The "In-The-Way-Bump"

I'm a few days late from the actual 7 months but only a little less than months to go! I'm counting down to meeting baby girl and being done being pregnant. :)

The In-The-Way part is because I keep running into things with the bump and the bump is ending up making it's way into pictures without me noticing!!!

Post Thanks-Larsening

Ellie came out of Grandma's room with her "boots" on....

they are actually the Christmas stockings for
her baby sister and baby cousin....

whoops...

we haven't made it through ALL the Christmas traditions YET.

No, Tim isn't using our second child to point at pictures,
but he did spend some time sharing Africa stories with the Larsens...

Ellie's obsession this weekend was Auntie Steph.
She had to do EVERYTHING with her,
show EVERYTHING to her
and eat EVERY meal next to her...

Our topless Mary and Baby Jesus wearing pink....
I guess we have a LOT to teach her this year!

Me at week 31 and Steph at 36

Ellie got to hold her little buddy at church today....
two peas in a cute-but-snotty-cold-filled-pod.

Giving Thanks...

for cousins...

for silliness...

for pigtails...

for learning new things...

for fellowship...

for food....

for little girls...

and for wonderful families....

God is so GOOD to us.

Pre-Thanksgiving Christmas

We had a rather relaxing evening adding some Christmas inside
the house to add to the Christmas outside the house.
Fergus had decorated the downtown with
the small-town-stuff-on-the-light-posts decorations
and there was snow this morning!
(The pic is my nativity scene from my birthday!)

Ellie helped decorate the $20 steal of a tree
we got at Walmart this afternoon.

I helped her try to process the ornament
of her hand print from her first Christmas.
She didn't get it at all.

Tim was here as well.
Ellie was actually pushing some hair out of her eye,
but it looks like she's sick of pictures.

How To Eat Lefse

Bite.

Unroll.

Reroll.

Bite.

Timmy's back! Back again!

This is what I missed most...













I've NEVER seen his beard get this thick and full and long.


















This is so you can see how long his beard really was...

















Oh, how happy I am that my hubby is home!













And I know Ellie is too...
















It will be a little while before Tim gets any pictures to upload and post. We get back the one roll that he took (before his camera broke) on Friday and we don't know when exactly we'll be able to get pictures from others on the trip. But, from what I've heard he's had an amazing experience and has lots of fun stories to share!

Almost Home

Yup.
Almost home.