Happy Birthday to Scout!

My cousin's little boy, Scout, turned 2 on September 28.  Scout and Ethan play and fight like brothers.  Since there were so many of us in town this weekend, we had a quick little birthday celebration for Scout. 

Ethan is ready to party!

Finley is such a helpful older sister!

Finley, Kacey & Scout

Ethan and Scout playing with a new present

Happy 2nd Birthday Scout!!  We love you!

A Kentucky Wedding

As I mentioned it a previous post, we had a wedding to attend this past weekend in Kentucky.  One of my best friends from high school was getting married.  Jennifer was a beautiful bride and the day was perfect!  Jared and I met 2 of my other best friends from forever (and their husbands) for lunch before the wedding.  Sara & Jason and Elizabeth & Hap are such great friends and it's always a good time when we get together, which isn't as often as we would all like.  We had lunch at Patti's, which happens to be a Kentucky landmark and is delicious!  Two words...Pork Chop!  I recommend a visit if you're ever in the Paducah area.  Anyway, here are a few photos from the day.

Sara, Myself and Elizabeth in the 'Winter Wonderland' dining room at Patti's

Congratulations Mr and Mrs Nathan and Jennifer Doyle!!  It was such a beautiful day, congrats!

Jared and I at the reception (I think my camera is dying...)

The 4 of us!  It's been way too long since we've all be together! 

Congratulations again Jennifer and Nathan!

Family Pictures

My brother, Jim and his family just moved from Florida to Kentucky.  I'm so glad to have them closer.  Ethan loves to play with his cousins, Tyler, Paige and Josiah.  They were in town this weekend and Abby (our resident photographer) organized some family pictures.  It was a beautiful day and I think the pictures turned out great!  Here are some of my favorites.

Our Happy Family of almost 4!

Such a cute kid!  Even if I'm a little biased :)

Kissing baby sister

Bowtie, blue-eyed boy!

Such a cute couple!  Abby and Alex

The new Kentucky Blairs!

Tyler, Paige, Josiah and Bella

Mom and Dad

All of us!

Sprinkle!

My wonderful sister, Abby, threw a very nice Baby Sprinkle (that's apparently what baby showers for 2nd time mommys are called) for myself, Libby and Kendra today.  She did a great job and worked hard on all the little details.  Thanks so much!

 

The Venue

Beautiful Hand-Made Bunting

Here we are!  Kendra: Due November 16, Libby with Katie Sue: Born August 10, Becky: Due October 28

Present time! 



Kendra with her mom, Bev

Libby and Linda with her loot

2 excited Grandma's!

Abby and My Big Baby Belly

The kids were playing so well together during the party.  We had to get a few pictures...

Finley and Josiah; Pretending to get married.  It was so cute!

Finley, Haley, Josiah, Paige and Ethan playing on the wedding platform

Full Term!

I'm 37 weeks today, which means baby girl is full term! I could have this baby any day now...I just hope she waits until this weekend is over. We've got a lot going on, with a car to buy, a wedding to attend (in Kentucky), and a baby sprinkle for me, Libby and Kendra; thrown by my wonderful sister Abby! (There will be pictures of all the above eventually). For now, here's a full term mama and baby! Can't wait to meet you little girl!

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder...Right??

Let me appologize for my lack of blog posts lately.  Moving to a new house will keep you busy!  I have had a lot of people ask about new house pictures and I have a few of Ethan's room and also some of him just playing.  I'm still working on getting the house the way I want it.  I know this will take time, and I'm not very patient!  So, I'll get more pictures up here soon.  Anyway, here are the few that I have...Enjoy!

Orange walls!  We have painted nothing...which is nice!

Very proud of his new big boy bed

The pictures that will be hung up soon.  He loves to sit and study them,

Close-up.  I have always loved Norman Rockwell.  (Oh and I have bought the 4th frame twice now...it's been broken both times.  Hoping 3rd time's the charm!)

 This is what I found one day last week after Ethan ran off to wash his hands.  I didn't hear anything for a while so I decided to investigate.  Like mother (aunt & Pop) like son!  He had about 3 feet of floss out, but was very proud that he had flossed all by himself!

I love this kid!

 And building tents in the living room one morning.  Notice the skeleton PJ's, they glow in the dark and he thinks that is awesome!

We've Moved!

As mentioned earlier, we closed on our new house on Friday.  Since then, we have been busy busy moving, cleaning, moving more and trying to unpack.  We had a lot of great help and I can't thank everyone involved enough.  Thank- you, thank-you!  We are very excited to be in our new house, but didn't leave the old one without some sentiment.  It was hard to leave our first home as a family.  Jared and I put in a lot of work at that house and was hard to say goodbye.  (I might be a tad more emotional than usual due to hormones...but maybe not too).  I didn't take a lot of moving pictures, but I'll share what I have.  And when things are more in order, I will post a little photo tour of our new place.

Pizza all around for the moving crew!

Last family picture at 1700 Brentwood Dr.

Ethan and Braden wanted to play in the back yard, there was just nothing to play with.

Abby, Dustin and Alex relaxing a bit after moving/unpacking all day

Ethan had a great time with Grandma Karen and Grandpa

One more from the weekend...

Ethan sleeping in his new big boy bed, in his new room.  He has done so well with the whole transition!  Let's hope for the same after baby sister's arrival! :)

35 Weeks

Friday marked 35 weeks!  It's pretty crazy to think that we only have 5 weeks until baby girl is due.  And we have a lot of work to do before she arrives!  Not only was Friday 35 weeks for baby girl but we also closed on our old house and 1 hour later, closed on our new house.  More to come on closing/moving.  In the mean time, here we are at 35 weeks.

Almost there...

A New Friend

Ethan made a new friend this afternoon.  I spotted a frog on the table on the deck.  I actually thought it was a rock at first.  Anyway, Ethan thought it was pretty cool.  He wouldn't touch it, but wanted to say 'HI'!

HI!

Tot Trot 2011

This morning was an annual race here in Decatur.  They have a 50 yard Tot Trot race for 5 and under, so we signed Ethan up.  He wasn't too sure about it at first, but did great with Daddy running right by his side.  He even got a (big) T-shirt and a trophy.  Enjoy a few pictures from the rainy morning.

Ready for the race!

Braden was there too!  (They wouldn't stand next to each other for a picture)

Running with Daddy

Ethan and Braden with their trophies

Packing it Up!

Sorry for the lack of blog posts this past week...there really hasn't been much 'blog-worthy' to report.  We've been packing and packing getting ready for the move, which is 2 weeks from today!  It's a lot of work and we're a little sad to be leaving our neighbors and our first home, but we're also excited about this new chapter beginning for us.  Here are a few packing pictures from today. Oh, and notice that Ethan got a haircut yesterday. Good-bye shaggy hair!

Packing himself away...he thought this was hilarious, by the way!

Now decided that he wanted to pack some toys with him.

Our garage at it's current state, and filling fast.