Happy Thanksgiving...

So, we had Thanksgiving at our house this year again and it was a very nice and relaxing day... thanks Heidi! ;) Heidi actually took care of everything and it turned out fantastic. If I wasn't so pregnant I would have protested and cooked dinner for everyone, but it was really nice to have someone else do it this year. It was slightly strange having someone cook in your own kitchen though, I don't know how to explain it, it's just weird not having any part in what's going on in there. And poor Heidi, we all know my kitchen is teeny, tiny (it only has 2 feet of counter space) it's like cooking in a bathroom sometimes. ;) But regardless of the lack of space, dinner turned out wonderful. Then of course we were all incredibly tired... there was so much food. Afterwards we sat around and watched Ben play Halo 3, Heidi played Guitar Hero for the first time, and we played Hungry, Hungry Hippos until Lizzie was tired of it (which didn't take too long). I even got to take an hour nap! It turned out to be a very good day. Thanks again for all your hard work Heidi, Ben and I really appreciate it (you could have made Ben do the dishes though... it wouldn't have hurt him) and thanks to those of you who contributed to our wonderful dinner (you know who you are)! Happy Thanksgiving!

Somebody's tired already

My tiny, little kitchen... I don't think you can fit anyone else in there. ;)

Lizzie and her corn

She loves the stuff, but it seems she helped herself to a little too much

Helping daddy get some corn

Sparkling cider for the very first time. She liked it, but didn't know what to think of the carbonated fizz, it was pretty funny to see her reaction, she said it was "hot juice".

Ben's New Game...

So here's the newest trailer of Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (I know what a crazy, long name for a video game). For those of you who don't know this is the crazy project that Ben has spent the last year of his life working on... and it's finally done and released for the PS3 (wow, have we really been down here for a whole year already... crazy)! He animated a lot of stuff, so I can't tell you exactly what he did... it gets really confusing after awhile with so many different characters, weapons, and vehicles, but if you want specifics I guess you have to ask him. Enjoy! ;)

Making Cookies...

Mmm... cookies. For some reason this pregnancy I crave sweet stuff, which is slightly odd for me since I would totally consider myself a salty kind of girl, so last week Lizzie and I made cookies. I know, it was a weird day... for those of you who know me I don't bake at all. I actually really dislike any part of baking, but these were not your ordinary cookies, these were eggnog cookies, that's right eggnog cookies with homemade eggnog frosting (they go exceptionally well with our afternoon eggnog lattes). Ben and I are eggnog freaks just in case you were wondering. It's a good thing we only get to enjoy it 2 months out of the year otherwise we'd be in big trouble. ;) And yes, Lizzie loves eggnog too. But back to the cookie making... Lizzie had a blast cutting out all the "baby" cookies and "mommy" cookies (with boy and girl cookie cutters) and rolling out the dough. She's such a great little helper in the kitchen. I thought for sure she would love frosting the cookies, but apparently anything that is a syrup or a sauce is "icky" and she didn't want to have any part in that. So, we left some purposely unfrosted just for her.

Baby Update...

Well, I had my doctor's appointment this morning and things went okay. I don't have an exact date as of yet, but I do know that my OB wants to wait as long as possible which means the week of Christmas. And that is why I do not have a date since she has to double check the surgery calendar and see who's available to assist her. So as of now the earliest scheduled date could be Saturday the 22nd or after Christmas on the 27th. But that's only if the baby waits that long. I have to go in every Tuesday until the baby's here now and this Friday I have to go in and do a stress test... I had to do one today and poor Lizzie had to sit in her stroller for a whole 40 minutes (the test only takes 20 minutes but the first one didn't go so well I guess so after drinking some juice and trying again everything was fine) she did really, really well, just really bored by the end. I was pretty amazed. So when I go in on Friday I should know the date. I honestly don't known if the baby will make that long, but if I do go into full blown labor then we just go to the hospital and she gets to pick her birthday date! We'll just have to wait and see.

Halloween - Part 3...

Our last and final party of the day was at a park not too far from our house and was put on by our church. It was fun, it was definitely more for Lizzie than a family event, and we should have just stopped by Heidi's work and then went home, Lizzie was so tired by then (sorry Heidi we totally spaced and didn't even remember until we got home around 9pm). Anyways we actually got to eat some real food besides candy and Lizzie got to see her doggie that she's so excited to see every Sunday morning, play some games and go crazy in a bounce house. We had a hard time getting her out of the that thing. It was a very eventful day and needless to say she slept very well that evening and even slept in a little bit that next morning, she was that tired.

Halloween - Part 2...

After our mom's group party we went to Ben's work, were they had a Halloween party for all the kids. Lizzie was so excited to see daddy so early in the day (it was a little before 4pm) and I think had the most fun wandering around and going crazy at daddy's work. She decorated a pumpkin and went trick-or-treating around the whole office. She got so much candy here it was insane. Her pumpkin was so heavy she kept dropping it or falling over because she was so lopsided. ;) And of course she wouldn't let daddy carry it at all first, after all it was "my pumpkin", but after the 5th time dropping it she reluctantly handed it over only in exchange for a lollipop.

Ben dressed up too, he was the spy from the Team Fortress 2 game (the orange box from Valve), but if you didn't know the game you'd probably just think he was some elaborate bank robber. I guess he freaked out the finance department at work pretty good. But if you did know the game he was an exact representation of that character. Everyone at work loved his costume. It was pretty crazy, the winner of the best costume at his work got a PS3, and Ben was ahead all day except for the final hour were he only lost by 7 votes. He was so bummed, he wanted to win so bad. Oh well, maybe he'll win one at the Christmas party next month. We have to win one though... there's no way we're paying $600 for one and I really want to play Ben's games. It's so sad we have 2 games now for that system and no way to play them... I really don't know how long Ben would want to play the games he worked on anyways though, so it's really not that big of a deal.

Halloween - part 1...

Here's some pictures of our first of three Halloween parties we went to that day. This one was with our mom's group over at Melanie's house just down the street. As you can see Lizzie was Mini Mouse, she made a pretty cute one too! That morning Lizzie wore the mommy-made costume. It does have polka dots, but it's hard to tell since she kept playing with it and fluffing it all up, oh well. She didn't want to wear it for very long anyways and besides it was fun for me to make (maybe we'll even take some Christmas pictures in it since it's the perfect color)! At Melanie's the kids went trick-or-treating around the block to all the moms and then had snacks back inside. It was a fun morning and Lizzie was already getting tired, poor girl only got a 20 minute nap that day.