Ho Ho Ho

Visiting with Santa at Bass Pro Shop

(Too bad the one thing Lincoln asked for, he isn't going to get! I think Santa is going to have to write him a letter to explain...)

A trip to the Lake

More Turkey Day Photo's

Just a couple of more photo's from Turkey Day

Grammy (my Mom) and her 5 Grankids. 2 more (at least) on the way this year!

Ron and Bristol (his Goddaughter)

We celebrated Lincoln and Matthew's Birthday

Lincoln and his Godparents, Uncle Tom and Aunt Jen

Lawson and his Godparents, Sue and Steve

Cousins!

Turkey Day 2009

EVERYONE at Thanksgiving 2009 (at Wilson's)

Bottom: Lincoln, Ron, Lawson, Me, Lauren, Mom, Herb

Top from left: Matthew, Steve, Sue, Bristol, Courtney, Tom, Jen, Mark

Next year there will be (at least) 2 more of us!

Thanks Wilson's for a great holiday!

Visting with the Elf at Bass Pro

Return from Vacay

Lincoln and his Daddy had a fun time on their Upstate New York vacation/hunting trip. They didn't get home last night from the airport until 1:30 AM!!! And then Ron had to turn right around and go catch another flight out for work... bummer.
Haven't gotten all the details, but it sounds like they both had a great time. Got to spend time with all the family and of course, hunt. Ron shot a deer, but then the same day hit a deer with his rental car.
We are more than happy to have Lincoln back with us. Lawson was REALLY missing his Bubby, they have never been apart for that long!
Today we will be packing up, and heading to Houston for Thanksgiving week!

Baby G

Baby boy #3

18 weeks, 8 oz

The Whole 3/4 yr old Gang

Lawson's class picture.

He is the one on bottom, second to the left. (he looks like Cole, next to him!).

His favorite 2 friends are Emma (top very left) and Mark (bottom 2nd on right).

Pregnancy Drama, when does it end?

Just to clear some things up....

The results of my Quad Screen blood work came back as positive for Down's Syndrome. They told me not to panic because there is a 5% false positive rate. Well that meant that the results were 95% chance of being accurate. Since I am 39 yrs old, my chances of having a baby with Down's is quite high, so naturally I panicked.
I had to go to a specialist, which fortunately could see me the very next day. I had a Level II ultrasound, and the baby was absolutely perfect!!! They checked about 20 different markers and measurements for Down's, and the baby didn't have a single thing wrong with him. (Praise God) Fortunately I was within that 5% false positive rate.
Yes, I knew better than to overreact, for we went through something very similar with my 1st pregnancy which turned out to be a false alarm. But I couldn't help it, I pretty much freaked out.
The specialist recommended an ultrasound every 4 weeks for now on. Just to make sure the baby is growing and still doing good. It was so cute on the ultrasound yesterday, the baby was yawning, rubbing his face, and sucking on his fingers. I like the idea of "checking in" on the baby every 4 weeks.
So that's that. Moving on the 2nd part of my pregnancy which to me is 100% better. The 1st half is tough! From now on, let's just hope for smooth sailing. And no more false positives.

We are having a.....

God made me to be a boy Mom.

We'll be welcoming boy #3 into Flower Mound Four!

Let the fun begin, it's going to be a wild ride.

We are VERY excited about having 3 boys!!! (why add a girl into the mix at this point???)

Boy or Girl: that is the question

We found out the Gender of Baby #3!!!
Check back soon and I'll spill the beans!
(Just want to tell family in person 1st, and waiting on some people to call me back, hint hint)

Belly

I'm not a big fan of belly shots of myself. But here goes....

This is something that you have to see to believe!

Here I am today, at 17.5 weeks.

For those of you that don't know better, this is HUGE for only being 17 weeks!!!

By the way, in 2 days (Tuesday), the gender will be known!

It's that time of year again

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

The boys wanted to do this one

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Scare Crow and Leaves

Today is Kindergarten Dress Like a Scarecrow Day.

Lawson and I are going to go eat lunch with Lincoln,

so we can see all the other Kindergarten scarecrows!

And, Lawson playing in the leaves...

Jumping in Leaf Piles is one of our favorite Fall pastimes!

The Oldest

Lincoln Carson

Age 5.75

Fall

Fall 2009

Lawson age 3.75

Just a pound

I forgot to mention:

Today at 16 weeks: total weight gain 1 pound

Hope to keep that up!!!

However, now that I'm not nauseous anymore, I can't stop eating!

It's bound to catch up with me.

The Team Shot

Texas Rangers

Lawson is on bottom left

Heartbeat and H1N1

Had an OBGYN appointment today.

Had a scare at 1st, because she couldn't find the heartbeat with the doppler. So, she took me into the sonogram room and did a quick one. Baby was just in an awkward position to find the heartbeat, but it was found!! Heartbeat is 154 (range is 120-180, that's right in the average). And since I had a surprise sonogram done, I got to see the baby's face and see the legs kicking around :)
Made an appointment in 2 weeks to have the anatomy/gender sonogram. Excited for that!!!
Had some blood work done today, and also got my H1N1 shot!!! At least now I have one less thing to worry about (getting the flu). Apparantly swine flu takes a toll on pregnant women, and many of them die.

Little Ranger

Lawson's official T-ball picture

Texas Rangers

Got his trophy last night!

Last game on Saturday.

He loved it, and did great!

(and looked adorable playing!)

The Ultimate Ramen Experience

A sweet friend of mine from MOPS/church, Jenny, entered a recipe in a Pei Wei (Facebook) contest. (If you don't know what Pei Wei is, find out, you're missing it!)

Well, she ended up winning. Her big prize was the "Ultimate Ramen Experience" for her and 9 friends. She decided to have a drawing of people that voted for her and were interested in attending with her. Well, I voted, and my name was drawn out of her 50 or so names that she had. I actually won something!!

So, last night.... The top Pei Wei corporate chefs came in to cook for US.... Our party of 10 was treated like royalty, not to mention we were each served a $100.00 dish of Lobster and Kobe steak! Also, a never ending stream of appetizers beforehand. We left with souvenir chopsticks and a gift card each.... It was so much fun and a great memory!! This picture is of me, Jenny (the winner), and Corrie another MOPS friend.

You can read a little about her Pei Wei adventure on her blog.

And see her three cute boys right here:

http://jjandtheboys.blogspot.com/

Thanks Jenny!

Drama Camp

Lincoln has taken an interest in Drama/Theatre at school.
This weekend he will be going to a Drama Workshop at our High School.
The HS drama students and teachers are doing a half day workshop for kids K-8th.
They are going to have a fun filled day of skits, games, costumes, dance, movement, etc...
The parents get to come at the last 30 minutes to watch a performance of Beauty and the Beast with the kids performing.
He's excited, and I have to admit it will feel strange to me dropping him off at the High School!

Another Baby???

Congratulations to my much younger sister (Jen) and her hubby (Mark)....

They are expecting their 1st baby in May!!

We are so excited because our babies will be just about 3-4 weeks apart.

The cousins are going to have fun growing up with each other!

You can check out her blog for yourself:

Jen's Blog

Our Halloween

We had a fun and eventful Halloween. T-ball game, Grandpa Lucek and Auntie Sue Sue visiting from out of town, Win Kids festival, cook out at home, lot's of Trick or Treating. To top it all off, Lawson has a bad case of poison ivy. Looking forward to a more relaxing day today!

The Pirate!! Arrrrgggg

Lincoln digging through his loot, aka one of the favorite parts of Halloween.

The pirate and his Auntie Sue Sue

Grandpa Lucek visiting from Illinois.

The "throwing up" Jack o Lantern. That's as "gory" as we get!