Brace Yourself - This Might Take Awhile

A lot of things have been going on lately. First off, my beautiful sister Thorey had her baby girl! Her name is Charlotte Kate and she is a doll. We all love her so very much. Thorey and I loved being pregnant at the same time. It was nice to have someone to answer all my questions and see with my own eyes the things that I will soon be experiencing. Here are some pre-baby pictures of Thorey and me.

This is Labor Day weekend when I was 15 weeks, and Thorey 35 weeks

The day before Thorey gave birth to Charlotte I got to spend the entire day with her! It was a blast. Thorey had to have a c-section so we were counting down the hours until Charlotte would get here. Here is Thorey and me about 16 hours before Thorey became a mother.

Thorey at 39 weeks pregnant - she's so beautiful!

The last picture of the both of us pregnant at the same time -
I love my sister! This picture totally makes me want to cry - talk about hormones!

Then Charlotte (or Charlie as we are calling her) finally got here. She was one of the most beautiful babies I have ever seen. Probably because Thorey said she looked a lot like me when she was first born! Here is our new little angel.

Aunt Katie with Charlie

Wide awake

I think she looks exactly like Thorey in this picture

I had my 20 week appointment a few weeks ago and everything seems to be going great. I feel my little girl kicking me all the time and Aaron finally got to feel her for this first time this weekend. It made me so happy he finally got to feel her, since I feel her all the time! It's only fair. Here is my pregnant body at 22 weeks.


Last Friday was our Branch's Halloween party. At work every year we have a charity drive and we all dress up. It's kind of nice because they give us a theme and we have to dress up as that theme. Which makes it easy for me to think of a costume. This year our theme is "Through the Ages" and each department got a decade. My department got the 1950's, so I dressed up as a 50's pregnant house-wife. Aaron decided to go along with my theme and he was a 50's nerd. I know you are all surprised! We dressed up for the branch's party, then I'll dress up again for work this coming week. Katie and her kids came to the party and they had a blast. Belen was a Spanish Flamenco dancer and Thyssen was his cute self.

Thyssen went straight for the donut

I can't even stand how cute this girl is!

I'll wrap this up. But before I do I just wanted to add how excited I am for the upcoming holidays! I love being pregnant and it makes it all the better that I can just eat and eat during Thanksgiving and Christmas. I seriously planned this whole thing out perfectly!