October Happenings

October has been a fun-filled month for us thus far. I'll break it down for ya...

We celebrated my dad''s birthday on the 4th by throwing him a surprise football/ref theme party.

We've watched Alissa and Kailey do their thing with volleyball and basketball.

My cousin, Dawnielle, and her baby came to visit the land of the Ozarks. It was great seeing them. I think it made my family that much more excited about having a baby around come January. My dad was able to bless their baby during their trip, as well.

We wished the birthday girl, Adrienne, a happy birthday on the 13th.

We were busy pranking ward members and friends for a Halloween Challenge we participated in this past week. We were put into teams and the week before the big Challenge (basically a fun-filled scavenger hunt around Branson), we got extra incentives for pranking the other teams. One of the pranks we did was write 'Just Married' kind of stuff on their cars. One prank someone did on us was to rearrange our house a bit, and place dixie cups filled with water all over our bathroom floor. Dad, we will get you back for letting them in our house! It was a lot of fun and I feel like we now know the ins and outs of Branson a lot better!

We had our ward activity which consisted of a Fish Fry and a Trunk-or-Treat. Notice the pic of Ev and Brian. While we were busy getting the activity all organzied, he was at our house stealing Ev's jersey and pranking us!

Last night we partied with the now 17 year old, Alissa!

And today we wish a Happy Birthday to Les!

Ev is currently just letting the good times roll as he is busy working on getting our backyard filled with grass. He loves to work outside and do all his 'manly' things. This weekend I am going with some friends to Time Out for Women in Kansas City. I'm sure it will be one big party! Other than that, I am just getting bigger and bigger as the days go by!

All Things Girly...

I am having so much fun with all this little girl stuff. Let's be honest- everything is just so cute! Even the things to hang their bows on are adorable! I am going to make something on my own, but got some great inspiration from etsy. Love it!

Modeling Mizzou + Minnesota Style

The Bjorkman family has graced us with their presence this weekend. After a van full of girls, including a dog, (and Steve) traveled down to the Ozarks- it was party time. The trip has been filled with the boys golfing, girls hitting the outlet malls, cheering BYU on to victory, yummy food (fyi: Blue Bunny Peanut Better Panic is the best ice cream known to man, I've recently discovered), lots of entertainment from the girls, and more. My sister, Alissa, also stayed with us last night and we were pleased to see our girl will be in great hands with her soon to be aunt! We had a little modeling photoshoot before church today. Here are some pics from that adventure:

St. Louis

Ev has had to go to St. Louis quite a bit for work lately, and since all I need for my job is my computer- I have been able to tag along with him. One of my personal favorite parts of going together is waking up in the hotel knowing all I have to do is roll out of bed, take a 20 second elevator ride down to level 1 and BOOM- breakfast is served. Such a dream! On this last trip we finally saw some of the sights St. Louis has to offer.

In other news... our little girl is sure growing big (at least I am growing big, which hopefully means she is, as well). Even the ward members are noticing the difference, as many of them came up to me today and said, "Oh wow, I can really tell you're pregnant now!" I wonder if it would be weird to say this to others who are just putting on a few pounds... can you imagine the reaction, "Oh wow, you are really gaining weight!" I think it would be pretty funny. I feel 'Hershe' move all the time, which has to be the coolest feeling ever. Ev has been able to catch her moving from time to time, too. We changed our guest room to what is now called 'Project Pink'. I am waiting to post pics of her room until it's all done, so that may be a bit. Ev has been a handy man in there though- hanging up the bead board and such. He just got called to be the Elders Quorum President in our ward- so that is sure to keep him busy. I know he'll do just great at this new calling. Also we made a huge change in our family--- we said goodbye to our full size bed, and hello to a king! Wow- well worth it. The place we got it was going out of business, and the saleman was a real piece of work. Needless to say, being married to a salesman has its perks and we came out on top.

Overall, life is just grand for us. Not much to complain about, and much to look forward to!

Overdue Update

We have been so bad at taking pictures. We will hereby recommitt to start taking more pictures again. Since our last post lots of things have happened.

Whit has been to AZ to visit her Gpa and family. We went to a Wilson family reunion. Whit's belly has grown to a very noticable size. To be a little more specific the growth has really taken off the last week or so.

I have been busy with work, really enjoying it. Whit has also been busy with her job, but what really keeps her busy is shopping for baby stuff of all kinds. Also she has been making all kinds of different hair things and other accessories for our baby girl Hershe. (Pronounced "Hershey"). I came up with the name, it is her offical name while in Whit's belly. The reasoning behind this name is, since we are having a girl which referred to as "her" or "she," I thought why not combine the two = Hershe. Then when we have a boy it will be, Heman. Brilliant, I know.

Well here is a very few random pictures and a video I found on our camera.

Can You Tell?

So precious seeing her move around and such! She even opened her mouth for us.


Smile! The first of many photos!



She works out like her mama!



Her little feet were crossed...so cute! Already sitting like a lady!

Can you tell we found out yesterday what we're having?! We are so excited! It makes it so much more real now that we don't have to say 'it' when referring to the baby. Now we just have to wait 5 months to meet her!

So fun shopping for her. I had to get her the Puma outfit so she can be ready to play some tennis with her daddy!

Ed Freeman, A Real Hero

You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley ,11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 - 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it...
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses.
And, he kept coming back.... 13 more times..... And took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, ID . . . May God rest his soul.
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we sure were told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop coward beating his "girlfriend"; or the passing of Fawcett & Jackson.