anyways... back to target.

 

 

 

we go for the one glove look.  and every time we go to the shoe section of target she gets SOOOO excited for these abby slippers.

i seriously was tempted to get these things for her because i knew how happy it'd make her but i'm not about to set us up for a daily battle of "no, you can't wear your thomas hat and abby slippers to walmart and story time at the library."  maybe those slippers will show up in her christmas stocking.

also, i just kept thinking... can i just have her wear these things for halloween with a sign that says "i'm not dressed up.  i'm just a girl obsessed with thomas and abby" because i'm thinking that'd be great.

enjoying some philly cheese steak sandwich

 

the place was right on a super busy road and baby girl LOVED watching the mass of cars and trucks driving by.

 

emmy, thanks again for lunch and for hanging out with us this morning!

ready for my other sister story?!  saturday night, my christopher and i decided to attend the adult session of stake conference for the stake next to us since his dad would be speaking there and it would be nice to be there to support him.  christopher went early for priesthood session and then just stayed.  so when it got close, i got baby girl up from nap, drove her to the babysitter's (who was just getting home from work or else i would have dropped baby off earlier) and then headed to this stake conference.  i'd put the address in my gps and it said i would get there 2 mins before it started.  just enough time to park and race in.  perfect.  except that it didn't work that way.  are you familiar with the dreaded "you have reached your destination" when you know you're not in the right spot?!  because that's what happened when it said i was there and really i was just next to a neighborhood with no church building in sight (unless you count that lutheran church up the street).  the sun was setting and i could barely see so i turned around a few times and tried to look for a church building but it wasn't happening.  by that time, the stake conference had started so i couldn't call my christopher.  i couldn't even text him because i knew he was sitting front and center on the second row.  i called six people but no one was picking up.  i needed someone to be at home on a saturday night with internet access to help me figure out where i was going.  and who saved the day?!  my oldest sister, liza!  i was so relieved to hear her voice!  even though i'm sure all she heard was stress.  i filled her in (not very well) on my situation and gave her the address of the church and the cross streets for the intersection where i was and she guided me to the church building.  oh thank goodness because i was so stressed out, i was sweating profusely, and, of course, wanted to cry.  i'm fragile these days.  i ended up walking in almost twenty minutes late but got there in time to hear all of my father in law's talk.  he specifically mentioned how his two eldest sons were in attendance and his daughter in law carrie as well and how that meant so much to him.  it made me so grateful that i didn't have to give up and head back to parker.  then i would have cried for sure.  so liza, (do you even have time to read this anymore?!) thanks for saving my saturday.  it means the world to me.

and those are just two simple examples of why sisters make everything better.  especially when you're pregnant and emotionally unstable and anti-social and MIA.  if only everyone could have sisters as great as mine.

a picture

 

abby cadabby

i tried my luck to see how much i could get my kid to look like abby cadabby from sesame street.  verdict was that it wasn't enough to pursue the costume.

honey wants her to be elmo and has actually already bought her that costume.  baby girl wants to be thomas.  i want her to be an elephant.

actually... i don't really care what she dresses up as.  i just want her to look cute and have fun.  not in that order though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

red barn fall festival

first, i just have to start this post with my favorite story from this morning...

a few weeks ago, my mother in law sent an email to us kids in the area informing us about a fall festival going on at this barn across the street from their neighborhood.  she forwarded us the actual informational email.  it had a picture of the barn and windmill and then listed the times and all of the activities and everything.  i immediately knew where it was (you drive by it on parker road every time you go up that way and it's seriously right across the street from the entrance to my in law's neighborhood.

so this morning i'm talking to honey about it and said something like "well, we'll be up by parker and arapahoe anyways because of that barn fall festival thing this afternoon" to which he replied "what?!  no we won't.  we won't be anywhere near there.  that thing is just right by us on the other side of parker road."  and then we got into a semi long discussion about it with him being [in my opinion] overconfident and condescending because he assured me that he knew exactly what 17 mile house was and it wasn't by his parents'.  so i went back and checked the email and then googled the literal address and showed it to him on google maps.  then i showed him the picture of the red barn from the email.  and basically, just pieced it together like i would for a foreigner visiting from out of the country.  i can't remember if he said anything (probably not) but we pretty much just silently agreed that i was right.

so then we're pulling out of our neighborhood to go to this thing and he asks which way to turn.  you know where you're taking us?  (says the guy who's lived here pretty much since he was single digits old.)  "yeah, just go like you're going to your parents house and you can't miss it.  so then as we pass by it on parker road (it's seriously so obvious) he insists that he's never seen that barn before in his life!  what?!  how can you miss it?!  and really, you've probably seen that barn literally ten thousand times because your parents have lived in this neighborhood across the street from it for the past TWENTY YEARS!  i found it to be so hilarious that i'm still laughing.  another funny thing about it?  my christopher's brother (who's my age) was there too and he insisted the same thing.  said he'd never noticed it before.  my mother in law and i got a good laugh out of that too and just reassured ourselves that it was a really good thing that they're so skilled in so many other areas.

and in case you're tempted to side with the boys and say, "well maybe it just isn't that noticeable" then i'll add this picture of the view of the barn as you drive by.

it's not super easy to miss.

anyways... moving on.  here are some picture from our fall festival fun.  petting zoo, pumpkin patch, hayrides, bluegrass music, hot chocolate, and "a milking cow."  ha.

also, in case you were wondering about the most unflattering angle to be photographed at 30 weeks pregnant...  i found it.

it is the one that makes the distance from your love handles to your belly button look at least as far as a half marathon. 

also, i am doubting my friendship with stripes.

in other news, baby girl enjoyed a nutritious lunch of fry sauce and ketchup.  

she supplemented that lunch with french fries, onion rings, chocolate milkshake, and frozen custard.  and a few bites each of hamburger and hotdog.  

glamour shots and elle

i really don't break out my big camera as much as i should.  but occasionally i'll pull it out of my nightstand to snap a few pictures of baby girl while i'm getting ready in the morning.  here are a few cute pictures and a whole lot of outtakes.  enjoy!

"i want mommy take picture of abigail climbing!"

because this is what was actually going on...

and here's a few pictures from this morning when elle came over to play for a bit.

and in case you were wondering what they used to look like...

well then here you go.