The baby belly!

The Show! and baby registery

Yesterday we went to see the Trans Siberian Ochestra. I don't know if that's spelled right but you get the point. The show was really good. We all enjoyed it very much. It's a loud show and beleive it or not little Albert fell asleep. Yep he slept through about an hour of it. It was about 2 and half hours all together. Sarah absolutely loved it. Albert was to cranky to enjoy the whole thing. He did very well for a four year old little boy. It was a show Albert has been wanting to see for some time now. Well he finally got to go. They come to Shreveport every Christmas but Albert wasn't here last year. We all had a good time. I am not so sure we will go again next year even though I think Albert would like to. We will have a baby and with the show being so loud I don't think it would be a great idea. I am honestly surprised that Sarah liked the show because it was loud and they had flames and fire works and lots of lights. I thought she would be a little scared but she enjoyed. Well Albert brought his ear plugs for her to where. She wore them and I guess that helped with her being scared because of the noise.

While it is on my mind I am going to tell you all. I have a baby registry at Walmart. I finally got it up there. All you need is to go to www.walmart.com/baby. The only information you should need is our names. It is under my first name Mary not Beth. You should be able to get the info in the store also. I am not expecting you to go out and buy all the stuff on the list. I put stuff on there that I am planning on buying also. I just put it all on there so you can see what we were getting if you wanted to get something to go with it.

Christmas '08

We had a pretty good Christmas day. The kids seemed to have gotten what they wanted. We played all day yesterday. We got a few board games that we played. We watched some movies we got. Albert got a leapster hand held game thing with a game, a pirate ship, some movies, a new candy land game (ours was falling apart), a hot wheels container for his cars, a dump truck, and a bunch of other stuff. Sarah got a new Nintendo DS, some movies, some new clothes, a lot of littlest pet shop stuff, a bratz lamp (which she needed a lamp that is), and a bunch of other stuff that I can't remember. We got the new monopoly game, battleship, sequence, sorry(that was Sarah's), a little monopoly and sorry, and um oh yeah the candy land game. So we got a good many new board games. Then we got tons of new movies. Albert is a huge movie person. I guess you could say he collects movies. I think we got 20 new movies or so. I am not about to name them all. Anyway we didn't spend a lot on Christmas really but we ended up with a good bit of stuff. We really just didn't have a lot of money to buy things with. We have a baby on the way to buy stuff for. Starting out with nothing for it is going to be expensive. We haven't really started to buy for him yet.

Anyway on to the pictures. This is the before picture of our Christmas tree.

This is the after picture. Yep I put beads on my tree. I like the beads for some reason.Like father like son. They are just laying there watching the train go around.
This year the kids got to open one present on Christmas eve that was from family. Earlier in the day I put the gifts from family that were sent to us under the tree. Poor little Albert was going crazy all day.

AND they got new jackets which they actually needed because they didn't have. Well Albert had one but anyone knows Albert knows one isn't enough. He gets things dirty so fast.

This is was right after Santa came. This picture is priceless. She does that face every year but Albert got it this year. She has her mouth open and everything. She's so cute.Albert's reaction was completely different. He was grinning from ear to ear. Then he realized he couldn't see his Thomas the train wrapping paper presents anymore. He then got a little upset because he thought there wasn't anything for him. He was OK once I explained to him that there were presents for him.
The first gift of Christmas day from Santa. Sarah's was a password journal thing. Albert's was a bag of little G.I. Joe men and accessories.

Ruby's gifts. The bed was from Santa and we got her the bone. She is a very chewy dog. So to keep her from chewing things she's not suppose to we have to keep lots of things she is allowed to chew on. So this should last a little while.


My cute little babies opening their presents. I know I know not babies anymore.

Sarah got barbie movies for Christmas. She is so pretty. I know I can't help I have cute kids.

Albert had to show me he got iron man movie for Christmas. He just wouldn't hold it so I could see his face. You can see his pajamas though. Those are his favorite.

AAWWWW the happy parents aren't we cute. Our little photographer took that picture. Albert (little one) is all the time taking pictures. So we had him take a picture of us. Not bad for a four year old.

Albert got new knives. I got a food processor. I put the picture on here but I guess I accidentally deleted that one some how. Oh well one picture with me in it is enough.

We got Sarah a build a bear outfit. Well got one for both kids. Sarah got this tinker bell one and Albert got batman.

Albert is dressing his monkey in his new batman costume.

At the end of day things started to settle down. The were playing their games and Albert was watching his movie. If you look behind Albert that's his monkey in his batman costume. He is concentrating so hard.

Happy little girl with her new Nintendo.
Albert eating his pumpkin cheese cake. Why he put whip cream on the top I'll never understand.

christmas lights

We went to go see the christmas lights in Marshall Texas yesterday. We went with the 'grandparents' the kids adopted since we've been here. Ron and Brenda take the kids every now and again to go do something. Albert and I went along this time though. It was fun. The kids got to see santa. The whole town is all lit up it was nice. They had an ice skating rink but was closed due to weather. It was 73 degrees outside yesterday.

The pictures I took are from my cell phone so they aren't the best of quality.

This picture is in front of Ron and Brenda's house. Albert just loves that nutcracker for some reason.

That's a singing choir group. My kids are at each end. You have to look close to see them bt they are there.
Just a pretty picture of Sarah.
Handsome little boy.

It's a boy!!

Well I had a doctor's appointment on Monday and we found out it's a boy. I know we told most every one already but it may be news to someone. No you can't see his 'parts' in that picture. This one is just a nice profile so you can see his little legs. If you look carefully his arms are up by his head. We decided on the name Andrew. The middle name is up in the air yet. It will either be Robert (mygrandfather's first name) or Keith (my dad's middle name). The doctor told me if things go well he is putting me on bed rest in 8 weeks. If things goes badly then it will be sooner than that. I still have to see the high risk doctor yet. I am a little concerned about what he might tell me. I don't know how long I can just lay around. I have two kids, a husband, a house, and animals to take care of so I am hoping it won't be for to long that I have to just lay about.

I have other pictures to post I am just not going to do it all in one day. I will post them sometime this week.