Exciting news since our last post is that we know we are having a baby girl! We are very excited. We also felt her move for the first time and now she moves quite a bit and likes to stretch and push underneath Natalie's ribs. It's really comfortable (..not). We've heard it only gets better :). Natalie is more than half way through already. It's pretty crazy and really exciting.
We've kept really busy this past month with school and work. It seems there is never enough time--sometimes we only see each other 30 min a day. Weekends are heavenly and we spend as much time together as possible. Our favorite activity to do together is cook! We have made all kinds of delicious dishes like pumpkin pie, pumpkin rolls, pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, broccoli salad, cheesy cauliflower soup, honey oatmeal bread, cinnamon raisin walnut bread, blueberry streusel muffins, butternut squash red pepper puree soup, snickerdoodles, shortbread cookies, hawaiian haystacks, and more.
Our friends Madeleine & Ked invited us over before Halloween for a fun activity. We had pumpkin cookies and each carved a pumpkin. Kenny went with a crazy face and Natalie went with "pumpkin pi." Ha.Ha. So funny. Here is a bad quality picture of our pumpkins:
We handed out candy that night, although we didn't have too many trick-or-treaters. Natalie made ghost lollipops. They were cute but we had lots and lots of extras.
That night, Natalie's mom came in town (to help move Jenna back home for treatment of her recently diagnosed brain tumor). It was fun to have her stay with us for a night even though the circumstances were definitely less than ideal. We also went to visit Jenna in the hospital that week after her biopsy. Now Jenna is home with family which is good but makes Natalie sad (she's never been in Utah without a sister until now). Jenna has another major surgery tomorrow and then starts chemo treatment--please keep her in your prayers.
The first few weeks of November sure flew by.
After a long, hard day at work, Kenny suggested they take a bike ride and visit Dave & Carol's family (Natalie's aunt and uncle). So they went. It was more uncomfortable than Natalie expected with being pregnant, but it was a lot of fun and good to get some exercise and get her mind off things. Kenny took some pictures during the ride.
One day Natalie had a conference for new teachers down at BYU so she got to meet up with Kenny right after he got done with class! It was happiness. We took a walk around BYU and took a picture with the pretty sunset in the background. We have a new goal to take at least 3 pictures a week because we are horrible at it!
The 20th of November was Kenny's 23rd birthday. He wanted to go on a run early in the morning with a friend, so while he was gone, Natalie cleaned the house and made a large breakfast for Kenny. His favorite breakfast is cornbread and milk, so Natalie made cornbread, eggs and sausage, a fruit smoothie, and yogurt and granola. Here is a picture of the breakfast (half eaten) and Kenny after his run, enjoying the breakfast:
Then Natalie took him to see Harry Potter (surprise! She blindfolded him on the drive over to the theater) and then they just relaxed in the afternoon. They went to Tucanos for dinner with Kenny's birthday coupon and Allie's generosity, took a free carriage ride through the Riverwoods, and then headed to BYU for the men's basketball game (thanks to Ole for getting us tickets!). We met Kenny's friend KC and his fiancé there and had a great time! BYU won and since they scored over 80 points, we got free (birthday) cake at Maglebys and then went to Coldstone to redeem Kenny's free birthday icecream! It was a fun-filled day for pretty cheap.
Here are some random pregnant pictures of Natalie in case anyone is interested:
Recently we've done more cooking and enjoyed our long Thanksgiving break! We enjoyed Thanksgiving day at Gordon & Sarah's and Rhodes & Heidi's (Kenny's aunts and uncles) and Dave & Carol's. Here we are with the delicious spread at Dave & Carols:
This break has been so wonderful. We love spending time together, playing cards, cooking, and just laughing and talking. Natalie's mom sent us ADORABLE stockings in the mail (she hand-made them)...and yes, there is already one for our little girl Adelaide. We also got a cheap $20 artificial Christmas tree that will hopefully last us a couple years and decorated with old lights and ornaments Natalie had (plus a few new beautiful ornaments someone made us for our wedding!). We love how Christmasy and homey it feels.
Our church calling is in nursery and we love it--Kenny especially. The kids LOVE him and he's lots of fun. Natalie took a picture today of Kenny playing "horsey" and letting two of the little girls ride around on his back forever. This is classic of what happens every week in nursery (Kenny has also taken them on imaginary plane rides to China and they've had to jump out with parachutes, etc...and the kids totally act it out and love it! Natalie has a video of this one on her phone but has no idea how she'd upload it on the blog...).
Only 3 weeks of school and work left and we will be flying home for Christmas! We're going to be able to see both of our families over the break and we couldn't be more excited. Life is wonderful and we are more than happy.
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