2013 Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving would be the first year without Sam so as a Guthrie family we knew it was important to still go to the traditional Thanksgiving Day breakfast. Bill, Sam's brother, also passed away from cancer this year so we were able to support his family as well. 

Gram had fun chasing his favorite cousins around (the Mackey girls) in the woods. The adults sat around the campfire looking at the ads for all the Black Friday deals as usual. It was a quieter day than the past Thanksgiving breakfasts but Gavin and Trevor were stirring up all kinds of commotion talking about the 80" flat screens that they wanted. Boys will be boys! 

After breakfast we went home to shower and went to Thanksgiving dinner at Tami's house. The boys were trying to figure out how to buy their big screens and the girls were planning out all the stores they were going to hit. I never go any where on Black Friday (the midnight shopping) because I am either pregnant or have a small baby to tend to. This year we just walked around San Tan Mall to see if they had any cool deals. We met up with Tami, Aunt Robin, Ashley and Mallory, too.

During this time my brother, Howard, was in town with his new fiance, Seneca. They stayed a couple nights with us and a couple nights with my parents. Howard is always fun to hang out with because he brings the party to my parents house! Seneca fits right in with the family so it was good seeing her as well!

We're Having a Baby Girl!

The very last present Gram opened up at his birthday party was a bunch or shirts saying, "Big Brother" on them. Secret is out!! We are having an other little bundle of joy! I was almost 14 weeks at that point so we were in the "safe zone" as I call it. Everyone was shocked and kind of confused. Haha but everyone was very excited for us! 

I was able to find the midwife that delivered Gram on Facebook and followed her to her new office, MomDoc Midwives in Gilbert. How crazy is it that she moved to an office just 5 minutes from my new house?! I was so excited when I found out that I had a chance of using her again. 

I remembered when I first figured out I was pregnant. I was nauseous for 2 days and on Sunday I woke up, rolled out of bed and headed to Walmart for a pregnancy test. I thought it was a good excuse to go to the store on Sunday, I just HAD to know!! So after the test was positive I gave it to Gram to surprise Daddy with. We woke him up and Gram handed him the stick. He didn't read it correctly and thought I wasn't pregnant. Dang it. After I explained that I was he was very excited for us!!

At our 18 week appointment we had our 2nd ultrasound and they told us it was a girl!! I think all the hormones made me cry because I was so scared to have a girl! (I was scared that I would have a hard time bonding with her because I have always had trouble connecting with other women.) I was trying to be tough so everyone wouldn't bother me about why I was crying. It took us until the next day to share what the gender was. After that I started getting VERY excited to have a little princess of my own!

Gram's Monster Party!!

My little monster is growing up! I can't believe he's already two years old! Which now that I think about it, that's not very old. He's still my baby.

We of course had to throw him a HUGE monster bash! I love throwing parties but I especially love throwing parties for my little prince.

I thought a monster theme would be perfect for this little man to kick off his terrible twos! Haha. It also was cute that his birthday is right before Halloween.

I had an awesome time planning his party and getting everything ready. We had everyone over to our new house for a monster bash. The party was from 4-6 but our last guests didn't leave til 9! It was that fun ;) We had food and desserts to match the theme: Monster Smiles, Monster Teeth, Monster Cookies, Monster Fingers and Toes, Ect. He had a big, green monster cake with several eyeballs sticking out of the top! Then I had made little brightly colored cupcakes with shifty eyes to match. We set up a bounce house, tables and chairs outside. There was even face painting, too! 400 of our closest friends and family attending this celebration. Now that I'm writing this all down it seems a bit much for a 2 year-old's birthday party!

It was all worth it seeing Gram strut around like he was the coolest kid in the neighborhood (and duh! He is!) His little ego puffs up and it's the funniest, cutest thing. I love my little guy more than words can express, so I was glad to see he enjoyed being the center of attention.

After playing around and enjoying some yummy food it was time to open the gifts! Gram got so many great presents including a bike, race cars, new clothes, jammies and many more. At the end of the gift giving Gram opened one more gift bag that had shirts saying "Big Brother" on them. Yep, it's true, Gram is going to have a little baby sibling!!

On Gram's actual b-day I took him to the pumpkin patch with our friends Meagan and Jane. They had bounce houses, hay rides and pumpkin decorating there! He loved the hay rides the most since it was his first time ever on one.

I'm so glad I was able to make Gram feel so special on his big day! I live for making that kid happy.