A Few things I left out

I was on facebook loading some pics when I found 2 really great ones from Thanksgiving!  Here they are!

 Here is Kevin with his finished tart.  Didn't he do a beautiful job?  It was just as tasty too!  I actually tried it because they berries weren't cooked so I liked it!  What a handsome devil he is.

Here is Allen carving the turkey!  It was so delicious!  It was brined and baked in a bag!  My favorite way to have turkey! YUM!

Thanksgiving Weekend

One thing that I LOVE about thanksgiving is that the weekend starts like on Wednesday!  For us, It started Tuesday night upon the arrival of Kevin's brother Allen, his wife Britany and their little son Cameron!  They traveled all the way from Utah to see US!  Well, and the rest of the Sproul clan, but we are so wonderful to be around ;-)  Heehee.  Anyway,. we were so excited for them to arrive.  They got in at 10:30 that night and stayed the night and the next morning Britany was SO nice as to watch Kaylee while Kevin and I went to our appointment for the baby in the belly.  Our appointment was at 8:15am so you can imagine how tired she must have been!  She caught this cute moment while we were out:

It was nice seeing Kaylee playing with a younger baby, especially her little cousin!  This picture is priceless!  Love it!

So we spent the whole day with Allen and Britany (AKA Britllen) and their little cuteness Cam. YAY!  We got stuff done, ate BBQ with the parentals, and played Allen's favorite game of Quelf (hehe he wasn't a fan!) Also, I was excited to have the opportunity to feed Cam rice cereal!  I have never seen a baby so excited about rice cereal!!

(Thank you Britany for some of these pictures that I stole from your Blog!)


The next day was Thanksgiving! We hosted and I think it went really well.  We did some of the preparations the day before, so we only had a few things to do on the big day.  This was the first thanksgiving that Kaylee could actually eat Thanksgiving food.  Last year she only got it through breast milk afterword.  :-)  This was also Cam's first Thanksgiving!  Last year he was in his mom's belly.

 Here is me and Mama Sproul preparing tasty dishes for Thanks giving!  Kevin and I made the turkey, the gravy, the mashed potatoes, the cranberry relish, and seen below, Kevin made a fruit tart all by himself for the first time.  It was a huge success!  The cranberry relish was also a huge success although I did not partake.  I don't like cranberries.  Mama Sproul made the rolls and corn and helped all of us with our dishes as well as played a majority of the roll in clean up.  Brittlen made pumpkin pies and Dixie salad, both delish!  All of it was delish!  I'll tell you, our family sure has good cooks!

 Here is Kevin making the fruit tart!  He made everything from scratch, except the crust was left over from Brittlen's pies.  I was so proud proud of him.  He volunteered to make it and I am glad he did!

 Here is Kaylee sampling the berries while she waited the big dinner.  Trust me, she was anxiously waiting for this dinner!

 In between cooking, Britany had this wonderful and fun idea to do a Thanksgiving craft!  We cut out paper leaves and colored them on the butcher paper.  The outline of the leaf would be made on the paper leaving a fun design on the table!  It also kind of turned into a coloring session.  We have some lovely drawing by Kevin and Kaylee here. Plus we all wrote what we are thankful for on the table!  So cute!  I think it should turn into a tradition of ours.  We were supposed to start this the day before and spray paint the leaves, but this turned out so well too! 

Here is the whole gang at thanksgiving....wait Britney isn't looking, lets try this again.

There we go!  After dinner all of us or most of us somehow passed out in one form or another.  I think the best one was Mama Sproul made a little bed in the hall and took a nap!

The next day Kevin and I traveled down to Lexington to join the rest of the fam.  That night we had a couples night out without kids!  We went to Johnny Carinos!  Very yummy!!!  Here is us all full and happy!

From left to right: Rodney and Denisha (Rodnisha) Kevin and Cindy (Kevindy) and Britany and Allen (Britllen).  It was so fun to be out with my bro and sister in laws!  We later went to look at the black friday leftovers at Best Buy and Kevin and I got our Christmas for ourselves taken care of.  Hello Kinect, you will be of much help when I go to loose the baby weight after May!  We then headed to Rodnisha's house where we watched Arthur (I highly recommend this movie) and ate this fabulous brownie pecan pie.  I have decided that they are the masters of pie making.  every pie they have made and I have ate has been amazing!

The next day was 2nd Thanksgiving except with Ham.  :-)  Yum!

 Here is Grandma Sproul with ALL her grandbabies!  From Left to right, Bentley, Kaylee, Copper, Cam, and Paisley!  We had a lot of fun having them all together. Aren't my neices and nephew SO cute!  I love them!

 Here is Kaylee and Cam ready to bust out some food!  They are adorable!  I love their cute smiles!  I think Cam likes sitting in a high chair like a big boy!

So, funny story.  We went on 2 walks this day.  The first one was super cute because Bentley and Paisley wanted to push Kaylee and Cam in their strollers!  The second walk we had Paisley and Kaylee in a double stroller and Copper in another stroller and Bentley grabbed my hand and we headed for the front of the line.  It was funny, because before the walk she whispers in my ear, "I want to walk really fast so I want you to come with me."  A little background, at the end of the first walk Paisley, Cam, and I ended up very far ahead of Bentley, Kaylee, and Jayne.  I think she saw this and noted that I can walk pretty fast sometimes.  Anyway, so there we are at the front of the line.  Walking, then skipping, then walking, then more skipping, then downhill run!  We get to the bottom and walk around the culta sac (My spelling of this is all sorts of wrong because when I was young, my friend Monique and I just called it the circle place) and then we started uphill.  After recovering a bit Bentley would look back at Rodney pushing the double stroller, laugh, and start running, then look back, laugh and start runing again.  All while holding my hand.  I thought, what the heck, I'll go with it.  And we ran all the way back to the house.  It was fun, I burned a ton of calories, and I was happy to have a moment like that with Bentley because I don't get them often!  The girls are SO cute and it is fun to see what the future will hold with Kaylee!

To end, I wanted to share a few more pictures taken sometime in the last week.

 This is Kaylee giving her Daddy kisses! How cute!  This was taken on the Friday, I can tell by the cute outfit she is wearing.

I think this was the Sunday after thanksgiving.  I am 16 weeks 5 days in this picture.  I have decided that the weight I am loosing is coming off my face, maybe my legs and arms too.  But certainly not the belly.  What a great family I have married into.  I am very thankful for all the blessings I have and for the family Kevin and I share (both sides) and for my beautiful daughter Kaylee and her little sibling in my belly! 

(Also thank you again to Britany for some of these pictures)

Life Lately

So I have realized it has been awhile since I have blogged.  I actually have the whole month of November worth of pictures that I just copied onto my computer.  It is like I am pregnant and have a 1 year old or something.  Weird.  Anyway, so Kaylee is more and more active everyday and keeping me on my toes.  She has some hard days due to teething, but she only has one more (first year) molar to go and then onto the canines I think.  I hear those aren't fun and maybe worse!  But we will see.  One fun thing is that Kaylee is finally able to do some signing!!!  Let me tell you, I kind of started trying when she was around 5/6 months old and wasn't consistent with it because it kind of seemed useless, but once I did become consistent with it, I eventually did see results and am SO happy!  She can say MORE and ALL DONE and PLEASE! Next I am going to teach her THANK YOU.  :-)  I started getting really consistent when she was trying to communicate by throwing food on the floor, throwing sippy cups across the room after she was done, and whining for more food.  I had enough.  That was not behavior I wanted her to continue.  So I began to teach her signs and am VERY pleased with the results.  I will have to tape her doing it because she is SO cute doing it!!! 

As for the youngest Sproul in the womb, he/she is doing just GREAT!  I am feeling a TON better and I am in the "catch up on everything you put on in the first trimester" phase of life.  This includes TRYING to hang out with my friends.  I had an appointment last week (THANK YOU Britany Sproul for graceously watching Kaylee that early morning when I know you were super tired!  And for doing my dishes!  Such a saint!)  I have lost another pound.  It is funny, because she always says, "Don't worry it is totally ok that you lost more weight."  and I am thinking, "NICE!"  I really don't want to gain a ton of weight.  But trust me, I am not trying to loose the weight.  Although I am eating, I usually don't eat a ton due to a smaller appitite and I am chasing my 1 year old here and there and I excersize.  Anyway, the doctor found the heartbeat with the doppler, and then it quickly vanished.  She wasn't able to get it again, so she said everything is fine but she wanted to get a picture.  (Ultrasound)  So here this little one is.  Apparently it is Halloween in there because he/she looks like a little ghoul!!  Love it!

It is a small pic because I took it with my phone.  But you can still see it.  The body starts in the bottom left corner and if you follow that you see the face.  There is two little arms flying about.  The tech actually said, "Do you want a picture of this because it is kind of scary!"  We laughed and said YES  it is AWESOME!  Don't get me wrong, she was totally nice and awesome and she got us, and so that wasn't an offensive statement.  Just funny.  So everything is looking good and it looks like I am indeed pregnant!!  lol

Who needs shirts?

Yesterday we looked over at Kaylee and saw this hilarious site!  Watch and enjoy!



She never succeeded in her goal, but it was funny to watch!!

Things that Made me Cry

I always cry over funny things when I am pregnant.  Not every one is funny.  But here are a few things that made me cry:



This above commercial was saw last night and I started balling! 

There was also a comercial where a military day probably in Iraq got a Christmas book with his kids reading it to him that made me tear up.  But I couldn't find it.

I also cried once because the thought of making biscuits sounded like a great idea......

I'm sure the list will go on, and probably more funny.  With Kaylee most of my crying was because of a really good food or something tragic happened to the food.  For example: yummy crunchy stuff on a salad, a frosty that Kev surprised me with, and a tragic fall of a cupcake that had me dramatically falling onto the couch crying leaving Kevin to clean it up...  I'm weird.

Halloween

So I failed to take any pictures on Halloween, and maybe later I can post a few that my friend Adrienne took, but for now I will post this one.  This was taken by my friend Paula Robinson at the trunk or treat.  Kaylee was actually looking at the camera.

She wore the same costume on Monday the actual day of Halloween!  We joined our friends the Feldmans in the neighborhood by them and had a fun time trick or treating with Kaylee and their son James who is 8 days younger than Kaylee.  So we got a fair amount of candy, that Kaylee was so nice to share with us.  It was overall a great night!  It was also nice to see the Feldman's newest baby Sam again who is just over 2 weeks old.  So tiny and so cute!  They really are a good family!

Trunk or Treat

Here is a couple pics we took of Kaylee at our ward's Trunk or Treat.  Kevin and I have never been to one before and we were not disappointed!  It was SO fun!  Kaylee got some good stuff.  Her favorite is the goldfish that she got from Hal and Paula Robinson, one of the best couples in the world!  She loves her some goldfish!  Anyway, look at this tasty treat!!  LOL

 At home getting ready!

In the parking lot ready to go!  Unfortunately these are the only 2 clear pictures we got but we are doing the Halloween thing on Monday too so hopefully I get better pictures there!