Blankenbehlers

Snow is here...

Here I am with my pregnant belly for those who are eager to see it :)

Timo wants to be the star and loves to be the center of attention.

It's been a while since I wrote last. life gets crazy and busy, or at times I feel like there is nothing exciting to write about. I am excited about Christmas getting closer, especially since my parents are flying in from Finland. They are coming the 23rd of December and visiting for a week. It will be very wonderful to have them visit us. It was fun to get a Christmas tree, this time we got a fake one, but it was more convenient. The kids enjoyed decorating it. Matthew made some ornaments at school, that I got today.

Matthew and Timo are doing great. Today Matthew had his Christmas party for preschool. I took Matthew and Timo and they both had great time. Our boys love to sing Jingle Bells and that has been the bedtime favorite song for the last year :) so now they have it down pretty good. On Wednesday we went to Oscoda (the same town we go to Church) to a community Christmas party. One of the young women, Asley in our ward was in the Christmas play with her brother and we thought it would be nice to see it. They also had some other music performances, light show etc. Our boys loved the light show, and electric guitar solo (the guy who played was very talented). Timo was totally into it and was pretending that he was playing too. I wouldn't be surprised if he will play guitar in the future. We got finally home at 10pm and the kids were so hyped up by the program that they didn't fall asleep until 12am! They still woke up early the next day, but on Thursday night they crashed at 7pm which was nice :). 

Bobby's job is going well. The office is getting busier. The business has put out a competition between the different offices giving a bonus for the highest selling office and last week Bobby's office was the winner so that was pretty exciting. This week we got a ton of snow so many people had canceled their appointments, so this week their office didn't do as well, but today was a very good day. I have been busy managing all the billing and paying off student loans. I hope to have the loans paid off as soon as possible, since the economy is not great. Even if we are making more money, we don't have much extra since a huge portion goes to paying off student loans. Also we are trying to build savings, and hopefully buy a house in the end of summer. With the economy being what it is we hope to build up food storage and prepare for future.

I am doing pretty well. I am getting huge with my pregnant belly. I still have two months to go, but I already gained 30 pounds! Let's just hope I can get rid of after I have the baby. My days are busy by taking care of my family. When I have some time for myself I take a 30 min nap, since I find myself tired being pregnant and all. I have slowed down my web business.  I feel very out of touch with design stuff and hope to work on it more in the future. I feel like I have now time to emerge in design, and I feel too tired to make a serious effort in it. I hope sometime in the future I'll have the desire, motivation and chance to strengthen my talents that are pretty rusty now.  Right now the most important thing for me is taking care of my children and supporting my husband, and taking care of myself. Sometime down the road I'd love to go back to school and take some classes on art and design. 

We got a ton of snow this week. School was actually canceled on Tuesday and Wednesday.  We got about a foot and a half of snow. It is so beautiful. It looks like a Christmas card. People I was very grateful that Bobby shoveled the drive way :) I would do more if I wasn't pregnant. I took some pictures of the snow. 

I also have some pictures from Halloween... wow it's been a long time since I posted last...