Thanksgiving X2

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend. We started off at my parents for a rather small gathering, Stef's fam. and Janelle and Sean and my family and then headed over for more food and fun with Hyrum's family. Hyrum's cousin Brian and his family traveled down from Utah and brought Great Grandma Wise with them as a surprise. We love Grandma Wise and don't get to see her very often so it was nice to have a surprise visit from her. The girls loved playing with cousins on both sides and ate a lot more dessert than they did anything else, it's good to be a kid at Thanksgiving, heck it's great to be a pregnant lady at Thanksgiving!

One year older and wiser too...happy birthday to you!

Can you tell I'm in the Primary? Yesterday was my birthday. Corynn felt there should be balloons and a lot of hoop-la-la, and that my mother should make me a cake. My mom did make me my favorite (pumpkin pie) Sunday night. Mom and Dad made me a pre-birthday dinner of Steak and potatoes, steamed veggies and pie (not a huge cake fan) it was heavenly to get out of church and drive down to S.D. for a little birthday girl pampering. Yesterday, Hyrum arranged for the girls to be picked up and tended over night (sob, sob, Alli's 1st night away) by Papa and G-ma Cottrell and we went to dinner and a show. So two nights no cooking how spoiled am I? Really don't enjoy cooking when I'm pregnant. So anyway 28 years old and looking forward to my next one...yeah right! When I'm done with this post I'm going to return back to rocking myself in the fetal position in the corner. Ha, ha, I'm really ok.

I've been tagged...

7 Random facts about me...
1)When I'm not pregnant, I love to cook.
2)I have worn the same shade of blush for years, I can hear all you ladies out there gasping and choking...hey as long as they keep making it I'll be wearing it. I'm not brave or creative when it comes to make-up.
3)I met my husband in the 6th grade. However he didn't notice me until I got contacts and got visited by the boob fairy...so somewhere around the 8th grade.
4)I have been to a "Lord of the Dance" production. Enough said really.
5)I used to cut my hair as a small child, and received the nickname "Butch" which I am still called on occasion. After like the 4th or 5th hack job on myself, my mother spanked me (because she had read somewhere that it would work, and it did) I stopped cutting my own hair and instead cut a few of my mother's preschool students hair...their mothers always picked them up on time after that!
6)Weird food combination favorite: Bowl of popcorn and a glass of cold orange juice. Oh just try it!
7)I was afraid of the dark until I was 12. I was the youngest of seven so instead of growing up on Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers like all my friends, I grew up on Poltergeist and MTV. When my parents weren't home of course.

ZIGGY Cottrell?

Corynn has been throwing around some pretty off the wall names for her baby sister on the way. The latest...ZIGGY. She usually has a different one each day but Ziggy seems to be her favorite for almost two weeks now and she is starting to tell family and strangers that's what she'll be naming her sis. She felt that it was appropriate for a boy or a girl. Now that we know it's a girl I thought it might change her mind...nope...Ziggy it is!!!

IT'S A GIRL!!!

We found out this afternoon that we are having girl #3. Everyone has been asking Hyrum if he's o.k.? Hyrum hasn't stopped smiling since he saw her suck her thumb and stretch her hand out towards us as if to say, "Hi guys" during the sonogram. We're excited and already prepared for a girl. Hyrum did say eventually he'd be needing a room to himself where he could escape all the estrogen. Fair enough. Corynn is happy and said she would like another sister, Alli is clueless of course that her world as "the baby" is about to be rocked. So the suspense is over and now the name game begins...any suggestions?

Halloween Cuties!

This year Corynn was a pirate (I know, but at least I talked her into being a "girl pirate") and Allison was a lady bug (she'll always be whatever Corynn was in the past, recycled costumes are grrreat!) We went trick or treating up one side of our street and back down the other and we called it good. Corynn enjoyed sitting out on the porch handing out candy to trick or treaters. All the cousins came up from S.D. to trick or treat with out having to walk miles and miles for a few pieces of candy.