November 2012

Current Weather: 58 and cloudy
Current Gas Price:  $3.07 per gallon
Total Cockroach Count:  7

Hello Family! It was SO WONDERFUL to see all of you over the Thanksgiving break! It brings us a lot of you to be with our fam during the holidays!

Seeing as how there was only week left in November after we saw you, we really don't have very much else to say because we pretty much told you everything!

Baby is doing well and we're enjoying seeing my belly come out a little more! We're only 6 weeks away from finding out our baby's gender.  Haha, although I originally felt like it is a boy I'm realizing that I have absolutely no idea! So, we're really excited to find out!  *FYI, there were 7 babies born to resident's wives last year in Greenwood and 6 were girls (only one boy who was named Wesley coincidentally).  There are currently five resident's wives that are pregnant.  3 of the 5 are having girls and the other two (that's me!) don't know yet! Haha, so I think there may be something in the water down here :)

Baby Halderman at 10 weeks

Baby Halderman at 13 weeks
(This is the new picture that we put in our Christmas letter which you should be receiving any day now! ) 

I had my first student at work tell me that "my belly is getting big."  Haha, I have not told any of them that I'm pregnant so its funny that she just openly told me that but the longer I work with kids the less those sort of comments surprise me! I am hoping to head into Christmas Break without telling anyone at work but I have noticed a few people steal a glance at my belly.  Haha, I think I'm in that stage where people aren't sure yet so they don't want to be rude just in case I'm not pregnant! Its fine with me though...I just don't feel very sentimental about telling people at work so I'm just kind of not saying anything! 

My little belly at 12 weeks! This is first "belly" picture that I took.  I feel rather ashamed of myself for waiting so long because I'm usually super sentimental about these sorts of thing but I didn't take ANY pictures before 12 weeks.  Haha, I should say that I felt bad about it until several of my friends told me that they hardly took any too! 

Ok, so here are some pictures from Thanksgiving with y'all! Dad and Lynn, we have got to be better about taking pictures because I don't have any from our holiday with you two!  It was great to see all of you but we did notice that coming back to Ohio this time didn't have the same "coming home" feeling that it did last Thanksgiving! I guess we're getting more used to living away from home.  It was still great to be home but rather it felt different from last year...maybe I can't explain it well.  Anyway, spending holidays with family is the only way to do it! 

Wes melting beeswax from his Dad's bees!  This was our second go at making beeswax  candles! Last year it didn't go so well! I guess there was too much honey still left in the wax...

Dan pouring the beeswax into our candle jars! 

Family photo (minus Brent) 

At Old Bag of Nails watching the OSU vs. Michigan game with Debs! 

John has decided he wants his nickname to be "Uncle John-Candy-Money" because he thinks that if our baby associates him with candy and money then it will like him best. Haha, here he is living up to that name! 

Yay! Twin!  I just love spending time with her! 

Ok, so honestly that's about it! I can't really think of anything else to add except for that we miss you all and can't wait to see you over the holidays! Really, we'll see you in like two-three weeks...can't wait!