Here are Todd and I each posing with the kids and our carved pumpkins. In the picture with Todd, the kids decided they wanted to be scary pumkins! I know you all are very frightened!
Ethan and Cambree both are showing their faces to match their pumkins.
early so that he could be there to help the kids go around to all the trunks! They dressed up in there little costumes. Ethan dressed up as a monkey again this year. I think he thought he didn't have other options but I ran with it because I didn't want to spend money on a different costume. We borrowed Cambree's costume from my friend. Thanks Ali! Cambree dressed up as a Carebear and was lovin the dress up part. She went around once and then wanted to sit and eat a treat. Ethan was a mad man trying to convince his dad to go around "one more time" to get the maximum amount of treats possible. 
We had fun with our trunk neighbors the Spencers! Karson and Ethan are friends and stuck together trunk-r-treating while Cambree and Konnor exhausted themselves after a bit. Maybe it was the cranky 2 year old symptoms coming through. It was a fun night and we already have too much candy and it's not even Halloween yet!
even if it doesn't stink. She is such a good baby and has been sleeping 6-8 hour stretches during the night. Which is great news for everybody because mom is a lot less grumpy when she gets her sleep. She has been eating well and is infact my best nurser. Or it could be that by baby #3 I am finally getting it down. Who knows. 
Ethan has been a big helper. He helps with just about everything. Sometimes I think I ask too much of him because sometimes he will look at me like..'mom...seriously...again' and say with a sigh, "ok"! What a good son he is!
Can you believe it! It snowed in the middle of October that brought down over a foot of snow at our house. 
wasn't quite sure about it and cried through most of it. Ethan & Cambree tried to get her to be happy by singing her songs and playing peek-a-boo with her and got quite frustrated when she still cried. I explained to them that babies don't like baths very well and they couldn't understand why not. It wasn't until we wrapped her up in her towl that she was happy. 
and preterm labor, tons of pain, and a preterm birth. Although I did make it a lot further into my pregnancy without complications than in the past so that was a blessing. I started having contractions at 25 weeks and made it to 27 weeks before I had to be hospitalized for preterm labor. Then had to be hospitalized again at 29 weeks, 31 weeks, 33 weeks, 34 weeks, and then again at 35 weeks which resulted in her birth. I had gone into the doctor for a checkup and I had changed just slightly from the week before (from a 90% efaced and not quite a 1 dialation to 100% efaced and a 1) but hadn't been to much of a change to 
have to take the baby. I had been doing non stress tests every week since 29 weeks because she was showing signs of stress so after my checkup I went into the room to do a non stress test. I then started to have really hard contractions that kept coming stronger and stronger and at about 3 min apart so I went into the hospital with talk of having to take the baby if the contractions couldn't get under control. So they started an IV and tried to slow down the contractions and I was told that I was under observation. So several hours go by and my contractions start to slow down to about 10-12 min apart and it seemed like my doctor was going to keep observing and eventually send me home. Another couple of hours later my doctor came in and was going to check me again but thought that the contractions couldn't be doing much. And much to her and my surprise I was 100% efaced and dilated to a 2 plus! So in just a short amount of time I had made significant changes and meant that she was going to have to take the baby since I was a repeat twice C-section and could not let me labor any longer for mine and the baby's safety. Within a half hour I was on the operating table and we had our third little bundle of joy!
the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). She then had to have an IV put in and was put on oxygen to help her rapid breathing. She has lots of dark hair and is the most beautiful little baby a mother could ask for. Ethan and Cambree are so excited to have a new baby sister but they are confused at why they can't see her because kids are not allowed in the NICU. After Adalynn's IV was taken out 5 days later, and they were able to roll her with her oxygen to the window to meet her brother and sister for the first time. It was such a great moment to see them so happy to see the're new sister but confused why they couldn't give her hugs and kisses. Ethan especially wanted to hold her and not say Hi through a window. He keeps asking why the new baby can't come home. The nurse though was real nice and took poloriods of them saying hi through the window and gave them each one to take home. Ethan was very proud of his picture of his new baby sister! Cambree just quite doesn't understand whats going on yet.
come home soon! 
Cambree was now two years old. Yaaah......I was wrong! It has been quite the struggle!! She did great at first and loved wearing her new "pincess big grirls"!! Shortly after she started to really get the hang of it, she started having a lot of accidents. It was so bad she was having like 7-10 accidents in one day! And the weird thing was that she would go at least that many times on the toilet too. She would go potty on the toilet and then five minutes later have an accident! Well this was getting a bit frustrating and I was about to give up when I was talking to a friend about my naughty daughter and she mentioned that one of her daughters got urinary tract infections quite frequently when they were potty training her. That very day Cambree was going potty and said "Owweeeee" and I knew that something was wrong! (Thanks McKenna!) So I took her to the doctor and sure enough she had an infection. We put her on an antibiotic and she seems to be doing better now and getting the hang of going potty again.
girl and stubborn like her mother and kept at it until she found a creative way to crawl up their "by self mommy" and amazingly does well. She definitely doesn't let anything get in her way of her goal. 
decorated the cake and did such a great job as you can see! Thanks Jared!! Ethan was very happy with his Thomas cake. It was almost sad to cut into such a greatly decorated cake but we did. Everyone enjoyed the cake. Especailly Cambree. She loves cake! 
But don't worry....Cambree does fight back and it came back to bite him (literally) a couple of weeks later when he was wrestling with her and she kept screaming for him to "GET OFF EESAN!' He kept at and at it until she decided to take matters into her own hands or rather her mouth and took a bite out of his little butt! He had a big bruise with teeth marks. Considering where the bite mark was I will spare you the pictures I took of his bruised bum.
