Seabee Ball

 Joel and I getting ready to go in to the ball.

 He's wearing the accessories for participating in the Color Guard

This past Saturday, Joel and I were able to attend the Seabee Ball. It is run by the First Class Petty Officer Association so Joel got to help with the planning (lucky him!) He was involved in the Color Guard as well. It is a lot of fun to get together with everyone once a year and celebrate the birthday of the Seabees. This year, it was up at Hill Air Force Base at the Golf Course Club House. My lovely sister Katie did my hair and helped me look presentable (cause she's AWESOME!) It was a different experience for me this particular time as the usual dresses I wear to these sort of events, didn't fit at all! It is difficult to squeeze a 7 month pregnant belly in them : ) So, my dear friend Kelsey and I made a dress. I got lots of compliments on it which made me feel pretty nice. It is also quite difficult to dance so I settled for a few slow dances with my sweetheart. Overall, we had a great time and I'm looking forward to next year.....mainly cause I won't be carrying around this little one anymore and can maybe fit into one of my other dresses!

 Presenting of the Colors and the National Anthem

David Seaver, David Foust, Joel and Mark Kennon were the Color Guard.

 The Oldest and Youngest Seabee present getting ready to cut the cake together. It is a great tradition! You can see the POW flag/table in the back. In honor of those who are MIA and POW there is always a round table set up with a single red rose, empty glass, a lemon, salt, a bible and with a white table cloth. There is a moment of silence and a tribute read to them at the beginning of every military event like this. It is really a touching moment and a great honor to be present when it is done.

Joel managed to get us the main piece of the cake!

Ultrasound pictures....and stuff

 Here's some ultrasound pictures. Joel and I were excited to get them

and find out that everything looks good. This is one of her foot

 Crossing her legs

 kicking her feet

 Flexing her arm and making a fist

 Her little face!

 Here's a picture of my belly at 26 weeks

We let the kids color my belly during story time. Ana thought we needed a picture : )

Ana's Birthday

Our big girl turned 5!! She got to take cupcakes to school, dress up and have a party. She definitatly got spoiled : )

 Before school on Friday. She got to wear her birthday dress and take her cupcakes.

 The butterfly cupcakes she picked out for her class

 Her cake!

 Blowing out candles at her party!

 She needed some help : )

To keep with the goal....

I'm really trying hard to stick with my goal of writing two posts per month and so far SUCCESS!!! yay : ) So, with that being said, we've had a busy few weeks at the Farnsworth house. The end of February flew by and is quite a blur. Joel left for an AT (annual training) for a week the last week of Feb/First week of March. This meant that I got to stay home and play stay at home mom for the week and I tell you what, I loved it! We're working on making this a more permanent arrangement. The kids and I had a fun week but definitely missed Joel. We went to Chuck E Cheese with my sister one night, had movie nights, played games, made all kinds of treats, played at IKEA and it was awesome! Joel was able to get a flight home on my birthday!! It was the best gift I could have asked for and I only cried a little

Our sweet little Ana turned 5 on the 4th. She's getting so big!! We had a little party for her on Tuesday with my family and some friends. She is one spoiled little girl! She took cupcakes to her class on the Friday before her birthday and got to wear her birthday dress. She loved the attention! I'll try and get some pictures up soon.

Joel and I had an appointment for the new baby. Everything is looking good. Her heart beat is strong and she's growing well. Only a few more months (13 weeks-ish) until she comes! The kids are getting excited and so are we! I love watching Joels face during the appointments. He has this proud smile and it just makes me laugh.

JJ has started up soccer again!! He is so excited. Yesterday, for the first practice of this part of the season, he immediately changed into his uniform and was sad to find out that he still had 4 hours until his practice : )
All the boys were just so fun and excited to be playing again. We are looking forward to the games that start this Saturday.

Valentines Weekend

We had a nice Valentines weekend. My thought was we could do something as we didn't have any kids but I left it up to Joel. On Saturday afternoon he sent me a text that said, "Dinner reservations are for 8" but no matter how much I asked, he wouldn't tell me where we were going. Of course, I just got excited. We don't really ever get the chance to do anything!

So, I didn't know what to wear as he hadn't said anything about where we were going. After a while I finally got it out of him. We were going to the Chef's table. It is a really nice place that neither of us had been to before. I changed into a nice sweater as I have very little in my wardrobe that fits right now...and off we went.

We had a lovely five course meal accompanied by a grand piano. It was so wonderful! It was nice to be able to spend the time together. We felt a little out of place in such a fancy establishment, but it was great! We've decided that we'll make it a tradition the weekend before Valentines day.  We went home, changed into Jammie's and cuddled up watching Kate and Leopold. The day was absolutely perfect!

The Tale of Rosie Rabbit

Last Monday, as I was going to get my niece, I stumbled upon a rabbit (Yes, a rabbit!) in my driveway. I thought this was odd as we live in the middle of city. I tried to get close to determine if it belonged to someone and take a picture. Alas, it was 0700 in the morning and too dark to get a good picture. It stood up and looked at me and hopped away. Oh well. I left to go get Eva. Anyway, I got back and told Joel about the rabbit. He did the "sure Sarah....a rabbit" and I was beginning to feel like I was going a little crazy!

Fast forward a few days and we find ourselves at Thursday afternoon. JJ is sitting at the table and I am working on stuff in the Kitchen. He looks up from his homework and says, "There's a rabbit outside" (See! I KNEW I wasn't crazy!!) He went outside and with the help of the neighbor kids, was able to catch the rabbit. The kids named her Rosie. It so happens that she is very friendly, clean, and will let you hold her. She plays around with the cats with no problem! Sounds too good to be true. But now, we have eight "pets" ( 3 cats, 3 chickens, a rat and the rabbit) She hopped around the house throughout the weekend and we had no problems with her. She's been staying in my cat carrier as I don't have a hutch for her.....

Monday night, as I'm heading to bed, Joel he's going to let Rosie out to hop around as she hasn't been out all day. Later, he comes to bed and I asked if he'd remembered to put Rosie away. He said, "I thought you did" ...uhhh....obviously not. So, he gets up and starts looking around the house for her. NO RABBIT!!! Oh well. I woke up multiple times through the night with dreams of her jumping on the bed (I blame the pregnancy). When I got up in the morning, still no rabbit. Joel sent me a text at 1230 in the afternoon telling me that he'd found her, outside and chilling under the boat. Sounds good to me. He took the cat carrier out so she would have food, water and a place to sleep. She's perfectly content being outside. Apparently she figured out how to work the cat door. Smart bunny! So, now, Rosie is our outside rabbit.

The laugh of the day

So, on Mondays I have the privilege of watching my new little niece so my sister can work. Ana loves having her come over and I think it's going to help with the new baby adjustment we'll be making in a few months. As JJ, Ana and I were driving Eva back home, JJ and I had a little conversation that still kind of has me chuckling.

JJ- "They moved our P.E. groups around today."
Sarah- "oh yeah, how do you feel about that?"
JJ- "It's great. Jo (his little girlfriend) is on my team now and Dalton (his buddy) is on the other team."
Sarah- "Awesome. Now Jo gets to see how good at sports you are."
JJ-"Yeah. Dalton likes her too now."
Sarah-" So, what are you going to do?"
JJ-".......I"m gonna do the best I can"


I'm beginning to see that we watch too much Nightmare Before Christmas as the last two lines of the conversation happen in the movie. JJ said it with his best oogie boogie impression and Ana and I were both in stitches!