Christmas

We had fun on Christmas Eve walking Naples and looking at all of the Christmas decorations. Annella loves playing with her baby and her new lounge "chay," as she calls it. She also enjoys showing everyone her "button" and finding your belly button as well. She has quite a vocabulary, including a very enthusiastic "yeah!" and "peasey." We just love her she is so fun.
We had a very blessed Christmas, and we hope you all had one as well.

It's looking a lot like Christmas

We went Christmas Tree shopping in Nipomo. We cut down our tree, drank hot chocolate, Annella had her first roasted marshmallow, and road on the tractor.

Fall pictures

Here are some pictures of Halloween. Annella was a kangaroo and even had a little joey in her pouch. Isn't she so cute!


I am 24 weeks along now and feeling every bit of it. The baby moves all the time and my belly is really starting to show.





Her cousin Dustin was a lion.

















Annella and Ava.

























Cousin Katelyn

Annella learning guitar from Dad



Picking pumpkins at Summerset Farm in Los Olivos

Playing dress up with Grandma Mackie and Katelyn.

On August 25th Jess performed his first wedding for his good friend Chris and his new wife Luisa. I was so proud of him, he did a great job!

As most of you know we are starting a church here in the Santa Ynez Valley. Last Sunday was our first Sunday doing church. Afterwards, we went out for pizza and Annella was so tired she fell asleep right at the table on top of her pizza.

I just got Annella some new PJ's and as you can see, she was less than stoked about them at first, but by the end of the night she was contorting her body so that she give each orange fish a kiss before going to sleep.

Lake Shasta!

Annella and Katelyn really love each other!

















A long hard day on the water!









Her first swim with Dad.











Can I wake board next?











Uhm...we were sleeping.

We had such a great time! Annella loved the boat and the water and playing with Katelyn every day. Let's just say she was very disapointed to wake up at home without Katelyn or the boat!

Third Time's a Charm?

Hopefully! I spent Sunday night in the hospital again. We may have found some medicine that works this time. Please keep praying that I can recover quickly, I have lost a lot of weight and I am under the body fat percentage for a child-bearing woman, or any woman for that matter. My goal is to gain some weight and hopefully that will make me feel even better. The baby, hopefully is doing just fine but i can't help but think it is also starving. We are praying that God's will, will be done with this pregnancy.

I can't wait to get out and about again to hang with everybody. thank you for your prayers.