Tired girls

Mabel:

Hattie:

Welcome Hattie

We are excited to welcome our little Hattie Laura Allen home. She was born on October 29th at 4:13 am after 21 hours of labor. She weighed about 9 pounds 10 1/2 ounces and measured about 23 inches long. We are very excited for her to join our family. Mabel loves her new little baby sister.

9 Months Pregnant

Well, today is October 25th and this is me. For any of you who remember, my due date is October 22nd. Yes, once again, I am overdue with no signs of labor in sight. I think that may just be my lot. I think that maybe my body just doesn't go into labor. So inducement here we come...again. Wednesday I will be induced so with any luck, we will have an October 28th baby, without the luck, it will be October 29th. Mabel took 2 days so we will see. This baby is a big one. The doctor guessed 9 1/2 pounds a few days ago. An ultrasound showed 8 pounds 11 ounces. Either way, with another week of waiting, this baby is going to be a big one. I feel like she is getting bigger everyday. Luckily, I've managed to only gain 14 pounds so far this pregnancy, but that is just because I was so overweight to start with so a bunch of my weight just redistributed itself to my belly. And boy is my belly huge. I know I am bigger this time around. It doesn't even seem to look that big in this picture. I swear I am so much bigger in person. Anyway, hopefully in a week, I will be able to post some pictures of our new little girl and everything will be much better.

Grandma "LoLo's" Book signing

Grandma LoLo had a book signing at the Borders in Folsom on Saturday. We went and visited. She sold out of her Princess Party Book in an hour and a half. It is such an adorable book, I'm not suprised. Mabel dressed up like a princess for the occasion.

Apple Hill

Today we took a trip to Apple Hill. Mabel and Allie had a lot of fun together.

I love this picture. The 3 ladies really make it.

Allie - always a funny one.

Mabel and Allie had fun together making each other laugh.

Grandma Laurie

6 little Cows

Cake Wrecks

Okay, so my friend Mindy told me about a great site: www.cakewrecks.com -- it is actually a blog of a whole bunch of cake wrecks. If you are in the mood for a laugh, check it out. I can't believe some of the cakes people actually make. I have definitely had some blunders myself, but not like some of these.

Camping pictures continued....

We all enjoyed the abalone, but Forrest sampled it raw straight out of the ocean.


This is my favorite picture of the trip. It's Dawson, what more can I say.

Little Eliza playing in the sand.

We ended our trip with a walk through the Great Green Valley -- it was amazingly beautiful. Here is most of the group that went on the walk.

We had a great time -- we're very glad we went.