Right now you can get autographed copies of Paige Torn and Paige Rewritten together for $30 (including shipping!) in my bookstore!!

Be sure to order quickly! This is only available for a limited time! 🙂

Oh what a wonderful, wonderful week!!

We ran a MILLION errands on Saturday and so we treated Nathan to lunch with us at CFA. He even convinced us he was old enough to trade in his kids meal toy for ice cream by himself. Other than being a little too short (the CFA staff didn’t even see him standing there at first – ha!), he did so good! He even said thank you. I’m in a little bit of denial he’s this big.

Waiting for our ultrasound!! Can you tell we were a little excited?? 😉

Sweet Big Brother holding Baby Brother’s balloons.

Wednesday, our dear friends Clint and Leigh Ann had another precious girl! It is KILLING ME that we are so far away from them right now. I’ve been constantly looking at pictures this whole week! Honestly, you’d think someone would have invented some sort of instantaneous travel by this point in time. Love how beautiful Leigh Ann looks and how precious is that baby??! So very excited for them and big sister Hayley Grace! We are snuggling those girls from a few miles away. 🙂

Nathan decided that Baby Brother needed a sticker too one night. Not sure why we have DARE stickers but like my brother Bryant said, he’s probably going to be saying that word to his little brother a lot. “I dare you to…”

Little pirate. Jon came home and built Nathan a pirate ship and then the two of them played in it the rest of the night. Nathan was, of course, Jake from Jake and the Neverland Pirates.

Jake even was kind enough to join us for dinner. And he informed us that next Halloween, Nathan was going to be Jake, Jon was going to be Captain Hook, I was going to be Wendy and Baby Brother was going to be… Smee. Poor kid.

In all the excitement, I was WAY late drawing a winner!

Tonya, email me your info and I will have a Paige Rewritten in the mail for you soon! It was so fun to see all of your predictions!!

In other news, someone has been singing High School Musical all day. 😉 This kid cracks me up.

Get Your Head in the Game from Erynn Mangum on Vimeo.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Thursday!

Oh my – I think we are still coming off the adrenaline drop that hit about twenty or so minutes after we finally found out what we are having! 😉 I have been so dying to know and last night’s party was the perfect way to find out!!

We had our ultrasound yesterday afternoon. LOVED seeing our precious sweetheart on the screen! Baby is measuring even a little bit big, which is wonderful news!

We had the ultrasound tech write the gender down and put it in an envelope. And then I had to just stare at it for the next hour during our follow-up doctor’s appointment and on the drive to drop it off at the party store. It killed me!

Our party!! LOVED sharing it with my wonderful family and some of our closest friends. These people have prayed for us, cried with us, loved on us and celebrated with us. It was perfect having them all there to find out! We had people wear what color they thought the baby was.

Obviously the three of us were off. 😉

Our dear friends across the miles!! We were so blessed to have so many people who have moved or live far away be able to join us for this! I love technology!!

And it is….

Blue!! We were (and still are a little bit – ha!) in shock! I am SO thankful for another healthy, beautiful baby boy and I honestly couldn’t have told you which way I felt really strongly about, but I guess in the back of my mind I was always thinking girl! Such a wonderful surprise!

This one has no idea what is coming his way. 😉

I love that our dear friend Calvin captured this moment – both of us were just kind of sitting there like, “Wow…another BOY…” 😉

So thankful for these dear friends!!

My precious family!!

Oh goodness, friends. Another boy… I’m so blessed. I just sat on my couch and cried for about two hours today over it. God is so very good to us!!

We could not be more excited!!! Little boy looks perfect and healthy. I have been crying all day from just this overwhelming thankfulness. Thank you so much for your prayers for our precious SON!!!

I couldn’t resist. 😉

So
who is up for a little contest?? Leave a comment with whether you think we are having a boy or a girl and I’ll draw a random winner on Wednesday! You can win your
choice of an autographed Paige Torn or Paige Rewritten. And I will be sure to update you all with what we are having Tuesday night after we find out!!

A few fun facts about this pregnancy compared with Nathan’s:

* With Nathan, I couldn’t stand chicken or eggs. I haven’t been bothered at all by either one this time around!

*
I threw up once every day or so with Nathan until about 14 or so weeks.
With this one, I’m just now going a week without being sick (and I was
twenty weeks yesterday!) and I was sick at least 3-4 times a day in the
beginning.

* Nathan’s heartbeat was always around 140, this one has averaged in the high 140s to the low 150s.

* I think I’m carrying the same, though I definitely started showing earlier this time around!

*
Nathan was a lot more active than this one. I feel kicks occasionally,
but nothing like the ninja attacks Nathan was famous for (maybe we are
going to have a slightly calmer child this time??)

* I have no idea whether it’s a he or a she and I also am not really hoping one way or the other. Having a boy has been so much fun and I honestly think it would be so wonderful to have two crazies running around here in their over-sized football helmets! But I also think a girl would be so fun because it would be so different than what we are used to right now. 🙂

I’m so so so overwhelmed with thankfulness – God has blessed us so much! My heart is spilling over. 🙂 Continuing to pray for you, dear friends!!

Behold. Clark Kent. Or, as Nathan proudly told someone at trunk or treat last night, “I am John Kent.”

Close enough. 😉

Ha! We had such a great time last night! Nathan’s costume has been classified top secret for awhile now so it’s fun to finally share pictures! The top two are from the fall festival at Jon’s school that we went to last week.

Let me tell you – someone MADE OUT last night. We have an entire grocery bag full of candy because his little bucket we brought was not big enough and one of the ladies at trunk or treat had a grocery sack in her car. We will be eating this candy for YEARS.

Cayce and the serious Clark on our way to the church’s trunk or treating. 

Best costume we saw trunk or treating – Mike Wazowski! All of the little kids seriously thought it was Mike. Nathan grabbed his hand and said, “Quick, Mom, take my picture!” and then posed real fast. Love my quick-thinking boy. 😉

After trunk or treating, we headed to Gammy and Pops’ house to trick or treat and they met him at the door like this:

Ha! It took him a few minutes to recognize them!! Then they gave him bags of donuts and he was good there. 😉

Next up was Uncle Bryant and Soon-to-Be-Auntie Nicole – don’t they look adorable? Bryant was so cute to save some candy for Nathan.

Nathan and Jon. We didn’t get home until late so he was done by this point and coming into a sugar crash after the suckers he’d talked us into letting him eat in the car.

And then it was time to put Superman in bed and dig through his candy haul. Because really, what’s the joy of parenting if you can’t steal a few pieces of Halloween candy??

Today, I’ve been doing some errands with this goofy kid and Gammy for our gender reveal – goodness, it’s only four days away!! Keep posted because I imagine there might be a contest coming up this weekend. 😉 

A week from tomorrow, we will find out what we are having!! I can’t believe it’s so close and SO FAR away. 🙂

We have gone to the same pumpkin patch in town ever since Nathan was three months old, so of course we had to go this year! We’ve had such a crazy month that we barely were able to squeeze in a visit before it closes this Thursday.

My sweet baby boy. Why does he look 15 in this picture??

Playing some of the wonderful games and feeding the fun animals they always have every year. Nathan LOVES this part!

Kissing baby Brother Sister. This is a daily occurrence. Sometimes hourly. 😉 This little one will not be without affection, I can pretty much guarantee that!

Today is my baby sister’s twenty-third birthday! We had a big celebration last night with the fam – Nathan was not lacking in his “help” opening presents last night.

Love my sister so much!! She’s one of my dearest friends and I don’t take that for granted.

I’m writing this post wearing a lei and a bracelet that Nathan made at Cubbies last night. I absolutely LOVE that he’s bringing me home accessories now!

This past week we celebrated my amazing mom’s birthday! And we were so busy having fun that I forgot to get a picture of the two of us. So here’s one from a few years ago. Ha! 🙂 Love my mom – we have a lot of fun together!

My brother Caleb and his fiancee, Nicole, ran in their first race together this past weekend!! I love that they stayed together the whole time. 🙂

One of Nathan’s favorite things about going to bed at Gammy and Pops’ house when the whole family is there – having Uncle Bryant read him his bedtime stories. Love it.

Tonight, we had a lovely time playing with “Rearview Mater” and friends. They fought off a dinosaur and then Nathan decided to read to them. I think he enjoyed the story more than they did. 😉

Mr. Shark from Erynn Mangum on Vimeo.

And finally, here’s my crazy singing a song he learned at BSF. I love it. I cry my mascara off during so many dinners laughing at this kid. He just kills me.

What are you guys up to this week??

Jon got a new phone and while we were cleaning off some of his old data, I found this little gem and HAD to share it with you guys today.

Daddy love from Erynn Mangum on Vimeo.

Ha! I can’t believe that was three years ago!! I remember not going anywhere without a spit up rag – not even from the living room to the kitchen.

I think we’re both praying for a calmer stomach in this new one… 😉