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Love my life

Today I realized how great my life is. I am currently sitting typing this with this beautiful weather outside my windows. The boys are having a great time on the trampoline laughing and playing. I have less than a month until my new bundle of joy will be here. My husband has a job that he gets to be home every night! And most of all, I have a God who will always be here with me no matter what. My cup over flows!!

Nothing Much

I am sitting here at home and thought I would post on my blog. Maybe someone out there is still reading this. There is not anything big going on so I will just update with all the little things at one time.

Riley is in the first grade this year! What a change from last year. There are spelling tests and homework. Yuck! He seems to be hanging in there so far. He knows many of the kids in his class from last year which brought him a lot of comfort on the first day. It is amazing how much he has already learned in such a short time.

As I type this I am watching my belly move as if an alien is trying to get out. I am 32 weeks and the baby is running out of room to move. I think we have decided on a name... Miles Ethan Norton. I think I am going to have to wait and see him before I decide for sure. This is probably the 10th name we have come up with.

Aaron once again has a new job. He is going back to FedEx, but in a different division. He will start next week on the 29th. We are both very excited. For us this means weekends off!! It has been a long time since we have been able to use that phrase. God is blessing us daily!

Belly Painting Pics

Belly Painting

I have decided I want to have some pictures taken of me while I am pregnant. I wanted to do this with my last pregnancy but did not want to go to a public place and expose my bare belly. We have a close friend who takes pictures and I approached him about doing the pictures and he said he would love to. In the mean time he has a friend who wants to paint pregnant bellies and they asked if I would like for her to paint mine. What a great idea! So, last night I went to her house and sat for her while she used my belly as her canvas. What a great experience! I did not really know what to expect but I was amazed at what a great job she did! She was able to do two different pictures and they are both fantastic! We decided to get together again later when I get bigger and she what she can do.

I am also going to wait until I get bigger and have some pictures taken with Aaron and the boys without a painted belly. I figure this is my last pregnancy and I am going to take advantage of this opportunity!

Starla

A Day Out!

I decided I wanted to take the boys to do something fun before school starts. I decided to take them to the museum while it is in the Cowgirl Hall of Fame, and was talking to mom about it the other day. We decided to take the kids on a day that she had the girls. So we loaded up in my car and took off for Ft Worth. When we got there somehow Riley got it in his mind that it was going to have animals. What a big disappointment for him. After we cleared that up he wanted to know where all the cowboy stuff was. We had to explain to him that it was only about cowgirls! On the way home we stopped in Lake Worth and ate at Chick-fil-a and let the kids play for a little bit. In the end everyone seemed to have a good time including Riley. I told the boys we would go to the "big" museum once they were finished working on it. I think they were wanting to see the dinosaurs!

Vacation

Last week all 12 of us went to Gulf Shores, Alabama. What a great time. We decided to take a vacation this year that was a relaxing vacation on the beach. The guys took a day and played golf then the next day they went bay fishing. Us girls (and Brandon) decided to take a day away and go to a spa. Now granted it was not the best spa but it was nice to have a relaxing day. Then my parents decided to watch the kids so that us young adults could have a date night. Brandon found a sunset dolphin cruse we went on then went out to eat. It was a good night away from kids. We all had a good time! Aaron took the boys to the beach a few times. Other than that we did a whole lot of nothing. My dad spent most of the vacation on the porch looking through his binoculars. He called them his "necklace". I think that everyone had a good vacation.