Kevin's Birthday!

Happy birthday to Kevin! This year was Kevin's golden birthday, 24 on the 24th:) We started celebrating on Saturday with pizza and a movie.  On Sunday I made him special birthday pancakes with a candle in them, which we couldn't light cause we had no matches...So instead the wax just melted into the pancakes while we took pictures:) They were yummy though.  After church we went to my parent's house and made carrot cake from scratch and had stroganaff for dinner, its Kevin's favorite.  We had a great day!

Thanksgiving weekend

We spent Thanksgiving with my family and stayed over for a couple of nights.  I hadn't been home for Thanksgiving in 5 years so it was really fun!  We headed up on Wednesday and spent the day making pies and stuffing and painting a dresser that we bought at a garage sale for baby boy's room:)

This is the only before picture I have of the dresser, but it is after we sanded it all down.

And after.  We love how it turned out!

On Thanksgiving we went for a nice jog down my favorite trail then got everything ready for dinner.  Me and Kevin were in charge of make a fruit platter.  Thank you pinterest for helping us make it a cute little turkey fruit platter:)  We had lots of yummy food and good family over for dinner.  At the end of the day we were ready to sit in front of the fireplace and watch a movie...and have some more pie of course:)

On Friday we did a little bit of black Friday shopping with my parents and they took us to Red Robin for lunch.  Then we spent the rest of the day working on some craft projects and decorating for Christmas!  I'm so grateful for my family and I had such a great weekend with them!  

My parents let us have this cute little tree for our apartment

Baby

We are almost in the third trimester and are getting very excited for baby boy!  Kind of stressed too about all the things we need to do before he arrives, but mostly excited.  The pregnancy is still going great and baby is healthy and moving around A LOT!

24 weeks

27 1/2 weeks

Pumpkin Patch

I know Halloween was a long time ago, but I have to play catch up.  Kevin had never been to a pumpkin patch before so I took him to one and we picked out a pumpkin and carved it.  We spent that day in Carnation with my parents.  We had yummy Halloween treats, drank apple cider and watched Hocus Pocus. I felt like a little kid again:) I love October!

We took turns carving and each did one eye...that's why they are lopsided:)

  Unfortunately on Halloween Kevin was in Walla Walla for work so I didn't do much of anything but eat candy... so it was a pretty good day:)

20 weeks!

Well, we are at the halfway point! We had our ultrasound last week and found out we are having a boy! We are so, so excited.  I just can't wait to see Kevin be a dad:)  The baby is moving more and more and Kevin was able to feel him for the first time last week which was really fun for us:) Now we can pick a name and look at cute little baby boy things!

New job

Kevin started his job on Monday! He works for Grant Thornton, a public accounting firm in Seattle.  So far he seems to be liking the job and his coworkers.   I'm so proud of him, for all his hard work and getting this job:)  He takes the bus to work everyday which is pretty convenient, there is a park and ride not too far from us. Next week he goes to Chicago for training and then the last 3 weeks of October he will be in Walla Walla working with a client, so he is jumping right into it.  It will be hard to have him gone so much, but I am very excited for him.

The view from Kevin's office

Kevin on his first day:)

New Apartment

At the beginning of August we made the move from Provo to Mountlake Terrace, WA.  We are so excited to be here and start a new adventure together.  We stayed with my parents for about a month and are now in an apartment about an hour from where they live.  We are loving it here, although Kevin is not a big fan of the rain.  I found a job as a nanny for a 10 week old and it's going great:)  I have this week off though so I finally got around to putting our apartment together, here it is...

It is much bigger than our old place so that is nice, we actually have some closet space this time:)  We love the area, we live about 5 minutes from the freeway and a 10 minute walk from a nice lake.  Our apartment still needs a little work...like a kitchen table, but it's been great so far:)