Babies!!!!!

We have two couples in my OT class that are expecting babies soon. We decided to throw a joint baby shower for both of them at lunch today. It was a blast!

Jon and Kaylene are both in my class. They are having a little girl, due in Dec.

Brian is in my class also. He and his wife Casey are adopting and are expecting a baby any day now!

Our class is so generous. Both couples got lots of good stuff.

You can't tell in this picture, but Jon was especially excited about EVERY gift! He was cheering about the socks in the background!

Kaylene is always grabing our hands and letting us touch her belly. Kailey took it to a whole new level!

We have such a great group! Like a second family!

Fall Traditions

We have made it a yearly tradition to have BJ's niece and nephew, Zachary and Emily, over to carve pumpkins and spend the night in the fall. This year Emily and I made pumpkin cookies also. We started the evening off with a trip to the pumpkin patch.

Emily was more excited than Zachary about digging out the insides. We sorted the seeds so we could roast them. YUMMY!

Emily and I making cookies from scratch. She was such a big helper!

I think their favorite part of the evening was licking the batter.....

BJ is the Master Carver. Zachary picked which pattern he wanted BJ to do and of course it was the most difficult one! Zachary went back and forth between helping BJ and I, notice he had to get in on eating some batter as well. We didn't get a pic of the finished product but is was prety cool.

They frosted the cookies and added sprinkles on top!

Weekend of Fun!

The past week was pretty eventful. Starting off, Thurdsay, I went in to get braces....YIKES! I am excited about the end outcome, but it might be a long two years. They placed the bottom braces on and put some TAD's (temporty anchorage device) in the top of my mouth. The TADs are like little screws that go directly into the bone. I have a splint to wear on my upper teeth. Some springs attach the splint to the TADs. The actual procedure wasn't that painful but it has been a long week of swollen, sore cheeks and adjusting to this splint that inhibits my speech. I am starting to see the light, as this morning is the first morning I have not woken up with pain.

This is an X-ray of all the gear in my mouth. You can see the TADS on top. Sorry if this grosses anyone out. I find it kind of facinating. Crazy what they can do!

On a much happier note, our friends, Justin, Melissa and Ava came and stayed with us for the weekend. Melissa and I ran the Race for the Cure on Sat morning. We had a great time with them despite my not quite feeling up to par.
Ava Loves Jasmine. Although I think she thought she was her own personal baby doll. Too cute, she was so sweet with her.

Melissa, Ava and I went shopping for a little while before the Tech football game. We took Ava to get her ears pierced!
Before picture.

A little curious about why this lady was marking on her ears.
The only part she really hated was having to be held down. We were not sure that Ava even realized that she had these new things in her ears. She never pulled at them or even reached up to grab them after it was all over.

And of course, you deserve a COOKIE!

BJ and Ava deep in some reading!