Blattman Chronicles

We enjoyed Thanksgiving with the Rands this year again.  Another year of successfully enjoying lots of great food, fabulous company and fun games!

We started putting up the decorations the day after Thanksgiving this year.  Due to my extremely late Thanksgiving night coupled with a touch of morning sickness, I sat out on the 3 am sales.  We took a quick kid’s shopping trip at 10 and then spent the rest of the day decking our halls.  Hudson and Annie were so helpful and very willing to help!

Will was sweet enough to finally let me get a real tree.  It fits perfectly by the front window

Amber and I did the Turkey Trot again this year the morning of Thanksgiving.  Will missed snapping our photo finish, but the guys were present to be our witnesses.  I love that the guys give us so much love and support!  I chalk Will’s confusion up to the fact that we were able to shave several minutes off last year’s time.  He just wasn’t expecting us so soon.  In all honesty, our speed wasn’t earth shattering…and in Will’s defense, the guy next to him was chatting him up about cameras.

Hudson and Oakley got to run the kids’ Mile race this year for the first time.  I was so proud of them.  They ran hard and they finished!

It was a great way to get Thanksgiving off to a running start.    Thanks to Amber for letting her cute family enjoy the day with us.  This was just another reminder of how much I love my family and how supportive they are of me.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hudson is finally 5!  We are so excited for him.  We celebrated the day with a carnival in the backyard and a few of his friends.  Hot dogs, kettle corn, face painting, balloon animals…we tried to keep them all busy!

We tried out some old school carnival games  and I think the kids enjoyed them.

Will did point out that my painted clown looked a little creepy, but it didn’t seem to bother any of the kids.

We had some serious competitors.

We had to give out tickets so kids could claim some prizes in the end.

Annie came back onto the scene about an hour after the party started.  We had a major melting down about 5 minutes into the party from her.

Happy birthday Hudson!  We love you!

I find that I struggle whenever it comes to making big announcements.   Parties, galas, radio announcements, proposals on the Jumbo Tron, the list is endless when it comes to proclaiming good tidings to the world.  Break out the banner flying airplane because, “We’re going to Brazil!”(Just kidding, we aren’t really leaving the country.  I just couldn’t resist.)  There is a place and a time for everything and to each his own.  In those cases, just sometimes, the actual tenderness of the moment is trivialized or over looked.  Believe me the irony of my making any sort of announcement via blog just kills, but what can I do?  So when you read this, just pretend we’re sitting in a little bistro chatting and eating PinkBerry or maybe sharing some peanuts at a baseball game.  What better way could you tell a friend that your family would soon grow a size bigger?  What’s that you say?!  Yes, we have been packing away the Halloween candy like it’s going out of style, but the growing of my waistband due to candy was not the reference I was making.  So watch out!!  Will’s expecting firework from me come the 4th of July…ok or technically the 5th.  Stay tuned.  We’ll try to keep you updated as we start the expansion process.   For those of you who feel I’m being a bit elusive, our countdown to baby #3 is at 32 weeks  or 224 days.

We had our first round of family pictures this year.  Really it was a recipe for disaster, but everything turned out great.

What made me think, pictures will go great during dinner time-the kids can wait.  They don’t look that hungry. As I wonder to myself, why are my children running up and down the stairs?  Why is Annie throwing books? Not a stellar, shining mom moment, I know.  That is neither here nor there and Jessica did a great job with them.  In the end I have a family picture that is unique and very much us!  The kids faces were completely unprompted.

We even got a few of Will and I that I love!