Blake getting a routine breathing treatment

Alexia offering moral support

Lex and Mommy!

Blake and Daddy and Lex

Getting out all of the Christmas Decor, yes, all of these boxes have Christmas stuff in them...

I may have a Christmas decoration addiction!

Getting branches for our fake tree!

More branches

Alexia under the tree

Blake and Lex under the Tree

Haning up stockings

Blake hanging up his stocking

Ready to hang ornaments

Blake hanging his ornament

Lex hanging her ornament

Awwwww

Ferris Wheel time!

Silly Lex!

Happy Lex!

The first pictures were taken at the Dr's office.  The whole family went in!  Blake is doing great!  His ANC is over 2000, which means the med dosage is going up, but not by much!  Can't believe we have less than a year of treatment left now!  In some ways it has gone by fast, but in other ways it seemed like it was never going to be over.  We sure are thankful for Blake and for everything he has brought into our lives! 

Alexia is our healthy little trooper, she has only had a fever once in her entire life (and it was only 100.2) and has never been sick aside from that one slight fever.  When we went in for our family flu shots Alexia was very excited and REALLY wanted to get her shot.  She got her shot and didn't even cry.  She is such a strong little girl!  She has seen Blake go through it enough, I suppose it is not really scary to her like it is to most kids.

Well, I broke my rule of only putting up Christmas Decorations AFTER Thanksgiving.  My tradition has been to put up all my Christmas decor on Black Friday, but this year, since the baby will be here any time now, we decided it would be easier to put everything up with only 2 children!  We are very excited that all 3 kids will be here for Christmas!!!!  Can't wait to see how our Christmas pictures turn out this year!!!!

Blake and Lex get along VERY well and love to play.  They are very imaginative and it is a joy to watch them play and to hear the things they make up!  These kids are truly amazing to us!  Both of them are extremely excited to meet their baby sister and tell everyone about her everywhere we go!  They love to look at ultra sound pictures and talk to her through mommy's tummy! 

We will announce when she arrives!  Very excited for her to come! 

Briana Update!!!

Briana is a very healthy baby.  I am currently 37 weeks and 2 days pregnant with her and she is already measuring over 8 lbs!  She is very active and reacts to Daddy, Blake and Alexia's voices!  She also likes to kick their hands when they put their hands on her home!

We all look forward to meeting her and feel bad about not updating her blog for a while, but the pregnancy has gone by so quickly!  Can't wait to announce her birth once she is born, but every day she spends in there means she is a healthier little girl!!!! 

From here on out, in order to be lower maintenance, we will be posting updates of all of us on our Parrack Family Blog! 

First Snow November 2, 2011

The kids enjoyed the first (and only so far) snow of the season!  They had a great time catching snow flakes!  They were both really bummed that the snow did not stick around, so they didn't get to play in it!!!  We are very excited for more snow this winter!  Lots of sledding plans, we found some great hills!!!!!  

Halloween 2011

Blake was so excited to be Iron Man

Blake's pumpkin is in the middle!

Blake playing a game at the Harvest Festival

Picking out candy

On our way to his class party!

Outside with the group before the party

Waiting to get candy!

Blake picked out Iron Man as his costume this year!  He was super excited to be iron man and surprisingly he was the ONLY Iron man in his class party and at the church Harvest Festival!!!  He had a lot of fun at both! 

Blake has been blessed with good health and good counts and we were all so happy to be able to join in the festivities!!!  Blake was very excited to attend his pre-school party and he was very happy to have Mommy and Lex with him!  He also enjoyed seeing friends at the Harvest Festival! 

All in all a very great Halloween!

From here on out we are going to post all updates on our Parrack Family blog!

Halloween 2011

Trying on her costume before mommy alters it

Blake and Lex trying on their costumes

Carving pumpkins again!

Carved pumpkins

At the Church Harvest Festival

Throwing the rubber chicken

Ready to go to Blake's Halloween Party

Starting the Halloween Parade at Blake's pre-school

Lex and one of her friends from her old class

We had lots of fun this Halloween!  No Trick-or-Treating of course, but we had tons of fun at the church Harvest Festival and at Blake's Pre-School class party!  Alexia LOVED all the Halloween parties!!!  She also selected her costume!  She decided to be a "scary witch"!  We had fun finding the costume and altering it to make it perfect!  Lex would wear it every day if we would let her!!!

From here on out we will be posting all updates on our Parrack Family blog