Demi Sophia

It's a girl! She will be named Demi Sophia Alsobrook! We have known since about 14 weeks. I went to the Dr.'s office where my mother works and the ultrasound tech there was able to tell. Then, at 16 weeks I went to my Dr. and there was a little trouble finding the heartbeat. No worries though! I got another ultrasound and she confirmed it. Then again, 2 weeks ago, we went back to the Dr. for our 20 week ultrasound and it was confirmed again. Definitely no third legs here!

I have 2 other friends who are pregnant right now, Helena and Angela and they are both having girls too. Then I have 2 friends from church, Melanie and Mary who both just had girls (Lane and Emma respectively). I think it is the year of the girl! I am still waiting on a few friends in my mommies group (the ones I went to Sips and Strokes with) who are a little behind me in the wonderful journey that is pregnancy, and with the way things have been going surely we'll get some more boys!

I have attached a few pics from our last ultra sound. They are mostly of her head and her bottom. Enjoy!

-Lindsey

Head and Hand of Sweet Demi

Bottom of Sweet Demi

Head Hand and Spine of Sweet Demi

The Great Pumpkin Patch

We normally go to the Pumpkin Patch out in Clanton every year on Columbus Day, but this year the weather did not permit. I had also taken Tuesday off to prepare for some work we are getting ready to do on our house, but I decided to go ahead and try to go to the Pumpkin Patch since it was the one day in the past month or so that it hasn't rained. Luckily when I got in the car I called to check and make sure I knew what exit to get off on because it was CLOSED! They are actually not usually open on Monday or Tuesday any week, they just make an exception for Columbus Day, I guess since some businesses are closed. I then called the Pumpkin Patch in Harpersville and it did open at 3:00, but it was 11:00 and we were already in the car. I Googled Alabama Pumpkin Patches in my phone and found that there is one in Hayden just above Gardendale on I 65 so we headed to Hayden! After all the trouble of finding a Patch we did have a great time once we got there!

Daley LOVES to take her picture in these things. This has gotten to be like our 4th or 5th picture we have like this, but they are cute!

Daley picking her very own Pumpkin!!!!

Daley making her VERY SCARY Halloween face

Daley at the petting zoo. I will say that the petting zoo at the Patch in Clanton is MUCH better. These animals were not so spiffy!

Daley and Mommy at the Pumpkin Patch

Church Fall Picnic

This Sunday after Church we had a fall picnic complete with BBQ, pumpkin painting, flag football and fishing. Daley LOVES "barbecubes" and she had such a great time painting the pumpkins! She also played football with Dad. No flag football quite yet and we did take her close to the water but she walked in off the bank, so after we changed her wet shoes into dry shoes we were out of any more clothing options, we then opted for dryer activities.

Daley pumpkin painting. She is a very stubborn pumpkin painter too. I had a lot of good ideas, but instead we just scribbled.

More pumpkin painting. The face on the front was some of my good ideas, but like I said, she liked to scribble all over it!

Football with Dad!

More football, running away from Dad!

Will, Brooke and Helena Vakakes enjoying the beautiful day!

Race for the Cure

This Saturday was the Race for the Cure to help find a cure for Breast Cancer. I walked with Melissa Ashdown for the benefit of her mother who was diagnosed with breast cancer less than five years ago. There was a wonderful turnout at the race in spite of the weather. A lot of people are dedicated to this cause and we had a great time celebrating with the survivors.

They dyed the fountain pink in Linn Park! How cool is that?

Daley pre-race all decked out in her pink!

Daley and I before the race

We got there pretty early before the race started so we could see the survivor parade. They all stood by a sign to celebrate how many years they had been fighting this terrible disease. We couldn't get close enough to get a picture of Melissa's mom, but she was in the 5 years and less group.

Melissa Daley and I after the race. Daley was such a trooper!

Girls Night Out at Sips and Strokes

Once a month I have a "get together" with some of my dearest and oldest friends. We all graduated from high school together and some of us have even been friends since 1st grade! This is a great group of girls! All very spiritual and I am so lucky to have them in my life! Here are a few pics of us at our last Girls Night Out at Sips and Strokes.

This fist picture is a picture of all the preggers! 4 of us! Lisa and Meredith our both having their third child, they both already have two boys. Laura and I are both having our second and we both already have one girl. Kind of ironic!

Girls in Action

LEFT (Me, Laura and Jen) RIGHT (Kim, Nichole, Lisa and Meredith)

Our finished product!!!! Aren't we the artists?!?!?

We went to the fair!

Sunday I forced Zach to go to the fair! He really did not want to go. His major complaint was how much money we would spend. I assured him he was wrong, it was only $16 total to get in because Daley was free, she wouldn't be able to ride many rides so we wouldn't have to pay for many tickets. Boy was I WRONG! We could have taken a small vacation for the amount of money we spent at the fair! It was really fun though! Zach is a little peeved that he got ripped off by some fat guy at the balloon popping game, but Daley loved it and she got 2 of her 4 stuffed animals there. I was a little tired to begin with since we also had the Greek Festival this weekend but I still had a great time, and most importantly so did Daley. And Zach will agree, he talks about the Fair as if it were designed by criminals who take you for everything you have, but then he adds....but at least Daley had a great time!

Daley came home with 4 stuffed toys...2 sharks, Tigger and Dora.

First we went to the petting zoo and Daley fed some of the animals.

After the petting zoo we took her to the fishing booth where she won the first shark and she loved it!

She rode the Ferris Wheel with Zach and I, some spinny ride that Zach took her on (I never would have made it).

She also rode the boats and she went into a fun house that she got stuck in and Zach had to crawl in and get her out. They had a monkey named Gilligan there and you could get your picture made with him for $5, but Daley would not have anything to do with him! Overall our 2 hour trip to the Fair turned out to be an expensive success! Hope you enjoy the pics!

-Lindsey