Camp Tahkodah

Clayton spent the week at Camp Tahkodah last week. It was his first time to go to a week long, stay in the cabins camp! He had a wonderful time there. Made lots of new friends, swam in the creek, got a leadership award, and even had a date to the banquet on the last night! My baby is getting too old! The other kid in the picture with him is Cade Smith( nephew of Hannah Alexander who most of you know) They are great friends.

Here is the first picture of baby Hoggard #3! I went to the doctor last Thursday and everything is good. The only bad news is that the baby is measuring small and they changed my due date from December 18th to Janurary 5th! I was so sad! But if that is the only "bad" news then that is fine with me! They did the same thing to me with Katie and then she came a week before they said she would. So I am not going to pay too much attention to the new date for now. I would much rather say that I am 12 weeks than only 9!
I go back on June 25h.

We spent Sunday night at some friends house playing in the creek and in the dirt. The kids love it of course. The boys caught fish and we cooked them up and had them for dinner....yes only in Arkansas! It was really good fish too!

My appointment last week went well. I just met with the nurse to go over history.....boring stuff. They took blood ( felt like they took it all!) to run the normal tests on. The nurse gave me a due date of December 18th. I go back to see Dr Citty next Thursday the 29th. I saw him at Clayton's school last week and he said that we would do an ultrasound when I am there for that appointment.
(joys of a small town!) I am anxious to hear a heart beat and see that there is actually a baby in there! For the mean time I am just feeling fat! My stomach was quick to pooch out as it was with Katie.

Our Big News!

Well, we are happy to announce that we are expecting our third child! I am 8 weeks pregnant today. I should be due around December 20th unless that changes after an ultrasound.
I go to the doctor on Monday, the 12th for my first visit. We are all excited about our future new addition. Clayton and Jeffrey are hoping for a boy of course, Katie has no clue and I would be happy with either!
I will try to keep my blog full of baby updates and possibly a few growing belly pictures!

The Cakes

I forgot to put a picture of the cakes! Like a crazy women, I did make both of their cakes!

I am not a pro for sure....this was my first time to ever do this. I think they turned out ok.

I don't know if I will do that next year. It is so much easier and less stressful to have them done by someone else! Making them might be a little over rated if you ask me! (Maybe if I just had ONE party a weekend it wouldn't be so bad!) If you can't tell Clayton's was a football and Katie's was a Crown.

CLAYTON AND KATIE'S BIRTHDAY'S

Friday was Katie's 2nd birthday and Sunday was Clayton's 8th birthday. We had Katie's party on Thursday night at our house. We had a really good turn out with several kids. Cooked burgers and had cake of course. Katie had a great

time. She was a mad woman opening the presents! Jeff and I and his parents got her the little play house. That was a hit for sure. She played in it for most of the party as well as the other girls.

Clayton chose for his party to invite 4 boys from his class to go up to Nena and Poppa's (Jeff's parents) Lake House in Heber Springs and spend the night on Friday night. They had a great time playing outside on the rope swing, playing the Wii and watching Alvin and the Chipmunks. We had pizza and cake also. It was a great and very relaxing party for me! I can't believe they are 8 and 2! Time flies by so fast.