Liz thoughts| on turkeys and growing baby boys

Anyone else suffering from a turkey hangover? :-) I think I have eaten more this weekend than I have in the past month! Well that may be a slight exaggeration. but you see, I have a growing boy to feed and I always eat a lot when I am nursing. I think that nursing is a wonderful thing. When else can I eat whatever I want and still lose weight? Um...never. So I definitely take advantage of this time ;-) and Judah's getting some pretty cute chubby cheeks too!

I have had one of the best weekends ever! It has been so nice to have John home with us. We have been able to spend so much time together as a family. I love them:) I feel so blessed to have so much laughter and love in our home. God has been so good to us! I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving! Now on to the Christmas season! More fun, laughter, family, festivities, and food!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

VRP (very random post)

I LOVE this time of year!!! It is my favorite! It is especially fun having little ones that are doubly excited:-) We have already put up our Christmas tree! Well, we have a fake tree that we put in our basement, where we have our school room/playroom. And we are going to be getting a real tree for upstairs. Here are a couple pics from long ago. Lauren's first Christmas! Time is going by SO fast.

New Jersey

Last weekend we went to NJ for my brothers wedding. We had a blast!! The kids did so well on the trip. The wedding was beautiful and we got to spend some good quality family time together:) Here are a few pics. Ok a TON!! :)





Rest stop break

Trying to feed J a bottle on the way down. He wasn't liking it too much.


Hershey Chocolate World. One of the stops on our way down! SO much fun!


My hubby looking dashing in his tux:)

L and J


My new sister and brother!

Cool favors at the reception: Jones soda with their pic as the label!

Yay! They were SO happy!

C man!

The beautiful couple!

What J did most of the evening:) Well, most of the whole trip actually!

L and J dancing together. Precious!!

Dancing with grandpa!


all tuckered out after an awesome weekend!

Welcome Judah Daryn!

Judah was born on October 13th at 4:20pm. He weighed 8lb 2 1/2oz. and was 20 3/4in.
The labor went amazingly well and was the "easiest" so far:) Praise God! Thank you all for your prayers. I got myself so worked up about his birth but God is so gracious and the whole experience was great. I couldn't have asked for better. Judah means "Praise" and Daryn means "Precious Present" His big brothers and sister are loving him to pieces, he definitely will not lack for attention:) We feel so blessed by this precious new life that God has entrusted to us. He is so good!!

Happy due date to me and still no baby :-(

Every time I tell myself I will not get my hopes up (for going early or on time), but I always do. I had an u/s yesterday and everything looks good, he is a healthy 8lb, 5oz!! If that's accurate he would be our biggest yet! My dr. is going to induce me on the 12th if I have not had him by then. Please pray!

In the meantime here are some recent fun family photos:)







Apple picking fun at Haneys!

awesome