Thanksgiving :)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We started the holiday with our 2nd annual Friends Thanksgiving. We had our friends Andy and Kellie, and Jeff and Amy come over so we could enjoy yummy food and many laughs together. Kellie is a great cook and thankfully has been able to come early for the past 2 years to help me cook the turkey. I paid close attention this year so I can possibly handle it on my own next year.

On Thanksgiving, we started the day at Buddy's parents for our first meal. While there we got to spend time with Grandpa and Grandma Sargent, Buddy's sister Madison ad her fiance Jason, Buddy's parents of course, some of their neighbors, and my parents and brother also joined us. We even got a quick visit from my Grandy and Del. After spending some time there, we went over to my cousin's house for Thanksgiving dinner #2. Here we got to see most of my dad's side of the family. We had lots of fun and as usual left with many fun memories!

Over the weekend we went out to Riverside to see Buddy's Auntie Jane and Uncle Rick, and spend time with the cousins. They had a great idea to go see the Mission Inn all decorated for Christmas. So we spent some time walking around and enjoying the joyful atmosphere. We are very Thankful for all of the time we got to spend with family and friends during this Thanksgiving holiday!

Uncle John, Aunt Corliss, and cousin Cheryl preparing our yummy meal!

Me with my mom and Grandy

This is a picture of me (with baby Klovstad) and 2 of his 4 Great Grandmas!

Buddy's dad carving the gigantic turkey!

Buddy and Jason ready to eat!

Friends Thanksgiving

We're having a BOY!

Yesterday Buddy and I went with the Grandmas to have our anatomy ultrasound. It was really neat to see all of the parts of our little ones body! Almost right away she asked if we were sure we wanted to know, and of course we said "yes!" So, she pointed out the legs and the extra little part in between them showing us that baby Klovstad is a boy! Buddy did a little dance around the room and I shed a few tears of excitement knowing that we were going to be blessed with our little guy! It is so nice to know and start planning, and cut our list of possible names in half as we put the girl ones away for now. The ultrasound tech said that our little boy looked like he was growing right on schedule! Here is a 19 week belly pic and some pics of our little guy! I wore blue with a little pin that said, "It's a boy" to let everyone at school know what we were having.

He kept sucking his thumb (we think)

If you look close you can see 2 legs and his little boy parts in the middle :)

Our growing little one at 19 weeks

After announcing that we are having a boy, we got some pretty funny comments from friends that I thought I would share:

Brandon Meyer:

Awesome! Hopefully he doesn't take after his dad... Haha! Tell Allison congrats!

Kevin Brown:

Congrats! Are you guys going to name him KB?

Stephen Torres:

That just made my day! Everyone please welcome little Klovstad!

Matt Graves:

Congrats! Tie his right hand behind his back.

Andrew Krueger:

Congrats! Yeah! Time to get him some Angels gear!

Brett Swenson:

It looks like your going to get that All Star pitcher after all.

Eric Dole:

Congrats! Hopefully he's a lefty! Future Angels starter!

Greg Solorio:

Nice... looks like I am going to the left handed store.

Billy Sulentor:

Congrats! It looks like he will be born with a baseball in his hand.

Derek Fitch:

Awesome! You just saved yourself so much money having a boy!

Steve Harold:

Awesome! Do you know who the dad is yet?

Kurt Angier:

I'm just throwing a name out there... don't know if you two have discussed possible name options but "Kurt" would be an AMAZING name. Just throwing it out there. I mean it's a powerful 1 syllable name, sexy athletic beasts are named Kurt and it rhymes with dirt. What more could you want in a name?

Clint Blevins:

Maddux (his baby) is super stoked... so much so that he was speechless.

Happy Halloween!

On Friday Buddy and I went to a great Halloween party with our cousins Cheryl and Dave. Our friends Mike and Jen always host their annual Halloween party and every year it gets better and better! They decorate their whole house floor to ceiling and think of every little detail! Not to mention there is always a costume contest. Unfortunately, the parrot didn't win it for Buddy this year so next year we'll have to think of something great!

Cheryl and I

Dave and Cheryl

Kirsten, Dave & Me

Me & Kirsten

Kirsten, Buddy & Me

19 Weeks...

On Saturday I got to go to my good friend Amy's baby shower. It was so fun to share the day with her and watch her prepare for her sweet baby girl! She is 30 weeks and we are all super excited to welcome their little one into the world! Here is one of those fun prego back to back pics!