What a Difference a Year Makes

We love tradition and luckily so do Kara and Aaron. Last year we had Kara and Aaron over for Baked Potato Soup and then headed out to see Twilight! This year we did the same thing and saw New Moon. I even said the prayer similar to what Travis said last year; thankful that Kara and Aaron could spend the night with us. Jokes ensued after the prayer, just like last year. Even though a lot was the same, there were a couple differences. One, being that New Moon was done better than Twilight and the men seemed to like it more. Also, Kara and Aaron added Gracie to their family and we are soon adding someone to ours!
It was a fun night and I was glad to get out since I've been feeling under the weather. We thought it was a great movie. After reading the book Travis was leaning toward Team Jacob and after seeing the movie he has turned to Team Jacob for good. I'm not all that thrilled about his decision.

We'll see what next year will bring us when Eclipse comes out!

Baby Shower

Kara decided to take on the task of throwing me a baby shower. I thought it would be best if we had a dessert bar since lately I've been wanting sweets like crazy. Kara went above and beyond by providing a chocolate fountain, making cake pops and chocolate chip cookie dough brownies. Other desserts that were brought were the cutest cupcakes and, my favorite sweet right now, 7 layer bars (aka hello dollies, aka magic bars). I had a great time! I appreciate everyone who came and loved everything I got! Thanks girls!

We also played a game called "Travis Says". Kara asked Travis questions prior to the shower and I had to correctly guess his answers. Some questions included, how did Kate tell you she was pregnant, what are you looking forward to the most about being a Dad, do you think the baby will come early, late or on time and what is the worst/annoying part about Kate being pregnant. Everyone at the shower read me a question and if I got it right, I could open their gift. If I got it wrong then they asked me another question until I got one right and then I could open their gift. Luckily I made it through everyone who was there without running out of questions.

My Mom was able to come up for the shower and stayed the weekend. We did a lot of shopping and she helped me get some stuff for projects that I hope to finish soon! Thanks again Kara!

I am also 8 months along! It is weird to say that I'll be having a baby next month. I'm actually hoping to go late (closer to my original due date, Jan 6th) so I hope it's not really next month. I want to be done with all the holidays and I think it would be kinda cool to have all 3 of us born in January. We would cover the beginning, middle and end of January. It would make for a busy month though.

Halloween Festivities

I think this is the first year that Travis and I actually dressed up for Halloween together. Since I'm pregnant we had a lot of couples to choose from. We contemplated dressing up as Britney Spears and K-Fed, Heidi Klum and Seal, and the couple from Juno. I didn't want to have to buy anything so that made our decision harder. In the end we decided last minute to dress up as Jim and Pam from The Office. We already had the appropriate clothes! Travis even made the name tags-it says Dunder Mifflin Paper Company along the bottom.

We were invited to attend a Halloween party this year. Some people that attended were Jon and Kate plus 8, a knocked up cheerleader and her quarterback boyfriend, a bun in the oven and a baker, a pea in the pod and a farmer, Glenda, the good witch, and the tin man, a pimp and his 'ho' and Amelia Earhart and Moses/Terrorist. If you can't tell there were a lot of pregnant ladies attending.

We split up into groups and competed in activities. Our first activity was a mummy wrapping contest. I don't have a picture of our mummy, but we won! We wrapped Amelia and she was covered perfectly from head to toe!

Our next activity was a relay race. The first person in the group had to run to a street sign and back. The second in line had to eat 6 Saltine crackers then try and blow a bubble of bubble gum. Once a bubble was properly blown the last person had to carry an egg in a spoon to another street sign and back without breaking it. Our team won again!!

Next, a member of our team had to use their mouth to dig through a pan of spaghetti and find 5 gummy worms. We came in second place, but we think there was some foul play involved because we were sure that we won that too.To end the competition we had to answer some trivia questions about Halloween. Oh ya, and we won that too! Our group was awesome! We had a fun night and thanks to Lindsey and Ed for such a fun party and for all their hard work putting everything together.

Halloween day was pretty low key for us. I gave Travis a hair cut, we watched football, and went for a walk. I made Chili again and Frozen Peanut Butter Pie for our Halloween feast. I made the pie because I like the spider web design. I wish I had a fake spider to put on the pie too, but no luck.

We ended the night watching a scary movie and waiting for Trick-or-Treaters. Unfortunately, we had no-none, zero, zilch Trick-or-Treaters. So we still have all our candy sitting on our counter that will most likely be consumed by us.

I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween!