October with Ironman, Capt. America & Minnie

This fall was so fun.  It always is...it's such a beautiful time of year and it's so exciting with cooler weather, football, pumpkins, fatty foods and all the holidays coming up!

Pumpkin Patch

 This year we started a NEW tradition!  Since we moved this time last year, we have gotten into a new routine and this was our first time to really enjoy the fall in our new house...so we went to a new pumpkin patch right down the road.  It was great and the kids loved it!  They also love that we pass it everyday so it was constantly the topic of our car conversation ;)

 Aidan as a turkey

 Brotherhood

 Say loved looking at all the pumpkins and pointing to her favorites 

 What a stud :)

 Family pic!  Happy faces...

 sad faces!  Saylor perfected this one ;)

 It's so fun having a girl!

Carving Pumpkins

 We were brave and carved pumpkins

 The finished product! (Herschel's eyes look creepy in the background...the door's open and he's planning his escape)

 This picture makes me laugh: Roman yelling, Say wondering what is going on and Aidan is in his own world lol

Fall Festival

 Our church has a fall festival every year where all the kids get to dress up!  They have a costume contest and hay rides, trunk or treat and bouncy houses after service!

 Kensi as a bumblebee :)  We LOVE that Kyle & Bethany (& Kensi!!) go to church with us!

 Me and my Minnie

 No words for the cuteness!  I love this little girl!

 And I love that these girls will be best buds

 Say is falling over

 This is a miracle that Kyle got all 4 of them to sit AND look!

Halloween

 We usually trick-or-treat at my mom and dad's house since they live in a neighborhood...and this year was really fun since we live so close to them now!  (We still aren't really in a neighborhood so it works out great!)

 Minnie, Ironman and Captain America! 

 They all love Dallas the cat

 Hey Minnie

 I love this picture...this is what I pictured when I found out we were having a girl 18 months ago.  Pink and fluffy!

 The boys love trick-or-treating! They're really good at it too!

 Saylor did great too!  This is me at 38 weeks pregnant

 Sweet girl

 She's definitely mine...5 minutes into treak-or-treating and she's devoured some candy already!

 Hey Pappy!

 Ironman - 5 yrs old

 Captain America - 3.5 years old

 Minnie - 1.5 years old

 Our family of 5...soon to be 6!  

Halloween was a lot of fun!  One of my favorite parts was when our boys were in costume (which we got them their costumes a month before...so they have been wearing them for almost 30 days straight!), they would say, "Don't worry Mommy & Daddy, I'm really Aidan (or Roman) and not Ironman (or Captain America)!"  Too cute.  Love those memories and hope to always remember these years.  

#4 Showered with love

We're on our 4th baby.  We have 2 boys and 1 girl, and this baby is our first surprise gender!  At this point, I feel like I've been pregnant for 5 years and I'm sure everyone else feels that way too, so I was overwhelmed with gratitude and thankfulness when friends got together and showered this baby with love.

Baby Shower with high school friends

At the end of September my amazing friend Carol and my cousin Bethany threw me and baby Dupree #4 a beautiful shower!

My first shower with yellow balloons :)

Carol, who has been one of my best friends since she moved here our sophomore year in high school, used to be a chef so you ALWAYS get amazing food when you go to her house :)

My sweet friend Christina, whom I've been best friends with since the 6th grade!

Lisa gave the kids those super cute embroidered shirts!!  I LOVE them!! I've also been best friends with Lisa since the 6th grade, and it's crazy to think that 19 years later we both have 4 kids!

I'm really blessed to have really amazing friends.  Most of these girls I've known since middle school and we've stayed so close, which is something I truly treasure.  I remember back in college when I joined a sorority, on bid day the president of the sorority told all of the pledges to look around because the girls around us would be our best friends and our bridesmaids in our weddings, and I thought, "I already have best friends who will be bridesmaids in my wedding!"

I love this calendar!  It's been SO FUN to put everyone's "vote" on it!

Carol, me and Bethany!  They threw me a gorgeous shower and I am so thankful.  Beyond blessed by amazing friendships.

Sarah's Shower for Ellison

In the middle of October me, Bethany, Allison and Lauren hosted a shower for our sweet friend Sarah and her baby girl Ellison!  It was so fun to shower her with love and gifts because we've all been praying for baby Ellison for a while, and it is awesome to see God answer prayer in His perfect timing.

We had the shower at my house, but the other girls did the majority of the decorating! :)

The blocks table

Glowing Sarah!

I love this picture.  It almost makes me cry.  We prayed for so long for the Lord to bless Steve & Sarah with a baby, and it is so cool that we get to be pregnant together!!!  Only in God's perfect plan would that have worked out! Btw, I kinda cheated on this ribbon game since I have a belly myself ;)

...but cheating didn't pay off for me!  Courtney and Sarah's mom, Carolyn, tied!

Where's Allison?!  Her dress matched the gifts perfectly!

When I had Saylor, I made all of her bedding (crib skirt, bumpers, valence, etc.).  I told Sarah that whenever they got pregnant I would make their baby stuff for them, so it was awesome to be able to make Ellison her ruffled crib skirt, bumpers and blanket!  (the blanket was from all of the hosts ;)

I've never gotten a reaction like this for a gift, and it took everything in me not to cry too!!

Ellison's cute cake made by Lauren!

Allison, Lauren, Sarah, me and Bethany

Ellison's bedding!!  So cute!

Sarah was 30 weeks and Lauren was 13 weeks (relatively...I may be off!)

Pregnant together!

30 & 35 weeks

Sarah with her mother in law and her mama

Church Shower for Baby #4

 We go to Four Points Church and really love it there.  We've made some incredible friends and have really grown together in the name of Jesus.  The church always throws showers for brides and babies, which is so loving and such a great way to get together!  Our small group hosted this baby shower for me and for Sarah since we're only 5 weeks apart!  My friend Erin hosted it at her house and it was so cute!

 This was a fun game!  They got baby pictures of a bunch of people and you had to guess!  Mine is the top left and Josh is the bottom picture on the top right pane.

 Sweet friends!

 I love these ladies!

 This picture is so cute.  Our hosts (Bethany, Lily & Erin) with pumpkins and Sarah and I with our "pumpkins!"

 Our friend Victoria...maybe she's next?!

I love these girls.

Thankful, grateful, overwhelmed, loved.  Astonished that so many people have blessed our 4th baby.  It really makes me thank Jesus for the incredible people He has placed in our lives.  People that love Him and show that love by blessing others.  People that love our family and our kids.  People that I consider family and love so much.  I am truly thankful.