Thanksgiving Advent Calendar

My project this month was trying to make the pottery barn advent calendar myself. It ended up being a HUGE undertaking. I'm pretty good at copying things exactly. It turned out super cute but don't look too close...there are definitely things that aren't straight! The question I get asked most often is if I use my cricut to cut out the felt numbers, etc. And my answer is NO. I haven't forked over the money for the cricut brand felt/fabric yet. To be honest I haven't looked into it much. I do know there aren't all the options in colors I need though. I use my cricut to cut the cardstock and then pin that to the felt and hand cut everything. Now I know why Pottery Barn charges $55! It cost me less than $10 and a ton of time.

Inside each pocket are these little thankful cards. They have circulated all over the blog world. You can print them here. Most people put them in jars. But I just love a cute advent calendar.

Photo Shoot with the kids

I realized that I didn't have any pictures with all three kids yet, so we piled them together and took a few quick pics.

Newborn Gowns

Owen's friend was born on Saturday. (aka Natalie's little boy) We've spent so much time together during our pregnancy they are bound to already know each other. When Natalie asked to pay me to make her a newborn gown...I laughed. Pay me! Yah right! Natalie does anything and everything for me. She even took my kids in the middle of the night when Chad's Grandma was sick. She's awesome...so these gowns were the least I could do.
PS: They are her husbands old t-shirts.

Some good laughs...

This is only funny to me now that I am through the worst part. One of my favorite blogs posted these and I was cracking up so hard I had to share.

Halloween

I like candy so much I decided to turn my kids into it for Halloween.

The prettiest "Hershey Kiss" I've ever seen.

We re-used Alexis costume from her 4th of July parade. I honestly wrapped two pieces of fabric around a $2 pool floaty from Wal-mart and sewed it together. I used ribbon to cinch the top closed. It deflates flat to store.

As if he needed the title "Big Hunk"...he's always one in my eyes.

I post-poned making his costume thinking I would have my baby earlier. So I had to whip it together on Saturday afternoon. Good thing it was super easy.

Our SWEET little "Candy Corn." I just love the sweet smell of newborns. And I can help but LOVE every second with this little boy. Everything about him makes my heart melt.

After I finished Carter's costume I figured I might as well cut out a few pieces of felt and make a candy corn for Owen's shirt. He needed to join in on the candy fun. I tried taking pictures of him but I think he hated the over-sized felt piece. He tried eating it and then resorted to his fingers instead.

I was happy to not be in the hospital for Halloween. It's bad enough not being able to walk from house to house with them watching the excitement on their face. Owen and I had a relaxing evening...and the kids got me lots of "Snickers" as promised.

Having the kids be candy for Halloween turned out to be IRONIC. That's the same night Owen let me know of my need to give up chocolate completely or else we would be up all night every night because of his tummy aches. Oh well, maybe it will help me slim down a little quicker.

To welcome November...we carved some pumpkins Sunday afternoon. Better late than never. Between Alexis' soccer game and rehearsals for the stake play...we had no time on Saturday.
The kids loved drawing their own faces on these little pumpkins Grandma Pitt picked up for them.

Owen is Home

Since hospitals right now are not allowing anyone 14 and under into the hospital, Alexis and Carter have been waiting anxiously to see their new baby brother. We brought Owen home today and they finally got to meet him. They were all smiles and could not get enough kisses and hugs in. My Mom told me that she had printed a picture of Owen for them to see last night and Carter had been carrying it around all day with him telling everyone that his new brother Owen came out of his Mommy's belly!



This is the outfit that Amber made for Owen to come home in.

Owen Douglas Pitt is Here!

We are super excited to share with you some pictures of the latest addition to our family.

Owen Douglas Pitt
Born on October 28, 2009 at 8:17 a.m.
6 lbs. and 12 oz.
20 inches long

He has brought smiles to our faces from the minute he was born and we adore him.

By the way, this is Amber's husband (Chad) posting this. I'm sure Amber will probably re-post this and make this information much more exciting than I have, but in the meantime we wanted to share some of the early pics of Owen. Enjoy!