Lazy October Day

So as most know fall is my favorite season for more reason's than I can list. However today is all that is Fall and one of the reason's why I love it so much, it's rainy, cold, and dark.

Jim is working weekends in November and it started today (yes I know it isn't Nov. yet). The boys and I went to church this morning and then had some McDonald's for lunch. Then Jim came home and we all got back into our P.J.'s and we decided to have a Tim BurtonAthon today!!

We started off with a quick Garfield Halloween to start off our movie day. Now we are watching Nightmare before Christmas, then on the list is Corpse Bride, and then a Tim Burtonish film by Henry Selick (who Burton works with) called Coraline. 

I made the boys a tent to watch the movies inside. They seem to be enjoying it, almost to the point of a certain destruction in it's near future. Either way we are having a nice LAZY day at home. I imagine I will have A LOT of cleaning to do tomorrow because of it though. :)

O well....it is nice to have a day every now and again to be a lazy family together. :)

Enjoy your day whatever it is you are doing :)

Liz

Pumpkin Day :)

Today was our family pumpkin carving day. As a tradition we carve our pumpkins here at home in the morning and then head over to my folks in the afternoon and have a meal with my parents, my brother and his wife, and us. After the meal we have a Halloween themed dessert...it was a pumpkin shaped cake this year.... then we all carve a pumpkin. 

This year at home Jack and Alex did great Jack O Lantern faces and Jim and I did a dead man's face for ours. This was the first year the boys really did the carving for the most part (with a little help from dad). Mom always get's the fun part of gutting the pumpkins since the "men" in my family are grossed out by it. :)

At my folks we had a great surprise of faces again this year. We all do a pumpkin (Jim and I shared this year) but we don't tell anyone what we are doing. It is a lot of fun and the surprise when it is all done is great. Alex did another great Jack O Lantern face and Jack did a Maple Leaf (yes it is a Maple Leaf) and a little Pumpkin, and Jim and I did Jack the Pumpkin King from A Nightmare before Christmas.  Our family had a great batch as well this year in creativity. 

In the past we did the real hard carvings with the tools and the patterns but this year we all did it free hand with no patterns and it made it real special.

I hope you like the pictures I know we had a blast doing it, and once again it is a family tradition that we cherish greatly. :)

Love to my family

Liz, Jim, Jack, Alex, and (Kian)

The 3D/4D Sonogram 10/22/2011

We had a 3D/4D Sonogram done today and it was amazing. We never did this with the other two because we thought it was a waste of money since we got the other 2D sono's covered by insurance. Well I was very disappointed with how his 18 week sono pictures turned out (our sonographer was not very good) so I got no good pictures and no video on Kian and was bummed out, well Little Wonders out of Normal was having a special today and so we decided to do it and I am SO happy we did. Even though he was a little stinker about moving his arm out from in front of his face, we still got some great pictures and video. We got to see him smile, his big beautiful lips, him playing with his cord and feet (while getting to see all five fingers on the little hand playing with them), we saw that he has hair, and he even LOOKED at us a few times (that was a little creepy :) All in all we were SO pleased with our visit and may even go back one more time around 35 weeks when he is a little fatter :) I posted a few pictures on here and the video can be found on You Tube and on our FB pages. It has been a truly amazing day seeing our little one with such realistic views. :)

Until Next Time,

Liz

The Newest Member of the Mortland Clan-Kian Michael Mortland

Kian Michael Mortland 10/22/2011 28 weeks and 4 days. Our new littlest member to the Mortland Clan. :)

Last Few Weeks

Well since the last time I was on here a few things have happened. Let's see where to start.....

Well my parents after a month decided that a dog was a must in their lives (at least my dad's) so after meeting a few pooches at the Humane Society, they found a little girl named Missy and they named her Miss Maizy!! I know a lot like Daisy....I wasn't sure how I felt about that, but the truth is it's their baby and she is a cute little pitty mix. I will get pictures soon. She is about a year old and still very much a puppy. :)

Let's see.....We have had a busy few weeks but luckily nothing too big has happened. I managed to sleep on my neck wrong one night and I tell you, it was a pain I have not yet had in my neck and I am happy it is feeling MUCH better today!!

The boys seem to be loving school and I am very proud of Jackson. He got 100% on his spelling test last week and it was the challenge list. He got all the words, the high frequency words and the "surprise" words as I call them, correct!! We studied really hard for it and it paid off. He also got a B on his Math 18/20 correct I was very happy about that as well (since Math is not my strong suit). Jack also lost another tooth and is already working on another one!!

Alex has been enjoying art and he seems to be having a great time in school. He loves his friends and is very proud everyday to stay on "green". He also has his first two lower front teeth loose with the permanent already coming it.

Jim is looking for another job since his will be ending in a few months and has had several interviews and calls already and we are just waiting on the right one. He received one from Chicago but we think that pushes how far we are willing to go.... (I don't want to leave Monticello and I think Jim agrees as well). So crossed fingers...I would love to have my hubby back on days.

Kian is growing great!! He is a very active baby, moving all the time and not gracefully either. I can't wait to see him and snuggle him. I am getting more and more excited. Of course that is when I don't think about all the things that come with a new baby again. :0)

Otherwise as a whole we are all doing well and have a family reunion this weekend in Southern IL that we are all looking forward to. We can't wait and I will post pictures when we get back.

We hope you are all doing well out there and until next time......

Liz