After a delicious dinner, we gathered outside to watch the kids play!
I'm 32 weeks pregnant! Only 8 weeks to go! Time is really flying by!
Here's a family photo we took on Thanksgiving day! 
I am 29 weeks pregnant at my birthday party! I remember feeling a little tired towards the end of the night. Usually when we have game nights or parties at our house I can be up past midnight pretty easily...but being pregnant...I think I started to drag around 10-11pm... Most of our friends brought their kids along with them, so everyone started leaving around 10-11pm or so anyways! It was a really fun time! Thanks for coming everybody!! 
Jason picked up a special ice cream cake fro Marble Slab Creamery for me!! It was cookies and cream flavor...yummy!!! It was an interesting challenge pulling the cake in and out of the freezer!
That's a lot of candles! I made a big wish, so I needed all those candles on there!! Next photo I'm blowing them out--I did good! I thought that being pregnant it would be more difficult to get a deep breath and blow them out, but it wasn't any trouble at all--I got them all out on the first blow!! 
At the end of October, we took a Sabbath afternoon picnic to some parks in downtown Houston's art district. It was perfect weather, the food was delicious, and we enjoyed taking a walk around the gardens and parks in the area after lunch.
Vegetarian Turkey sandwiches...with Palm Heart salad, and chips! Brownies for dessert!
After lunch we took a walk around the Houston Garden Center, and I saw these beauties growing closely together in one section. I love the way the contrast and compliment one another. We have some of the larger caladiums growing in our flower beds and pots at home, so now I'm inspired to add some other small, leafy green and white plants to give our gardens a similarly color and texture-complementary pleasing effect!
I'm 27 weeks pregnant! I love the Houston Garden Center, it makes a lovely setting for photos! The lighting was a little bit of a challenge, but later in the day the shadows helped make a much better photo.
As we walked around the art and museum district, we stopped by the Museum of Natural Science to get some water and take a break. We found this little guy crawling around the front steps of the museum. He was being supervised by a museum staff member and was out and about for his daily exposure to the sun. He lives in the Butterfly Gardens exhibit at the museum, but does not get enough sun inside his enclosure, so they have to bring him outside as much as possible. I am actually not afraid of lizards...oddly enough...but I am terrified of snakes. I thought he was really cool and I enjoyed watching him and giving him a quick little "pat" on the back! :-)
Here's a pregnancy picture with a couple of our friends...who just had a baby girl --this photo was taken at their baby shower a few weeks ago.
The three green pepper plants are there in the front of the main garden area. They are still hanging on after surviving a hot, dry summer.
This mum planter came back on its own this fall. We didn't replant it or get new plants, it just kept growing all year and has suddenly decided to bloom!
Our butterfly bush is soo happy in this spot! Even though it has been crowded by the huge Cosmo flowering plants, it is still growing really, really well!
These clown flowers come up every year on their own. We never planted them and we didn't buy them...they were already here in the flower bed or maybe a bird brought (dropped) the seeds. They grow in several areas near our rose bushes and hydrangea. We really like them, and noticed this year a pink colored variety coming up in addition to this purple type.
