I was Tagged...8 Things

8 Shows I Love to Watch:
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Knight Rider
3. Lipstick Jungle
4. How I Met Your Mother
5. Big Bang Theory
6. Two & A Half Men
7. My House is Worth What?
8. Anything other than hunting shows!

8 Restaurants I Love:
1. Holly's (Post)
2. El Camino (Tulia)
3. La Fonda (Artesia, NM)
4. Cheddar's
5. El Jalapeno (Lubbock)
6. Texas Roadhouse
7. Zoochini's
8. Arby's

8 Things That Happened Today:
1. Exchanged some "stuff" at Target with Hottie
2. Ate a PB&J Sandwich
3. Blogged instead of working!
4. Ate Chocolate cake for breakfast
5. Ordered a ton of Christmas cards
6. Actually did a lot of work
7. Thanked God for awesome friends!
8. Did some sneaky "investigation" work...ha hahahahahaha! (that's my evil laugh!)

8 Things I am looking forward To:
1. Thanksgiving FOOD
2. Seeing friends and family
3. Putting up Christmas decorations
4. Going on the Polar Express Train ride with Koda
5. A healthy baby girl
6. NOT being pregnant
7. Eating dinner with Jon & Laura (yea!! for new friends)
8. Kissing Craig when I get home

8 Things On My Wish List:
1. Non-swollen feet
2. Aunt Marsha's stuffing smothered in Meme's gravy!
3. A "SOLD" sign outside the New Deal house
4. A raise!
5. The Post house to be finished
6. Microsoft to be OVER
7. More time to read books with Koda
8. Another awesome date with Craig

8 People I tag to do this on their blog:
1. Abby
2. Hottie
3. Trisha
4. Christy
5. Tiffany
6. Stephanie
7. Trajina
8. Bre

Are we there yet?

37 1/2 weeks down...2 1/2 to go. Not quite there yet, but everything is looking good. We're not QUITE done with Brynne's room yet, still figuring out how to fix the bed (Pray for Jaryd!) and Hottie did come down and paint...she's almost through, one more flower to go! It looks AWESOME! Now, if I can just get Craig to finish the last little touchups & get the rest of the blue tape down, we'll be ready to go.

Koda's been doing really well in school. He has memorized a new bible verse each week and can still say 90% of them without help. His memory amazes me. His class will be saying John 3:16 for the Christmas program and he's already got it memorized too. He recognizes almost all of the letters of the alphabet and how they sound. It cracks me up to here him as we're driving or walking..."Mom, look there's a capital A" or "That says H, O, W, D, Y". And he has questions about everything, "Do we eat cotton?" "Why not?" "What does cotton do?" "Where does it go?" Sometimes I just have to say "I don't know, Koda, but we can go look it up!"

They made pilgrim hats & collars at school today...I love it because we did the same thing when I was in school there "several" years ago. Craig sent me this picture to me, the wind was blowing the back of the collar up. Surely Mom took some other pics inside the school!

Mom

As I was reading this morning the subject of honoring your parents was mentioned. And it made me think...do I really honor my mom? I hope I do, I want to. But then I thought, "Am I a parent worth honoring?" WOW! So that's where I stop & as tears are pouring down my face...I honor my mom with this scripture that defines her in detail.

Proverbs 31:10-31

10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
18 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

The Final Countdown!

I cannot believe it but we're down to 30 days until my due date. Today is November 12th, so this time next month she'll either be here or I'll be about to go CRAZY! We still have a ton of stuff to do, including selling our house so PLEASE continue to pray for that.
I've been uncomfortable the last few days but I know there is an end in sight so I think I can handle it! Hopefully I'll have pictures of the nursery to post soon...we've hit a couple of small snags with the bed but I've got "handy dandy" Jarryd on the case!
Hottie, Abby & Kendra hosted a baby shower for me on the 1st and I am so grateful for wonderful friends and family who came to share this exciting time with us. All of the gifts are truly appreciated! We can't wait to see her in all of the adorable outfits.
Koda is very excited about being a big brother and has already started reading books to Brynne. It's so funny to hear his intrepretation of books we've read SOOOOOO many times that he has them "memorized"!

Twins?

I actually dressed up for Halloween this year. I wouldn't have, but Gordon (our CEO, aka Gordo) has been giving me heck about being too big to fit through the doors at work. SOOOOOOOO, I decided to dress up as HIM! The funniest thing about it was that he didn't get who I was...everybody else did, but not Gordo. Then I ended up on his team for PuttPutt that afternoon and of course he called me "Junior" the whole time and after looking at me for that long period of time he said he could see some similarities. HA! P.S. Funny note: One of my girls dressed up as ME!! Pregnant with a fan around her neck...I have to admit I do freeze them out some days!

Koda faces!

Koda & I had a little fun as he made lots of different faces and of course I took pictures of them...my favorite is the "thinkin'" face. He cracks me up!

Halloween

This year was different for us as we were in a new place and not quite sure what the plan was. Thankfully Haddie & Datch (& Doug) came to the rescue. We went to a couple of houses, the sheriff's department and a harvest festival. That pretty much did it for us! Koda had a blast and dressed as Uncle Doug, who I'm sure everyone knows is a FIREFIGHTER! It's amazing to me that he has stuck with being a firefighter so long, but I guess it's a good thing that he can focus!
Of course, here's some pics...