It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

On Saturday, we took the children to the Lazy Acres Pumpkin Patch. It was a cool, crisp fall day. We had a great time. They enjoyed everything from the train ride to the pig races. The highlight, of course, was the hay ride in to the pumpkin patch to pick out our "punkins." They checked each one intently and made sure that they got the exact ones they wanted.
We also took part in another Halloween tradition last night. "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" was on TV. Now, this is one of my favorites and I was as excited to watch it as the kids were. Charlie did not move the entire 30-minute show, except to let me know when the commercials were on and how he wanted "the punkin show back on!" Caroline liked it, too and thought it was funny that poor, old Charlie Brown would only get rocks during the trick-or-treating.

I will be sure to post some photos of the kids in their costumes after Friday. Caroline is going back and forth between wanting to be a ballerina or Cinderella and Charlie is torn between Spiderman and Superman. We will see how it all shakes out when it comes time to get dressed.

God's Great Sense of Humor

I have always considered myself a faithful person. I try not to question God or challenge Him on things. I pretty much take the position that what He wants will be. Well, apparently, He has decided to play a really hilarious (and, by the way, FABULOUS) joke on me. For those of you who do not recognize what the picture to the side is, that, my dear friends, is a baby. That's right! WE'RE PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!! Now keep in mind that, in order to have the twins, we went through a lot - 5 years, 3 surgeries, 3 fertility treatments, and a number of miscarriages. Then let me tell all of you that Clay has been working nights for almost 2 months now so, "alone time" is not very abundant. Now, you tell me - who else, other than the Lord Almighty, could pull off such a huge "gotcha?" We are so surprised and thrilled to be expecting this little blessing. We went to the doctor today and everything looks great. According to Dr. Max, whom I love more than I could ever express, we will probably have a baby mid-May.
As an added little surprise, most of you know my best friend, Courtney. Well, guess who else is unplanned pregnant! That's right! She is expecting, too. And to make it to over-the-top hilarious, our due dates are 2 days apart! 2 DAYS!!! You can't tell me God doesn't have a sense of humor!!!

I will keep you all posted on how things are going. All of you please pray for a healthy, happy baby to join our family. I send my love to all of you and I can't wait to read the comments that this post is going to generate!