An Early Birthday Gift!

SOOOOoooo....we have some big news!! After a long wait we are expecting baby number 2 on my birthday June 5th! We are so excited! I have been pretty sick, much worse than with Aiden but, I think I am finally feeling a little better! Here are some pics of the baby just under ten weeks! I will be 12 weeks on Saturday and I am looking forward to my second trimester!

The Fun of Boxes

The other night for family home evening we built a little store out of boxes for Aiden! He had so much fun and loved it! It only lasted a couple of weeks but it was great!

Happy Belated Halloween!

Halloween feels like it was forever ago but I know it has only been a couple of weeks! I am finally posting our Halloween pics! We had a wonderful Halloween! We had our ward Fall Festival on Friday the 30th and had a great time! And then Saturday night we went to the big Halloween party at Nona with my mom, brother Garrett and his little girl McKinley (unfortunately, Coleman came down with the swine flu so he and Alex stayed home...poor guy we missed you) . Nona does a fantastic job and Aiden had a great time. In early October Aiden came up with the idea that he wanted to be Peter Pan, daddy was going to be Captain Hook and I was going to be Tinker Bell. So with a lot of help from my mom we pulled it off. My mom and I made the Peter Pan and Tinker Bell Costume and Captain Hook's jacket! I really think it turned out better than I thought, considering I have never sewn clothes before! Thanks mom for all of your help! Enjoy our crazy pics!


Captain Hook


Aiden with his cousins...Kasey, Amelia and Will...we had a great time being with them!



Aiden dancing with his friend Liz at the ward party...he wouldn't let her go!:)


Peter Pan Aiden riding the train at lake Nona...his all time favorite!



More train riding!



Garrett and Pirate McKinley:)



Our Family Picture! Captain Hook, Tinker Bell and Peter Pan!



Captain Hook and Tinker Bell

October Pics

I have been a little behind so here is a bunch of random pics from October.



Aiden saying goodbye to his dear friend Magnus! They moved to Dallas and we miss them a lot!!



Aiden loving his bike! He is really getting pretty fast on his bike!



Aiden enjoying some sushi! He loves fresh ginger...pretty random!



Family pic at the pumpkin patch in celebration! It was a lot of fun...even though our pumpkins rotted really quickly.:(



Aiden at his soccer game! Soccer started off great but now we can't hardly get him to play in the game...we are grateful that Saturday is his last game!:) I love this picture of him in his uniform!



Aiden making funny faces at his soccer game...he is so much like his daddy!:))



What a great picture!



Doing some swimming in our record breaking heat!



What a huge pumpkin!



What a great pic!

Big Blackwelder Family Reunion

Tonight Aiden and I went to a family reunion for my mom's side of the family! It was great!! There was a lot of extended family there that I don't know very well but it was wonderful to see everyone. My mom's dad's family, his brother Clayton's family, his brother Tavey's family and his sister Charlotte's family were all represented tonight. It was incredible to see the legacy that my grandfather and his siblings have left! Enjoy the pictures!


Me and Uncle Ed. Uncle Ed has always taken great care of me and it is always so fun to have him and his wife Lorna in town!



Silly Preisser family picture!



Somewhat normal Preisser family picture!:)



Aunt Myrt (the last one still living of my grandfather's generation...she is Tavey's wife and is 90 years old), Pat Myrt's daughter and my Aunt Netta


My cousin's cute little girl Brooklyn!



The Dan Blackwelder Clan



The Clayton Blackwelder Clan



The Tavey Blackwelder Clan


The Charlotte Blackwelder Clan


My beautiful cousin Brooke, her dear friend Michelle and my wonderful Aunt Lorna all visiting from Utah

Soccer Game #3

More pics of Aiden's soccer game!! Aiden had a great game!! He got tired at the very end but had a great time! My dad and his wife Michele came to watch aiden play! Thanks for coming!

Artist, Comedian and Pumpkin Patch

Here are just some random pics from the past couple of weeks. Aiden has been loving coloring lately...finally, I thought he was never going to want to color.:) The other day he took post it notes and drew on each one and put them all over the screen door. It was so sweet. We also made a stop at the Pumpkin Patch in Celebration and Aiden loved it!! He picked out 2 little pumpkins! It is officially Halloween Time!