Detours Along the Way to Heaven: Colors around town and Zenith's birthday

Photo credit to Zenith with a few of my own additions ;)

Playing in the compost pile :P

Who doesn't love splashing in puddles?

Our backyard

He loves to put on Daddy's boots

Celebrating Zenith's birthday with marinated steak, roasted sweet potatoes, and buttered maple garlic green beans, carrots and onions finished off with pumpkin crumble

Sweet potatoes are always a big hit with this guy

Showing off their new shirts and Zenith's John Deere hat

We've been following a cool channel on Youtube called Wranglerstar of a modern homesteading family in the pacific northwest so I bought t-shirts for the boys with the logo :)

More pictures from Zenith of a local cemetery...color has been pretty good for being so dry this year.

I've been keeping myself pretty busy with preparing for the homebirth and the coming of this little one. I've been going through some nesting and getting a lot of organizing done around the house along with making meals and freezing them. Zenith's birthday was Thursday and thankfully he didn't have class that evening so we were able to have a nice little party with the 3 of us.

Thanks to Mom and Dad, we were able to get out on a little date to a local Italian restaurant last week. It felt great to get out, just the two of us, before baby comes and it gets harder to get out alone. I haven't gotten the chance to do a home date night this month and I'm not sure I will before the baby comes. As much as I enjoy doing it, it's getting harder to plan, go shopping for, set up, and cook special meals for them being this pregnant. Basic tasks around the house have become challenging with the sciatic pain as well has my growing belly that seems to get in the way of everything. :P

Not too much longer though and at least laundry isn't an issue like it was last time when I was having to go down to the basement from the second floor to do it. The machines had to be up on cinder blocks which made it that much harder to reach over my belly and down into the top loader to switch it over. Having our washer and dryer here on the same floor is such a blessing and has made it possible for me to continue cloth diapering throughout this pregnancy.

My midwife came for my 39 week appointment and all is going well! Baby is in a great position and growing perfectly. I become more and more anxious to meet this little one and find out if William has a brother or a sister. :)

And a couple videos from earlier this month to leave you with.