Fall, Fun and Babies!

The main theme in our lives seems to be that we are constantly busy. We have (again) been booked every weekend for the last several months. Finally, our days have slowed down and I am able to post an update!

You can see from the pictures below that we visited Carter Caves in September with my family. Having walking and talking toddlers this time certainly made for an interesting and busy visit. Let's just say last year was mellow with three infants compared to this time around! Braden and Harrison enjoyed the big playground and the very friendly squirrel. Alyssa loved running up and down the hills while simultaneously exhausting both her mother and Papa.

Brad and I are still slowly putting together and rearranging our house. For those of you who haven't yet heard, we are expecting another baby in April! Clearly we do not value sleep in this house since we decided to add another baby to the mix ;) I kid of course, because we are thrilled for Braden to have a brother or sister. He is so good with the baby at his daycare that we are not at all worried about how he will react to a sibling. In fact, one of his favorite things to do is kiss my belly and tell the baby "night night" I can't say that he totally understands there is a baby in there, seeing as he occasionally does the same thing to his daddy. In Braden's defense, his daddy does have a little bit of a pooch! We will find out the sex of this baby on Nov. 19th. Of course I want a girl, but am fully expecting another boy. Brad would prefer that we not find out at all, but I cannot do that!

Some of the pictures below are from the wedding of my parent's neighbor's daughter. Stinky was so cute that night, but he was certainly a handful. I found a cute new photo editing site called Picnik and wanted to share with you what I was able to do with the photos:

Braden also went Trick or Treating again this year. He was a little devil- a costume so appropriate that he acted like one all day that day. He wasn't sure about going door to door to get candy and stayed in the stroller while Mommy and Daddy did all the work. Once we finished with our neighborhood, we took him to see his Great Grandma and Grandpa Nichting. He LOVED helping Great Grandpa hand out candy to the trick or treaters. Eventually he was fired from his position because he kept handing out giant handfuls of candy. He would get so excited each time he saw someone come up to the door and would start yelling "here, here." It was too cute!