Full Moon Festival

Last night was Zanesfields Full Moon Festival. Dane was so excited to get his costume on, he is a shark this year. The festival is I think a fundraiser for the town's park. We parade through town and head down to the park to eat, play games and do a cake walk.

My little shark and I.

Parading through town.

Dane's friend Rylee came with her family too.

Rylee the ladybug. Super cute.

Momo and Papa Peterson stopped by to see The Shark!

A few notes on previous blog topics....

Our pumpkins have all but shriveled up! What the heck!?! Last years pumpkins lasted for weeks! I went out less than a week later to take some good light up pumpkin picture shots and they are not so cute anymore :(

I spent all afternoon yesterday working on cake for the cake walk. It turned out pretty cute, not as cute as I wanted though. It was a spice cake shaped like a pumpkin with cream cheese icing. I put the lid on before I took a picture of it to share with you and then was just too lazy to take the lid back off and walk across the house to get the camera. Oh well.

Preggo Update: I hung in as long as I could, but today I finally puked. Not sure exactly what happened but I got up, blew my nose, coughed and then broke out in sweat and ran to the bathroom. Yuk! Just like old times. Tomorrow morning is the 1st ultrasound! I'm excited to see the little peanut. Brad apparently forgot alot of facts about pregnancy and was super pumped cause he thought we were going to find out the sex tomorrow. Ha! He's so funny. I'm only 10 weeks and the baby is approx 1 1/2 inches long. This ultrasound it just to determine a more exact due date. What I'm looking forward to seeing is the heart beating appropriately with all 4 chambers.

Fall Fun

Carving our pumpkins. Dane wouldn't reach into the pumpkins at first and when he did he pulled out a handfull of the guts and said......."That's disgusting!" That cracked me up.

My niece Mari came over to carve a pumpkin too. She is tons of help with Dane and I love when she comes over. I was feeling not so good earlier in the day and she helped distract Dane for awhile so I could lay down. Thanks Mari, Love Ya!

Here she is intently carving her pumpkin. She did a great job, it turned out soooo cute!

Brad super serious and really focused on his pumpkin.

I'll post pics of the finished product later. When I took the photos after we were done it wasn't really dark enough and it's hard to see what they are. I'll go back out tonight and get some better ones.

* Preggo Update: I've developed a cold now and it's just awesome. Nothing is worse than being sick and unable to medicate yourself. I can't stand not being able to breath through my nose! I woke up extra nauseous today, I guess that's cause I woke to a belly full of the snot that drained down my throat last night. Ugg and blowing my nose makes me cough which then in turn makes me gag.

Ok. Enough whining.

Tomorrow night the Full Moon Festival in Zanesfield. Should be fun. I'm making a cake for the Cake Walk. It's gonna be super cute, if it turns out according to plan I'll take a picture. We also have a couple Halloween Parties coming up, one of which is tomorrow night too and we haven't came up with a costume for ourselves yet. Course, If I still feel like poo, I'm not going but we have another one next week that I need a costume for.

The Babies

4 of the 7 are actually looking at the camera.....not too shabby.

Zeke, Cat, Kelvin, Dane, Claire, Mari and Elise.

Hard to believe in 7months we'll be adding another one to the mix. I'm having mixed emotions even though it was planned on. I can't help but wonder if we made a mistake (that's sounds awful), Can I handle 2 kids? Will Dane handle it ok? Will he be a good brother? Should I have just let well enough alone? I worry I can't give Dane the same attention, and he'll feel left out. Etc. Etc. The worries go on. I'm sure that's probably normal.

But I should say, We're really excited too! Will it be a boy or a girl? Will he/she look like me or Brad? and I totally LOVE the baby stage. A cute adorable little squishy baby to hold, to sleep on my chest, to gaze at, to breast feed. I'm excited to see Dane's reaction, to have him hold the baby and give them his kisses.

*Today's my dad's birthday, Happy 59th Birthday Daddy!

BIG NEWS!

Yup, It's official. The news is out!

We're expecting Baby Grimes #2

I'm approximately 9 weeks along and I'm almost sure it's gotta be a girl. This pregnancy so far has been completely different. I'm WAY more exhausted (this could also be because I'm chasing a 2 year old around) but I'm also nauseous pretty much off and on ALL DAY LONG! Ugg. With Dane I would be sick in the AM, puke and feel great the rest of the day. This time I just really want to puke and think about it all day long. Good times.

P.S. Does it sound bad to say that I'm wishing for another boy? Cause I really am. Fingers crossed!