So much to say

Well, I thought we were back, but things are forever changing. After finally getting back in the house after construction we all had the flu (H1N1) two weeks ago and this week was spent finishing most of the house and finally having it as clean as I would like.

Right now I am currently in the hospital waiting for niece number 5 to make her entrance to the world. She seems to want to take her time. They induced Madison this morning and now at 6pm she is only at a 5 1/2. The epideral isn't working and the back labor is already unbearable. We might be having a baby sooner than even this little one thinks. Praying that the miracle of birth out ways the pain in the end as I know it will.

For us we are well into holiday planning. I have a 'problem' with over planning and have almost all of the girls gifts bought and now what the other gifts are going to be. Jesse has even agreed to go shopping with me on Black Friday. We're hoping to get a TomTom and a few smaller things. We have our friends Thanksgiving planned for the 5th along with taking the girls to a Christmas movie with Santa present. Kat is getting into the holidays and asks for anything that she happens to see on TV or in the many ads we receive. Lili even asked for a baby and we are looking forward to soon having a 2 year old and have start the stages of potty training.

Well, that's a little look at whats been happening here. We hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. Hopefully tomorrow we will have pictures of the new little McDonald to post. Please pray we do!!!

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We're Back !!

Sorry that we've been AWOL for awhile. We have been working on our house (pictures to come soon). We moved in with my mom for a few weeks and have spent the last few at home working constently. We're getting close so I thought I'd take a break and show you all some of the fun the girls have been having. The month of October was full. We had a wedding in IL, a senior show for Jesse's sister in MN, and a baby shower in KC. We also has a 1st b-day party for our niece in KC, but we were unable to attend that.

Here are a few of the things we've gotten to do at home. I'll try to put pictures up of all the other 'adventures' later.

A local pub hosted a free halloween/fall party for kids so I jumped at the chance to get them out of the house so Dad could work in peace. The day was so nice, but just as we got there the clouds moved in and it cooled off, but the girls had a blast anyway. Their favorite part was the hay 'maze', but they colored and played the other games also.
Kathryn fell asleep after only trick-or-treating around the square. The businesses around the square handout candy from 4-6 before the actuall trick-or-treating starts. We still had a lot of places to hit not that they needed anymore candy! Their bags were almost full.

This year we had a Tinkerbell and Ladybug. I got the costumes done just a day before we went trick-or-treating. In Iowa we do beggers night and not Halloween.
You can kinda tell just how windy it was. We didn't spent much time out after hitting the realitives because it was way to cold and windy.
Kathryn was so excited and giggled and screamed the whole time. Lili wouldn't let her bag go even though it was to heavy for her. They had a great time and even got to go trick-or-treating in KC the next day when it was warmer.

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