(If you missed it, I drew the winner for Paige Rewritten – you can find it here!!)

A few favorite pictures from the past few weeks. 🙂

I love, love, LOVE this picture of my boy at the fall festival. He’d just finished walking Kody in the pet parade and then he got his face painted. I think he was a little excited about the results. 😉

Pre-face-painting: Only in a small town pet parade will you see a chicken in a dress walking in a parade.

Yes. A CHICKEN.

Me and my loves in front of the infamous Bees. Love Balloon Fiesta days! It’s the official start to fall for me.

 Have I mentioned I love the Balloon Fiesta???

Sillies messing around during the Fiesta. I don’t think I could love his little gap-toothed grin any more. 😉

My dear friend Kaitlin, her husband Eitan and their precious baby boy are in town this week!! We have loved going to the Fiesta with them, hanging out together, having girl dates and watching the boys play.

These two. Adore them. This has been excellent practice for Nathan and he has LOVED every second with Asaf. Asaf seems to be fairly fond of Nathan too. 😉 I think they will be good friends!

I’m not exactly sure how I can already be 17.5 weeks along! In one sense, I have felt every minute of this pregnancy but God has been good to have the weeks go by quickly! It helps to be busy. 🙂

We had an appointment yesterday and got to hear our little one’s heartbeat again which always makes me so relieved. The nurse did have a hard time finding it at first because the baby kept kicking at the doppler. 🙂 It was a nice and strong 152 beats per minute.

I’ve felt the baby too! It’s not very consistent, but especially after I eat and drink, I can feel little movements in there. So amazing. Such an incredible feeling! I primarily feel this little one on the left side of my stomach.

I still haven’t made it a full two days without throwing up. This little one is holding onto that nausea! With Nathan, I was queasy until about 14 or 15 weeks but I don’t think I threw up past 14 weeks. I’m thankful it’s not three times a day anymore, though. And honestly, I could throw up this whole pregnancy and still be fine with it. I’m so thankful to be sick! 😉

I still haven’t had any cravings or aversions. With Nathan, I could not stand eggs or chicken but I’ve liked them both so far with this one. I feel like I’m more tired, but I think a big part of that is that I’m not able to sleep for 18 hours a day with this one. 😉

Nathan adores his “Brother Sister” and kisses my stomach very regularly. Right now he keeps saying that he wants a boy but he spent the first part of this pregnancy saying it was a girl. Although, today he told me that he thinks it’s “a grill”.

And we will know on November 5th which one it is!!! 🙂 I cannot, CANNOT wait. We’re going to wait and find out at a gender reveal party that night. 🙂 I’m praying these next three weeks fly past!!

Friends, we have had the CRAZIEST few weeks. Absolutely insane. But wonderfully wonderful at the same time!!

In the biggest and BEST news….

My
brother, Bryant, proposed to his beautiful girlfriend, Nicole, and they
are getting married! We are so so so excited. She is just precious and
we love her greatly. We cannot wait to see what amazing things God does
in their life together!

A
couple of weekends ago, Nathan got to walk Kody in a pet parade that a
little village near our town puts on every fall. It was so cute. You had
to dress as a hero so he (shockingly) picked a firefighter. 😉 We love
firefighters!

We spent time at Lobo Stadium. 🙂

Last
Friday, we went to have breakfast with Jon at his school. I wasn’t
feeling so good that morning and that afternoon I started running a
fever. Ugh. I fought the virus all weekend and I’ve still got some
residual congestion and laryngitis. I’m rocking that Phoebe from Friends sexy voice. 😉

I
sucked down a few cough drops and we headed to the Balloon Fiesta
anyway on Sunday night because I adore the Fiesta and I was hating that
we weren’t going at all that opening weekend!

Jon and the boy. 🙂

This
crazy is so funny. Somedays he is the best at taking posed pictures and
other days he could care less about them. Obviously this day was the
latter.

Me and my loveliest Cayce!

The
month before we got engaged, Jon and I went to the Balloon Fiesta and
that’s when they introduced the boy and girl bumblebee balloons. They
were SO cute and I totally fell in love with them. Well, the year that
we brought Nathan for the first time as a three month old, they
introduced the baby bee! SO fun!

My three bees!

My other favorite. For obvious reasons. 😉

YAY!!

And I think that’s probably a good reason for a contest, don’t you? 🙂

You’ve got a few different ways to enter to win an autographed copy and they are all on this handy little Rafflecopter. 🙂 I’m getting all techy over here, guys.

If only that were the truth. Ha!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

Good luck! The winner will be announced on the 15th!! 🙂

Thank you guys so much for all your sweet support over these last many years. I cannot thank you enough for your precious emails and comments over the years. You are all wonderful!

Love to you!!

Oh, I have PILES of pictures and memories to post to this blog, but they will have to wait yet again. I spent the weekend sick with a cold and fever (yuck) but thankfully the fever appears to be gone and just the lingering cough and laryngitis is here.

Oy.

In WAY MORE FUN news, look what happens to come out…oh.. TOMORROW.

😀

I might be a tiny bit excited. 🙂

I don’t know if any of you are like me – I really, really, REALLY hate the way my voice sounds recorded so this is hard for me to share, BUT I adored talking with Lisa Buffaloe from Living Joyfully Free! Here’s where you can hear our conversation – and I would highly encourage you to check out some of the amazing people she’s interviewed on her blog!!

I also got to chat with Nicole O’Dell this weekend on her Choose Now Teen Talk Radio show – definitely be sure to tune into her show! I was headlong into the cold so I sounded MISERABLE but Nicole was super sweet about it.

Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Paige Rewritten!! 🙂

To order on Amazon, click here!
To pre-order on my website, click here!

And for those of you who asked, I know it will release on Kindle, but I don’t have an exact date yet. As soon as I know, I will be sure to update on my Facebook page and here!

Have a wonderful night! I’m off to drink more honey-lemoned water. 😉

FIVE MORE DAYS!!!

So excited!! Remember, you can pre-order your autographed copy of Paige Rewritten in my Bookstore!

YAY!!

I have so many pictures to upload of our weekend that I just haven’t had the time/energy to do but I did want to show a couple of highlights!

We took this one mini-golfing for a church event last Friday night. First hole up, he whacked the ball, it hit a rock, a curb, a barrier and then landed square in the hole for a hole-in-one. He started doing a victory dance while Jon and I just stared in shock, but it was apparently first timer’s luck because here’s how he golfed the rest of the night:

Mini Golf from Erynn Mangum on Vimeo.

Ha!

And our Lobos lost this last weekend but it didn’t stop these two from having a good time.

Love my boys. 🙂

What have you all been up to??

Someone finally mastered the pedals this week! 🙂

Love his little face.

He’s so proud of himself. And just so y’all could see the speed demon on his way…

Pedaling from Erynn Mangum on Vimeo.

Ha! He was going SO slow but he was so excited. It was too cute. I’m pretty sure we saw eight neighbors along the way and Nathan proudly declared to all of them, “I AM RIDING MY BIKE BY MYSELF! I’M DOING IT!”

He’s very shy. We’re working on getting him out of his shell.

All that riding wore him out. 😉 We have had such an incredibly busy couple of weeks – someone got super, super run down on Tuesday. He slept in late and then I found him like this two hours later. I moved him to his bed and he slept for three and a half hours! Poor guy. He was exhausted! We just lounged around in our jammies and watched movies the rest of the day – it was very needed.

Today is a sad day – we are saying goodbye to our dear friends Matt, Melanie, Julia and Bennett since they are heading out for a new adventure in Oklahoma! We got to hang out with the kids this morning while Matt and Melanie supervised the movers and cleaned their house. We will miss them so much!

This was the result of our weekend. Ha! 😉 Someone was super into his watermelon but apparently too tired/lazy to use a spoon. Love that kid. He makes me laugh.

It’s been a busy weekend and very busy day that I will catch up on soon. But I did want to pass along this awesome Loaded Baked Potato soup recipe! I made it today for Lunch Bunch and I thought it was fantastic. It wasn’t too hard either (but I did have a friend there to talk to which always makes cooking a little easier!). Though, I totally forgot to slice up the scallions for the top. Oops.

What are your favorite fall/winter soups?? Recipes please! We pretty much survive on soup from September to March! 😉

Have a great Monday!

Paige Rewritten releases October 8th!! 🙂

YAY!

I cannot, cannot, CANNOT wait for you guys to read more about Paige, Luke, Tyler and Layla. So, to celebrate, I just added Paige Rewritten to my Bookstore!

You can pre-order it and I’ll sign it and ship it on or about October 8th. 🙂

In other news, yesterday was “Talk Like A Pirate Day” and you could get a free dozen donuts if you dressed up like one. Y’all. We’ve got an ENTIRE bucket just of pirate stuff so this was not a difficult task.

Needless to say, there are now two dozen Krispy Kreme donuts in my house. 😉

Have a great day!