Boy oh BOY!!

That's right, boy #3 is on the way! 

For most of you this is not news as I posted on facebook yesterday. I was overwhelmed with the congrats and sweet comments. We took the boys to the appointment and Chase enjoyed seeing the baby on the screen. He just got finished saying he wanted a sister when the sonogram tech said nope its a boy. It was pretty obvious from the pictures! Everything also looks good and healthy. I didn't get this posted yesterday as I was hoping to get a picture of the big brothers (both in their big brother t-shirts) and a belly shot (which I haven't taken a single one yet) but neither happened. Ahh the third child! But we are so excited and are praising God for this blessing!

Christmas in Maryland!

We just got back from (me and the boys) 10 days in Maryland. Brad and I made a quick trip to the Cotton Bowl in Dallas but that will be a separate post. I didn't take very many pictures up there but here are a few. We had our Christmas morning with them when we got up. I gave the kids their first gift the night before, matching pjs. They were so cute.

This is a terrible picture but wanted to get one of the grandkids giving grandmom and grandpop their gift. All of us kids went in to get them a new camera. It was much needed!

We took them on a Christmas light ride and then made some Rice Krispie treat houses.

Chase tried a sweet tart. "Mommy, I don't like it!"

Surprise Blessing

Since Chase got to announce the last pregnancy, I figured it was Jacob's turn....

That's right, baby #3 is coming end of May!! 

Quite a shock to us as they will be less than a year apart but we are very excited!

I've been feeling great, just tired, as Jacob is not the best napper/sleeper. I am trying to keep Jacob my baby as I know he will have to grow up way too fast.

I can find out what I'm having in a few weeks! This is going way to fast. Here's a video of what Chase wants. I switched up the order because when he was younger he would always say the second option but he's been pretty consistent this time. Between my me and my two good friends here (8 kids) there is only 1 girl, Abi, so that's where it gets the name from. I guess its only fair since Abi has a baby doll named Jacob!

Merry Christmas {Afternoon}

So Chase was ready to dig back into the presents right after church. Jacob was tired after church but we knew we couldn't hold Chase off.  If the gift wasn't a toy he could play with right away he was ready to go to the next one.

He got good at helping us with our gifts as well!

Playing with some of the gifts outside.

Trying out his new bike. He's gotten pretty good at it. We went for about a mile bike ride today and he went the whole way, pretty fast at times too. I just wish we had sidewalks here.

Jacob woke up and Chase was eager to help him open his gifts!

Jacob, of course, just liked the paper!

Just love his smile!

For dinner we went over to friends house for dinner. We had a Happy Birthday Jesus cake. The boys could help blow out the candles :)

 

We missed being with extended family but it was a nice and relaxing Christmas. We look forward to going up to my parents this weekend and out to Kansas in mid-January.

Merry Christmas {Eve & Morning}

Wow, I have a lot of pictures so I am going to make it 2 posts. They are probably very repetitive but I don't get tired of seeing my cute boys and their smiles! 

We decided to let the boys open their stockings on Christmas eve. Chase is still at the age where if he gets a gift he wants to play with it so we figured we better spread it out. 

On Christmas morning Jacob woke up around 7. Chase was still sleeping so we could get a few minutes with Jacob.

 
We finally woke Chase up around 8am. With church being at 10am we wanted to do a few things beforehand  and we were excited for Chase to take it all in. We started off with the Christmas story....

....and putting baby Jesus on our advent calendar. 

I wanted to be a good mom and make homemade cinnamon rolls. They were okay and we had Pillsbury as a back up.

  We took the standard pictures in front of the tree.

And then dug into the presents. Well Jacob was starting to get tired so he took a nap after his first one.

Chase continued on though...

We strategically let him open the Thomas station so he would play with it while we got ready.

Our family after church. 

The afternoon/evening will have to be in part 2 :) 

Off to watch football and KSU basketball! Merry Christmas!

Jet Photos

We attempted to do jet photos for our Christmas Card picture this year. There weren't any that I really liked...if you see the jet you can't see us and vice versa. I feel like that this point in our military career everyone knows what Brad flies. So we took our own again. Is is not the best picture (neither boy is smiling) and if I wasn't obsessed with Christmas Cards I probably wouldn't send any out but it would just feel wrong. They are a little late this year (didn't change the address from our England address so they had to re-ship) but they are going out tomorrow. Here are our out takes....