We're having a...

baby brother!

On November 3rd we had our big ultrasound for baby #3.  We decided to bring both grandmothers as well as Quinn and Riley with us to find out what we were having.  It was so fun having them all there and finding out that another little boy is on his way! 

It took us a little while to settle on a name for our baby boy.  We just were having a hard time committing to a name.  One night before Christmas we were reading a book to the kids about baby Jesus and how he was called Emmanuel.  We told Quinn and Riley that Emmanuel was another name for baby Jesus.  Quinn responded with "but what's our baby's name?"  We had just been referring to his as baby brother and it was so cute to have Quinn realize that he needed a name.  His question was the prompting we needed to commit to the name that we had been thinking.  So baby brother's name is

James Grayson Osborn, he will go by Grayson!

Halloween 2011

Since Quinn and Riley had really gotten into watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse I knew they would love dressing as Mickey and Minnie for Halloween.  My mom made Riley's adorable skirt and I got my sister to bring them back hats from their trip to Disney world.  Here they are trying on their outfits a few days before Halloween!

Nana also brought them back a stuffed Mickey and Minnie from Disney world!

Before Halloween we carved our pumpkin,

 and let them practice ringing our doorbell and saying "trick or treat"!

On Halloween they were so excited to ring doorbells and get candy!

Aunt Cricket's house is always fun, she put lots of candy in their pumpkins!

After trick or treating, they were ready to go again, now we only have to wait for next year!

Around this time we also got an offer on our house.  We went through some crazy negotiations with the buyers and eventually came to a contract we could agree on.  It was difficult to say the least, but since it was the only offer we had gotten in the 5 months our house was for sale, we made it work.  Geoff's law firm is moving us back to our home town for him to open a new office for them there. We are super excited to be back near grandparents and some good friends, but also sad to leave the family and friends we had in Columbia.