Christmas!

We had a very Merry Christmas this year!

Making gingerbread houses with friends.

Visiting Santa. Telling him what is on our Christmas lists.

We had a super fun Christmas Eve in the mountains. Love all of these cute kids together.

Christmas morning at my parents house.

Rylee

Sidney

Porter

Classic waiting on the stairs picture!

Merry Christmas from the Welchs'!

We had so much fun enjoying the holidays and now I can't believe it it almost baby time!  

Baby Shower

I have some of the Best friends in the world.  They are so thoughtful and supportive.  My good friends Brittany, Michelle, Shauna, and Lauren planned this Baby shower for me.  Everything was beautiful.....it is one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me.  

I felt so loved.

The carmel apple bites to take home.

Chocolate covered strawberries because they are one of my favorites.

The yogurt bar.  So pretty, and delicious!

Everyone was so nice and we received so many sweet gifts.  I loved the "Wishes for baby" that everyone filled out!

I couldn't be more excited for this baby boy and more thankful for such great friends.

Sidney's 2nd grade Bug Concert

Sidney's 2nd grade Bug Concert. The cutest lady bug around!

The baby's room!

Thanks to these good helpers our baby boy won't have a pink room!

I came home from a Church meeting to find Allen, Porter, Sidney, and Rylee painting away.

They worked so hard. This is one loved little boy already!

halloween

Halloween!!

The pumpkin carving, the parties, the costumes, the candy!

 Rylee's cute halloween party at preschool. They are singing "The mean old witch with a hat."

Love these cute friends. Elizabeth, Rylee, and Claire.

We had a great time. Broncos football player, a witch, and a butterfly.

Happy Halloween from the Welch Family!

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a great Thanksgiving holiday filled with family, friends, service, food, and shopping.

Field trips, spiders, cub scouts, and the amazing race!

I chaperoned Sidney's field trip to the Wildlife experience. 

They touched cockroaches and Sidney held a tarantula!

 I stayed back, cheered her on, and took pictures! So glad to get to spend time with her.

 Sibling races at cub scouts. So thankful that these kids love each other and enjoy doing things together.

Mother and Son night at SkyView! This year was the amazing race. We look forward to this every year. We are a pretty competitive team, and not to brag but we killed it.  Seven months pregnant and we raced, competed, and beat the other team in the batting cages! We even raced to jump on the finish mat.  

We were pretty proud of ourselves :) Great job team Welch!

Fall pictures

It was a beautiful fall day and we got together with my Sister and her family to take some pictures.

Cute Kaden is 7 months old and it was so fun taking some family pictures of them.

While we were there we took some of these cute kids too.

That is a handsome boy!

Cute Sidney.

Sweet Rylee.

We wanted to get a picture to give to my parents for Christmas of all of the Grandkids.  Not too bad!  All four happy smiling kids :)

My girls and their posing....I love it!

These kids are so excited for this new baby.  I want to always remember how loving and caring they each were while I was pregnant.  And how at each of their ages they understood how special this was and how much they looked forward to a new baby.  

Love them.