Baby Shower!

The diaper cake Bryce's sister had made for my shower--so cute, isn't it!?!
Me opening a gift from Hollee!
My friend Laura R. gave Kendall a book that used to be hers....it was so sweet of her!!!!
Timberli, me and Pam--Bryce's mom and sister
Even Blake got a present at the shower! It was sweet of Mindy and Tina to think of him!!!!

My baby shower was last Sunday. My mom and grandma were in town to help with the celebration--thank you guys so much for coming, it was very special to me that you made the trip! We had a very good, fun group of girls come to my shower. Laura B., Laura R. and Timberli hosted the shower and did an awesome job on the food and fun! I felt so special!!!!! Kendall got tons and tons of great things! Can't wait for her to come and see it all!

Me and Laura in the diaper wreath--isn't it cute!?!
The loot!
Serena, me, Christie, Hollee, Dana and Denise
I had to post this one to show my belly--yipes! It's growing! This is me and my friend Serena.
My camera sucks, so the light is a little much on this shot, but I wanted to show you a pic of all of the girls that were able to come to my shower! It was so much fun to see everyone!

32 Weeks and Counting!

Here's my belly picture from last week. Miss Kendall certainly is growing in there! I will be 33 weeks tomorrow (Thursday), so only 7 more weeks until m y due date! Wow, time sure is flying by!

Thanksgiving at the Farm

My cousin Jessica and Me
Jessica, my aunt Theresa, Grandma Saundra and bigo me
Grampy and Blake
Blake and his cousin Olivia
Blake and his birthday buddy cousin Skylar

It was good to see the clan at the farm! My dad's family is a big group of people who we just love being able to see when we're in Wichita. Blake has soooo many cousins, it's great for him to spend time with all of them, though we wish we were closer so they could all grow up together! Maybe someday!!!!

Blake Saw Snow!!!

While we were driving to Bryce's grandma's house, it started to snow!!!!
It doesn't look like too much snow, really, but to Texans (not that I consider myself a Texan), it's quite a bit!
Blake and his cousin Bella playing in the snow! She's from AZ and he's from TX....neither of them were really prepared clothing wise for Kansas weather!!!!
As I mentioned above, we weren't quite ready for the freezing temperatures! Blake didn't have any mittens, but was desperate to play outside in the snow, so we improvised--socks as gloves! It served the purpose!

We went to Kansas for Thanksgiving. We got to spend some time with my mom's family and my dad's family, all in Wichita. Then we headed West to spend some time with Bryce's family! We sure had a fun time with everyone, though our limited time had us running from house to house! Blake was totally in love with the snow! I couldn't hardly keep him inside long enough to warm up! He just enjoyed watching his feet get buried in the white stuff as he walked through the fresh fallen snow in Grandma Jane's yard! It was fun for all of us to see the snow, but we were glad to not have to deal with it for too long! I had to drive in the snow on the icy roads....it had been quite awhile since I had done that, but I was pretty impressed with my abilities!

Greensburg, KS

I was able to get a few snap shots when we drove through Greensburg in November. The place is still an unbelieveable wreck nearly a year after the devastating tornadoes ravaged the area! The bottom picture is from a town, I believe, just West of Greensburg. There's a local artist that makes these crazy signs and figures and has them along side the highway. I think they're neat!

Christmas!

Building a gingerbread house with TT

The finished product! It didn't stay together for too long, but Blake and Timberli had fun constructing it!

We had a nice Christmas here in Austin this year. It was quiet and nice. My office let me off Monday through Wednesday, so I had a wonderful 5-day vacation at home with Bryce and Blake. We pretty much took it easy and enjoyed being able to be home with one another for such a long period of time!

Christmas at Our House

Running downstairs to see what Santa had brought! No need for clothes!
The goods!
Aawww....Daddy's stocking had coal in it!!!
Santa brought a bike!!!!!!!
Checkin out the goods! Underdog the movie! Woo woo!

Christmas at Grandma Pam's House!

Blake and Grandma Pam!

Christmas Day

Here's Blake riding around at Grandma Pam's house on his 4 wheeler! It was 60 degrees, hence the shorts. Didn't quite feel like Christmas, but it was nice nonetheless!

One more picture of the completed paint job....Well, kinda....

And Here I Am!

Yikes!!!! Where did that belly come from!?! This is a picture of me at 28 weeks. I'm 29.5 weeks right now. I go to the doctor again this week, but when I was there two weeks ago, I had my glucose test (no gestational diabetes for me!!!) and my doctor and I briefly discussed my labor plan. I really just want to go into labor on my own and hopefully have a natural delivery. I had a C-Section with Blake and want to avoid having to go through that at all costs. Everyone thinks I'm crazy to want to go into labor, but I don't care. I want to have that experience for myself. And it sounds easier to just schedule a C-Section, but it's not easier for me and the healing process is twice as long. My doctor is fine with me trying to go into labor and delivery the baby on my own. He said he'll do an ultrasound at 37 weeks just to see how big the baby is (since Blake was nearly 9 pounds) and we'll sort of devise our final plan at that time. I'm excited!

We've pretty much chosen the final name for our baby girl. We knew that we wanted to incorporate Kendall in her name as it's a family name and has a lot of significance for me and the Kendall side of the family. We've chosen Kendall to be her first name and Reese as her middle name. We were going to go with Kendall Grace, but it seems like the name Grace is everywhere these days and we like to be a little different with our names (nothing wrong with Grace at all--it's very pretty!). So, anyway, I think that's going to be her name!

We're just trying to get ready for Miss Kendall to come join our family. My shower is in about 3 weeks and I can not wait! Bryce's sister and two of our friends are throwing me a brunch shower on the 27th! I've pretty much been hybernating in my house the past couple of months, so it will be so fun to see all of my friends and open all of the fun pink baby girl stuff! I'll be posting here and there trying to catch up on everything that's happened since Thanksgiving! I seriously have not downloaded any pictures onto my computer since before we went on our trip to Kansas in November! I've got everything downloaded now and just have to work on updating my blog! Hope everyone's well!

Before.....
In progress.....
Still in progress.....
Blake helped me paint! That was interesting, that's for sure!
And after! I'm still working on the rest of the room, but at least the dreaded painting is over!!!!

I ended up just creating my own stencil and going around the room with varying sizes. The circles aren't perfect because of the texture on our walls, but I got my point across. I'm happy with the results. I went ahead and took the lighter color of lavendar onto the ceiling and am glad I decided to do that! I never can get the line where the ceiling and the wall meet perfect enough, so by just painting the ceiling the same color, I avoided having to deal with that! The lavendar is so light, you can hardly tell the ceiling is the same color.

I know I've been MIA for awhile....I just needed a break for awhile to just get through the holidays and just sort of chill out. I have so much to post! I've been working diligently on the nursery--it's getting there! Our family has been doing really well. We had a great Christmas here in Austin, but we missed seeing our Kansas family this year! Well, I'm going to start posting pictures! Hope everyone's doing well and I'll start checking blogs again soon--I'm sure I've missed so much!!!!!!

Ok, so this is a picture from the PBK collection I've chosen for Kendall's room. The reason I'm posting this is because I want to paint her room the same as they've painted this room. So, I get how to paint the different shades of lavendar, of course, my dilemma lies with the polka dot sort of chair rail border they're showing. I could make a stencil and paint around the room, but...our walls are textured and I don't think the circles would come out with crisp edges. Does anyone know any tricks to painting textured walls? Or does anyone have any ideas how I could create a border similar to this with something other than paint? I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how I want to do this, but I can't come up with anything! I've been working on the nursery a little bit each night and I'm making progress! I cleaned out the closet and had Bryce take the doors off last night. He moved the changing table into the closet to give us more space in the room. It fits in there perfectly and I think it's going to be a pretty good solution to the small space issue we have! I'm just going to have to work hard at keeping the closet organized since it will be exposed!

Forgotten Photos

Uuuhh....is Blake giving us the bird!!?!?!?!

Ryan, Blake and Brad
Blake showing the camera the movie Grampy got him for his third birthday! I thought this was hilarious!





I found some forgotten photos on my camera that I had wanted to post and never did....The top one is my cousins Brad and Ryan with Blake...so cute! And then the bottom one cracks me up! I guess he was excited about that movie!

Early Thanksgiving!

Shamika, Justin, Jenni, Dave and the back of Hollee's head....and my plate directly to Hollee's left...lol!

Part of the spread
Busted!!!!!
Jason, Marit, Jenn and Sean on the patio--See the buildings being built in the distance? Austin is growing!
Geoff, Serena and Dave
Hollee and Shamika--Shamika is due 11 days after me and look at that belly!!!! These two would love to know I posted this pic of them on here...heehee!

So I had a nice pot luck Thanksgiving lunch with my work family yesterday. Our company provided a Honey Baked Ham and then the rest of us brought different things--we had a ton of good food! There's so much left over that we're eating lunch again today! I was that girl with the camera, of course....I have a couple of pics of my friends at the office--I'm sure they'd love to know they're on my blog! I'm not in any of them, heehee! Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving to all and I hope everyone has tons and tons of yummies to eat this year! I am looking forward to eating as much as I want and not feeling overly guilty--Kendall's a growing girl, she needs multiple Thanksgiving dinners!!!