Almost a month!

Wow, sorry it's taken me so long to post an update! I can't believe Christmas is almost here! So in the past month here's a small run down of what's been going on in our lives...

We're having a boy! We found out about a week ago and we're very excited to be adding another little guy to our clan. :) He will fit in just fine! I'm almost 20 weeks, which is the half way mark, this pregnancy sure is flying by! My pregnancies are usually pretty rough and this one isn't much different, but I'm trying to enjoy every part of it since this is our last. :)

We're going to have a 10 yr old is 4 days and I can hardly believe it. I remember Elijah being a baby like it was not that long ago. But he is maturing into such a wonderful little man, I couldn't be more proud of him. He wants a sledding birthday party with about 5 of his close friends, so we're praying for snow! The only weekends we have free are in January so he's going to have to wait a little while for that party. My sister just bought a house with her soon to be hubby (only 4 weeks from today and they'll be married!) and there's a huge hill that would be perfect for sledding, so they were very kind in letting us use their house for Elijah's birthday party!

Our house is DIAPER FREE!!! (well for the next few months at least lol) Zachary is potty trained...woo hoo!!! He will be 3 in Febuary, so it's about that time. I tried a different approach this time. I decided not to push him at all and he ended up doing it 100% on his own. It took him a few days to get it down, but in the process he's had NO accidents and even sleeps in underwear at night. It's crazy how fast and easy it was. When they are ready then it all will fall into place I guess. So it's been about 3 weeks now and it's just great!

Joshua and Nicolas don't really have anything new going on in their lives, Nicolas just had his school Christmas program Thursday night and Elijah's is Monday night. All 3 of the older boys will be in our church Christmas program tomorrow morning. Also, we went to a Christmas concert Wednesday night at a local church here with the boys. It was so much fun! The boys loved that they recognized some of the songs from the radio.

We're going up to the Chicago area next weekend to have a Christmas get together with some of my mom's family Saturday, then heading to my dad and step mom's house to have Christmas with them next Sunday. Then we'll drive home Sunday afternoon and get home just in time for our Christmas service at church that night. Then the next day we're leaving for Maryland to visit Dan's family for Christmas and will be home the following weekend. Shew! We're going to be busy, but it's worth it, I love this time of year!!

I hope to update again before Christmas (but as you just read I'll be pretty busy!) so if not have a wonderful Christmas!!!