Thanksgiving Day

Happy Thanksgiving from the hospital room at UCSF. The family joined me in here for an afternoon of pizza, quesadillas, pumpkin pie, thai salad, and turkey for one. Everyone brought their favorite thing to share. It was a great afternoon.

The best part was snuggling with my boys. We watched the movie G-Force and I got to take my first "outing" outside the room. I still can't leave the building, so we went to a little patio on another floor. The fresh air was nice still. And Jacob had a fun time playing on the scupltures and running around.

Some friends from San Jose came to visit as well. It was great to see familiar faces and get some extra hugs in. We have so much to be thankful for this year.

Grandparents Day

Grandparents day was a huge hit at the boys' school. Grandma was there spending time in both Aaron and Alex's class, watching the presentations, meeting the teachers, and friends. They all had a great time.

Jacob celebrated by wearing his new shirt "Grandpa's All Star"

Halloween 2011

Halloween was absolutely perfect this year. We converted our office into the costume changing room for the whole month of October and when the actual Halloween day came, it didn't disappoint. I was able to be a part of the school festivities by watching the costume parade and painting faces in Alex's class party.

After it got dark, we went trick or treating with a group of neighbors. Jacob sat in the stroller for more than half of it and we all enjoyed seeing our neighbors out and about.

Growing up in Portland we had to plan our costumes and decorations around the cold and rain. It is great to be here where it doesn't matter what you put outside for decorations because it doesn't rain all month. And you can dress up as anything because you don't even need a jacket on halloween night. Beautiful.

Aaron with his class at the costume parade

Alex's class picture

Original art the boys made to decorate for Halloween

Our neighbor's yard "Pirates of the Caribbean"

Our Trick or Treating friends

Jacob is Drawing

Jacob loves writing utensils. He has a tub that he dumps out several times a day with pens, crayons, colored pencils. He loves to take caps on and off. He also loves to sit at the big boy desks and practice doing his homework.

New Dining Chairs

This is a huge deal for me. I bought our dining table over a year ago and have been searching for a set of 6 chairs that I like since then. (Its funny, I was 8 months along with Jacob when I made that purchase) New dining chairs were too expensive so I was determined to find a deal at a garage sale or on craigslist. The catch with that idea is that I also wanted them to be in perfect shape, well made and last for the kids whole life. Months of searching turned into a year. (how sad is that)

Then "nesting" settled in. I am 7 months along and I am in the mode where I look around the house and think: "Can I tolerate that bugging me for the next 6 months?" If I can't that means I have to fix it now. So this was it. I got on craigslist everyday for a week determined to find something around $20 a chair and I found it!!! These came in a set of 6 with two captain chairs.

Happy Mommy.

The Pregnancy Rolls Along

Me at 24 weeks

Presenting

Andrew Brigham McQueen

18 weeks

22 weeks

24 weeks

Alex's 7th Birthday

Presents!!!

Making the Brush-Bots

The kids turned dollar store electric toothbrushes into robots. SO FUN.