Congrats!

Jake was really excited to "apply" to be the Student Council rep for his class. At his school, they start Student Council in 3rd grade, and he has been anxiously anticipating it. Each kid who wanted to be considered had to write a paragraph about why they would be a good choice. The teacher then read the paragraphs anonymously, and the whole class voted for their favorite. Jake had to leave early from school yesterday for an ortho appt, so he missed hearing the voting results. He saw someone from his class last night at the school book fair and found out that he was the winner! He's pretty excited! He was all smiles and called Nana right away to tell her, and couldn't wait to tell Dad and Becka when we got home. He's such a likable kiddo, and is friends with pretty much everyone, so I'm not surprised at all that he was chosen. Plus, his paragraph was great! He'll do an excellent job!

Pumpkin carving!

Our little punkin!

Uncle Derek lighting the pumpkins

Daddy!

Tonight for Family Home Evening, we went over to Dana and Derek's house to carve our pumpkins. It was so much fun! Everyone enjoyed being together, Derek and Dana treated us to pizza, pop and homemade caramel apples, yum!

A new Sweetie!

Baby Mia is here! Jason (my brother) and Catalina had their little girl on Wednesday, October 20th at 9:02pm. Her name is Mia Alexa and she weighed 7 lbs, 10 oz and was 19.5 inches long. She ADORABLE! So much soft fuzzy hair to snuzzle and I love the brand new baby smell!

Pumpkin picking...

We had a fun afternoon at Bi-zi Farms pumpkin patch with Dana and Derek's family. There is tons to do! Hay maze and pyramid, pumpkin launching, animals to see, hot chocolate, pony rides, corn maze, yummy food, hay rides and even a special place to wash your pumpkin! It was so fun!

Cheer!

Rachel did a cheer clinic at the high school with her friend Kayla. They had two evenings of practice, and then got to perform their dance and cheers at the varsity football game at Columbia River HS. She had so much fun, and was so adorable! :) Hooray!

Another project

I love these bibs! Best part about them is that they are made from old jeans, so they are cheap! I'm working on lots of different colors/designs for the bazaars. :)

Another challenge

I am feeling frustrated. I've been trying hard to lose more weight and now it has affected my baby's health. I know I'm not getting enough calories to keep my milk supply up for Miss Hannahbug. I had a terrible time with this when I was nursing Becka, had to quit at 4 months, then with Jake, I met a WONDERFUL lactation consultant who helped me figure it out and get over the crummy 4 month low supply issue and I nursed him for a year. I didn't have any problems with Rachie, so I wasn't expecting any with Hannah. Well, I was wrong! So, I'm going to try and focus on eating healthily, getting a moderate amount of exercise and taking the herbs I need to take to get my milk back up where it needs to be for her. I want to lose weight, but breastfeeding her is more important to me, so I'm willing to wait on the really low cal diet until after we are done nursing. Heck, I've been overweight for 12 years, what's another one? :) I just get frustrated because it seems like other women don't have to deal with this issue, and they are skinny. Ugh!