We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We have a lot to be thankful for, but most importantly…family!

Once you have kids, your nights of heading out to a club to dance to some nostalgic tunes pretty much fly right out the window. This is especially true if you live somewhere like Cheyenne, Wyoming where the only kind of music to dance to is country. Ugh.

Enter the genius idea of Baby Loves Disco. What a great concept! The idea stemmed from one mama’s and one papa’s desire to get out and dance to some hip tunes while finding a way to include their families. You head out to a real club (during daylight hours), pay your admission fee for yourself and your child(ren) and dance the next few hours away while the kids enjoy bubble machines, hula hoops, scarves and more! The idea has spread like wildfire and there are now almost 30 cities across the US that are offering Baby Loves Disco events.

Now that you know what this is all about, these pictures might make a little more sense. Yesterday, Rick and Vaughan and I drove down to Boulder for Baby Loves Disco at the Boulder Theater. It was great fun!

Vaughan loved these silk scarves and ran around with one over his head for quite some time! It was well worth the trip to Boulder!

Here are a few pictures of some random things we’ve had going on lately.

Vaughan and Rick playing “Monster Jam” on the Wii.

Vaughan really enjoying a “Holiday Oreo” cookie after successfully eating all of his dinner.

A photo comparison of Jenny at 27 weeks pregnant (both last time and this time). Vaughan pregnancy is on the left…this pregnancy is on the right. Keep your comments to yourself unless you’d like to say that I look fabulous. And you have to mean it. Seriously. Thanks.

That’s it for now!

Here are just a few cute pictures for your viewing pleasure!

Since I am FINALLY not working on Saturdays anymore, we decided this would be a perfect day to go up to Vedauwoo to hang out a little bit and try to get a good picture for our Christmas cards this year. It was a beautiful day and Vedauwoo never disappoints in the “majestic scenery” department. Vedauwoo is somewhat of an “oasis” of gigantic rocks surrounded by trees and then endless high plains. It lies between Laramie and Cheyenne within the Medicine Bow National Forest. It’s a great place for climbing, hiking, camping, fishing, mountain biking, four wheeling and photographs!

Here are just a few of the pictures we were able to get.

Happy Halloween everyone! We had a great evening which started out a little rough since Vaughan wasn’t AT ALL keen on the idea of wearing the Blue’s Clues costume that I worked so hard to make. But, he got over it and ended up enjoying the little bit of “trick-or-treating” that we did. He also helped hand out candy (and when I say he helped, I mean he said “bye” and closed the door after one of us handed out the candy).

Anyway, here are a few pictures!

I knitted the candy corn bag that Vaughan used as his treat bag.

I also made this “costume” for the baby. I appliqued a pumpkin onto a shirt so she wouldn’t feel left out! We hope you all had a great Halloween!

It’s pumpkin carving time again! This time we picked out three similar sized pumpkins and carved the letters B-O-O into them. It went pretty quickly and Vaughan did “help” scoop the guts out of the first one. Then he lost interest…

Pumpkin hunting, that is…

We had a fun playdate with my mom’s group today where we hunted for pumpkins (much like hunting for Easter eggs) at the park. The kids all seemed to enjoy it and I got a few cute pictures of Vaughan’s search for pumpkins.

Since toddlers have a pretty short attention span, the rest of the time was spent playing at the playground…

The weather was great for about an hour and then that Wyoming wind kicked up and brought the temperatures back down a bit, so we called it a day!

I think most of you are already aware that we are expecting again. For those of you who are not aware…I guess you are now! We’re very excited and feel as any parents might feel the second time around. (Less stressed about the whole process and probably a bit more prepared for what’s to come.)

Anyway, the details…

Due date: mid-February 2009
Sex of the baby: GIRL!
Name: Rheya Marie Woodard (that’s pronounced Ray-uh…and yes, it’s the same name we had picked out for Vaughan if he had been a girl)
Jenny’s pregnancy this time around: pretty much the same, just more exhausting
Vaughan’s feelings on the subject of a new sibling: ???

We had our 22 week ultrasound (the day before Rick’s 35th birthday) and found out that Rheya is healthy and doing very well. She was very cooperative and let the ultrasound technician check all the things that need to be checked. She’s moving around a lot and already causing some mild sleep disruption for me…that will only get worse…I know, I know.

Here are a few of the ultrasound photos for your viewing enjoyment.

We can’t wait to meet her!

We made another trip down to Wellington this year to visit the Harvest Farm Corn Maze. We went last year and had a great time and got some fantastic pictures, too. This year, unfortunately, it was damn cold, so it was much more difficult (read: impossible) to get any really great pics. We made the best of it and actually did walk through the maze this time. It’s a good thing Rick was leading the way. He’s great with maps and directions, so I never felt even the slightest twinge of panic about potentially being lost in a field of corn for the rest of the day.

Here are a few pictures that we did get. The petting zoo was a big hit with Vaughan!

It really is a bummer it was so cold that day, but Vaughan handled it very well and we had a great lunch at Mimi’s Cafe in Loveland afterwards. It made up for all the mud, cold temperatures and lack of hot chocolate at the corn maze!