Happy Birthday Love!

I knew God had blessed me with an amazing husband when we got married 5 years ago, but I didn't realize what a huge blessing Jared is.  I feel so lucky to share my life with someone as loving, funny, and understanding as you!  You are such a wonderful father to Katelyn and sister.  You are my best friend and my love for you grows each day.  Thank you for working so hard to provide for our family.  Thank you for loving the Lord with all you heart, mind and soul.  I love you so very much!  Happy Birthday (2 days late)!

Hope you like the picture honey!  I figured a serious, heart-felt message had to be followed by a silly picture!

Baby #2 Update

Well, no fun pictures to post, but I wanted to give a shout out to the 2nd Hughes baby who is on her way!  I am currently 22 (almost 23) weeks pregnant and found out a few weeks ago that baby is a GIRL!  We are simply calling her "Sister" because Jared won't talk names yet.  Katelyn knows that Sister is in mommy's tummy, but I'm sure she doesn't realize that in March she will be joining us!  Of course, if you ask Katelyn where is Sister, she will lift up her own shirt...  Katelyn will be 2 1/2 when Sister is born and I'm sure she is going to be a GREAT big sister.  She loves, loves, loves babies and will be a big helper.  

I've been feeling Sister kick a lot lately!  She must be really strong because I've been feeling her kick since around 15 weeks and I didn't feel Katelyn until closer to 20 weeks.  Jared has even felt her kick many times! 

I am so thankful for this tremendous blessing.  God is so good and I am honored to be mommy to this 2 precious lives. 

Little Miss Pumpkin

What an exciting weekend we had in the Hughes household. We went to the 'fall harvest picnic' with our Sunday school class at a fun little park in Austin on Saturday for lunch. It was a great time with some of our dearest friends- unfortunately I only took pictures of Jared, Katelyn, and I so that will have to do! If you look really closely you can even see baby sister in this picture!

Here is Katelyn and I Here is one of Jared and Katelyn, our precious little pumpkin. We were totally shocked that she wore the pumpkin for so long. When we went to put it on she wasn't too happy- but I guess she decided it wasn't so bad after all!

After the park we went back to the house and all took a nice Saturday afternoon nap before the evening festivities started. After the nap Jared and Katelyn carved their 1st of many pumpkins. OK, I'll be honest- what you see in this picture is the extent of Katelyn helping. As soon as I snapped this picture she wanted her hand cleaned and nothing else to do with the slimy pumpkin insides! She is such a girl! Jared then carefully cleaned out and carved the pumpkin while Katelyn sat at the table and colored her little pumpkin with a marker.After pumpkin carving we had dinner and then headed out to go trick-or-treating. We went to about 5 houses on our street before Katelyn got scared of a fake pumpkin headed man on our neighbors porch and started to cry and insisted on being carried. So, we decided we'd just head back home and hand out candy to all the neighborhood kids instead. Katelyn was a great candy passer-outer!