Love the Fall

This fall we started a mom lead preschool. All the kiddos are two, a little young but it is nice to give Lil' Man a chance to learn and play with new friends. We meet once a week and have some music time and then an alphabet lesson. He loves going to "School."


Lil' Man loves to be like daddy, whether it's at the ship or on Sunday.  CJ's mom got the boys matching ties to wear. We love them!


We finally got our first picture of the newest peanut in the family. We are so excited that it was doing really well and growing right on track.  I was only having mild food aversions but other than that another smooth pregnancy.


Then we were able to go to a Pumpkin Festival/ Patch with our great friends the Semlers. Lil' Man had so much fun with all the great activities and then getting to pick out his own pumpkin! It was so nice to have this family time together.


Now to carve said pumpkins.  Sadly though Lil' man's pumpkin was already starting to go bad.  He did not like the feel of the seeds and all the inners, but he did like stabbing the pumpkin to make his face and then well just stabbing it.  All of our pumpkins went bad about 2 days after we carved them so we only got a quick picture before CJ had to pitch them. Lil' man's didn't even make it a day.


Halloween our Church ward had a Trunk or Treat festival and every year we dress a like as a family. This year CJ and I got to reuse our Halloween costumes from a couple years and I was able to make Lil' Man one to match so we could be a skeleton Family. This is also when we decided to tell friends at church that we were expecting!

Quick trip to AZ

At the end of September my Great Grandpa turned 100, so I thought it would great to be able to attend his birthday party.  So Lil' Man and I jumped on a plane by ourselves and crossed the country.


He did really well especially with a little movie time.  He did complain about his ears on the way down into Phoenix but other than that he really enjoyed the ride.

When we got into town we were able to finally announce to the family that we were expecting another baby.  Everyone was shocked that we kept it a secret for the entire month.  I was shocked too! I stink at keeping secrets!
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Then we just spent time with the family, my mom took us to the lake and then to the Out of Africa park to feed some animals
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Then we headed to CJ's family and got a lot of cousin time in.


We even got some great professional pictures done.


Then finally we were able to attend my Great Grandpa's Birthday party.

I'm so thankful that I was able to attend his party this would be the last time I saw him before he passed away in October. I'm so blessed to have known this man and be a part of his lineage. He always knew who we were (more so by what daughter we belonged to) but he never lost that part of his memory.  He was a great patriarch in a wonderful Family.
Till we meet again Grandpa!

Camping trip

CJ had some leave he needed to use so we decided to hit the road and head north west of Richmond to do some camping.  Sadly this is the first time we have gone since we had Lil' Man. We were the only tent campers at the Natural Chimneys and we loved not having neighbors and we could run and play!


Then we headed a little bit north to the Natural Caverns! We took a tour and had so much fun discovering a great piece of nature! CJ was in aww about the entire thing and Lil' man like it for the first little bit but towards the end he was getting tired.


Our camping trip was a little eventful in the way that our mattress popped and we about froze to death the second night, but we had so much fun spending time as family and disconnecting from the world and all our worldly problems.

The best part of our trip though was that we came home to a surprise...

I was so tired and just wanted to sleep on our trip and CJ said "you might be pregnant."  I thought he was kidding but ha lo and behold we are!

July

4th of July weekend was busy as well.  My sister and her husband came to visit and we took in the sights. Including a short sail boat rid and a trip to DC

Then we played a lot!

Fun in the Sun!

June we just had as much fun as we possibly could!




CJ's Ship Party

Busy May

Holy smokes there was a lot that went down in the Month of May!

Kirstie and I went to the Mermaid Factory and took a girl's day to decorate some mermaids. Norfolk is known for their Mermaids around every corner it seems like.

Then we took some time to go Strawberry picking with some great friends! Lil' Man just wanted to eat them before we got them home!

Family Time!

Then Last but not least we got A LOT of Grammie and Poppa time!

We unfortunately had to spend it with out daddy, he had an underway that took him out the entire month.

Daddy's ship finally leaving port for an underway.

Strawberry Festival, Pungo VA. We have made this a family tradition (everything Strawberry!)