Thanks-giving

Thanksgiving this year was celebrated by us at our home.  No traveling - no 8 hr car rides - sleeping in our own bed, at least for Thursday.  We were able to host our parents for the big meal & spend a few days doing our prep.  We had the motivation to get our last few projects finished up around the house.  NO MORE BOXES & even parking in our own garage.  We have pictures on the walls. ((deep sigh))  The settling IN.has.begun.

Loved being able to bake in my Westie apron b-day gift-to-myself & have my little helpers decorate some pumpkin cheesecake muffins for our big meal.  I managed to wrestle a couple of pumpkin pies into submission as well... baking can be such a challenge but I think I'm improving!

I love catching my guys hanging out together.  I laugh at my little naked man who has become a bit messy at breakfast & ends up naked for a few minutes now and then.

And I thought he was still learning to get down on his belly... he proved me wrong.  2 seconds flat.

I am remiss for not taking very many photos during some family events&gatherings.  I am mostly too consumed with everything going on to snap the pictures that I can in our normal days.  Most people take MORE pictures during holidays, me = less.  Thankfully, my Dad likes to take pictures & he shares!  (more to come...)

My only image of my Thanksgiving table.  My little fella & our new buffet.  Many things to be thankful for.

Glad to get a pictures of Grammy & Papa snuggling&reading with my little guys.  So often the action shots are quick to escape - but gladly I caught up with this one.

Again, my only shots of Thanksgiving dinner at the Proses new house the following weekend - our post-dinner walk&ride with my little scooter.  I was glad to be able to celebrate the new house & be together!

Nana & Hayden cruisin' the neighborhood.

Happy Thanks-Giving.  Giving Thanks for the small moments & grateful for our family.

Boys. Boys. Boys.

Matt & I were so excited to find out what the gender of our new little baby was & of course we had our suspicions...

Just 16 weeks & they could already tell it was a....

BOY!!

Blue cupcakes were the perfect celebration. ;-)  Our new little guy is doing great & his big brothers were pretty excited to see his picture & take them all over the house for a few minutes.

After all, you gotta dance around with something like this. ;-)

 My first purchase for my littlest boy.  Couldn't help myself.  We are so excited for you little brother!!  Prose boy #3!

thankFUL.

It is amazing how quickly time can slip by without you noticing.  I am amazed today looking back over a MONTH'S worth of photos of my boys&family and scratching my head where to begin.  Probably somewhere along the meal planning, house de-cluttering, grocery shopping, actual 'cleaning', & loads of laundry, I must have run out of gas.  ;-)  I'm so grateful for the chance to reminisce over my memories&pictures as I blog, but do desire to stay more current!

November was a sweet time for the boys&me as we tried to make a 'Thankful' leaf garland for our mantel to celebrate thanksgiving.  My goal was one leaf a day of something James was thankful for, but we got stuck when he just wanted to repeat the same things everytime I asked.  haha, you would laugh, but his first answer was always: God.  Then, variations, but: Mommy/Daddy/Sheepy/Hayden/Roo boy.  Yes, so we enjoyed the exercise & the results were sweet in their simplicity.

Mostly, we were silly.  But, we did finish unpacking out house in November.  Maybe that's what I was doing... haha.

Hayden became ACTIVE.  You can see just from their playtimes, they are keeping me on my toes!!  Hayden is truly a walker now- walker, climber, wrestler, play-maker.  He's driving trucks around the house making a siren sound (because to him they all do I suppose, or maybe its just the most fun).  He's keeping up with big bro & racing him around the house on his Lightening McQueen.  You should hear him talk: Stop! Go!  This boy reads books to himself, sings, talks a blue streak & eats everything.  Hayden Prose, you and your big personality light up my life!  I just can't get enough- he is THE sweetest little snuggler-baby-talker you've ever met.  Until you discipline him or disappoint.  This guy throws a fit you'd never believe!  The terrible-ones? haha.

I was able to celebrate my birthday- 29 and end of my twenties.  Not too tough, except for the folks who asked me which anniversary of my '29th' I was celebrating... uummm.  haha!  I do seriously treasure the photos of my little fellas huggin' each other & just enjoying life together.  I am truly blessed watching the gift that a sibling can be.  And, it was really nice to see my in-laws & my parents both to celebrate my birthday around the date- that hasn't been possible in years.  The chances to live life together are so frequent these days & it blesses me beyond expression.  But isn't it so easily forgotten as well?  I am challenged to remember- Thank you Lord for giving us the opportunities.