Next birthday.....FINALLY

Ok, Ok....I am officially months behind in blogging....so much is going on and I HAVE to catch up...so here we go....

Happy 2nd Birthday Kate Louise!

Just a short week after Grace's birthday we celebrated Kate's 2nd birthday.

Kates birthday started out with Grace giving Kate about 10 presents that she picked out (of her own toys) and wrapped by herself. Kate loved it :).

Whenever you asked her what she wanted for her birthday she said "Birfday Cake". For her birfday cake is cupcakes..not a regular cake. She won't eat regular cake...really it is the same cake but she knows if it is cut out of cake or if it is a cupcake. So lucky for her Yaya made her cupcakes :).

We had a little party with family on her birthday and also celebrated Grace's birthday and Colette's birthday all at the same time...great time management and Kate had a blast. She was so happy to sing to Coco and Grace and when it was time for us to sing to her, she sang along. Then cupcakes were handed out and the mess began. Coco was a bit nervous with everyone singing right at her but the candles on the cake made it all better and before you knew it she was enjoying her cake A LOT! Grace thought she she should follow Coco's lead..

All in all the girls had wonderful birthday's. Grace is now 7, Kate is now 2 and Coco is now 1...they grow up way to fast.

Where to begin....

Sorry about the HUGE lack of updates if anyone is still checking in (**crickets**)...morning/all day nauseau is kicking my tail. So where to start.

I think it is only fair to start with some important birthdays and then move onto football and hunting :).

Today we will celebrate Grace's 7th birthday on the blog. She turned 7 at the end of August and I found the perfect party location for her....A local horse stable. It's hard to believe that 7 years has gone by and she isn't my littlest baby anymore! Grace is by far the tallest in her class and is the youngest. She started 2nd grade and loves her teacher. Grace is our snuggler. She gives the best hugs and is always wanting to give more and more hugs...this may be a problem as we get closer to her being a teenager! We are so blessed to have such a sweet little girl that is loving and caring.

She and 3 friends plus her cousin, KeOra, all got to go and learn about horses, feed the horses, groom and finally ride the horses.

Grace's favorite horse was named Thunder and that is the horse she got to feed, groom and ride. She loved that horse and the horse seemed to like her a little too :).

We ended with a picnic at the stables and then cake and ice cream back at our house. She was so happy with the horse cake Yaya made her...we are all enjoying Yaya's new hobby :).

Grace and Keora waiting to ride

Grace riding Thunder

One of goats at the stables: Teddy

Grace, KeOra & Hailey with the stable boss: Festus

Grace and KeOra making Thunder beautiful

Grace also loved this horse out in the pasture

My 7 year old cowgirl....Happy Birthday Princess!

Music to my ears...

Today, Grace and I went to my 12 week appointment with our midwife. I was so excited for this visit because this is THE visit that I would get to finally hear a heartbeat. We tried to find it at 9 weeks but couldn't. Today...our little jelly bean was front and center!
160 beats per minute...it was beautiful.
I told Grace, "that's our baby"...her response, "I want to hear it talking". We have a lot of explaining to do about what a baby can and cannot do before being born :).
So far, everything looks good. I will have the big ultrasound at 20 weeks to make sure everything is in the right place and then we just wait until March to meet our little boy or girl. We are not finding out the gender this time around. We have known with each baby what we are having...I really need some incentive this time to push another 10 pound baby out! Sorry Yaya...you will have to wait with everyone else!