Baking Cookies

This was our practice run for making cookies for Santa. As you can see 'Little Miss Independent' enjoyed every second of this fun event and is ready for the real thing on the 24th.

One Month Old

First Bath

Precious.

Twinkle, Twinkle

Halloween

This year Chris took Lane trick-or-treating with the cousins on his own because I had just come home from the hospital that day. I was sad to miss the fun but she had a great time even without her Mom :)

Lane the bunny rabbit, Addie the witch, Colin the knight and Caleb the dragon.

Carson Robert Borchert

We are so happy to introduce our new addition, Carson Robert. He was born on 10/30/09 at 7:17am. He weighed 7lbs. 15oz. and was 19.5 inches long. Everything went really well (and very fast) which was such a blessing. We were able to come home the next day which happened to be Halloween. Below is a picture of the proud Daddy and big sister and Carson in his Halloween outfit.

Happy Halloween

Every year our group of friends gets together for a Halloween party. Rob and Rachel usually host and this year was no exception. Chris and I usually spend a lot of time and thought putting together our costumes but this year we were just happy to be able to make it to the party so our look is pretty simple. We had so much fun as always and love seeing how creative our friends can be. Take a look at what everyone came as below. Above is one of Chris's appetizer creations..a Mummy cheese spread....isn't the hubby so creative?

Chris and I as Octo-Mom and Octo-sperm. Probably not very appropriate but still kind of funny.

A close-up look at the 8 babies I carried....a little creepy, isn't it?

Rob and Rachel as Mario and Luigi.

Tim and Kate as flowers.

Jordan and Leah as "Balloon Boy."

Jon and Cricket as Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife, Beth.

Brian and Tara as Jerry Seinfeld and Elaine Benes.

Jeff and Holly as Peter Pan and Tinker Bell.

Nate and Lisa as each other :)