Partay!

October has been so much fun. Not only is the Fall beautiful here (see entry below), but we've been to Halloween parties with family and friends and are having a blast. Here are our costumes from our Hollywood themed party last night. Hopefully I'll have some more from the actual party to share because there were some great costumes. We had so much fun! I decided that wearing white and being four months pregnant don't mix, but oh well. Padme was a fun costume, especially since I found Dave's "cloak" at the DI about an hour before the party. I think Dave loved being Anakin (he had to tell me how to spell it). And a big thanks to Nicole for helping us do some research for the party. At least two of your ideas were at the party Nicole. Beckham and Posh and also Danny and Sandy from Grease. It was a ton of fun.Here's the delicious food from another party, the Price family party. Alicia, Dave's sister, is a pro at planning parties and this one was no exception.
We dressed up in Dave's Chinese outfits. Katelyn was tired, can you tell?
Next party. We got together with two of my old roommates, Valene and Julia last week. It was so much fun to see them and yes I am wearing a costume. I'm a runner. :) Julia is in her real motocross uniform. She's the coolest. Valene and her baby are the psychedelic chicken family. (Hopefully I got that right Valene.)


We couldn't help letting Julia hold the kids. I love this picture. Check out Katelyn's face.And last but not least... my family. The Hoth's. Here are my two brothers, Scott is with his beautiful wife Mel of course, my sisters' five kids and Katelyn. We had so much fun, though Katelyn was really nervous about my brother Shawn's costume. Those teeth on his mask would make anyone nervous.
And here's a closeup of little Katelyn in her little lady bug tutu. I was actually handy enough to make her costume for her (and it was actually fun). If you want to know how to make a cheap and easy tutu, let me know. I'll pass along my wealth of knowledge.

Daniel!

Congratulations to my beautiful sister and her new baby boy. Daniel was born a couple weeks ago and is just perfect. A bouncing 9 lb 2 oz baby boy. Wow.Here she is looking like she just took a stroll in the park rather than gave birth. She's with her oldest beautiful Annie and her youngest of course, Daniel.

Driving in the Fall

I love the Fall! Dave, Katelyn and I took a drive through a beautiful loop by our home and we caught the beginning of Fall. This was a few weeks ago, so there's still a little green.

We stopped to eat dinner here by this river. It was so beautiful!
As much as Katelyn loved being outside, running around the cement pad by the picnic table and looking at the river, once we actually brought her to the water, she was very nervous. Check out her right hand that's gripping Dave's arm or shirt. She's not going anywhere.
Here we are back at the house with her bear and the beautiful flowers.

Dance lessons

We've discovered that we have a dancer in our family by the name of Katelyn. She loves to listen to music, whether it's her daddy whistling, primary songs or I've even seen her doing a little head banging to music she'll hear when we're out and about. Where does she pick this up? I caught a few of her moves on my little camera the other day and put them together in this little clip. The editing is a bit choppy, but you'll get the idea. Just for fun, it starts out with a cute little clip of her when she was about 7 months old. Also, I'll have some of my other Fall pictures soon. We went on a wagon ride to pick pumpkins last weekend and had a blast.

Chocolate fix

Last night I needed a chocolate fix and found this recipe on allrecipes.com. It was awesome and if you love brownies, check it out here. I haven't made brownies from scratch before because who knew that you could make them without a box!? It was worth it and didn't take very long to mix up. Enjoy!

Favorite workout video?

So, I'm looking for ideas. I really enjoy being outside and running, hiking and all that good stuff. Time has changed things though and I'm looking for some good indoor exercise options while Katelyn's napping. I'd really like to stay in shape during this pregnancy, so besides avoiding ice cream, do you have any suggestions of a high impact workout video? :) Thanks for your help!