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So yesterday our computer died. Like won't turn on at all died so I'm attempting to write a small update on my phone.  hey look! It will let me add photos! This might actually work! So this week has been about cleaning out our second bedroom to make room for nursery things. Keep in mind it doesn't always look like this just when I pull everything out of the closet to go through but needless to say there was a lot to do.

Before and after. And it looks even better than this now. All the stuff on the  right is the beginning off baby stuff.and there is more not pictured but all that stuff on the left is now gone.  

I 

want to finish that rocking chair but I don't know how I want it done hopefully with finding out the gender next week it will point me in the right direction of what we want our nursery to look like. 

17 weeks! Here we are closing in on the halfway point. I feel like it's going by so fast and is only going to go faster with the holidays coming up. It's fun getting to feel little kicks and wiggles from baby. There I got a little kick just now! I can't wait until it's strong enough for Erik to feel he gets a little jealous that only I get to feel it. I guess it's one of the perks of the job! We love this little baby already it always wiggles and dances to the music in the car or when I play the piano at church.  hopefully we get a new computer soon so in the future these posts aren't so oddly formatted. 

It's November already?

Happy Halloween from me and Erik! Mom sent us a picture of her all decked out for Halloween that morning so we had to send one back with our cute smiling faces right? (And our dirty dishes in the background that everyone is going to ignore) 

Our church did a Chili cook off for Halloween along with a trunk or treat and activities for the kids. Erik and Matt decided that they really wanted to collaborate on a chili together, which is an awesome idea because they are both incredible cooks. They also decided to make it a bit...well, different...and Manly. So they decided that instead of the traditional beef or chicken chili, they were going to go a little more exotic and make Erik and Matt's Best Friend "Hoppin'" Ka-Bar Chili complete with fresh rabbit meat. They prepared everything with their Ka-Bar knives (again, the whole manly thing) and the two of their minds put together and created an awesome chili everyone was raving about. Their awesome sign was courtesy of me and my major crafting skills.

The bottom of the crockpot scraped out. A few minutes after this someone found a spatula and really cleaned the entire crockpot out. This was no small amount of chili mind you, it was a big crockpot full with an entire rabbit in there. 

So everyone voted they had about 20 pots of chili there. There were different categories for prizes like the spiciest chili and things like that, but when they got to the best in show award Erik and Matt's Ka-Bar chili came out on top! Their reaction was priceless they were so excited I'm so proud of them. 

Erik and Matt showing off their manliness and their golden ladle trophy they were awarded for best chili! It was such a fun night!

This week's pregnancy craving. I really wanted one fresh from the mall or something like that but since Corvallis doesn't have one we had to make do with what we could find at the grocery store but these were satisfactory enough for baby Cram. 

Take  your baby bump to work day. I feel like my stomach is turning into a little basketball right in front of my stomach. I'm down to one pair of pants that fits me normally and even when I wore them the other day they were a bit on the snug side. Most of my shirts still work except for ones that were already on the little shorter or tighter side. So far so good we are just a bit over 15 weeks now and we get to go find out the gender the day before Thanksgiving just 3 weeks from today! We are so excited! We are now taking predictions on if it's a boy or a girl. Any thoughts?