Teaser

This past weekend was a "teaser". After so much cold (unusually cold) weather we've had this winter, Saturday and Sunday's temps made it into the 60s!! Of course, we totally took advantage of the beautiful weather and got Marlee to the park both days! She had a BLAST!! Saturday we met Courtney, Audrey, and James and then on Sunday, we went just the 3 of us! The weekend's weather has me so excited for this spring and summer-not only Brady's arrival, but seeing Marlee really get to enjoy playing outside!! Hopefully spring is right around the corner, because I'm more than ready for it to be here!

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Snow day '10

Wow! So far in 2010 we've had 2 snow days! Yesterday's snow was by far the most snow we've had in many years! It was absolutely beautiful as it snowed Friday afternoon! By the time Marlee was up from her nap, there was 1-2 inches on the ground! She loved going out to see and play in the "no"!! She also loved watching the dogs run around in it too!!! I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked to-my camera battery died on me! Oh well!! Enjoy these pictures!!

January in review

January has already come and gone and this is my first post for January! We had a major computer catastrophe right at the end of December and have just gotten our computer back to working conditions! Thank goodness!!

Not much new here in the Foster house. Marlee continues to impress us by the things she says! It's always something new everyday! She's also become very opinionated-letting us know EXACTLY what she wants and doesn't want. Oh, and if she doesn't want/like something, she will throw a mini temper tantrum on the floor, which we simply ignore!! Oh I can see the terrible twos coming already!!

We are also getting a little closer to Baby Brady's arrival! Right now I am 28 weeks and feeling really good! I will say that being pregnant now has been much more exhausting. There's nothing like chasing around a 21 month old that will cause you to count down the minutes till nap time!

To get ready for Brady's arrival, we have just had our basement "finished" off! We'll be able to put the office and a bunch of other items down there that are in the playroom; which is going to become Marlee's new room! Once we get everything relocated, Marlee will move rooms, and we'll be able to get Brady's room ready! Poor kid, his room will probably be ready the week before he arrives! Oh well!!

Here are some pictures from the last month!

Marlee loves to fingerpaint!! The first few times she fingerpainted, there wasn't much to clean up, but now, she makes sure paint gets everywhere!!!

Big smile for the camera!!

Playing "paydough"!

Gotta love Parker!!

Marlee getting to hold "Baby taden" (Kaden) for the first time! She loved holding him, but was a little more interested in watching Elmo too!

Time to fingerpaint with Courtney

Christmas 09 recap

It was another terrific Christmas in the Foster household! The week leading up to Christmas was busy, of course, but all the presents made it under the tree, wrapped!

Christmas Eve was a busy day for us-just like last year! It started with lunch at the "Greats" house (Kendall's grandparents)-yummy spaghetti! Then it was home for what we hoped was an afternoon nap for Marlee (it ended up being a nap in the car on the way home), then it was off to church for Christmas Eve service! Afterwards, we headed to the Riese's house for yummy pizza and goodies! It was fun to see Parker and Marlee get into opening presents this year. Last year, they were more into crawling all over the boxes! We also got to hang out with their neighbors Rick, Lorelei,and Terry! To end the night, we stopped off at James and Audrey's house to see my parents who had just driven in from Huntsville! Needless to say, Marlee finally fell asleep that night at around 10ish!

Once we got home, Kendall and I had some gift wrapping to finish up-not to mention open up an envelope and put together the baby's gender gift for all of our families! I think we both went to bed at 1!

Christmas morning was so much fun this year! We both went in to get Marlee (who had convientely woken up at 7am) so she could open her gifts! She loved ripping the paper and checking out all of her gifts! After she opened all of her gifts, she tried to open other people's gifts, so we had to stop her!!!

Not long after we opened up gifts at our house, we headed to Kendall's parents house to open gifts with his family! We had a blast and I think Marlee did too, but by then I think she was getting a little overwhelmed by all of the presents! Once we finished there, we headed over to James and Audrey's to open gifts with them and my parents! Again, more fun!

We finally made it home with a trunk-full of gifts around lunch time and by then we were all exhausted! I think we all napped that afternoon before James, Audrey, Courtney, my parents, and Kendall's parents came over for dinner and some hang out time!!

It was a great day we had together as a family and with all of our extended family! I'm already looking forward to next year as a family of 4!!

Coloring with Charter and Leigh!


Christmas Eve with Parker! Playing with a new tea set!

Bathtime!

Preggo friends! Me-20 weeks, Jenn-36 weeks!


Lorelei, me, and Jenn









Christmas morning!

Good Morning, Marlee!

Loves her new baby doll!








Taking her baby for a stroll!

More gifts!

It's a BOY!!!!

Kendall and I opened up the best Christmas present on Christmas Eve! It was the envelope saying that Baby Foster is a BOY!!! We are so excited that Marlee is going to have a little brother in a few months! He already has a name: Brady Edward. We are praying that each day he is growning strong and developing and that he will be a healthy baby when he arrives in a few months!