Newborn Pictures!

What a big week!  Monday I went into labor, so we got to meet Harper Joy a few days earlier than we planned!  I'll post all those pictures later, but right now I just a minute and I have to post these PRECIOUS ones that Bobbi at Van Reet Photography took when Harper was just 2 days old.  Yes, she's only 5 days old and I already have her pictures back!  I love them!!

There were lots more, but these are my very favorites!  Check out even more cute pictures on Van Reet Photography's website or facebook page!  There's one more of Harper on her facebook page too. :)

Punkin' 'Patch!

Last week we headed to the Punkin' Patch, as my girls call it.  It's is one of their all time favorite things to do!

Fresh and ready to go!  This is definitely the "BEFORE" picture of the day.  You can see the "AFTER" if you scroll down a bit!

"Mom, there are WAY too many pumpkins here to look at you!"

LOVE this one and LOVE this GIRL!

Tatem was not so interested in posing this year, but she sure is cute!  The pumpkins go great with her hair! :)

Oh my!  Landrie looks SO old to me here!  Hard to believe that she just turned 4 last month!

Bounce house time!!  

After a bit, some of our friends arrived!  

My sweet girls!

What a dream to get to take them to do things like the pumpkin patch!  Sometimes, I still can't belive that it's me pushing the stroller, holding a hand and waddling with a big belly.  Such sweet times!

Tatem, you get MEGA bonus points for waiting until after I took your picture to fall in the mud. :)

I didn't mind one bit, but you sure don't like to be dirty like this.  You were crying "BABY WIPIE!!!" over and over. :)

Look at all those BABIES!!  We all waited and prayed for these precious little ones!  

We even got a picture together!

Since I was dressed oh-so-cute and not a bit sweaty, I had Jenny take a belly picture for me. :)  I was 2 days shy of 38 weeks here.  See that belly button?  You know it's popped out when it makes a shadow of its own!  haha!

And this, folks, is the AFTER.  Tatem is muddy and grumpy, and Landrie jumped so much she insisted on being the one to ride in the stroller.  It worked out great, because at this point, my muddy little Tatem insisted, "No!  I do it!  I walk!"  

About 2 minutes later, Tatem was out like a light, one pretzel hanging from her lips, and one on her buckle!  Can you tell she played hard??

The next day, we came back for a birthday party with some more friends!  Instead of sweating, we were shivering!  It was SO cold!  We all checked the weather that morning, but it ended up being so much colder than they predicted, AND it rained on us.  Of course, the kids didn't mind a bit!

Mark was even able to join us since it was a Saturday!  This might just be our last picture as a family of four!

This pumpkin patch is huge, so these are just a few of the sweet friends there.  The rest were off chasing their kiddos!

Sweet friends getting their pumpkins!  I didn't even know they did birthday parties at the infamous Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch, but it was so much fun!  All of you October moms can tuck that idea away for next year! :)  

I may have cried while at the pumpkin patch this year, for more than one reason!  We are going to miss it so much!  I'll do a full blog about what's going on soon!

Maternity Pics

Well, when I was pregnant with Tatem, we had the amazing Van Reet Photography do our maternity pictures.  I love them!  Check out her beautiful work here. :) This time??  Well, I'm 39 weeks today, and I had contractions every 10 minutes all through church this morning.  SO, I did what any girl would do and had my husband snap some pictures by the bushes outside of Freebirds after we ate. :)  As any pregnant girl knows, you don't want to go to the hospital on an empty stomach!

Now, sweet Harper Joy, we have proof I was once pregnant with you!  

Yes, we have a name!  By this Friday (if not sooner!), Mark and I will be the parents of 

Landrie, Tatem and Harper!!

Oh, and after 7-8 hours of contractions every 10 minutes, they haven't changed a bit!  I guess her birthday won't be today!  Anyone else have anything like that?  Just for fun, here I am at 39 weeks last time.  Yup, I'm WAY bigger this time!!

There is SO much exciting stuff going on in our lives right now!  I need to get a post written about all of it before Harper arrives!  Have a great week, y'all!

"Ballerina Class!!"

So, Landrie Landrie is THRILLED to be doing her very first activity!  We are 3 weeks in to a little ballet class at a local city's rec center.  I don't think she'll be ready to perform the Nutcracker this Christmas, but she is having a ball!!

Two of her sweet friends are in the same class.  Do you think they have fun?? :)

Throughout the week, she'll say, "I sure wish I could go to ballerina class with my friends!!"  She is our girly- girl through and through!

Laandrie dances around the house for us and loves for me to put on classical "ballerina music" for her shows. Here's a show at home. :)

Tatem was a little young this time, but she sure loves to do ballet with her big sister!  It won't be long before she's in class too!