Pics from the year :)

 Decided to do a pics only (almost) post. These are pics from my brothers wedding in March, our beach trip in June and then my boys first day of school! Enjoy!

Me and my love at my brother's wedding

New nephew P - love this pic of he and I. Just ignore wy :)

New Sister!  Love her!

Me and my silly kids

Sweet girls on the beach

Only baby girl would cooperate

She LOVED the water

He couldn't be bothered for a picture, notice he's being held in place

Looking at fish and crabs

Where we go in OBX is right near the wild horses, one day we'll go see them

My big boy on his first day of Kindergarten!

In all the craziness

So I just realized that in all the craziness of life, we have not revealed what were are having to the blog world.

I know, so important right :)

So, just in case you don't know...

We are having a boy and a girl!!

Right now they are sitting pretty at 4lbs each with 7 weeks left to go.  Yes, 8lbs of baby already in the belly, and 7 weeks left to go so needless to say, I would be very happy if they decided to come early...not too early obviously, I want them to be healthy. But, a good 35, 36 weekers would be welcome! 

Right now we are busy trying to get the nursery ready and finishing up some stuff on the house so we do need a bit of time, but I'm getting very uncomfortable and I am ready to meet them!!

Thankful

I have been terrible about getting pictures off my phone and camera! One day soon you will all get to see our smiling faces again!

Since my last post was such a downer I thought I would take a moment to tell you a few things in the past few months I have been SO thankful for! (in no particular order)

#1 Our house!

We have waited for so long for God to provide this for us!  Three years of living in my parents basement about 3 months of looking at about 30-40 houses...I lost track! This is exactly what we needed for our expanding family. Its taken a lot of work (more than I expected) but it feels so amazing to have found this great house and now be in it!

#2 Our expanding family

It freaks me out, but I am so glad that God is blessing us with two more precious children!  9 weeks and counting. Boy, we've got a lot to do to get ready! (I started this post over a week ago and got interrupted because the kids were being awful!...funny but I'm still thankful for them, horribleness and all)

#3 My kitchen

Seriously, one of the most challenging parts of living in the basement was that I had really one small counter to work on.  Got. Old. Fast.  I am so thankful for my stove, oven, pantry, fridge, more than 4 cabinets, dishwasher, microwave, etc, etc.  Even though I can't run my microwave for more than a minute without it overheating the circuit...I'm still thankful. All part of the joys of homeownership huh!

#4 My parents

For letting us live with them for the last 3 years! Which enabled us to get out of debt!  We still have Chris' school loans, but we are out of "bad" debt, which if we hadn't lived with them so long we would still be in debt.  SO THANKFUL!

#5 My Heavenly Father (last but in no way least)

Seriously, how do we think we can do it without HIM?!? He has taken us on quite a journey in the  7 years Chris and I have been married! What a great ride! Learning, growing, loving!  I am so thankful for all He has done for us! 

There are many many more things I'm thankful for, but this sums up a great bit of it!!

ps, in the past week I have gotten pictures off my camera so I'll have some to share soon!