Boston

In November I went to some training for work in Boston. Brian was busy with school, so I asked my parents if they wanted to go. I ended up having my mom, dad, nephew, and niece come with me! It was so much fun!! They got to go see alot of sites while I was in my classes, but I got to see a few, too. Thank you so much for coming!! Hope you all had a good time!

And, thank you Jeff and Megan for letting Eva and Ely come over while I was gone!

 Dad, Lindsay, Abby, Colton, Mom on the boat ride across Boston Harbor.

 Lindsay and Abby on the Freedom Trail.

 Dad, Colton, Abby, and Mom by the Paul Revere statue. We went to Paul Revere's house just before this.

 Dad and Lindsay on the subway. By the end of the week, Mom had the whole transportation system figured out...we had some adventures in the beginning, though :)

Lindsay and Mom on the bridge over the harbor.

Just Cuz Half Marathon

Yesterday I did the Just Cuz Half Marathon! It was so great!! The weather was perfect (way better than last year)! My friend Kim ran it with me. It took us 2 hours and 35 minutes. I did way better than I thought I would, being 6 months (24 weeks) pregnant. And, Kim did awesome for her first race ever! My legs are pretty sore today, but I have no regrets! :)

Brian brought the kids to cheer us in at the finish line...if I can figure out how to load the video, I will; it's pretty cute.

Anyone want to run it next year???!!!

Happy Halloween!!

Hope you all had a fun Halloween!

 Brian helped the kids carve their pumpkins. They turned out pretty cute!

I brought the kids into the police department to trick or treat and show off how cute they are!! And we went to a couple houses Halloween night.

Ely could have cared less about the whole concept of dressing up for Halloween, so we figured we would just him something he thought was fun. Brian found him some armor and a little sword/knife at the dollar store and Ely loved it! He just walked around saying "fight" the whole time he had it on. He is such a boy!

Eva was a very cute baby leopard. She walked around the police department snarling at people. I dressed up as a Palagi (pronounced palangi), which is what Polynesians call white people. It was fun...I mean, what pregnant woman doesn't want to walk around in a muu muu and sandals all day!!

Ely in the beets

We went to my parents last weekend and went out to help my dad a bit with the sugar beet harvest. Here is Ely in the field. He just went and sat down right there in the middle of the beets while Dad and Grandpa were fixing the beet digger. Ely loves to go out on the tractor (or anywhere) with Grandpa, whom he calls "Pop." He just loves him! It is cute. When we came home Sunday morning, Ely just wanted to stay there with Pop!!

Ultrasound Pictures!!

We had an ultrasound this week and got to see our beautiful baby!! It was so fun. The baby was moving around a lot. Everything looked great. And, no, we did not find out if it was a boy or a girl. I want to wait for the surprise in February. Brian wanted to find out, but the ultrasound tech tried to avoid it so he couldn't figure it out!

 The profile.

 Waving hello!

 Check out the muscles on that leg!

Precious little feet. 

Ely Turned 2!!

 We celebrated Ely's 2nd birthday on Saturday. I couldn't decide if he should have a basketball cake or a football cake or a baseball cake because he seems to like them all, so I decided he could have all three. McKenzie helped me and of course made it turn out great! We had a "funfetti" sheetcake on bottom, a yellow cake for the basketball, and a chocolate cake for the football and baseball.

 Ely seemed to like it, so I was happy!

 I just love my "big man" Ely. He is FULL of energy and loves to play and run and laugh and be silly. He is talking more and more every week. He runs up and gives you great big hugs when you get home for the day and it just makes you feel so loved!

 Ely is definitely all boy!! He loves to throw any kind of ball, and has a pretty good arm. He is very good at tackling and wrestling and can play pretty rough sometimes! He loves to go anywhere with Brian - they make a great pair. And, we can't go to Grandpa's house without taking a ride on the fourwheeler.

 My Grandma Knoeppel is visiting my parent's right now. She lives in Kansas, so we don't see her often enough! It was so fun getting to spend some time with her.

 We had a surprise party for Grandma's 89th birthday. She had no idea and it was so fun!!

 The grandkids all gathered around while she opened her 89 presents!

If I could ever get a picture of these 4 cousins looking at me at the same time, it would be amazing!! They are all so cute!!

Lexington, Kentucky

Brian is the president of a national honor society (Phi Upsilon Omicron) he is in at ISU. This year they had a conference in Kentucky and Brian got to go. I figured he would not have as much fun if he went alone, so I had to go with him! It was so much fun!! Of course it was weird because we left the kids with my parents for over a week, so it was awful quiet!!

 We walked to this park. It is full of statues of horses and plaques that talk about people who have a lot to do with thoroughbreds and horse racing and stuff like that. It was crazy flying in to Lexington and seeing all the houses that have big horse barns and riding arenas and great big fields with maybe one horse in them! It was very pretty and green.

 We thought this was a funny little statue!

 Our hotel was right by Triangle Park, which is right by the Lexington Convention Center, which is where Rupp Arena is, which is where the Kentucky Wildcats play basketball. The fountains at the park were pretty and they would light them up at night. By the way, I'm 19 weeks pregnant in that picture!

This horse was in the lobby of our hotel. They had painted horses like this all over Lexington.