Fall Update

I haven't been great about blogging lately, but with the baby coming soon, I probably won't take the time to write a lot. I am really frustrated because my web browser is having a hard time loading the pictures so that I can't organize them in the post well, so this may be a little messy. But I want to check this off my list, so here are some pictures of some of what we have been up to in the last few months:

We always try to be "tourists" in the cities we live in. One weekend we had a great time going to San Antonio's Witte Museum. Our favorite part? The kids' museum, of course!





My parents came down to visit us in the beginning of September. They said that they wanted to come and play before I was "no fun anymore." We were excited because they brought a bunch of rain with them that finally cooled off our 100+ summer. We had a great time.






Jon turned the BIG 3-0. For his birthday, we went out to eat with friends. This place, "Big Lou's" was featured on "Man vs. Food" We, of course, had to order the 42" pizza. It was HUGE. We all felt our arteries hardening as we ate.






We also went up to Austin to go to REI (Jon's favorite store) and the State Capital. We also dressed up and went to a nice restaurant. Our last fancy date before the baby comes. I wore a black wraparound dress. I looked huge, but we forgot to take a photo of that.




And finally, we had the chance to meet my old roommate, Elissa, and her family for dinner. They were in town for her husband's job. We haven't seen each other in at least 5 years, so it was really fun to get together. Elissa is one of my favorite roommates from college. She cracks me up.

Summer Update

We have been having a great...and very hot...summer here in San Antonio. It isn't "Doha hot," where the heat can sometimes take your breath away when you walk outside, but we have been over 100 almost every day in July and August so far.

I have added a few posts about some of the things we have been doing the past few months. I can't believe how fast the summer has gone, but I am ready for fall.

Prego Pics

I am now about 28 weeks with 91 days to go. Not that I am counting! Actually, I feel great and am doing well. I am just starting to feel big and am wondering where this baby is going to go in the next 3 months.


14 Weeks and 20 Weeks


23 Weeks and 27 Weeks

Our ultrasound from about 20 weeks. It's a Girl!

Coulam Fam Visit

My friend, Melissa (Kirkham) Coulam, and her family have moved to Katy, just outside Houston. It is about two and a half hours from where we live. I went to visit there for a couple of days and then Mel and her family came to San Antonio to vacation with us for a few days. It was fun to have our first house guests and it forced me to finally clean out the spare bedroom. I didn't take many pictures during their visit, but Mel's daughter, Emily, played photographer for me. It was fun to see things from her perspective. We had a good time being tourists with them and it was fun to see Charly-dog playing with the kids.






Self portrait of our photographer...Little Em

Independence Day

I love the 4th of July and it was hard to be away from home. Independence Day is my favorite holiday, second only to Christmas. I missed seeing the hot air balloons and doing breakfast and games with my family, but we had a great day. Jon and I are on the Activities Committee in our ward. We had a ward pancake breakfast with games and activities. This really is a great ward and we had a really good time.

Our friends, the Ashmores, invited us over that night for a BBQ and we all went to Schertz (neighboring town) for a pretty good free fireworks show. It was a lot of fun.