The Lemon

All the Halladay's right now are having babies, so we decided that we should join in the fun. I am 14 weeks a long and our new baby is the size of a lemon. Nate and I are excited about our new addition to come. My due date is some time in the middle of May. So the burning question is: Will we have all girls or will there be a boy to finish off our family?

Katelyn's Birthday

We started off for Katelyn's birthday at story time. Then we headed over to the roller coaster place (aka Trafalga in Lehi) to take advantage of some nice weather. Katelyn and Sadie both love going here.

Katelyn really wanted a rainbow cake. I figured making a pull apart cupcake cake would make her party easier for me. I think it turned out really great with the cupcake shape looking like a cloud.

Katelyn wanted to go to the popcorn place (aka Winger's) for dinner. Made my meal making easy for the day.

She was so excited to finally get Sleeping Beauty. It was the only princess she was missing. This one even came with a horse and carriage and Prince Phillip.

Sadie gave her Tinker Belle, which she herself played with for the rest of the night.

"It's my Birthday!"


We had her party on Saturday with some of her friends from her church class. Note to self for future reference: Katelyn has a hard time understanding that you can have a party on a different day than your actual birthday.

We had a Princess Tea Party and everyone came dressed up as a princess.

They had fun making crowns, putting the crown on the princess, and making hand fans. I think the most fun they had was just playing in Katelyn's room together.

Having "tea" with finger peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and apples.

Sadie decided to be the entertainment and hop around like a frog. She was making everyone laugh.

All our princesses: BriceLynn, Jayelee, Kate, Alyssa, Sadie, and Katelyn

On Sunday Katelyn celebrated her birthday with Grandpa Steve and Grandma Gail. She was so excited when they gave her a bigger bike (I'm so happy I suggested it). I think Katelyn had a wonderful birthday and I don't think all the boxes around our house got in her way.

Thinking back...

I was thinking back this morning to the morning of the day Katelyn was born 5 years ago. My water broke at 6 in the morning and after getting ready Nate got me all settled into the hospital. He went off to school. No reason for him to sit around with me when he has classes and a test to take. I sat in bed watching TV and having to pee every 30 seconds. When he got back, they told him I was sent home. He headed off searching the streets from the hospital to our apartment looking for me. Poor Nate. I'm sure he was thinking he was about to get an ear full from a full term pregnant woman that had to walk home in the rain. When he got home and didn't find me, he called my hospital room and I answered. Again, poor Nate. So funny the things that tend to happen.

After many, many hours we welcomed our first baby girl to our family. We love you Katelyn.

Happy 5th Birthday!

Halloween

The kids had fun dressing up and going to story time last week.

They like singing all the Halloween songs and dancing around.

We had a wet Saturday night. Our trunk-r-treat was moved inside the church and we only went to a few houses to get the full trick-r-treating experience.

Sadie didn't like all the adults in costumes trying to hand candy to her.

Katelyn was Cinderella and Sadie was a Strawberry Fairy.

(Sadie says she was Strawberry Shortcake fairy)

I think Sadie liked door to door trick-r-treating better than at the church. She was getting really into it and was saying all sorts of funny things to people. She would say "Trick-r- treat, give me something good to eat." To one guy not dressed up she said, "Happy Halloween, Witch." I couldn't stop laughing. We had a good Halloween.