Fall Time

We've been having a pretty good fall here in Philadelphia.  Bryan has been doing great in school {working his behind off, but it's paying off!}. Bennett is growing like a weed and talking like a two-year old.  And me? I'm starting to feel much better.  

When I was pregnant with Bennett, I was in my last semester at BYU and so I was forced to stay busy and preoccupied.  But I was pretty sick with him until about 20 weeks.  As much as I LOVE being home with Bennett all day, it definitely makes this pregnancy seem to go by much slower.  I know some would say the opposite, because having a toddler keeps them busy.  But really, I feel like I've been sick and pregnant FOREVER! But this time around I'm starting to feel the nausea wear off a little earlier. YAY! I'm almost 16 weeks and I am able to keep most food down and eat most meals.  But I really do love being pregnant.  It is so much fun to feel that baby move in there.  Yes! I've already felt my baby moving for about a week and a half... I guess it's an active one :) 

Fall here is much different than in Utah.  Heavens, they already have had snow there! It seems like fall here just takes its sweet time... and thats ok with me. I love this season. The colors, the smells, the weather, the clothes, I love it! 

Bryan had been asking me for a while to make a batch of cookies for his lunches.  I FINALLY felt good enough and so I solicited the help of munchkin. He LOVED it. He especially loved eating the chocolate chips :) See his little stash on the counter behind him? 

This is what he would do when I told him to say "cheese" He would lean over the chair like that! Silly boy...

"Umm... yum, yum!"

Mama's little helper

High fives!

We carved pumpkins last night.  I don't know why we procrastinated this tradition, but we did. We could've done it while we were waiting out the hurricane, but we just kinda vegged out then :) This was Bennett's first REAL time carving pumpkins because he didn't really get into it much last year.  He is so funny! He's kind of OCD and doesn't like his hands to be dirty so he didn't really touch any of the slime.  

He was so intent on what Bryan was doing. I know, I know, this isn't the best place for him to be with a knife so close, but Bry insisted he was fine... 

Joining in on the action, and he LOVED it :)

Playing with our finished pumpkin.  So fun!

love/hate

So I have a love/hate relationship with blogging...can I tell you about it?

I think blogs are wonderful things for connecting, sharing our thoughts and day to day activities, keeping a journal, posting pictures, etc. I love reading other people's blogs and seeing how put together they are and how perfect their lives are... wait, did I just say that? 

Let me just say. No one is perfect.

No matter how much their blog makes it seem. 

I am not a creative and spunky writer. I feel like I can't blog because I have nothing creative or funny to say.  But that's ok, right? I am documenting my life as it really is. This is me, and if I'm too boring, then skip over the words and look at the pictures. haha!

I feel like I have to blog in order to keep up with the other women in the blogosphere who have millions of children and sew all of their children's clothes and make gourmet meals for their family every night and who craft everything in their home and who always have a picture perfect house and look like a model. Of course, NO ONE IS ACTUALLY LIKE THIS.  This is just my imagination creating horrible awful unrealities! I admire those women who can do it all... I really do! But I, for one, am definitely not one of them.  

So this is me, setting aside unnecessary feelings of jealousy and appreciating what I have and what I can do. I have lots of talents and THE cutest baby on earth.  But I also have lots of imperfections and struggle with many things! 

But I am a person too. With my laundry that needs to be done, my bathroom that needs to be cleaned, my floor that needs to vacuumed, my sewing projects that need to be finished, my bedroom that needs to be picked up, my make-up that needs to be done, I am a person just like you.  I KNOW that all those darling women who seem to be perfect have obstacles like this too.  They just aren't voiced. And thats okay.  But don't be alarmed or bothered if I tell you the REAL parts of my life.  Because this is me!

Here's to new beginnings for me. I really like my blog! Because it allows me a place to tell about my life. 

Oh and I haven't said this on here yet.  I'm PREGNANT! Which is probably where all this emotional ranting is coming from... :D Due April 20th. 

Love this boy... And he has my knees... poor thing :)