Time is flying!

This pregnancy is going very quickly! We are already at 14 weeks this week and will be going to the doctor next Wednesday. Everything continues to go well. I am really tired at night, but that could also be due to teaching 7 and 8 year olds all day and then coming home to a 21 month old! Here are our latest pictures from last week. I am starting to have a little belly and every time we take a picture of my tummy, Peyton wants to take a picture of his. :)

Our Trip to the Zoo!

This weekend, Grandma Mary and Uncle Joey came down to visit. We had so much fun with them. On Saturday, Grandma, Peyton and I went to the Wichita Zoo. We loved the giraffes, elephants, and zebras the most. The giraffes were eating leaves off trees RIGHT beside us! It was so fun to watch them. We also got to watch the zoo trainers give one of the elephants a bath and train it. We were very close to the action! The gorillas and monkeys were not our favorites because they kept getting angry and coming up to the glass and hitting it! YIKES! Grandma and I were more scared than Peyton, but either way, we decided to stand back! Check out our pictures!

While Grandma was here we also celebrated her birthday, which is this Friday on Halloween! To celebrate Ben and Peyton picked out a jack-o-lantern Dairy Queen cake. It was delicious! Peyton loved the gel frosting on top and was feeding it to himself and to Grandma, while saying mmmmmmm!

Peyton loves playing with Uncle Joey. He thinks he is the coolest guy ever. Peyton had such a fun weekend playing football and showing off all of his toys. He was lucky to have Grandma stay with him on Monday so he could rest up for the rest of this week! He was one tired little boy after all of the fun and excitement!

Pumpkin Patch

This weekend, on Saturday, we went to the pumpkin patch with some of our friends. Peyton thought is was pretty fun to run through the field with Alexa and find the perfect pumpkin. He even helped Daddy pull them off the stem and then helped Mommy push the wagon all the way up to the lady so we could pay. Then, Daddy and Peyton had a fun time climbing on top of the hay bales. We also enjoyed a walk through a corn maze and apples with yummy carmel dip. It was a great time!

In other news, our basement has made SO much progress. On Friday, we got the carpet and then put our furniture back in the room. It is actually a place we enjoy hanging out and Peyton loves all of the room to run and play with his toys. I will post a before and after picture very soon.

Also, this weeks marks week 13 of my pregnancy. We will be taking a new photo soon and I will post that as well! Everything is going great. I feel great (except tired) and the time seems to be flying by!

Drain backup = A BIG MESS!!!

Well, we have had a very interesting week this week. On Tuesday night, I had a dinner to attend with my student teacher. Ben and Peyton went over to a friend's house for dinner. When I was finished with my event, I went to our friend's house too. When we got home that night, we noticed a HORRIBLE smell coming from our basement. (When I say horrible, I mean it was the worst smell I have EVER smelled in my life). We have a sink in our basement on our unfinished side and it backed up, overflowed, and flooded our downstairs. There wasn't tons and tons of water, but just enough to make everything a complete and smelly mess. Luckily I am pretty orgainzed and had most of our things in plastic tubs...but there were some things that were in cardboard boxes or just laying on the floor and they were ruined. We called our State Farm agent and he actually came over to our house that night (at 9:00) and helped us to devise a plan for what to do. There is a company here in Emporia that specializes in cleaning messes like this and came over on Wednesday to clean everything. We stayed in a hotel on Tuesday night because it was too awful to stay here!

This weekend, we had one of Ben's basketball players help Ben take everything that was ruined to the dump and paint our finished side. The paint really helped to freshen everything up and things are looking much better. We will be getting new carpet soon...hopefully this week sometime, and then will put everything back together again. It has been a long and stressful week and both Ben and I are exhausted! I do not wish that problem upon anyone! And, for all of you garbage disposal people, the drain man said that we should not put anything down our garbage disposal unless it is the consistency of applesauce. Good to know! We are going to be EXTRA cautious about what we put down for the rest of our lives. :)

Other than our busy house work, it has been a great weekend. Peyton's friend Alexa invited us over to their house yesterday to come check out her new sandbox. He had a great time playing with her and only had to go to time out once for throwing sand! Boys will be boys! He was covered from head to toe with sand and loved every second of it. Then, we ate supper together and came home. Today we are doing a little cleaning and just resting. I do not have school tomorrow because we have parent teacher conferences this week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I am looking foward to spending most of the day with Peyton. I will have to go in for a little while to print off grade cards, etc.

Hope all is well with everyone!

Weekend fun...

We have been busy since I last updated! Last weekend, Ben's friend Kyle was in Kansas City with his dad and brother to watch the Chiefs play on Sunday. So, we decided to go up to meet him and eat dinner. We also stopped at the mall on the way to the restaurant. Peyton got to ride on the Carousel and thought the horses were very neat! Then, we went to the Disney Store and found his Halloweek Costume....Peyton is going to be Donald Duck! He is quite a cute little duck!!!! I just hope he will wear the costume when we go trick-or-treating! We also found out last Saturday that our dog, Copper is on the verge of a thyroid problem....because of this, we have to give her a pill every morning and evening and take her back to the vet after a month to see if she has lost any weight. The poor dog gained 12 pounds in one year! Hopefully she will get healthy very quickly, she is such a nice dog and is really good with Peyton.

Last night, we had another football Friday. We all went to the ESU cross country meet first and watched the guys run. Peyton practiced his running in the park too! Then we went out for pizza and to the Emporia High School football game. Peyton loved every second of the game and did not want to leave. He clapped and said "touchdown" when the teams scored. He also danced to the marching band.

Today, Ben is on the road recruiting with his graduate assistant. He will be back later this evening. Peyton and I have had a busy morning running errands and doing laundry. When he wakes up from his nap, we plan on meeting some friends at the park and going on a stroller ride. It is a beautiful fall day!