Happy New Year!!

The Coyer siblings decided that to spend New Year's together and it was seriously the best time. Its the first time we have all been together in a couple years. We took Matt to the zoo, the ladies had a day out for lunch and pedis and we got all dolled up for a New Year's party. I would do the whole week over again it was so fun!

 

 

At the Safari Park

 

 

Holy preggers. The ladies all dolled up!

 

My fabulous sister in laws



Two pregnant chicks. Shhh its a secret..... 

Uncle Brian and Aunt Sandra

Okay...

 

While driving home in Jacksonville, North Carolina, my good friend Tiffany saw this billboard for a new housing development. I hope our photographer is making some good money off of us.  Does Matt need an agent now?

Our Handsome little man

 

Hes not our baby anymore! 

3rd Trimester!

 

 

27 weeks!

 

Movin' right along!!

Hi ya!

Consider the halls decked!

 My DIY Pinterest find :)

Trimming the tree. Cocktail for Todd, sparkling cider for me!



Put a fork in him...

 because he is done!! My sweet husband is officially a college graduate!! After years of saying school just wasn't for him, he decided to take one class to see what he thought and he got some ridiculous grade (like 99%) so he took another....and then another until a couple weeks ago he came downstairs and announced that he was done. I am so proud of him. I barely got through college and I wasn't working, paying my own bills or doing much of anything other than playing with my friends (wow that was sad to write or pretty awesome depending on how you look at it...). Todd did this during a second tour as a Drill Instructor in Newport, a cute little baby, neurotic wife and Afghanistan deployment. I guess we now know who is the overachiever in this family. ;)

 

Proud receipient of a B.A. in Criminal Justice. I'm not even going to mention what his GPA is, it will make my previous admission of my own college experience just that much more pathetic.

Happy Thanksgiving!

As my dad reminded me recently, the saying 'life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" could not be more true this thanksgiving. I had big plans. Lots of baking and cooking, hosting a Thanksgiving breakfast brunch for our friends, spending time with my family, black friday shopping, putting up christmas decorations...we were going to be busy...and then life happened. The week of Thanksgiving, while out on one of his daily 6 mile runs (we can discuss how nutty that is later), Todd felt the slightest pull on his back.  What was initially just an annoyance turned into a pretty serious muscle strain that literally left him crippled, on the floor and sedated. He literally couldn't move and therefore neither could our plans. Poor guy. We made the best of it though, instead of brunch with friends we just had a big family breakfast and thanks to some last minute shopping enjoyed a small Thanksgiving at home just the three of us. In the end, I still went black Friday shopping and even got a wreath up or two ;).

 Comforting his injured Daddy

 Black Friday Prep!

A little Thanksgiving breakfast and parade

 

Makeshift TG dinner :)

Marine Corps Ball!

 

 24 weeks!

We are famous!

The things I will make my family do for free stuff. About a year ago we agreed to sign a stock photo waiver in exchange for free christmas cards. Now we are in a Navy Fed ad! 

 

Happy Halloween!

Matt is finally old enough to actually want to trick or treat and it was just the cutest thing. He thought knocking on doors and receiving candy was the bomb diggity and was on a mission to collect as much candy as possible. As a pregnant person, who would love to be hooked up to an IV of sugar, I was more than pleased with his excitement to trick or treat with gusto.  The only issue we need to work on is the fact that after you give Matt candy, he wants to come into your home and explore. 

Stranger.Danger.Matt. Stranger Danger.

 Grandpa and his silly blow up pumpkins.

 

 

Trick or treat!!



Harvest Festival

I love love love Halloween and when I found out that our HOA put on a Harvest Festival, I made sure that we were there. Matt wore his little fireman costume and even won a $10 giftcard for being so cute! Love him! Matt ate lots of hot dogs, snow cones and cotton candy and had a blast running around with the other kids. Such a cutie!

Sometimes its a big world out there to a little fireman..

 

Happy Halloween!

Football!

 

My sweet Todd is livin' the dream. Football, chicken wings and a sweet son to watch the game with.

 

My boys are so cute!

Because he's so stinkin' cute!

 

 

Lunch time!

18 weeks!

Big Bear!

 For our 5 year wedding anniversary, Todd surprised me with a weekend in Big Bear. He rented a cabin and we spent a few days just relaxing and hanging out in the woods.  The cabin was very rustic and we spent the weekend just hanging out, building fires and enjoying some family time away.

Taking in the sights

 watching some movies

 

Matt particularly enjoyed the s'mores. Yum!!

 

Happy Anniversary Sweetie!  I love you!

It's a boy!

Might as well invest in the camping and sports equiptment now because we are having another boy!

 

 

Like Matt this little guy was not shy about showing us who he was and we are beyond excited to have another little man in the house. I'm particularly excited, who doesn't want to be surrounded by adorable little men ;).

 



 

Hi ya!

Girl's day out!

Since Nix is due any day now we decided to take her out to lunch and for some pedis.

Love these ladies!