New Bed

This one all started when we went to Hilton Head this past year. We stayed at the Westin Hotel and I fell in love with their "Heavenly Beds" (yes that's what they are called). It was the first time that I've actually looked forward to coming in from the beach to rest on my mattress.....seriously! After inquiring at the front desk about who the mattress maker was, I found out that you could order the mattress' online at the Westin website.
The mattress we have now is who-knows how old and is terrible! I wake up every morning with back pains and Justin has been sleeping the past little while on the new couch which he claims is better than the bed. So a couple weeks ago I woke up, looked him in the eyes and said "I'm ordering a new mattress....today!".
And here it is! My very own king sized Heavenly Bed arrived this morning after weeks of much anticipation! We'll be sleeping in luxury tonight!!!!

Hiking

Last weekend we went to a local state park for a picnic and hike. The kids LOVED playing in all the leaves! We collected acorns along the hiking trail and posed for pictures along the river. Here is Anna momentarily stopping from all her rolling in the leaves to have her picture taken.

The kids wrestling in the leaves. Luckily there were so many leaves that it provided a nice cushioning so no one got hurt.

Posing along the river for a quick pic. Yes, my face has already fattened up from the pregnancy. (I go in Monday to the dietican to start my gestational diabetes diet.....ugh!!!!)

And here is Cameron throwing a MAJOR crying fit becuase he wanted to go swimming in the river. I'm not quite sure why he thought we would be swimming. We even had him feel the water to see how cold it was but he didn't care. We literally had to drag him away screaming.

Halloween

Our Butterfly and Frankenstein getting ready to go trick-or-treating. Justin took the kids out while I stayed home and passed out candy. It was a beautiful night and I sat outside and waited for the kids to come.




Justin dressed as a pirate this halloween. As you can see only Anna is posing with him. We put black eye make-up around Justin's eyes and Cameron refused to go near him, saying he was "scary". So no group picture this year.

Here is a photo from the pumpkin patch we went to last weekend. The kids had a blast and they had lots of fun things to do. We decided to forgo individual pumpkins this year and got a big (70 pound) family pumpkin. That meant a lot less carving on our end!

Here's Justin getting ready to "prep" the pumpkin and very appropriately still in his scrubs from work. Surprisingly the pumpkin had very few seeds inside.

And yes, the surgeon needed TWO large knives to cut the top off the pumpkin. Why? I have no idea. I was just glad he didn't cut off his fingers!