Long time, no post :)

WOW!!! It has been sooooooooooo long since i wrote last. So much has happened. The girls are getting bigger everyday, and so is mommy...today marks the start of my 30th week of our 3rd pregnancy. Mckenzie is potty trained...YESSSSSS :), and Gracie has become the best big sister ever! The girls love to play together, watch movies together, pretend to have babies together, read books together, etc... They are such a joy.

For the last 2 weeks now, the girls have both had hand, foot and mouth dx...it stinks. they have sores in their mouths that hurt them, and it keeps them from eating much; just drinking...poor babies. But, Praise the Lord, Kenzie is starting to feel better, Grace, not so much yet, but hopefully that day is soon. It has just been a few weeks of lots of books, movies, and cuddles on the couch. Not much housework is getting done, but i think i should use this to get some rest myself ;)

It is nice that we are enjoying some down time together now. We just got ALL of the supplies delivered the other day for our roof and for our fence; both of which need to be done within the next couple of weeks...ahhhh! We will have a busy daddy living with us. I cant help jordan get anything done out there, except for planting the garden (soon), but i can at least hav a really good reason to have the girls outside for hours at a time, and they will be spending time with daddy...at least while he is putting up the fence next week. While the girls are down for their nap latter on today, we are going out to the yard and marking out exactly where the holes need to be for the posts. We found a guy, who comes highly recomended and is very reasonable in price, to come and dig the holes for us...thank goodness. With the tree that we have next door, it would have taken jordan age to dig all the ones that we need. Holes and posts on tuesday, fence up on wednesday. YAAAAAAYYYY!!! Gracie keeps saying that she is excited that we are getting a "new back yard":) cutie.

On the baby front, we did have an ultrasound, and while we were there, the tech turned on the 3D imaging. Apparently our next little wonder likes to suck on his/her toes and looks so much like daddy. The girls came with us, and just like when we visit the midwife's office, their favorite part was listening to the baby's heart beat. The tech said that is is the prettiest heart she had seen in a long time. I am so in love with this baby already. Grace is addicted to kissing my belly, and is SO proud that she is going to be mommy's doula for this labor. She loves to tell me how she is going to help daddy help catch the baby, and she wants to be the one to tell us what the sex is. I love it!

Well speaking of those little beauties, i need to go and feed them lunch and get them ready for that nap.

Oh my goodness. tomorrow we are going to be celebrating McKenzie's first birthday. Her party is from 3-5, just a small family get together. Her real birthday is on Monday, Dec 1st, but we wanted to do something on the weekend. She is starting to grow faster. She came out huge, didn't grow very much in the first 9 month, but for the last 3 months, she has been unbelievable. she had 3 teeth come in, and one more should be in any day now, she gained a ton of weight...finally, and she is crawling, and "cruising" everywhere.

She is also starting to get an attitude. She has always done very well with listening to us when we say "no" about something, or "don't touch". but now when she has something that she shouldn't, and we try to take it from her, she has a bit of a fit. This child is going to need so much training of the heart. She is quiet and well behaved, but when it comes to her attitude, we can already see that she is going to be the one that submits on the outside, but stands firm on the inside when we are training her. stubborn...like daddy.

Gracie is sooooooooooo different. She is physically affectionate, and verbally lovey-dovey, likes cuddles, and all that. But Kenzie...no no no, that will just not do for her. she wants time alone to sleep, you can't rock her into a nap of any kind. she doesn't like cuddles at all. funny kid! but they are still such beautiful gifts from the Lord. And they are both His princesses. And I am very grateful for the opportunity to parent such wonderfully different little girls. It will be a challenge, but one that i know that Christ will back us up all that way on, if we put him first in our family. Praise God for the chance to grow!!!

WOW!!!!! We have had a busy, but wonderful summer. Our garden provided, well God did, really. We got to spend time outside weeding ever few days. But boy, soooo much rain. One thing that we did get to do, is scope out some new cool playgraounds for the girls. We found a great one, not too far away, that has a rock wall that gracie is addicted to. Kenzie loved watching her sister, and falling asleep in the swings.




Gracie has been starting to do better with the potty, and this is one of the funny pics that we got of her..Just like daddy!! ha ha ha!
She has grown up so much, in so many ways. 1st, she grew 2 1/2 in 4 months. she is huge! she has become the best "little mommy" to kenzie. it is beautiful to watch the compassion that God has instilled in her. she helps me do everything with her. feeding, changing. she even nurses her babies when i am nursing the baby, who is no longer such a "baby" anymore herself. she has also grown a ton. at 16.12lbs, she is starting to walk with our hands and doing a great job of it. she gets up and walks around the furniture, crawls all over, and will eat ANYTHING! They are both changing.

As for Jordan and i, he is in a bible study right now about Godly leadership on Sunday nights, and he is loving it. he gets to a cigar with his dad every Tuesday, and he gets..plenty..of time with the girls in the evenings now, because i am a busy girl lately. I was offered an invitation from the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, to be a 1st soprano. we rehearse every Monday, and a few days in a row around the time of concerts, all of which are performed with the BP Orchestra. It is a wonderful challenge for me. I'm loving that about it.

I have a ton more pics to post, and i will get to that later on. the In-Laws are joining us for dinner tonight, and i am MAKING pizza, and wings (baked, i know, not the Buffalo way!) so i has some prep to do while the girls are down for a nap.