t-minus 99

we've hit the double digits in the baby k.2 countdown!! I'm feeling great and cannot believe how much my belly has popped straight out. these are the 24 week pictures from two weeks ago. yes, I'm larger now.

who's bigger?

mr. & mrs. hemmer

I had the pleasure of serving as a personal attendant this weekend. a little background info...jenny is the little sister of my best friend, laurie. the shevik family is like my second family and jennifer is just like a little sister to me! now that you aren't confused: jennifer married her high school sweetheart, brice, on friday, october 16th. the bride was beautiful, the ceremony was sweet, and the reception was lots of fun! amazingly it was the first time in at least three years that all of the sheviks and beckers were in the same place at the same time. here are some pictures from the day:

ring bearer - bennett

marc, kyle, seth, and brian enjoying a beverage

world's most adorable nephew, josiah!

a rare photo of us with laurie & brian
(we haven't seen brian since our wedding)

before you fall off your chair in hysterics, let me explain:
there was a similar photo taken in 1995 and again in 1999. our mother's desperately wanted an updated photo, so we were forced to take this one with the professional photographer. the only complaint from the mothers this time?? "we forgot to add the spouses!" shucks.

my mom & dad with gary & jan shevik (my other mom & dad!)

me and the gorgeous bride

bennett

miles had lots of fun with his friend, bennett, this weekend. our good friends, the sahlstroms, were in town for brice & jennifer's wedding (melissa is jenny's oldest sister). bennett is going to be three in a few weeks and miles thinks he is great! you may recognize bennett from our pictures at the honker baseball games this past summer. bennett always has something funny to say and I don't think he realizes that miles isn't able to carry on much more than one word conversations yet. however, he did his best to "teach" miles how to be a ring bearer (even though miles will be doing this for the 2nd time!). they had lots of fun being little boys together - as evidenced by the lack of a face shot...they were always running away from the camera!

ring bearer 101

zooming johnny tractor across the table at the rehearsal

c'mon let's go check out the dance!

whoa...what's going on in here

two VERY tired boys who can't stop moving!!

vikings AND twins!

I suppose if you don't live in minnesota, you may be unaware of what an exciting sports weekend we had! if you do live here and were unaware...you're apparently living under a rock. daddy was in the cities all weekend (make that saturday through tuesday night), but that didn't stop miles and I from watching the vikes and twinkies in style. I'll admit that I'm not a huge sports fan, but I do enjoy the occasional game on tv. especially when it involves good company and yummy appetizer-ish foods.

miles and I went over to nana and papa's house for monday night football. mr. monkey donned his little vikings jersey (thanks craig, courtney, & carly!). he ran around and clapped when he saw the players. however, I think the highlight of his night was "stepping" and eating dessert with nana. fyi: "stepping" has become one of his favorite activites. he loves to go up and down the steps and he was pumped to see that nana has an old buns of steel aerobic step in the house. the most perfect way to practice going up and down. he now will use anything for a step and begs to "hold on" to the railing and go downstairs. here are some funny shots from the night. pay no attention to his filthy, dirty face. neither my mom or I realized that we did a ridiculously bad job of cleaning him up after a spaghetti dinner :)

with nana and papa the night before the vikes game

heading over to nana & papa's to see the game

woo hoo vikings! (note the step circa 1986)

any old bucket will do.

miles' first ice cream and m&m cookie with his nana
for those who don't know my mom - she eats ice cream with cool whip EVERY night!

tuckered out

during sunday's twins game, I received a call from kyle asking if it would be "ok" if he got tickets to the tie breaker game on tuesday night. not one to stand between my husband and baseball, I gave my blessing. not to mention that I knew it was to be his last game at the dome. josiah's daddy also headed to up to see the game...so beth and I planned a little game night with the boys! after a quick photo shoot and a stop at the clinic to verify that miles has a cold and NOT an ear infection, we started watching the game a couple of hours late (thank you MOXI). we whipped up some delicious frozen/boxed appetizers (mini egg rolls, pizza rolls, buffalo chicken bites, jalapeno poppers, need I go on?) and plopped down on our beach blankets to enjoy the game. have I mentioned that I'm in LOVE with my MOXI (think TiVo) and cannot bear to watch live tv anymore. well, the game went so long that we actually caught up to real time and were "forced" to watch the end of the game live. the horror of it all. all I can say is - good work twinkies and good luck in new york!

for cute

so excited to be holding his slider bobble head

kisses for slider...the bobble head NOT the real guy...much too scary!

"bumping" down the stairs - we've graduated from "turn around!"

pizza picnic