Grammy's recent visit

I have a lot of life to catch this blog up to! My Mom was here mid to late September, here are some pics from one of our a fun nights spent all together. She is so great with all of the kids, and PRAISE the LORD will be here for a MONTH when our baby enters the world!

Hooray for Grammy.

Some favorite pics from this summer

Zach, Peyton, Drew, Grandpa, Morgan, Gavin, and Keaton

Morgan and Mommy taking a walk down Grandpa's trail.

I guess little Annika was on that walk too, but she was incognito.

These pictures were taken in August at my Dad's house. My Dad, sister, and I took the kids on a walk down the trail behind my Dad's house and onto the flats. It was a beautiful evening. These are fun memories! And I'm so glad we've been taking so many pictures of all of the cousins together lately. We just found out last week that Jen & Kris are moving out of state on Monday.(in 4 days) They are flying to Missouri to stay with Betty, Kris' Mom, until he is hired by a church somewhere.



I have absolutely treasured these past 5 years that we've been able to live close, and knew it probably wouldn't last forever, but I sure wish it could have. I absolutely hate the thought of having them so far away when we are used to popping by to borrow an egg, or a late night visit to each other's house. They moved back here when Keaton and Gavin were just babies and now they're in kindergarten! It's hard to believe. The part that makes me so sad is wondering if they'll ever live here again! Sigh... God has big things planned for them, that I know for sure. So I guess I'll leave that up to him. Double sigh... and a sigh of relief.

Bacon Bit Knits goes retail!

I have fun news to report! After knitting these little fruit hats for about 4 years, they are now being sold in a cute little children's boutique here in town! I am making a great profit from each hat sold, which I am thrilled about! I have changed, rearranged, and made the hats my own these past few years and am adding new ones to the collection!



Next up? Neopolitan Sundae hats that I saw on Ebay and said, "Hey, I can make those!" I'll post a picture when I get one finished this week! They aren't exactly fruit hats, but they're edible! :) Ooh, and Watermelons are on the horizon as well.

It's amazing actually, just two days after I decided for sure that I was taking leave from my The Body Shop at Home business, this opportunity came knocking on my door! Well, actually it came calling on my phone... My friend Tasha, took her cute little baby girl, Jada into the store wearing a Raspberry hat I made her, and the store owner wanted to know where she got it! I had called her earlier in the year about my hats, and had several friends tell her about them, but she already had a friend knitting baby hats for the store. She (the othe knitter) has since moved out of state, and Whammo! enter Bacon Bit Knits!

I have knit more of them in one week than I think I have made in 4 years, and have enjoyed every stitch of it. It's so cool how God works!

Grandma Bacon

These pictures were taken last Friday evening as Anita, my mother-in-law, was being released from the hospital after surgery. We found out not even two weeks ago, that she had cancer. They originally found a sack of fluid on her thyroid on the right side of her neck, and went in last Wednesday to remove the sack and be done with it! But upon doing some further exploration during surgery, the Dr. found cancer on the left side in her lymph nodes. So she ended up having her entire thyroid removed and some of her lymph nodes as well. We had dinner with her at her house this evening (to celebrate Grandpa Bacon's birthday!) and she is doing very well. She has been tired, but other than that, doing exceedingly well.



She is such a dear, dear soul to so many. She has some follow-up treatment in a few weeks... AKA: a radioactive iodine treatment that should take care of any residual cancer in the area.



Please be in prayer for Jeremy's Mom! She is well loved by all of us.

sNoW

We finally have snow! We had a great time outside the other day after our first snowfall! I think we just about used all of the snow on our grass to make our Snowman! It was great wet snow perfect for a Snowman. He's still standing firm outside on the lawn,

but he lost a few pant sizes due to some melting!

a warmer family room!

Here is a new addition downstairs in our family room! HEAT! It has always been a bit on the chilly side down in our family room, so we decided to put a gas stove down there! Jeremy just finished the tile work last weekend! Didn't he do a great job? He had never done any tile work before, ever! What a guy...



The gas will be hooked up to it next weekend,
we are very excited to make our family room cozier this winter.

a belly shot

As was requested, here is a shot of my ever-expanding belly!

I'll be 25 weeks pregnant tomorrow with our sweet baby girl. Morgan announced today (with the help of Grandma Marla Kay) that we should name her Tunafish Oranges. Don't you think it has a nice ring to it?

Actually, we think we've finally settled on Annika Scarlet. Well, whatever we name her, she is much anticipated! We can't wait to cuddle her!

Just 3ish more months to go!

Drew & Gavin the science guys

Here are they boys embarking on a crystal growing adventure! Hmm... it's been a week since we started the experiment, and still no impressive crystals.... We are patiently waiting for them to appear!!! The boys seem to think they can sell them for some cash! I had to sadly tell them that they aren't worth anything, but maybe a Grandma or Grandpa would buy them. Wink, wink. Drew is always thinking of ways to make money. And now he wants to be a Geologist when he grows up! "Mom, do Geologists make a lot of money?"

silly, silly, & silly

Well, we finally have a digital camera again after not having one since June! I have been "borrowing" pics of our family from friends to post! So here are loads of updates from this past week! Our silly, silly kiddos just love to make crazy faces for any camera!

That's my boy! Oh dear..

Tonight, my wonderful step-mom, Marla Kay stopped by for a quick visit on her way home from work. We were just talking and Drew said, "It's too bad Grandpa Louie isn't here, he could have seen his old wife, but she just left!" We all laughed so hard!!!!!!!!!!!

My Mom "Grammy" as she is called around here, flew home to Oregon tonight... we'll miss you so much! Our Drew, sure has a way with words! All very truthful, but completely tactless, we're working on: You should only say things that are TRUE, KIND, and NECESSARY!

I'm not cute...

Yesterday, I was telling Morgan she was so cute, to which she replied, "I'm not cute, I'm pretty!" Well, then!

oUr bIrThDaY gIrL

We had a "make-up" birthday party for Morgan last Friday morning with a couple of her little friends! She was sick on the day of her scheduled party and we ended up having to re-schedule with her friends. (who we didn't want to infect!) Grandmas, Grandpas, Auntie, Uncle, and her cousins still came... but we decided to have a birthday "dress-up party" last week to make up for her friends missing out on the real deal! Here are some pictures of our now 3 year old darling girl in full princess attire.