and Annie makes 10!

The whole family had a great time at Mike and Annie's wedding. It was a beautiful day and we are so happy to have Annie as a part of the Bachman family.

"OH NO.... I'm PREGNANT!"

Apparently being 8 months pregnant only slowed me down a little. I can still get low with the best of them. It's just getting back up again that was the problem.

making christmas cookies

I've got a real love of frosted cookies. This year I put almond extract in when making the frosting instead of vanilla and let me tell you... Delish! I think we got a little crazy this year with the colors. After we were done I looked at the boys and said... it looks like a bunch of kindergarterns decorated these. Notice the Packer and Patriot gingerbread man:)

baby soup

The list of things to do is getting smaller... down to the small things like boiling the pacifiers.

first real snowfall

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

o christmas tree

It's a Family tradition that we hunt for our christmas tree and cut it down ourselves. No different this year. Katie found our perfect tree, I was the officially stick and camera holder, Matty cut it down and then Matty and Katie dragged it out of the woods.

Note to self - Matty will cut my head off in pictures just so he gets a good picture of my belly.

This was a happy picture before the tree fell down... it's now tied to the wall:)

Reading

Hey all it is Matty again . . . I recently got back from Las Vegas and on those plane rides I had a chance to finish some reading that was recommended to me. The first book was Quarterback Dad, a book written by a football coach who makes pregnancy and the first year of parenting sound a lot like coaching or playing for a football team. The next was The Happiest Baby on the Block. A very interesting approach to stopping a baby from crying. I have lots of questions...but I highly recommend both books for expecting dads.

Anyway that's all I have for today, just thought I would share.

-Matty and Rubbles

32 weeks

We were fortunate enough to get another look at Lil at our 32 week appointment. Everything is right on schedule and both Mommy and Baby are healthy.

Weight = 4lbs... on track to be 7-8lbs at birth

Head size = 44% (Didn't inherit the Lohse big head)

Hanging out with legs crossed, just like Mommy!

crib friends

Got the crib all set up with friends in place. Got blue seahorse (that according to cousin Eric plays church music) and pink piggy. Lil's future best friends. Yesterday we got "Happiest Baby on the Block" dvd from the library. Matty and I are going to get our learn on:)

how long do you think this will last?

where did our dinning room go?

This child isn't even born yet and has taken over the house!!!!

This is what our "dinning room" looks like now:

We've decided to give up the dinning room and turn it into a playroom for Lil. Which makes great sense cause it's right off the kitchen. This way we can hopefully contain the toys and misc stuff that comes with child. The best part is that we can close the doors to hide it all:) Some serious organizing has to get done here.... this is a job for BAD GRANNY!

The new home for our dinning room table is in the back of the living room:

Thanks to Aunt LeNore, Bad Granny and Matty for moving it all around a zillion times until we got it looking respectable.

organizing the nursery

Because I am a Lohse and this child has Lohse blood running thru it's veins... organization of the nursery is a must! Thanks to our generous family/friends and ample hand me downs I now have enough clothes to fill my dressers and changing table. I got out my trusty label maker and got to work organizing in piles based on clothing type and size. Each pile is labeled accordingly. For all you soon to be visitors who want to help out and maybe change a poopie diaper or a spit up outfit, now you know where to get some proper threads.