Hello 2nd trimester, please be good to me

Ok, so not our baby. But according to the internet, our little love is about 3.5" long now. That's probably about the size of my thumb (from tip to wrist). So far as I mentioned in my last post, I've been a bit more queezy in this pregnancy than Addilyn's. The time I felt my worst with Addi was actually about now. So I'm really hoping that since this pregnancy has already proven itself to be a bit different, that instead I will get better! Of course there are the other symptoms I've been having- mainly nasty headaches. I could totally do without those. I'm just as tired, if not more, with this one. These dang kids suck everything out of you! It's incredible the feeling of complete exhaustion and you've only just woke up. I'm thinking I need to start taking some iron like I had to with Addi.

Right now I'm taking a break from cleaning and packing. We are headed to Long Island on Friday for the weekend and then spending Thanksgiving week with family in Pennsylvania. We are really excited for Addilyn to play with all of her cousins, since last year she was a little less mobile (only 8 months old). We thought we were going to be able to see my dad too, but plans changed. He was sent to PA to help his company with the overload of claims they were getting due to the hurricane. Well, he is actually flying back today. It was supposed to be 2 weeks, probably 3 that he was supposed to be there. They had enough people but the claims just sort of stopped and didn't need the extra hands anymore. Oh well....On a happy note, my mom is coming for Christmas! Woo!

Coming clean

Okay, so there is one more reason why I've been a horrible blogger. Yes, the number one reason is my laptop is refusing to take internet from my phone (we've been tethering for the last year+). But the 2nd reason?

We are expecting! Yes, that is supposed to be a little baby on my shirt...We made this discrete public announcement at our ward trunk or treat on Halloween. We are due May 15. That makes me 13 weeks tomorrow. We knew we were pregnant back in early September. Our babies will be almost exactly 2 years apart. So far Addilyn has been very accommodating and taking 2 hour naps which allows me to nap too. I've been queezier (is that a word?) than I was with Addilyn. And I'm very happy I made a gazillion freezer meals because I have no desire to cook.

Our pumpkin. I made all of our costumes and was very proud of it too. We haven't really had good costumes since we were Napoleon and Pedro when we were first married. Below is a picture of another girl dressed as a pumpkin. If you look close enough you can see they are both eyeing the sucker the girl is holding.

October

Let's see. This past month there have been a few fun activities that we did. For one, we got pumpkins. Addilyn was a wild woman running up and down the pumpkin rows. We still play outside because fall here is the best. It's been average 70's during the day. This last weekend of course has changed because of the hurricane (which all we got was wind). The fall is truly my most favorite time of year here. Spring is second, only because it's followed by humidity whereas now it's significantly less humidity. So once again, I'm doing a massive picture throw up on here because that's how I've been rolling for the last several months.

For a while now she knows exactly what to do without us coaching.

Helping daddy put together a car for a co-worker

wasn't scared at all!

I told her to say "cheese" so she said "cheeks!"

Hobby park

It's too hot to have fires in the summer so we take advantage in the fall!

Toga!

She loves to color

Her BF

Since when?

Since when did I become a bad blogger? Oh, since my laptop started getting work done. First I had the screen replaced, and then I had the battery replaced. Ever since the battery has been replaced, the internet doesn't work. Eh. My blogging isn't the only thing that's suffering. Since my laptop has my design programs, it's been super inconvenient when it comes to work! I bluetooth the documents that I need to email to my phone. Then from my phone I email it. Really? It's kindof a drag. So today to post pictures, I've emailed the photos from my phone (which is also my camera) so that I could download them to Scott's computer. Okay, now that I'm done venting...Here is an update! (And because of this method of uploading pics, they turned out totally out of order of anything.)

Probably one of my most favorite photos.

 When we forget to take the stroller out of the car, we take her toy stroller and go for a shorter walk that seems to take forever. You could only imagine why!

 She really REALLY likes dirt. We stopped several times for her to lay on her belly and dig at the dirt she found.

Picked the rest of our ripe tomatoes and tasted each .

Dirt.

She likes olives and knows how to eat them right.

 We went to the applefest one Saturday with two of our friends who left that week to go back to Utah. Below is a picture of Megan chowing down on the massive apple funnel cake that all of us shared. It was huge. The apple festival despite it's name, was not very "apple-y" They had two people selling apples, one guy demonstrating a hand crank apple juicer (which we weren't allowed to drink), and then this apple funnel cake. The rest was just flea market type booths and other demonstrations like blacksmithing. It was fun though to get out, and it was free.

 Scott was asked by a coworker to put a car together for a birthday party. Addilyn was so cute helping him. She wasn't scared of the drill at all! I was impressed. She has a car like this that she got from her Grandpa Jadwin for her 1st birthday.

This weekend is also General Conference. This morning we went down to Asheboro to see friends from New York. Paul Nulty was Scott's young mens leader growing up. His daughter lives here and her son got baptized this morning. So we drove down for the festivities. Addilyn was a wild child. She had so much energy she didn't take a nap until 5 ish on our way back home. One of Jen's daughters was so great with her and in fact all of the kids that were there. Addi had the best time. We ate a lot of food, talked, and tried to take naps in between the crazy.