Belly Pics and Nursery Beginnings

Ok for all of you wanting belly pics here you go. This is my belly at 31 weeks. I am feeling like a huge cow, but apparently if you aren't the prego one everyone else thinks it is cute.
Andrew is moving around all the time in there and keeping me uncomfortable! I rarely get more than 2 hours of sleep because he moves around so much and I always have to get up to pee. He really likes sitting under my ribcage with some unidentified part of his body jabbing out the right side of my belly. James thinks it is hilarious. And now Andrew is moving around enough that he can't hide from James anymore.

I also put James to work in the nursery helping with my vision of how the room should look. Here is the start of it. Hopefully I'll have it finished soon and will have those pics to post but here are the beginning stages.

Mhari's Brave Night

I have quite the reputation at church being that we have been married forever and have no kids...I'm quite the auntie and love to spoil my friends kids and play that role. So a couple of months ago while babysitting for the Scott children (all 5 of them) I had let the girls play in my makeup and told them we would do a girls night where they could come over and have a "late nighter" and play in makeup. That was in March and I figured I probably better make good on my promise since they kept reminding me about it and I'm getting closer to not being able to do as much of that.
So I had 5 girls under the age of 10 over to do makeup and nails on a Friday night. Their parents were in awe of me being brave enough (or I believe Del and Brent thought that I was dumb enough lol) to take them all on at once. They got over here around 6:30 and we had pizza and then started on the nails and makeup. McKinley and Sydnee got a quick start jumping right in. I barely got them to eat their food.

I put out all of my old Mary Kay samples and let them have a free for all putting on the colors they wanted and trying all 25 of them. :-) They were in hog heaven.
After the hair and makeup we made triple chocolate cookies, and then I let them raid my shoes and jewelry and we took pics. Here are some of their fun pics. I am no photographer nor did I have a great spot to take these so pardon the treadmill in the background and the pumpkin lights that the girls used to decorate the treadmill. :-)
This is Kylie - she is the youngest of the bunch that came over but she loved hanging out with the big girls and she is quite the little poser.


Then Rylee is our next youngest. She just had her 7th birthday.


Then Caitlyn. She got baptized this year so she is the big 8.

Sydnee is 9. She wanted to have Mattie (the dog) in all of her pics and all the other girls wanted to do the same. They love the dogs because their parents are not quite as animal friendly as me lol...sorry Leslie and Kristin.


And last but not least we have McKinley who is 10 going on 12. I have been the bad influence for her to get to wear makeup at 12 like I did. Sorry Brent. Ok not really lol.


And here is the group pic of all 5 of them.

We had a good time but boy was I tired when they went home at 10. I don't know how Kristin or Leslie or any of you handle 5. Yikes!! Glad you start with just one.

Nebraska vs Baylor 2009

On Halloween James and I made the quick trip up to Waco for the Nebraska vs Baylor game. It was absolutely picture perfect weather. The kind of weather you hope for when going to a football game and rarely ever happens around Austin. James was super excited because the 2nd string quarterback Cody Green started and he hasn't been a huge fan of the other quarterback Zack Lee.

The team warming up.
The Nebraska fans are definitely a dedicated fan base. We got to the game about an hour early and here is what the Nebraska side looked like.


Here is what the Baylor side looked like until about 10 minutes before the game.

We had a good time and Nebraska won which made it even better. Larry the Cable Guy was at the game too so I got a quick pic of him which wasn't terribly great.

More updates to follow.....