My little niece Jessie's baptism.

With my Grandpa Coon in the center next to the girl of honor in white

 and all his grandkids that were there.

Also a pic of my 31 weeks... jk I'll find a better one.

                              My cousins Rebecca and Rachael at the Shedaisy concert with me!

          I love this band and have since I can remember.

                    When I lived in Az I'd go pick these girls up in my lil neon and

                          we'd crank up Shedaisy and head to Mesa Fro yo! Good times :)

                                 My cousin Katie's wedding she's the one with her hair all done up ;)
                                                  That was up in Idaho Falls on July 28th

Found this picture of me attempting to take a side belly pic of 22 wks

  Okay so here are some more of our Yellowstone trip.

We went August 16th- 19th

Brett's just chillin here with his buddy Lincoln.

Did you know he wasn't shot?

(Just a little inside joke there history teachers need to do a better job evidentally) ;)

                            Jackson Hole, Wy.... we loved this city more tan Yellowstone I think.

                                My restaurant... or at least its named after me. Had to take a photo op.
                                       (My sister calls me bubba cause I was such a chunky baby)

                                        Brett posing in front of a hot pot :) handsome man

                                                    Driving home from our fun get away.

                                                   Okay so here are some preg side pics.
                                  The top one is one at 27 wks and the one under this is a 28 week shot.
                                    I am so awkward posing for these pics. Like hey look at my bellay!
                                                  But oh well it'll be fun to look back on, right? ;)

So I got this cute idea from a friend of mine who is actually due a few weeks before me. She posted a bunch of things about her pregnancy she wants to remember. And since I forget so easily I thought what a good idea! So here it goes:

Tid bits about our Lil Ev's Pregnancy:

- I first felt him probably around 19 wks (July 5th) I have to agree with my friend Noell when she said it didn't really feel like butterflies. To me it felt like a little fish inside me. Weird comparison I know, but you know its what I thought of when I felt him swimmin around in there. ;)
- I would say Brett felt him around 23 weeks? We were laying in bed and Brett had his hand pushing into my belly and felt something move and he looks up and me and says... "was that you?!" all shocked. I laughed and said ya I'm super talented. ;) Everett (what we are naming our lil guy) likes to tease his dad though cause he'll be moving all over and Brett will try and feel him and he seriously stops moving. It makes me laugh cause he sounds like his daddy.
- We found out we were having a boy June 15th. I was shocked! I thought it was a girl for sure. Brett was right, he had guessed it was a boy. The problem with that is we had a girl name picked out not a boy... Sydney Rae Hall. Cute huh! But we figured it out.. after a few disagreements;) Everett ______ Hall. Still figuring out the middle name.
- Ooo my cravings: When we first found out all I wanted to eat was watermelon, cantelope, popsicles, icecream, snocones and pretzels from the mall. Yum! Actually that all still sounds good. The difference is now its summer time and it was March and they didn't have a lot of those things in season yet. ha ha Now I would have to add Texas Roahouse to that list.
- Ewwwe things that sound nasty: Chicken ( I will eat it just not my fav), BBQ, and mexican food. (not much left after I take those things out of my diet ha ha)
- I was really sick the first four months. Let's just say I become good friends with the porcelain thrown... kept ours super clean at that time, makes looking down at it a little better. ;) But traded throwing up for heart burn... not sure which is better. I swear I can look at food and get heart burn. Forget sleeping, but hey at least I will be ready to get up with Ev, eh? And I hope it's true what they say if you have heart burn baby should have a head of hair... cross your fingers!
- I've gotten varicose veins which aren't the best but I've seen worse. Plus this kid has taken away my zits. Super awesome!
- My wonderful mom is making curtains, a quilt and a few other things for this lil guys nursury. We are leaving the clouds we painted a few years ago and I added a sky to the ceiling. We are sooooo excited to put him in that room! 11 weeks left... hopefully a tid bit sooner :0
- Brett's predicting Nov. 19th 20th, or 21st... and me I have no clue when he'll come! I hope a little bit sooner than Nov. 30th (my due date)  Some days it feels like this pregnancy is flying other days it feels like the day we meet him will never come. But all in all we are just excited for him and I can't wait to see what he looks like!!! I hope he looks like his daddy...

A few weeks ago Brett and I headed up to Yellowstone to get away for a weekend.

It was so much fun!

So I feel awkward taking preg pics... you know the side shots?

So this is as good as its getting showing off my bump for now....

Maybe this next week I'll try it... I will be 28 weeks! Heck ya!

Since this is our first baby we wanted to share the news in some fun way

so I baked cupcakes and put question marks on top and filled the inside

with blue frosting to tell everyone:

 "It's A Boy!"

Here's the proud daddy eating his cupcake

Can you tell we are just a tid bit excited for this lil guy!?

              My mom was so sure we were having a girl, "cause Russell's don't have boys," ;)

                       I was going to put blue frosting in her cupcake even if it had been a girl.

 Just to trick her even for a minute. ha ha

 My sister Em thought it was a girl too. Her reaction was my favorite!

She got so excited it was a boy!

 My friend Swan and her reaction

My cousins Lauren and Shara

Grandpa and Grandma Hall when we told them....

 It was such a fun day telling people we are so excited to

 have a little boy come join our little crew!

By the way my due date is November 30, 2012