Arbon Baby Shower

On November 13th, two of my former YW leaders threw me a baby shower in Arbon! We had very yummy soup and rolls with a delicious cake for dessert! They planned some super fun games and we all had a good time! And of course, the lovely ladies of Arbon spoiled us!!

Here are a few of the people who were there.

Helen and Nancy (such a cute pic)

My mom, Mylinda, and Shay
Katie, Maddie, Mcenna, and Jessica

The following are a few shots of me opening gifts:)

Little Emily on the right was my helper...she's so funny!

Thanks Juli and Kaylene for a super fun shower! And thanks to everyone who came!!

Our Home...the finished pics

I posted pics a long time ago of our home before it was finished, and finally here's some of our home all finished and painted and decorated! (ps. sorry about the glare on some of the pics)

Our living room headed into the kitchen

back wall in our living room and our new couches
Our garage

This picture was taken before the baby showers, and as you can see, baby Kinzie already takes up more room in the closet than me! (my maternity clothes are on the left, her clothes are on the right)

Kinzie's dresser

Kinzie's room (it's not decorated yet). Along with her stash of diapers and dresser before it was put together.

Our bedroom!

Our food storage room/2nd bedroom

upstairs bathroom

shelf at top of stairs

Bottom of the stairs!

back wall of our living room

side wall of living room

Kitchen

dining room

dining room wall

Our back porch

Kitchen (the barstools are our newest additon!!)

downstairs bathroom (the shelves are reflecting in the mirror...ha,ha,ha)

I know these aren't the best pics...but it kinda gives you an idea of what we like to call

H O M E

BYU Football game 2010

In October, we went to Provo for a weekend to baby shop and attend the BYU vs. San Diego football game! Super fun! Especially since we WON!!

Pumpkins!!

These are our nieces Peyton and Saige when they came trick or treating to our place!

Last week for FHE, we carved/painted pumpkins!!

(Richard carved his, I painted mine.)

This is Richard's giant pumpkin...look how much junk he had to clean out of it!!

Richard cleaning out his pumpkin by the handfuls!

Richard's masterpiece...the finished product!!

His masterpiece all lit up and creepy!!

Smelling the pumpkin. Silly Richard!

This was my pumpkin. The yellow and green paint is glow-in-the-dark paint!

I finished way before Richard, so I decided to paint the other side as well!

As you can see, Richard is definitely the more creative and talented one!!

Temple Recommend Mishap

Okay, so funny story. Believe it or not, we have almost been married for 2 years. Therefore, our temple recommends are about to expire. So last Sunday we each met with a different counselor of our Bishopric and had our interviews. We were told that the Stake Interviews were on the third Sunday from 3:30-5:00. So we showed up today just before 3:30 and there was already a waiting room full of people. As we were waiting, Richard asked to see my recommend just to see how close our record numbers are to each others. He looked and then said, "They are exactly the same". I told him he was lying...I really thought he was joking, but then he showed me...and sure enough, they were the same. He got out his old recommend and noticed that it was the same, so then we knew it was mine that was written incorrectly. Oh Brother. So when it was finally our turn, I had my interview with the Stake President, told him about it, then we had to call our ward building, luckily Bishop was still there, so we had to drive up to our ward building, wait for Bishop to get done with a baptismal interview, then he issued me a new one with my correct number on it, then we drove back down to the stake center, waited for the Stake President to get done with the interview he was doing, and finally got his signature. WOW! What we thought would be a quick go-get-an-interview-and-go-home ended up being an Afternoon Adventure.

Baby Bump: 23 weeks

Here's me and Baby Kinzie at 23 weeks!!

(keep in mind that the prego pants I'm wearing are too baggy in the butt, so although in some of the pics my bottom looks like it's huge and bulging out...it's just the pants).

SOFTBALL!!

Richard has been playing lots of softball lately. During the last half of the summer, he was playing church ball with our stake. The following pics are from then.

Then he joined a City League coed team for Fall. The following pics are from one of his last games. Sorry about the blurriness....I was struggling with the camera that night:(

This hit got him an in-field HOME RUN.

Super Fast:)

Nice Catch!!

His team wasn't the best ever, but he had a lot of fun! He was one of their STAR players and I enjoyed watching him! For his City League team, he chose to be #7. When I asked him why, he said, "Because that's your birthday!" So thoughtful!