We had a nice Thanksgiving Weekend around here. Our friends swung by on their way to visit family...we had a really fun time. We met at the Museum of Science and Industry downtown. My kids really liked it, and I really liked it as well. ..very cool museum. The lobby was decorated with amazing Christmas trees...so pretty and festive:) They stayed the night and we all left on Thanksgiving morning. We spent the weekend in Bloomington and got back on Sunday. I was so surprised how many houses in our neighborhood decorate with lights for Christmas. Lincoln was so so excited and yelling about each one. I went to the doctor on Monday and he seems to think I have a throat infection...I know I have some sort of thing that I just can't shake...hopefully the medication will help. I feel like I have not been well since I got pregnant....so tired of feeling like this.
Less than 4 months to go until she gets here....I'm trying not to think about it so it goes faster:)

                                           
                                                      here is the new baby....at 22 weeks
                                                                           its a girl :)

Its been a house full of sickos around here lately. We all have these horrible colds, and coughs. liv has a full on sinus and ear infection...so so fun. luckily ian is doing okay which means we can sleep at night. And poor lincoln woke up yesterday with his little eye swollen shut. I think we are finaly on the mend and can all be healthy for Thanksgiving.
This is our new chair. We got it with our Christmas money from jonny's folks.(Thank You!) Its called a seat and a half...so we can sit in it together and watch a movie. Also all the kids fit in it at once...
Jonny and I(mostly jonny at this stage of wood work)are working on an ottoman to go with it...i'll keep you posted. 

These are some of ians first steps. He has progressed alot since this was taken, and now toddles all over the house. he always walks with his little fists up by his ears, i guess for balance. He gets so happy and pround when he makes it to where he is going.

we had a nice halloween...it started off with our wards trunk or treat on saturday, then costume parades and school parties, then the trick or treating. There are an amazing amount of kids in this neighborhood! The houses were mostly all decorated cute and spooky and the kids had fun and got tons of candy.

 two little skeletons and a vampire