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.

Hiking in Uvas Canyon

Chris took the boys hiking in Uvas Canyon which is a state park close to Santa Cruz. They had a great afternoon. I know this because of these pictures they took and also because they came home sweaty, smelling like boy scouts.

Fall in San Jose

...quite a bit different than fall in Michigan. I loved Michigan fall weather, but San Jose has beauties of its own. Here are a few flowers from our yard.

This is the hibiscus before and after Jakee got to it. At least you can see remorse on his face. So cute.

Labor Day Happiness

Today was a perfectly uneventful Labor Day. Chris took a ginormous bike ride in the morning. Then in the afternoon the boys played at a friends house while Chris and I toured car lots looking for the perfect vehicle for a family of 6. (Sadly, the Subaru won't cut it after the baby's born) After that we all worked together to clean the house and car. Which was a delight considering the boys knew that once the house and car were clean, Chris promised to play the wii with them. They were super speedy and awesome. Then the boys played wii while I made pesto pasta for dinner, we ate, then we went for our nightly walk. Boys in bed by 8:30. We have ourselves a perfect day.

In between cleaning tasks, we managed to take a couple cute pictures.