{Gingerbread Houses}

Since our ward Christmas party was cancelled due to the ice storm we decided to have our own little party and make some Gingerbread houses with some friends!

Ryker eating his dinner before the candy :)

A ridiculous amount of sugar was consumed.

  

After the kids were finished [or we were finished with the kids] we threw them in bed and made our own!

  

Julie finished up Ryker's house - an adorable log cabin by a lake

 Jake made this wonderful Dallas rambler 

Sean wanted to be different so he made a tee-pee out of pretzels - notice his little Indian gummy bears around the fire

I went more of the traditional route...

And here's Evette's! She did a surprising amount on her own. She just told me where she wanted the candies and I put the frosting on for her. 

Good times! I hadn't made a gingerbread house since my senior year of high school - it was so much fun! Unfortunately they are taking up a ridiculous amount of space on my table/counters.....we'll see what happens :)

{Winter is now}

Once upon a time a huge ice storm came and blew threw Dallas - once upon a time being last Thursday/Friday. It was pretty crazy.

 Literally everything was covered in ice!

 Evette liked to suck on the icicles :)

  She was quite intrigued by it all. 

 My roses were sad. I probably should have covered them.

 The whole city basically shut down.

 Even Sean's fancy end of year party was cancelled. I was bummed to miss out on the delicious food and fun but kinda nice to instead stay home in my sweatpants instead of balancing my 8 month pregnant self in my electric blue high heels.

  But the sudden onset of winter has kinda freaked me out.

Baby #2 is due in the winter. It's now winter. Baby is due now.

Not exactly....but that's how it feels. 

I'm kinda in a panic now. I feel like the baby could come at any time, maybe it's just wishful thinking. I am not 36 weeks and in just a few days I'll be considered "full term" and safe to deliver at any time.

I have prepared everything I possibly can.

The nursery is all set up, all the pictures hung, all the clothes washed, the baby swing set up, the hair bows organized, the blankets folded....we're ready.

If you build it...she will come... right? right!?

I honestly have no idea how I'm going to handle having a second child. But, it's happening. And I'm thrilled. And I'm scared. And I'm tired. And I'm nervous. And I'm apprehensive. And I'm praying a lot and a lot. And I'm feeling very blessed.

{Thanksgiving}

I'm tired and lazy and don't want to type a lot, but a picture is worth a 1,000 words, right? So this blog post will pretty much be a novel.
We went down to Houston for Thanksgiving and got to spend time with both sides of the family!

On the McQuay side we took some family pictures....

And loved on Sweet Baby James - Evette is kinda infatuated with him.

Going in for the hug...

Lighting/Decorating the Christmas tree - quite the ordeal :)

Just chilaxing and being very pregnant.

Playing with Papa - so very sweet....

Snoozing on car trips while driving between the grandparent's houses...

Swinging with Uncle Dan

Bangs trimmed up by Mimi

Sisters!

Uncle Dan showing us around his school!

Stories with Gigi

Practicing for our new baby sister....

Park Dates

Evette liked to be "in charge" or Georgie

Playing doctor with Uncle Dan's cool stuff

Sean getting the turkey ready for Thanksgiving Part II. We had 2 Thanksgiving meals - one on Thursday with my family and then one on Saturday with Sean's - I was a happy camper :)

And then on Sunday we got to be a part of James' baby blessing - it was so sweet :) Grateful we could be a part of this special day.

Brothers and their babies :)

Roasting marshmallows with Pap

It was a great trip - had lots of fun - but was pretty exhausting. At the beginning of our trip Evette kept saying, "No go home, stay at PapaGigi PapaMimi house!!" but by the end of our trip it was "E-dette go home...E-dette house..." Long fun week! It was our last trip down south before Baby #2 comes - It was fun! Thanks, Family, for everything!