VERY Thankful

This Thanksgiving, I was very thankful to spend time with a house-FULL of family at my mom's. My grandma and aunt/uncle from Kansas, my great aunt from Texas, 6 cousins and a dear family friend from Louisiana, my brother from Oregon, and brother+wife and son from California. We had such a joyous time celebrating our Thanksgiving meal together, playing games, and solving the world's problems! Our current house on base is 30 minutes from my mom's so it was more fun to stay at her house with everyone. We waited until after the bulk of people had left on Friday morning, and then moved in and stayed through the weekend.

Daddy Bear got sick, I got run-down from not napping and not sleeping enough at night, and Little Bear hit his max on people-time and sharing a couple of times, but other than that we had a GREAT time and were so grateful for a full Thanksgiving. This will possibly be the last Thanksgiving we are all together since we will be moving many miles away, to the state of Washington in the spring.

Here are a few pictures from our gathering:

We hosted the first wave of family at our house Wednesday night for chili and birthday cake for Grandma Bear and GAN (LB's great aunt)

First Cousin Bathtime

Grandma Bear and her boys

Cousins

Birthday celebration for Little NIKO

I am so very THANKFUL for all the blessings in my life! And most thankful for my faith and family!!! I hope you had as much to be thankful for this year!

W--A--Y Behind Blogging!

It's already December and I neglected to blog once in October or November. I can't believe it! And yet I can. You see, for those who don't yet know the news...I'm 15 weeks pregnant!! Just out of the first trimester and still a little nauseous. But doing great considering the first several weeks. It was all I could do to get out of bed each day and make sure Little Bear's needs were met. A couple of weeks ago my energy started to pick up and the nausea started to lessen. This being said, I haven't had an ounce of energy that I felt I could devote to blogging. So here's a quick recap of exciting events of October:

LB's first visit to the pumpkin patch

Fun times with BFF "Aubbie"

Painting pumpkins back home

Our little monkey

First time trick-or-treating (@ neighbor's house)

I can't believe how big our Little Bear is getting!! He's growing up more and more everyday! Such a sweetie and yet such a handful!