Visitors!!!!

Aunt Bethie had a ton of little visitors!!!!!!! I had Chance, Carmen, Avery, Kellen, Jeremy, Nolan, and Jillian all over for a visit!!! (Plus Aunt Leah, Uncle Jon, Aunt Rachel, Nana, Papa, Gramma, and Grumpa!)
Here I am with all my visitors!! You can't really see Nolan, but her was there too!

Our first family of five photo!!!

Aunt Joleen and Uncle Brad came out to check out our new bundle!!! Aunt Jo will be having a baby girl in April, so I'm sure these two girls will be best buddies, just like Carmen and Avery are!

Chance holding his new baby sister!!!!

Now it is Avery's turn!!!

And finally, Daddy's turn!!!

Baby #3

Here are the two big kids waiting for the arrival of their new baby sister!!!!!!!!!

The first glimps of our princess, Brooke Alyssa!!!!!!

Mommy finally gets to meet her little girl!!!!

Here is the classic first photos of baby with the goopy eyes, swelled face, and double chin! Even with all that, we think she is beautiful!!!!

Daddy spreading the good news, and big brother Chance checking out his new baby sister!!!

Theses two are photosof Joleen and I at Christmas. We are roughly 9 weeks apart.

These two are us at Thanksgiving!!

Photos from our ice storm. It took out a few good chuncks of a few of our trees, as you will see in the next photos.

COOKIES!!!!!!!! These are our X-mas cookies. My grandma Hanck's recipe. YUMMY.

I frosted and Adam and the kids decorated. We let the kids be creative. Lets just say the cookies were loaded with tons of sugar and candies!!!

They took their jobs very seriously!!!!

I know I look hot! No need to comment on that!!!

Here are the kids helping to mail out the Christmas cards. For those of you who took our address off of the return lable, I'm sorry but that was my work address and not our home address. We did not move. I got the lables free and they were very pretty, so we used them. It wasn't until we were almost done with the cards that Adam looked at them and showed me that they had the wrong address on them. If you need my correct address, let me know and I will e-mail it to you.

Christmas

At Chance's school they had a breakfast with Santa. Here are the photos from that. Avery LOVED Santa!!!! Chance liked him too, but just not as much as Av.

Chance and Avery made a craft for each of their god-parents. They had a TON of fun making them, so I hope you god-parents liked them!!!

This is our photo from the X-mas card we sent out this year. If you didn't get one, sorry, my pregnant mind doesn't work as well as my non-prego brain. HAHA!!

Trick or Treat!!! Here are just some photos from Halloween!!!! Enjoy!

Trick or Treat!!! Here are just some photos from Halloween!!!! Enjoy!

This is uncle Danny and Blake.

Lauren and Emily.
Look at all the candy!!!!

And all of Av's Candy!!!

So much it hardley fit in Chance's pumpkin, and didn't all fit in Av's!!!!

Chance took this self photo of him and Av. Turned out pretty cute!!

This is a photo from Chance's 1st Halloween party!

Mommy at about 25 weeks!! Less than 15 weeks to go!!!

This is Chance's new buddy, Reuben. The new sitter, Darla has this dog and he and Chance love each other!!! They are best buddies!!

Here our our carved pumpkins. Could not get them to turn out very good, but I think you will get the idea.

Cinderella....

Ghost...

Spooky tree

Sleeping Beauty

Pumpkin Carving. I Shoulkd have posted these before the lite up photos, o-well, you get the idea.

Dad and Av working hard.

Avery had fun pulling all the junk out.

Mom clenaing out Chance's green pumpkin!

Here is Chance's idea of helping... Hummmm reminds me of the other male in my household. I wonder where he learned this....

This photo was taken by Chance, he is our newest photogrpher.

We went as a family to a farm that holds an annual farm festival in the Fort Wayne area. We went on a night that did not have all the extra activities going on, but still had a blast as you can see!

Here is daddy and his monsters.

Mom with all three kids!

Avery is poseing with her favorite giant pumpkin!

Chance and Av found a new friend!

Chance and his favorite giant pumpkin!

This was a very cool hut built out of corn stalks! It had bails of hay inside to sit on. It had windows and everything. A grownup could stand once inside. The kids had fun playing in it!

Peek a boo kids!!!

A trip to a local orchard (in Ohio) for a day of fun. This Avery, mommy, Grumpa, Joleen, and Chance.

The kids having fun.

More jumping fun.

Feeding the goats, super fun!

Feeding the goats some more. Thanks everyone for going with us. We had a blast!!!

The cheeseball at one of Adam's ball games.

Coach Harder working hard.

Avery at daddy's game.

Here is Avery with a very hungry Jillian.

Here is a much happier Jillian. Too CUTE!!!

Here is big cousin Chance holding Jillian all by himself!!!