LUKE GERARD HANSON is here!!!!! And as an added bonus.... I'm not pregnant anymore!!!!!!!!

Eva loves her baby brother and "can hold him all by herself without anyone helping." Travis...well I laid Luke on his bed last night so that I could give Travis a kiss and he said "TAKE THE BABY OUT." Doesn't really get what is so great about him.

You just really don't get any goofier than Travis. He is so silly!

The kids got a "band" from Grandma Tree, along with 100 other things. This is Eva being a one-gal show.

The larger band.

Mommy and Daddy always cry when the baby arrives.

It's scary how much these two look like twins, isn't it? I must say, Luke at this moment at least has a shot at not looking like a Chris-clone as Travis does and as Eva did as a baby.

Eva and Travis with Santa. When Eva sat on his lap, Santa said to her "I saw you come in the door so I checked my list. You're on the nice list." Then she told him what she wanted, a toy computer. Then he asked Travis what he wanted and he told him a race track. When we got outside, Eva says to Chris in a very worried tone "Santa only said I was on the nice list, not Travis." The next day, he was whining about something and she said "Travis, you'd better stop because Santa didn't say you were on the nice list." Such a protective big sister!

Travis in his Viking's santa hat at the very, very fun daycare Christmas party.

The fun after trick-or-treating. All the candy he got. The bucket it still full up to the eyeballs.

This is how Chris had to push the gimpy around. He would just lift the stroller right up to the door. If you ask Travis about trick-or treating he says "I dwop my candy. I cwy." He dropped the bucket a few times and Chris had to pick it up.

I may have over bundled the princess? When she got home she said "I'm so hot!" Dad actually lasted trick-or-treating an entire hour!

Make-up and curls. I don't worry about Eva thinking girls need all that stuff at too early of an age. She seriously thinks doing your hair and putting on make-up is only for dress-up because that's really the only time she sees mom doing it.

This is Travis' mode of transportation, especially for mom who can't carry him. He has recently started walking on it though and he crawls and scoots all over. He doesn't even notice it. He was standing up on the same bed jumping with that cast the other day. At least he held on this time.

Injured Vikings. No-you Packer fans- the cast is green for the BISON.

Chris doing celebrity trick-or-treating at work. I would've never figured it out: He's senator Larry Craig, the guy that got caught in the airport bathroom sting.

Does this shirt make me look fat? Yes, that's what it says. It's my favorite. Yes, I have the token bun on my head that I always say I'll never take another picture with. Oops. And yes, I have 2 months to go.

Eva's first day of pre-school. Eva and her friend Crysta at school.

This is how a pregnant lady whom cannot stand the smell of anything cooking in the house fries her bacon:) Cooking bacon in the rain with the door shut tight and wearing clothes that I could change out of. And then I left the grease outside overnight so that it wouldn't put stink in the house either and Toni ate it all. Oops. Easy clean up though!

Fall festival at Rheualt Farm.

Vikings look-a-likes.

Travis' Owwee

Travis and his owwee foot.

Eva when she broke her leg with grandma Tree.

Deja vu. Last pregnancy with Travis, I spent the beginning months carrying around a toddler with a broken leg. However, this time I have already been ordered to do no carrying of the toddler...hmmmm? Travis was jumping on Eva's little, tiny twin bed on Saturday night just before bed and PLOP, off the end. His nose was all red and marked up, so I thought that was it. Well, he kept crying and wanted me to kiss his foot too. He just wouldn't stop crying. My brothers came over because we had all just went out to eat. I told Travis "you can lay on this bed and be sad until you're ready to come out." Well, we're in the other room and he's just SCREAMING. I'm being typical "what noise?" mom and I don't even hear it. Finally, Nolan says "Are you sure he didn't break his leg? I go in there and he had tried to get off the bed but couldn't walk. (Insert mucho, mondo, ginormous amount of guilt into mother.) He's saying he has an "owwee foot" over and over again. Well, I can't carry him, so Nolan carried him in the ER. We were there from 9-midnight!!!! He took his x-rays like a pro and said "cheese." Cute! It is just a hairline fracture of the tibia, in no way did it look as bad as Eva's did. He is only casted below the knee, she was to the thigh. He wants the "band-aid" OFF and keeps saying it doesn't hurt anymore... and then cries when he tries to move around. He is non-weightbearing, Chris is gone, Grandma had to come to carry him all over... I'm at 29 weeks, went into pre-term labor last time at 31 weeks, so I'd really like to make it past the next 3-4 weeks without carrying him and ending up in bed or with a premie. Hopefully we can get a walking boot on Wed when we go in for the hard cast. I always let them jump on that bed. It's one of those "pick your battles" things that I chose to ignore. Nolan says "who would let their 2 year old jump on a bed 3' wide?" Hmmmm. Good point. I'll choose my battles more wisely from now on.

At Ginger and Bill's wedding, one of the two times I wore make-up this summer. Oh my, what a hang-over I had from that wedding. Notice the drinks in all hands but mine, yet I was the one who couldn't get out of bed for 4 days. Luckily, the wedding day was beautiful and perfect and my pregnant body gave me a one day vacation from illness.

Pool party

Eva and Travis with the neighbor kids, Brady and Abby. They just all loved squishing into this super little pool, even when Brady and Abby had a bigger pool at their house.

Chris...I mean Travis... at the pool party.

Summer fun

Riding the four-wheeler at Grandma Tree's and Grandpa Gerry's. Now, before you go making fun of me for putting helmets on my kids while they ride a machine that moves slower than their tricycles..... they would not even get ON this and try it because it was "TOO SKARWY" until I suggested the helmets to make it safe. Score one up for mom!

I didn't have many great, fun ideas this summer. But, I did manage to come up with this "people car wash" that was a big hit with the kids of the neighborhood. I also got them painting maybe once or twice when I could sit in a chair and didn't have to lie horizontal to keep the room from spinning. (Ignore the fact that they are still in their pajamas though.) Hey, does the princess costume count as a day we got out of our jammies? Mommy was just too sick this summer to be much fun, but for some reason they still thought each day was great.

At the lake

4th of July with the cutest soldier with a buzz cut and wearing camo. They are watching the 4th of July "boat parade" on middle cormorant. Perfect day out! The weather people said that there had not been a 4th that warm in over 10 years.... and also reminded us of the coldest 4th in the past 10+ years which was 2004 when pretty much ALL of you were freezing at our lake. 64 degrees for the HIGH that day. Not to mention the rain...

Feeding the fish at the lake and doing the "silly dance."

Yes, there is a dog in there.