War Eagle!

Wow! The Auburn Tigers have really given us fans an exciting season thus far. James is really loving the excitement too and learning the words to the theme song for the season, "All We Do is Win Win Win". I have included a you tube video of the Auburn student section from the Auburn vs. LSU this past weekend. We were celebrating my cousin's wedding in Dahlonega, GA so we missed out on this game but heard the crowd was insanely loud. I can only imagine! We did ride through Auburn on our way home this past Sunday and James got to see Toomer's Corner covered in toilet paper. He was amazed and slightly confused as to why the toilet paper was in the trees. He has only seen it on a roll usually close to a potty :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm0TC6FlV5U

This little Auburn fan is even putting his hands up at the right time and moving them up, down, up, down. We love it. Please don't think we have corrupted our 2 yr old. He calls it the "Auburn Song" and we listen to it in the car to and from school everyday by his request.

Since this post has an Auburn theme I have included a couple of pictures we took while in Auburn for the AU vs. Arkansas game. It was also a very exciting game and we were glad we got to go!!

Halfway There!

Today I am 21 weeks and we have reached the halfway point this past week. Crazy! This pregnancy seems to be flying by possibly because we have super busy lately and still have a few road trips in our future. This past Tuesday we had our 20 wk ultrasound and got to get a sneak peek at this precious little baby. We held strong and did not peek at the lower region so the suspense rising and really is fun to wonder! If you want to leave your prediction in the comment section we would love to hear it!

(it is a picture of a picture so I apologize for the quality)

This little one is currently weighing approximately 12 oz and seems to be perfectly on track! It is a little squirmer to say the least. I knew I felt it moving constantly throughout the day but seeing it move during the ultrasound confirmed all those little movements. The ultrasound tech had to take her pictures quickly for measurements before it moved to a completely different position. The little one gave us a sweet little wave and showed us he/she definitely has all 5 fingers. I wish she would have gotten a picture of the wave but she just wasn't quick enough. We compared the pictures above to James' ultrasound pictures and the profile is very similar but to be honest it is so hard to tell with these pictures.

I am still feeling great and really cannot complain. Sleeping at night has become slightly more difficult. And for some reason I feel more uncomfortable than I did before. I also feel enormous at times which makes me nervous because we still have a long way to go. Oh and I did get my first comment from a random person last week and it was a good one. It came from an middle aged man in the elevator. His exact statement was "so you got you a little poochie?!" Seriously! First, what middle aged man uses the word "poochie" and especially to a stranger. Secondly, you want to ask a lady if she is pregnant and THAT is the best you could come up with. I honestly did not know how to respond so I just smiled and nodded my head and anxiously waited from the doors to reopen so I could escape from the elevator. Below is pic I took today (21 weeks). It is a self portrait so don't laugh. I wanted to make I snapped one before another week elapsed. I guess it is pretty obviously now that I do have a little poochie :)

In other news James is counting down the days until Halloween and we are too! Have I mentioned before he wants me to be Jesse from Toy Story since he is going to be Buzz...I hope I do not disappoint I am not sure I can bring myself to dress up but we will see. Also he is becoming a whiz at puzzles. Loves them and doesn't seem to get too frustrated. I love that he is using his problem solving skills!

Also have to say it is great to be an Auburn Tiger! War Eagle! I hope our tigers come through tomorrow as we have a big game against those other Tigers from Baton Rouge...LSwho? We are super nervous but even if we lose it is always great to be an Auburn Tiger and we of course are huge fans of Cam Newton...All we do is win win win!!



Pumpkin Patch

This morning it felt very much like fall outside and I am loving it so much. I actually turned on my seat warmer and enjoyed my pumpkin spice coffee as I drove to work. This weekend I think the weather is going to be perfect and we are so excited about traveling to Auburn to watch them play Arkansas. It is a big game and it would be great if we win but we are just excited about being there. We are leaving James at home with KK and Pop and I am kind of sad he is not going with us but I am pretty sure we will not be missed.

This past weekend we met our friends Holli and Taylor and their 1 yr old twin babies, Hudson and Stella at a place called Wales West. We had never been before but had heard great things about it. For the fall they have a Halloween theme train ride that takes you to a kid friendly haunted barn and you can pick out a small pumpkin to decorate and then you ride the train back to the main building. It was a huge hit with James! Well except for the haunted area of the barn. It was dark, had strobe lights, it had scary music playing in the background and it had scary skeleton manikins that slightly moved. I had to carry him through and the whole time he kept saying "I not like that, I not like that". I kept thinking we were horrible parents for taking him through it especially since once you got in there was only one way out and that was to to keep walking through. No escape. He soon got over it once he saw all the kid size pumpkins and a blow up Tigger.

Below are the pumpkins we decorated. James likes to point out exactly whose pumpkins is whose. (from L to R mine, James, Chad's)

Here are some pics from the train ride.

And this was our attempt of a picture of the kiddos. Hudson and Stella were on the move and James was concentrating on eating his pumpkin candy sucker.

On Monday when James returned to preschool he described his day to his teacher like this "My mommy and daddy took me on train ride and we picked out pumkins and I not like that thing that spin around" We will be back for Christmas to take a train ride to see Santa!

The Pink House

Our annual trip to the Pink House in Grayton Beach was the last weekend in September. We have been going now once a year since 2008. It started as a girls weekend, James included, to celebrate my aunt Ann's 60th birthday and now has turned into an annual thing. This year we celebrated my cousin April getting married this October. Ann came up with a cheesy idea that we would all dress up in tacky bridesmaids dresses and hang out. Since I am pregnant and didn't really feel like trying to squeeze into a tacky dress I was a judge. The rest of the girls pranced in their dresses in a beauty pageant format as myself, April (the bride), and 2 of the other younger boys there gave each one a score. It ended up being hilarious and more fun than I anticipated. Anna won by a tie breaker and she did her rendition of Bon QuiQui...leave it to her. Saturday we spend a few hours on the beach and watched football. It is always nice to spend a weekend with this side of the family as we do not get to see them often. Here are a few of the pics I took from our time at the beach. I don't have any pics of the "beauty pageant" unfortunately nor do I have any pictures of the "Pink House".

The young kids having so much fun building sand castles with Ann. She is a crowd favorite among all of them. James especially loved playing with her!