filled…

After a trip back to Oklahoma for a few days, we have a lot to be Thankful for! Yes, we celebrated Thanksgiving and that always helps people be thankful.  But I’m in a state of shock at how blessed we are!  

A huge thank you to the amazing women who threw us our shower.  We had a blast!  I’m so thankful for the friends and family who are pouring blessings and prayers over our little one.  

A huge thank you to our friends and family for gifts to our baby girl.  I can’t believe how much she already has and she won’t be here for three more months!! We were very blessed with all our friends and family have given us. We’ve been getting lots of stuff in the mail everyday for her! So much fun!!   

A huge thank you to my brother & sis-in-law.  They gave us bags and bags of clothes!!! Our niece will be 10 months older than our baby, so she’ll be outgrowing clothes as we are ready for them.  Couldn’t be better timing 🙂 Thankfully Taelyn is a spoiled little thing with tons of cute clothes!!!  

A huge thank you to Marty & Nancy for doggie sitting our first born! The hard part about going to visit OK is having to leave the pup behind, and we’re so thankful for people willing to take in the famous Jack Bauer James. 

An extremely huge thank you to Lee Jackson.  Our trip to OK wouldn’t have been possible without the huge blessing from him.  We met Lee on our trip to Israel this summer, and had a great time getting to know him and his son Wes.  When we were stranded in Atlanta after Israel and disappointed that we were going to miss a couple extra days with family, he promised to help get us home at Thanksgiving.  And he totally followed through! What a great guy!! Lee, it was great to see you! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!  

In the words of my mother-in-law….I’M FILLED 🙂

 

Okie Recap

We’re back in the OC, and we had a wonderful time in Oklahoma!!!

Before we left I made a list of places I was craving that only Oklahoma has. I did a pretty good job!

Recap of food eaten:

Rodney’s Pizza
Raising Cane’s
McAlister’s
Hideaway
Teds
Braums
Earl’s BBQ

This doesn’t include Thanksgiving Dinner(s).  I’m a little nervous to weigh in at my next doctor’s appointment.  Could be ugly…but well worth it! YUM.

We had a wonderful day with my family on Friday and getting to spend the day with our niece Taelyn.  She was only a few weeks old last time we saw her and now she’s six months! She’s pretty cute!

Uncle Brook & Aunt KK

Sunday night was our baby shower and we had a great time!!!! These girls had the right idea and served a real meal…hello bbq! What pregnant woman wants to eat crackers and tiny desserts for a baby shower? No thank you…I’m not working on fitting in a wedding gown at the end of this.  I think those hospital gowns are huge and I’ll fit just fine 🙂

 
Preggo Friends                                Aunt Cayce

Big & Little…The greatest friends ever!!

Last pic of us before babies!!!!!!!!!!

It was such a great trip, and a blast to spend time with family & friends in the great state of Oklahoma.  I’m happy to be home with my puppy and back to the norm, but vacation is always great!!

Hello December! 3 months until we meet our daughter!!

a few days off

I’m taking the next few days away from the blog to spend time with family & friends! I am so excited and really enjoying our vacation!

Friday — My brother, his wife & my precious niece Taelyn are coming to my parents to spend the day.  We haven’t seen Taelyn in 6 months and I can’t wait to love on her!! So bummed that the other niece, Tallie can’t be here 😦

Saturday — FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL!!! Gooooooooooo POKES! Spending some quality time with Brook’s brother, sister, & bro in-law.  Going to dinner with Lee & Wes Jackson…so thankful for great friends!

Sunday Part 1 — We’ll be making our grand appearance at an OKC area Lifechurch.tv Campus.  Haven’t decided which one yet.  It’ll be like Where’s Waldo. Be on the lookout!

Sunday Part 2 — Baby Shower!!!! I’ve never had one of these before for me! Kinda excited! So thankful that we were able to make it to OK and our amazing friends/family put this together for us.  Can’t wait to see everyone!!!!

Monday — Probably a little shopping with mom & then off to the airport! Home to the OC and pick up our first born.  I sure miss that little guy!

Going to be a great weekend and I’m looking forward to all the amazing time with friends and family. Be on the lookout in a few days for plenty of pictures!!

(Skipping a week on the Friday Belly Shot…I’ll still post one on Twitter & Facebook :))

Hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving!

Oooooooooklahoma!

Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain!

Today we are off to Okie-homa to spend Thanksgiving with the family (minus the in-laws and reagan. bummer!)  This is my first trip to Oklahoma as a pregnant woman. I have been craving things that you can only get there. So here is a list of stops we must make while there.

Braums: cookies and cream shake

Chicken Express: chicken, okra & sweet tea

Raisin’ Cains: chicken, Texas toast, yummy sauce & sweet tea

Steve’s Rib: gooooood okie BBQ & sweet tea

McAlisters: sweet tea

Hideaway: Little Kahuna Pizza

Rodney’s Pizza: pepperoni pizza

Janets: Baked Potato Soup

Teds: about 20 tortillas & queso.

Now I’m hungry! Can’t wait to be there!! And interested to see if I can actually fit all of this yummy food into 5 days with Thanksgiving dinner.  Stay tuned my friends.

Day one: life on the farm

Vacation Day One began at 3:45 am.

That’s right, it does exist.

We drove over to the Norman’s to drop off Jack.  They’re graciously keeping our wonderful son for the next two weeks.  Chris got out of bed at 5:00am to take us to the airport.  Jack wasn’t so happy to see us go!

After a LOOOONG day of flying, we finally arrived in OKLAHOMA!! My parents picked us up and we were off to Purcell, OK! We stopped for dinner at Rodney’s Pizza, the BEST pizza in the world.  HANDS DOWN.

As if I wasn’t stuffed enough already, we stopped to get the best sno cone in the world.  HANDS DOWN.

We had a great day hanging out with my parents on the farm! It’s quite a change from the OC, but fun to be home for a bit.  Tomorrow we’re heading to my brother’s to see our baby niece for the first time.  I can’t decide if I’m more excited to kiss her cheeks or go to Israel.  We’ll see.  🙂

I’ll leave you with this, what is outside our window as we go to sleep tonight….

Goodnight from the farm,