Fearfully and Wonderfully Made!!!

 We are very happy to announce that another little Alldredge is on its way! We are now past the crucial eight week mark and today had our first ultrasound, showing a healthy and quickly beating little heart. We won't know for a while yet if we are going with pink or blue in the baby's room, but Rebecca's vote is in for a pink baby. No matter what the result though, we'll be happy to greet our little one in early June.We feel very grateful to God for this great blessing and a healthy pregnancy thus far!

The pics are a little "blobby", but we think its an adorable little blob, with tiny feet and hands being knit together as we speak!

Home Sweet Home

We are really excited this week! Earlier this months we went house hunting and found a place we just loved. At the time of our offer we were hoping to be in by Thanksgiving, then we got hopeful and started shooting for November 5th.....lo, and behold, we are getting to close this Friday! I can hardly believe it....when do house deals go so smoothly?! Here is a pic of what we will proudly be calling home in just a few more days. I won't post any interior photos until we get things situated, which could be a while.  Wish I could have each of my friends over this winter for cookies and cocoa!

Mayse Farm Market

This afternoon we finally got around to doing the one fall activity that Rebecca has been talking about for the past few weeks. Before today we had collected leaves for artwork, visited a festival at an apple orchard, picked pumpkins, played in a corn maze, and decorated our porch, but no where had we found a hay wagon to ride. Mayse Farm Market today had wagons running out to their own pumpkin patch. She really had a good time during the ride in the 'bump wagon'. She has dubbed this actvity thus after reading Apples, Apples, Apples, in which the family rides a bumpy wagon to the orchard. Rebecca also went through another corn maze, tried out some slides, and ran the hay bale maze in record time! What a fun fall afternoon!

Daddy had to show her how the straw tunnel worked, but she still wasn't interested in crawling through the darkness.

Rebecca goes to the Pumpkin Patch.

We've been trying to get our hands on and read all sorts of books about autumn and the activities that come with our favorite season. So far Rebecca's favorite is a book called Apples, Apples, Apples. We're planning to go to an apple orchard in the next couple weeks and also to find books about pumpkins, because we've already had the chance to go to a patch not far from here. As for fall time foods, I can't keep cider in the house!!! Rebecca loves 'natural juice', as she calls it and I bet if I ever get around to making a pumpkin pie, she'll find another favorite.

Florida Trip - The End

Wow! Its been quite a week around the Alldredge household and I just haven't found the time to get this trip wrapped up....not to mention I have new pics to share from the past couple weeks. Last Saturday we looked at a house and we fell in love with it, so now we are in the busy stage of paperwork, inspections, insurance, phone calls, and all the other fun things that lead to closing a house deal. We are looking hopefully toward the first week of November for possesion. Between regular housework, trips to the library, morning walks, and organizing closets in preparations for a move I've snagged very little computer time. Aaron has also had a rough week and by the time he makes it home tonight he'll have over eighty hours racked up in just this seven day week. Top all that with a broken dryer and you just have to start laughing at yourself.......its life! ;) Without further ado, here are some shots from our last day aboard the ship on Wednesday ,our last day in Florida, and our long flight home. We spent 7 hours in the Cincinnati airport trying to make it home that Friday and Rebecca was a real trooper and behaved wonderfully even though she was so bored!

On out last day Aaron and I snagged a little time in the afternoon for a lunch date.

I think Triton's was my favorite of the main dining areas.

Very elegant and for lunch classical music was playing

Chilled duck with greens.

                                     

Chilling on deck nine, it was a beautiful day!

A but breezy, but look at that blue water!

Say cheese!

Rebecca on the main staircase.

Playing with her princess souvenirs from the gift shop.

Our head server Jaoa, from Portugal

Last night on Deck

Boo hoo! We're leaving

She crashed on the flight from Orlando to Cincinnati

So very, very bored.

 

Florida Trip Day Five -Castaway Cay

I apologize for the delays in posting this week. Its been a busy week and twice I've tried to do this exact post and blogger has stopped working midway through and I lose everything....grrrrrr! Here's to "third times a charm". This day of our trip we ported at Castaway Cay (prounounced key). Its an Island in the Bahamas that Disney owns and they have taken paradise and added just enough modern convienences and rustic ambiance to make it soemthing better than paradise! We thouroughly enoyed the pristine beachs....albeit with the other 2000some guests. The crew also came ashore in the early hours of the morning to begin preparing a BBQ for our lunch, which was not only yummy, but so much fun! I have lots of pics from this day, but here are the best. Also are pictures from the afternoon and evening. We came back to the earlier than most of the guests and Rebecca got to have the Mickey pool and slide completely to herself for half an hour! It was so much fun for her! The evening was all about Pirates IN the Carribean. Our servers were dressed as pirates, some of the guests were dressed as pirate, even Mickey and Minney were dressed as Pirates! There was music, fireworks, and believe it or not MORE food! LOL

Catch of the day.....or.......the catch of my life! lol

The water was SO clear!

Scuttle's Cove had a spalsh park for the little ones.

Rebecca loved everything about our trip! Always smiling.

Its Lilo & Stitch

Coat lightly in sand and toast in sun until golden brown.

Daddy and his girl loved the free pop!

Finally, a sand castle like Curious George made.

Shes not afraid of the water....at all

My happy people

All the fruit you could possibly want.

Lunch at the BBQ

"Mount Rustmore"

The Flying Dutchman

Daisy in her beach clothes....cute

Mickey Pool time

More Splash Park fun on deck

Storytime about Peter Pan....right before Peter Pan himself showed up!

Afternoon snacks in Promenade Lounge

Walking to Animator's Pallet for Dinner....Usually these walls light up in color, but tonight was Pirate night, so the usual show was put on hold. ;(

Our Dining Friend Rich and Donna and our head server Agung, from Indonesia.

We had such a great time together...we miss them all!

Party out on decks 9 & 10

It was a bit warm even at 11:00pm

Dance, dance, dance

Swing your partnet round and round.

Look Daddy its Mickey was up high

Daddy spies Mickey

Here he comes.....zip lining above the crowd.

The only Fireworks you can see at sea.

Midnight buffet ice sculpture

YUM!

P.S. A picture from dinner that Donna took for us.