Busy Weeks

I haven't updated for a while because things have been too crazy around here! My mom came to visit on October 13th and stayed for about a week. It was so fun (and helpful!) to have her here and Reilly loved it. It was hard for us to send her back home, but I know they were missing her too at that point. :) One of the coolest things that we got to do during that week was that Jeremy and I went to Nauvoo, all by ourselves. My mom and Reilly just played all day while we were gone...




As you can see from the above photo, it's definitely Autumn here, and I love the changing colors! It is getting cooler, too, which I don't mind, but it's hard when the wind is cold and blowing.

We mostly enjoyed Halloween. We had a big double-ward Trunk-or-Treat (see pictures below) that Reilly actually did pretty well at. It was pretty cold though, and there was an almost misty rain. Whether it had anything to do with that or not, Reilly woke up the next day with a fever, and continued to run one (low-grade) for 3 days. He continued to be cranky and cried/whined almost non-stop it seemed for another several days. It was NOT any fun. All I can figure at this point is that it was connected to teething, but I just don't know. I'm just glad he's back to his mostly-happy self at this point.

Towards the end of that period, two of my friends from college, Karen and Naomi came to visit. That was really fun too, and I'm glad Reilly wasn't grumpy their whole visit, and we even got to leave he and Jeremy home one day and visit Nauvoo, which was really fun. I'll try to post some pictures of their visit at some point, but I didn't take that many, so we'll see if any turn out. :)

At this point we are just jumping into Jeremy's second trimester. I am 32 weeks along and starting to get really uncomfortable toward the end of most days. Otherwise we are doing fine, and Reilly keeps us busy and entertained. I'm really looking forward to the holiday season now!