9 Month Preg Pictures with the Family :)

OK WE HAD A FRIEND TAKE THESE PICTURES. I THINK SHE DID A GREAT JOB! I JUST WANTED PICTURES OF ME WHEN I WAS BIG AND PREGNANT WITH ALICE !

OUR CUTE LITTLE FAMILY!! I LOVE IT!!

Visit with Santa...

Our branch party had Santa come... SANTA... I KNOW HIM!

Ann was as terrified as ever but the Santa was really good! Look at Mrs Claus too. Ann kept saying Mrs. Santa...lol

Getting ready for Alice... 8 more days!

Merry Christmas everyone!! Hopefully i will be on the ball ad i can post some for you

Christmas Tree

It took us a few mins but we got the coat buttoned... Alice wasn't a happy camper about being squeezed in there (I might have a bruised rib) but i was A LOT warmer!!

This is it! As Ann would say "The most perfect Christmas Tree" and it is!

Okay when we first arrived ann would hug every little tree and ask if this one could be hers and as she would hug it she said"it's just a perfect little tree" we finally convinced her that ours should be bigger!

So we picked out our Christmas tree. This has to be

one of my favorite things about Christmas is the real tree!! I am so excited about Christmas i think ann is at such a fun age for gifts and it means Alice will be here and i am so excited to meet her!

Happy Thanksgiving

Oh my gosh!!! I feel like i look better in person than in this picture! But i am a whale without a doubt... it's all worth it so I'm good...lol
These are our friends we spent thanksgiving with when we're away from our families! It was kind of put together last min but it worked out great! Doctor said not to travel... I'm 36 weeks :)

having a blast in the leaves

She loved to be covered up in them which i wouldn't think would be a lot of fun but... she loved it

sorry I am back from being the worst blogger ever!

Ok an update on the family... scroll down...

Ok we got there pictures taken in August of the Family!

I just realized i am now over 8 month pregnant i have not posted since i was 3... wow sorry about that i am just going to start from here because i was going to go back but i don't think I'll ever get to it and actually post something new. Update on us... we're doing really good! We're super happy and just waiting for Alice (new baby girl) to come. My c section is Dec 28th... i know terrible day right after Christmas but we will make it special. Scott is doing great in school and Ann and i are having a blast.

Ann is absolutely hilarious she is such a well behaved girl i keep thinking terrible 2's will come. Her new line when we ask her to do something is "Okay...well what if we play first and THEN get our pj's on" Such a negotiator.

Just today Scott told her to stop putting her 2 fingers in her nose (which was the 1st time we have seen her)and she said" Daddy, I'm keeping the bees out of it" She has successfully gone into her own little pretend world. I was the kid that was in my happy place for most the day so i just laugh when i see her playing with all her little toys and they are making dinner or going to school or learning how to share... She teaches he dolls all sorts of things. It is crazy how big she is now!

Ann's favorite phrase is "I would LOVE to" I'll ask her to put her coat on... "oh sure i would love to mom" It makes me smile every time she says it! We just got our Christmas tree Sat so i will post those pictures next... i am back blogging well a little break for the baby :-) in late December but I AM BACK!!

All 3 grand kids on my side :-)

The New Announcement is ....

We're going to have another BABY!! We are so excited! I am 12 Weeks and we have had an ultra sound and everything looks great. Our Doctors apt. we heard the heart beat and we just feel so blessed to have another miricle in our life! I am officially Due Jan 2nd..... hhooorray!! Have i mention how EXCITED we are!

The Philburn's

Mom and Cindy

Civil war reenactment...

Mom and Cindy came to Ann's birthday that very weekend Philippi has their blue and grey festival. The festival is a reenactment of the civil war and they go all out. Here are some pictures. Next year we are going to be in the live reenactment... how fun! We had such a blast visiting, i love family ;-)

Opening the Gifts

thanks john and kathy for the darling gifts it was so cute... we wish you were here!

Cindy and Dylan it was AMAZING that you guys came down i know it was not easy and it meant a lot to us that you came! thanks!

She loved the bag!

She loved the frosting on her cake... what little kid doesn't?

she wasn't sure of the bday song with everyone singing to her

Decorations for her Rubber Ducky Party!

Ann goes down for her nap and Cindy, Scott, and my mom all start decorating. We had some balloons up for when she got up but we wanted it to be a big surprise when she wakes up. So i tried to finish the cake. I was making my own frosting and it taste terrible so i had Scott go buy some... i usually can make good frosting but not today :-) Here is her cake. I love how it turned out!

As We are all decorating Cindy's baby (Dylan 5 1/2 months) Is so stinking happy on the ground i had to snag a picture of him he is such a roller and he rolled himself into a little roll. When Ann woke up and put on her party dress... she was so excited for her party to actually begin

She loved the ducks! Good thing we got like 40 of them :-)

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Ann picked this giant balloon out at the dollar store... it is HUGE!! Guess who had to hold it for the 30 min drive home? Oh yes. that was a mom job ...lol Oh yes abby-dabby is there for all the action

Here is the living room

Uncle John and Aunt Cindy made this game for the party. I love my family.... as i was freaking out because we were moving the week before her party here is my family stepping up to the plate

This is one of my fav things that there are little duck in the Hawaiian punch!

Ann's 2nd Birthday!!

I have no idea how Ann has become this big. My little girl is 2 YEARS OLD!! She truly seems like a little girl too. I decided that i could make her birthday really cute but i wanted it to be something she enjoyed. I have no idea why but she loves rubber ducks. My sister Cindy and i went a little crazy with the theme and decided to have some fun! Thanks mom for making birthdays such a fun day when we were little, my parents never had tons of money but birthdays were always super special. It all started with a duck invitation i made silly little duck cut outs and put her invites on them. She was more happy to pass them out to people than i dreamed of. She was having " a rubber duck party" When she passed them out she would say in the third person because Ann only refers to herself in the third person" Ann having rubber duck party you comin?" If duck or party was mentioned she would compulsively tell you about how Ann is having a rubber duck party.

For her birthday we got her a trampoline(thank you tax refund :-)). We just decided we really needed something outside for her to play with and it was the same amount as a little swing set she would grow out of. Scott had a trampoline for almost 20 years and kids of all ages use it. We thought if we were going to spend money on something why not get something that would last.

If you can't tell from the picture she LOVES it!! She has so much fun. She rolls around on it and jumps and we put the sprinkler on it. It is so fun to see her enjoy it!

Great Grandma Syracuse sent Ann the most adorable gift. She loves Abby cadabby from sesame street. Grandma send it to her and i will try and post the video tomorrow it is getting a little late but she was so excited to see it. It can got in the bath with her. That night she took a bath and didn't want any other toy but her abby-dabby as Ann says. We would wash her hair and Abby's. Ann was so excited she could go "swimming" and cried when she had to leave it to dry. A few minuets and a couple of tears later Abby was wrapped up in a towel and Ann was helping her dry off.

Sorry it is late i will post more from the rubber ducky party tomorrow. to be continued....