Gifts

Here's what Hayden and Layne gave their friends....reindeer chocolate!
We made their teachers gift bags with mugs, hot chocolate, candy, and special stirring spoons.

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Baby Bump Week 10

Christmas at Stone Mountain

 On Monday we headed to Stone Mountain with the Ross clan. The weather wasn't too bad at all and it wasn't too crowded either. 

 Mac waiting to see the Snow Angel. 

 The girls sitting with the Snow Angel. The look on Layner's face was priceless! She was just beside herself. 

 The long awaited train ride. 

Christmas Village was lit up beautifully! 

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Baby Bump Week 9

Baby Bump Week 8

Christmas is Coming!!

First off....I am IN LOVE with Pintrest! That's where I found this cute Christmas shirt idea. So easy and so cute! I did both of them in 30 minutes! Aren't they the cutest girls ever?! Hayden is learning how to do her own hair, as you may be able to tell.

On Saturday night we had an DP Staff and Family Ugly Christmas Sweater Party. It was a lot of fun, most fun I have had in a very long time! This is the sweater that I made for the party. Jerm's sweater, other pictures, and even video can be seen on my facebook.

Hayden's Christmas Program at school. The video is on facebook. She was so cute and did an excellent job!

One of Hayden's besties.....Hartley.

Hayden in her PJ's all dressed and ready for her Christmas Program.

I needed a specific kind of brownie for a recipe and there were a few boxes shoved way way in the back of the bottom shelf....so I sent Hayden in for the job. It was so funny.

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Santa!

Baby Bump Week 7

I guess I didn't know how bad I really felt until I started to feel better! Jeremy has been saying to me for weeks now, "You never smile anymore, you haven't smiled for weeks now!" I didn't really know what he was talking about since I was still a happy person even though I didn't feel so great. I would wake up in the mornings and just want the day to be over so that I could crawl back in bed, fall asleep, and not feel nauseous anymore! Was it really effecting others though? I kind of thought that I was "hiding it" and dealing kind of well. But to be honest, I wasn't even able to walk into the kitchen to make dinner without feeling sick. Truth is, I couldn't even think about the dinner menu without feeling sick, so I didn't! With the other two pregnancies I just had to make sure that I had small meals throughout the day and I would be fine. Not this this one though. So, I put it out there on Facebook....what to do for morning sickness?!? I got a lot of advice, but I decided to start with the easiest suggestion-Ice Chips! I didn't think that it would work, but it did! I started trying it on Saturday and I feel 100% back to normal! It's amazing how great I feel. Now, I still go to bed around 8:30 each night but at least I feel "normal" again!! Amazing! 

Burn Pile

Today Daddy and Layne headed up to the burn pile so that they could burn some yard debris. Daddy pulled some dead limbs and Layne pulled some behind her as well.

It was the cutest thing!

Then it was time to watch it all burn.

Keeping a safe distance while we keep an eye on the fire.


Daddy's little helper.
As we walked down from the burn pile I was saying to Jeremy that I didn't know what Layne would do if this new baby is a boy. She loves to be daddy's helper-what if daddy gets a boy?! Jeremy said, "I don't know what Hayden will do because Layne and the baby (if it's a boy) will be best buds....what will Hayden do?!" We shall see.

Daddy sharing his plan with Layner.

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Baby Bump Week 6

Baby Bump Week 5

I saw this on a girl's blog and I thought that it was just the cutest idea ever!! Every week I am going to take a picture and write some stuff to baby. One of the most wonderful things about blogging is looking back. I love looking back and remembering everything that I have documented and captured. One day I will be able to sit with baby number three and look back and share all about my pregnancy with them. I just can't wait! 

One thing that Angela said to me when I told her that we were pregnant was that this pregnancy would be special. Since we are pretty sure it will be our last I can focus on every moment and take it all in and enjoy it. And once the baby comes I can enjoy every little "first" that they have since it will probably be my last baby. And since it's our third I kind of know what I am doing, so I won't have to be nervous and stressed about "messing up". I can just take it all in and enjoy the moments and memories. I just love the thought of that and so we begin with week 5! 

Ross......Family of FIVE!

An early Christmas present to us from God! Jeremy and I had kind of come to the conclusion that we were "done at two". Now, he reached that conclusion A LOT sooner than I did. He has ALWAYS said that he only wanted two children. And I always wavered between 2 and 3. About 2 or 3 months ago we both got on the same page about only having 2 kiddos. Now, I wasn't going to let Jerm rush off at "have the surgery" or anything extreme like that. But I felt content with the two that we have. 

Then came the headache......a headache that I have only had two times (three times now) in my life. The "You are pregnant" headache! We took a test and sure enough. God just wanted to remind us that He is the one in charge here. Proverbs 16:9 says "In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps." How wonderful to know that God is our Director, it's so nice to know that the one that created us loves us enough to be involved in our lives. Could you imagine what our lives would look like if we were actually in charge...like we often think we are!?!? He knows our destiny already, He has wonderful plans for all of us....even this tiny little miracle growing inside of me. 

This is how we told our families. We sent them these cute little Thanksgiving cards. Everyone was so excited  with the news. 

 

And this is how we told the girls. I wrote a sentence on a piece of paper and Daddy helped Hayden sound it out. It was so anticlimactic. I was expecting that they would be jumping out of their skins with excitement. But, they were pretty normal about the whole thing. They don't really get it. They don't get why my tummy isn't bulging out and why on the ultrasound it looks like a tiny white blip.  

The girls playing with daddy's Kindle Fire. Unfortunately, Layne is not longer allowed to play with it. She uninstalled everything the other day. Everything is A-OK now though :) 

 Tonight we went to Layne's school for Cookies and Coco with Santa. We started by making coco and then we were off to make Christmas Tree hats! 

 Hayden got to see lots of teachers and friends from last year. It was a good time!

 We also got to make this cute little Santa decoration. 

 Layne has come a long way with the "Santa issue" over the past month. When I first talked with her about it last month she didn't even want to go to Cookies and Coco with Santa. Then she decided that she'd go, but she was NOT going to see Santa. Next she decided that she would sit on his lap but she would NOT talk to him. Today when I asked her about it she said that she would sit there long enough for just ONE picture. She even held up one finger as she told me, so that there would be no confusion about it!! 

Here she is nervously waiting......

I adore the relationship that the girls have with each other. They are each other's best friend and so much more.

 Ok, here we go! 

Finally, a Santa picture with both of them smiling!!!! 

So proud of little Layner! 

Growing Girl

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Thanksgiving Hats!

I was looking for some cute turkey hats for the toddlers to make on Tuesday while we're up at Discover Point for A Night of Worship and I came across these. I just had to make them! So, not they have cute little turkey hats to wear for Thanksgiving week!!!

These are the hats that the little toddlers are going to make on Tuesday night. I LOVE the wiggly legs!!

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The Dentist

Layner's first trip to the dentist.....

was a success!! She asked lots of questions and was an outstanding patient.

Big sister enjoyed watching her get her teeth cleaned.

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Pops Birthday

On Sunday we went over to Grandma and Pop's for Pop's 60th birthday party! Here's Hayden feeding Mac! He's getting so big!!

Here's the cake that I made for Pop's party.


The other day we were over there to decorate for the party. Daddy was cutting up firewood and the girls and I were just hanging out.

Hayden was pretending that this was her "tripod" and she was snapping pictures the whole time.

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Thanksgiving at Peachtree!

We were invited to celebrate Thanksgiving with Hayden and her class. All of the parents in her class were asked to bring in a vegetable side. The other classes brought in stuff too. While we waited Hayden's class put on a little surprise performance for us! They started with a little pow wow chant thing that was kinda cool.

Then they sang some songs and even counted to 100!!

Our little Indian!!

Indian and her sissy!

Hayden with her best buddy at school- Hartley!

Time to eat!!!

It was delicious and so much fun!!!

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