Another birthday party!

We had a second birthday party this month, this one was for my cousins Olivia and Ellie. Grandma Greseth had us over for a yummy dinner of sloppy joes! Then, the important part, gifts!! It was great to get to spend some quality time with them and catch up. Happy Birthday Olivia and Ellie!!

Birthday cupcakes!

Ellie and I are the "bookends" of the Greseth cousins, we are the youngest and the oldest, can you guess which one is which?!

Dan turns 30!!

Our good friend, Dan Nelson, turned 30 this month!! His wife, Sarah, planned a great party for him and invited a bunch of people to help welcome Dan into his *gasp* thirties!! Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans and we got 7 inches of snow that day followed by bitter cold and wind. But no weather could keep some of us from braving the elements to be there for the par-tay! Even though many people weren't able to make it we still had a great time and yummy food too. Dan and Sarah's girls were there and entertained us with their smiles and stories:-) All in all it was a great evening! We are so blessed to have such great friends! Happy Birthday Dan!

Sisterly love:-) Aren't they sweet??

Two beautiful girls, Maggie and Emma

The "girls" table

And the "boys" table (that's Dan at the head of the table)

The Great Room Shift

Not too much new to report on the baby front....just cooking away:-) I'm still feeling pretty good overall, a few migraines here and there but nothing else really so I'm counting my lucky stars! Christmas is FAST approaching this year and our tree isn't up yet. I have to say that normally, I would not defend this because I like to have the decorations up right after (if not a little before) Thanksgiving but this year is a little different. With Baby F on the way and Seth now working from home, the great "room shift" is happening at our house. We have moved my clothes out of the bigger spare bedroom and into the master bedroom (a mere 15 months after I moved in but who's counting), then moved the futon upstairs to that spare bedroom and Seth's desk and office stuff into there as well so we now have a functional office/guest room! The next step is for me to go through and reorganize the 15 boxes/containers currently residing in the living room and get them downstairs to storage. After that, the tree can go up!! And then, it's on to painting the now vacant smaller spare room and getting the nursery set up!! It's so fun to see it all coming together after SO many months of planning! Yes, for those of you who know me or my husband well, you know that we plan everything for a LONG time before actually moving forward. It's the "measure twice, cut once" life theory we operate under most of the time:-) Once it's all finished, I will post pictures but at this point it's just a scary mangle of boxes and junk and I really don't want anyone to see it:-)

New pictures of Baby Friedt

I had another Ultrasound on Friday! Seth couldn't come with so my mom and his mom came along to see the Bean, it was such a special moment to be able to share with them both! And it was so much fun to see the him/her again:-) This time was even more exciting because he/she was moving around like crazy, waving it's little arms and much to Grandma Cindy's delight, sucking his/her little thumb:-) Seeing the baby move around made it even more real than ever, what a miracle this whole process is!! I also got to meet my OB doctor for the first time and he is SO nice, I'm feeling very fortunate to have gotten him for a doc. He is very calm and patient and happy to answer all my crazy questions. With it being Thanksgiving, Seth and I have talked a lot in the past few days about how lucky and incredibly blessed we are to be surrounded by all of our family and friends all the time but especially now as we wait to meet our little one. Thank you all for your support and love, it means the world to us!! Here are a couple pictures of the baby from Friday, enjoy:-)