Helping my addiction

I recently made a connection yesterday that ever since Blaine was born I have not gone to Target like I used to every other week. It's quite funny to think that having another baby possibly curbed my Target addiction. Friday was the first time in about a month that I had gone. Short but sweet...thank you to my two kiddos for keeping me incredibly busy!

He's here!

Well the time went by so quickly, but he's finally here.....yep that's right the LaFleur's are now a family of four. We grew by one more, a little boy. Blaine Arthur LaFleur was born December 12, 2012. My labor was wonderful and quick! Sophia is doing such a good job of being an excellent big sister. So far I am really enjoying my time with my little one. I can hardly believe that four weeks have already gone by. It's been such a whirl wind. Happy one month Blaine!

A trip to see Santa

Today we took our annual trip to see Santa at Valley Creek Mall in Woodbury. Unfortunately, people are catching on to my little mall Santa. This year for the first time, there was a line! It was quite busy even though we were still there pretty early. I think that the line might be caused by the fact that they were going to have live reindeer at the mall, but not for over another forty minutes. Oh well. We still got some wonderful pictures of Sophia with Santa. She told Santa that she wanted books and a new teddy bear. Hopefully Santa will make sure her wishes come true.

Baby Shower

Two weeks ago my closest friends came over to my parents house for a baby shower. The shower was hosted by my best friend Becca. We had such a wonderful time! She did an excellent job making all of the decorations and getting the theme of elephants with yellow and gray to match.

We had brunch and played some games and then opened presents. It was such a good time! The baby got so many great gifts and there was even a mommy gift bag too!

This is one of my favorite my outfits. I had a harder time registering this time with not knowing the gender of the baby. It was still so much fun to pick items out as everything is so different than it was five years ago. I also got to bring Sophia along when I registered which made it even more fun. All in all, this was such a wonderful day and I am so incredibly blessed to have such great friends!

Been a while

The busy schedule we lead every day has clearly gotten the best of me. I haven't blogged in a while and so much has happened since August. Sophia started Kindergarten and just loves it. She comes home with something new to tell us about every day. Hal got a new job and is also loving the different projects to work on. He is now focusing on lint roller tape and more of the home care products and not on blue tape. He also got a new car in preparation for the baby and the fact that the Mazda was almost nine years old. I am still working up a storm at school and volunteering with different things at church. I am 30 weeks pregnant now and enjoying every single second of it. I had to go through the big four hour glucose test, but passed and am very thankful. I am getting excited with Halloween right around the corner. We had quite a bit of family fun over MEA. Today we made our annual trip to the apple orchard. The weather was just perfect and so were the caramel apples in the end.

A long weekend with mom

This weekend Sophia and I are spending together. Every year Hal goes on a boys trip to visit one of two friends. So far we have been nothing but busy since he left. Last night we went out to dinner after I got done with work and then came home to get off to bed. Today we went to the state fair with my parents. We had a great time. We saw pretty much everything that the fair has to offer. We tried a couple of new foods. One of my gluten free finds was a spicy risotto popper. Let me tell ya they weren't kidding about the spice! Sophia went on several rides and she was quite the trooper. We spent almost eight hours at the fair walking around. We only took one minor sitting break, otherwise we walked a ton. Once we got home we were all worn out. Sophia slept the whole ride home and we came home to relax a bit and clean up the house. It is so peaceful right now to have the house almost completely to myself. Only being able to hear myself typing and the tick of the clock are somewhat refreshing. Tomorrow Sophia will have a friend over to play. Then I'm not sure what the rest of the day will hold. We need to make a trip to the farmer's market at some point. Not sure when we will get there, but the veggies are calling my name. In other news....this baby has been quite active. Wednesday night into the day on Thursday was crazy for movement. Since the my little pumpkin has been quite content with not as much kicking. It's probably because we have sat down. Here's to a great long weekend with just the girls

Half way there

I can hardly believe that I am already half done with this pregnancy. The time has just flown by. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with actually being home quite a bit with summer. I remember it not going by fast enough to meet Sophia when she was born. Now I am just trying to savor each day of this pregnancy. This baby has been quite the kicker lately. It's funny though as every time I make Hal or Sophia rush over to feel the baby kick, the little stinker stops. The baby has been much more active though this week. Maybe this child knows that it is also half way done and ready to meet the family! We are pretty much prepped and ready to go for this baby. It's nice not rushing around trying to buy stuff that we need. I'm sure we will need to do a Target run a couple of days after, but for right now we really have all of the essentials. I'm starting to worry though about the little things like my first born. I want her to be as happy as possible with this new transition. I'm also worrying about starting school again and how hard it will be on my body. We have been sleeping in quite a bit and the reality will kick back in, in just a few short days. For now, I will savor my last weekend of sleeping in and the freedom to do what I want with Sophia!