I did a stupid thing this weekend. I tripped and fell and twisted my ankle. We went to the emergency room shortly afterwards. The baby is just fine but the doc said I should stay off my foot for 3 weeks! That is just not going to happen. I've done really well at staying off of it since it happened and I will be home by myself all day tomorrow to give it more time to be elevated and heal. It has greatly improved since it happened yesterday. I can't walk on it yet, but hopefully in the next day or two I will be able to take a step. Below are a couple of pictures. It is still pretty swollen and black and blue.





A few days ago I was checking on the kids because I hadn't heard them for a while. I came into the living room and saw them like this watching TV. They were so cute.

Nice butt crack Alana.

We've been busy enjoying life down here in Tennessee. It has gotten chilly over the past month. I already can't wait until spring comes around again.

Alana has all next week off of school for Thanksgiving vacation. We are headed to Steve and Jenae's - http://fundingslandfamily.blogspot.com - for Thanksgiving. Steve is on his way home from Afghanistan right now for 18 days. Chris is just itching for him to come home. He can't wait to play with his buddy again. We should have a great time and eat some great food.

Here are some recent pictures we have taken of the girls. They have been doing great except that Alana has a cold right now. Hopefully it will pass quickly and the rest of us don't catch it. Anyway, enjoy the pictures.





Dare devil.



Just watching some TV.



Alana made this Pilgrim bonnet at school.



Silly girl.



Just pickin'.



Outside play time.

HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

Halloween!

We've had a good Halloween week. We started last Sunday looking for a couple of pumpkins. The girls each picked out one. It sure was a tough decision for them.



Then we cleaned out the pumpkin. Alana thought it was too icky and only helped for a bit.



Dad cleaned the rest of it out for the girls.



We carved Alana's pumpkin on one side and Alana colored the other side. They kinda went nuts with the markers.

Alana was a Fairy Princess and Skyler just wore a pumpkin shirt.

It's a boy!

We had our doctor's visit today and we found out we are expecting a boy! We are very excited. He is right on track with his development. The doctor actually said he is measuring a week longer than the rest of his body measurements. She said he will probably be a long baby. I will try to put up some pictures of the ultra sound pictures. I need to scan them at work and I won't be back to work until Monday because Skyler has diarrhea and she can't go to daycare tomorrow.

Have a great weekend!

I know it has been a month since we have updated the blog. We have been busy and we haven't taken many pictures lately. Here are a few from earlier this month when we went to Minnesota for Jamie's funeral. The girls loved being on the farm.

Here is a picture of all the youngest grand kids. L to R - Lauryn, Alana, Sophie, Katie and Erica and Skyler.

Chris cleaned out the closet under the stairs and it has become the toy closet. The girls love it. He got some big brownie points from me for that move. Now I have a list of other stuff he can do to make our house less cluttered with stuff.

And of course a good picture of tubby time. If you can't tell, they both have soap beards on.

The pregnancy is going great. We go to the doctor tomorrow to find out if we are having a boy or girl! We are so excited to finally know. We will update the blog once we find out.

Have a great rest of the week!

Here are some fun pictures we have taken recently. The girls were pretending to be wiggly worms.

They both squeeze into the car. And yes, it does eventually end up in a fight.

Skyler passed out after lunch one day. She was very tired.

I know it has been awhile since we have posted. We've been busy and we haven't taken many pictures lately. Here are a few from this weekend. Alana helped give the dogs a bath. She really enjoyed it and so did Jake and Teddy.



We styled Jake's hair all pretty, but he shook before we got the picture.

No, we didn't give Skyler a bath right after the dogs. This was later in the week. Skyler got to have a bath all by herself. She just loved it! I don't think she has ever had a bath by herself. At least not any time lately. She got to play with all of the toys all by herself.

And she got to spread out all by herself. She has never gotten to do that before.

And of course Alana had to squeeze in one of the pictures.