Happy Thanksgiving and 32 weeks!

We are heading out early in the morning until Saturday. We have so much to be thankful this year.

We are so glad that everything is going great with baby Ella. I had my 32 week appointment Monday. I'm measuring right where I'm supposed to be, although I'm feeling H-U-G-E. My swelling isn't as bad as it was with Emily *yet*. The dr. was a little concerned with my blood pressure at first, but they took it again at the end and it was great! It was probably because Emily took off out of the room when they were taking it the first time. haha I was supposed to drop her off at a friend's house, but I was running late... We did schedule the c-section for JANUARY 13th very very early! I really want my dr. to deliver, so this is when she is on-call. Hopefully, everything will continue to go smoothly so I can make my brother's wedding December 20th weekend! I have my first shower (or for the second baby they call it a "sprinkle") tomorrow with my family in Little Rock! I'm very excited!

Lights of the Ozarks

Santa!!!!

Watching the parade!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... I'm really getting into the Christmas spirit the last couple of weeks. I just wish our tree and decorations could magically appear. It looks like we will have to put them up next Sat. evening and Sun. We took Emily to the Lights of the Ozarks last Sat. night. It is so neat to see the lights turned on! We will take her there again in the next couple of weeks to ride the ponies when it isn't so crowded.

Silver Dollar City

With cousin Ava at the Frosty show.

Waving at Santa. She was SO excited to see him!

Emily really loved the big Christmas tree when the songs came on.

Enjoying the lights!

Silver Dollar City with the gang (minus me who was taking the picture of course).

At the hotel getting ready to go to SDC!

We went to Branson last weekend with Roy's family. We started the day at the outlet malls, then went to Silver Dollar City. We were bummed that all the kiddie rides were shut down. :( Emily really enjoyed the parade and the Frosty show. We hope to go again another time so she can ride the rides. It was freezing the night we went as you can see we had to really bundle up. I'm so glad I didn't go into labor early after all the walking we did. haha

New bed!

Emily's new bedroom furniture came in around Halloween. I forgot to post it on here since we were so busy with Halloween. She is doing so good in her big bed! She has slept all night in there the past week, but she has gotten up a lot earlier than usual.

Lake Fort Smith

Last Saturday, we went to Lake Fort Smith to check it out. It really turned out nice! Too bad it was cold and windy that day. We ended up taking Emily to see Madagascar 2 that afternoon.

Happy Halloween!

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Emily had such a fun Halloween this year! I can't believe this is her 4th Halloween! She definitely got the hang of trick-or-treating this year. We started the day off at the square where we saw some of our friends. Emily was a little shy and was scared of a lot of the scary big kid's costumes. It became very crowded there, so we were ready to leave. We went home to our neighborhood and she actually did wear her wings! We had a great time with her! She is loving her candy, but is not interested in the chocolate candy (oh darn!).
Oh yes, the dogs dress up every year. We have 2 costumes that they wear every year and they trade off. ;) This year, Toby was a policeman and Teddy was a witch. Very fitting for them!

Pumpkin carving

Roy did a fabulous job of carving Emily's pumpkin this year! Of course, they did the actual carving when I was gone so I didn't get any pictures of the process. Emily loves her Cinderella pumpkin. There's also one beside that she painted at Andi's house.