Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Now that the year is nearly to a close, I figure we ought to send out our, uh, greetings before next year!!!

 And I think I was going to get on and tell about our Thanksgiving as well...getting a little behind, huh?!?! And we finally took a new family picture in front of our tree, although that will be outdated in about 2-3 months. :-)

(I'll try to make this quick and not too long!!!)

Before and after Thanksgiving, we went down to Florida to see our family. We started our with a quick visit to my sister, Jen and Brad's home in North Georgia with plans to stop by for a longer visit on the way back.

Then headed to central Fl to my dad's house and to see my sister and families. While there, we had a double birthday party, Thanksgiving dinner at my grandma Fleming's home, went to Legoland (a new theme park), and the kids played with all their cousins, Kayden, Joshua, Jeremiah, and Lillie each day.

Kayden and Lillie celebrate
their birthdays together!!!

Even though it took us an hour to park,
and we all had to use the restroom,
we had so much fun, who wouldn't!!!

Andy is taking this picture while I had to run to use the restroom!!! We had quite a group, 14 in all, but with each adult, we had a free child ticket...best way to visit a theme park. ;-)

Lillie, Jason, Sarah, Joshua, Kim Fleming, Dad, 

Jeremiah, Kayden, Nicole,

Noah, Isaiah (Kim Fleming's nephew), Hannah

Hannah and Noah drove their own Lego car and received a license!!!

 Then our trip took us south to Andy's dad's house for an early Christmas. 

Grandpa Frazier and Noah with new bike!!!

Grandma Frazier with the kids and their capes!!

And from there we stayed with his mom (we had just seen the Frazier's over the summer), had Christmas and watched videos of Andy as a boy...and boy do the resemblances stack up between father and son!!! My favorite is Andy jumping like a monkey in front the camera repeatedly during a couple Christmas movies, much like Noah who loves to be silly in front of the camera/video. He (Andy) finally calmed down around the 9th birthday video, so there's hope for Noah!!! ;-) Before we left, we headed over to the beach to satisfy these Florida natives!!!

The water was surprisingly warm, around 70 degrees
with a warm, breezy November day around 80 degrees!!

Andy, Papa Kunkle, Noah,
Gramie and Hannah, and me (Kim)

The kids had so much fun playing in the water, they would wait with backs to the wave, and laugh when the waves would surprise them!!! It's been too long for the little native Floridians and I don't think they remember growing up with the beach in their back yard.

We ended up going straight home because of Hannah not feeling too well, me being extra tired (for some reason!) and not feeling too well and my brother in law having complications from dental surgery.

For Christmas, we stayed close to home and had a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner with my mom/stepdad, aunt/uncle and grandparents as well as Christmas day dinner. Also enjoyed a late night Christmas Eve service at 11pm, though Hannah slept through it all!!!

And for our "family" gift (for the next few years), we bought a 2005 Honda Odyssey!!! It's a very nice, 8 passenger mini-van we have been looking for a long time. We traded in Andy's big blue van and our Explorer, which wouldn't have room for the baby seat and was about to bite the dust!!

We have one final Christmas gift to open, but alas, we must wait:

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, stays safe for New Year and has a beautiful 2012

Love to all,
The Fraziers
~ Andy, Kim, Hannah, Noah and baby Frazier ~

Boy or Girl??

That has been the question!! 

Once you find out you're pregnant, everyone wants to know whether you want a boy or a girl. For us, we have had no preference...especially now with this third pregnancy, we have both a boy and a girl!!! For me, a boy typically means more action and non-stop action and a girl means more drama. ;-) 

Once your belly starts showing and you're pretty far along the question is now: what's it gonna be?!?

So, what do you think? 

We all had different thoughts....I thought it was a girl. I would refer to the baby as "she" for whatever reason. Of course, then Andy said it would be a boy!! Hannah at first thought it was a boy, then changed to a girl, and finally decided, yes, it's a boy. Noah didn't seem to have much thought except it was both boy and girl. Yes, he said TWO!!

I've had family and friends who think it's a girl because there are so many pregnancies that are female. I've had another friend who calculated my due date minus my age plus....well somehow she found out the sex....not that I can remember!!! 

So what do think? 

First I'll show all who have asked some pregnancy pictures we took today. We went up to the Beauty Spot which is on the verge of the TN / NC state line, and as shown by last year's blogger pictures, a beautiful spot!!

So are you all ready for the video??
To answer the question some of you have been waiting for?!

And I must add that I have been waiting to share anything because we have never made any big announcements when we found out we were pregnant. No t-shirts that say "World's best Grandpa/ma". No onesie gifts that say "I'm a big sister" from Hannah.

So here's our big announcement...we're having a baby and it's a boy! ;-) 

Finally....

Sorry for making you wait so long, but I have somehow been very forgetful as of late and, well, truth be told...I haven't been into "creative writing" or blogging or whatever....I don't have much to say, blame it on the hormones or the tiredness but I will post some pictures and we'll see what comes out!! :-)

Right now I'm about 20 weeks, feeling the baby moving (only inside...you won't see what looks like an alien yet!!) and on Wednesday we find out whether we are having a boy or a girl!!! I am so excited to find out, we went ahead and registered for blue AND pink bedding. ;-)

Hannah is growing into such a beautiful and kind young lady!! Today, we were offered candy (you know, it's Halloween so of course that means everyone needs candy!!) and she picked out several so she could give Andy and I some. Sweet girl, she is very thoughtful and often thinks beyond her years. She is homeschooling this year and doing really well. We are going through the alphabet, one letter, a week at a time and learning lots about God's creation. We have added sight words each week or two and she is now reading quite well for her age (in my humble, motherly opinion!!).

Noah is getting to be such a big kid and changing before my eyes!! He is doing preschool and doing so well. Today, he was playing with the magnetic letters we have on our fridge and wanted to spell "Annie Who" [it's an obnoxious song (really!!) on another fridge toy]. He surprised me by finding each of the letters. And often he will sit still and "read" books with his sister...a feat which is not often seen by boys and this boy is on the move so much, it's nice to see him slow down and know he is really learning!! He is so full of life, always cracking jokes, and really brightens up the day!

Well these are the pictures from the past couple of months...not in order!! Most of these are from going to Fender's Farm today: we rode the "no-hay" hay-ride, kids rode the cow train, got lost in the corn maze, played at the playground where there was a blob and petting zoo, and the kids rode down the "bumpy" slide!!!

Friday night we planned to spend the day outside and camp...but it got down to the 30's with rain and possible snow...so we camped inside:

The Cow Train:

The Bumpy Slide: (we came to Fender's Farm several weeks ago with Noah's preschool and the kids were all excited about this slide!!)

Hannah and I went to help my friend Marybeth with her new twins...they were 5 weeks old and Hannah was a huge helper!! She'd rock them, pat their back and help getting burping cloths and more...excellent prep for when baby Frazier comes!!

Months ago, Noah and Hannah helped make applesauce

Doing homeschool on the go (while visiting twins):

Riding another slide at Fender's Farm

Okay, all you "pregnancy picture wanters" here is the first posted pic...at 20 weeks:

On the hay ride with NO Hay!!! The kids couldn't figure out why there wasn't any hay. ;-)

Well, we are really enjoying this Autumn weather...the leaves are once again cranberry, deep gold, and burnt orange; the air is crisp and the hint of Winter is just around the corner....I'm hoping again for a white Christmas. :-)

We hope this finds you well...hopefully I'll have another chance make the time remember to get back on before Christmas!!! We will be down in FL for Thanksgiving visiting the family we miss, so Happy Thanksgiving and, if I don't get back before the new year: Merry Christmas!!!

Finally made it to 2nd Trimester!!

Well, it's been quite a while since I've blogged, but this has been written a dozen times in my head...just have not connected the thought of blogging with the action!!! I am finally 14 weeks which is officially the second trimester of pregnancy!!

I am so glad to be past all the nausea and extreme tiredness that I am actually back to decorating and re-doing a room for fun. Not the baby's room, he or she will share a room with either Hannah or Noah and boy are they excited!

Anyway, I have been meaning to get on and tell about the kids schooling, post some pictures of both kids and this new baby belly, and just update everyone on what's going on!!

However that will have to come tomorrow or the next few days...it's now 11:40 and now that my applesauce is done (yes, I'm even canning more homemade applesauce...love getting most of my energy back!), I'm off to bed. :-) Good night all and take luck, I mean, take care!!!