October was still
beautiful for pictures. I had a few more opportunities to take some
pictures for some families. I spent some time updating my blogs.
I'm now an author for 4 different blogs. I better stop there or else
I will get too busy.
You can view my
photography blog here: http://seastevensphotography.blogspot.com
My food blog here:
http://thuanscreatingcorner.blogspot.com
I volunteered to
keep everyone up to date on my brother and his mission by creating
his mission blog for him and I take the time to translate them from
English to Vietnamese for my parents and families in Vietnam to read
them. I feel like this will help share the gospel in a more private
setting since Vietnam does not allow you to proselyte.
http://eldernguyensmissionblog.blogspot.com
And of course our
personal website which is private and is just for families and close
friends, with the exception of one month out of the year, Christmas
time where we make it readable for a bigger group of friends.
http://dtstevensnewsletter.blogspot.com
During all this time
of scheduling my sessions with people, a friend of mine just bought a
$4000 camera and wanted to test it out for her new portfolio. She
having known me for a while asked if I could be her model for the
Maternity portfolio. I accepted and we got a few pictures to share
from that session.
When we got back in
town after our 2 weeks vacation back East, I quickly got to work
buying fabric and making our Halloween costumes. The kids wanted to
be characters from Harry Potter because they've been reading with
their daddy almost all of the Harry Potter books. I couldn't be more
proud. Reena dressed as Hermoine Granger. Debrie dressed as Ginny
Weasley. Ronin was our little Harry Potter. Dan was a Quidditch
player and I'm his Golden Snitch. You have to be Harry Potter fans
to get the Quidditch player and Golden Snitch theme, but it got
raving reviews as the most clever of costumes on Facebook. Made me
so happy
I had the idea of
going on a walk near our home to collect sticks and twigs to make a
broomstick. We found a big stick within 2 minutes of our walk and
got many twigs. Dan spent some time while I taught music at the
community Playgroup to make the broomstick. Turned out great I
thought. He also made the girls some wands. We just Ro one that
lights up. Thought he'd be less likely to poke himself or others
with a fatter one.
With our matching
costumes we headed to many different parties. Many had my
craving...apple cider. I do believe that's where Darion packed in
the pounds. More on this later.
Dan doesn't care for
the fact that his birthday is on Halloween, but for me it is the
highlight. I made him a triffle cake that he often requests for his
birthday. Peanut butter chocolate with reeses' cups
Ronin was very good at giving out candies. I would say besides getting candies, giving them out was his favorite part.
After the trick or
treating and giving out candies, we headed to a friend's house for
more Halloween treats and goodies. More food and a movie for the
kids. It is a very bad thing to still be pregnant around Halloween.
The Fall is just not a good time to be pregnant. All the yummy fresh
squeezed Cider, all the caramel apples and chocolate candies and
sweet treats. I just couldn't resist.
I calculated that by
the end of my pregnancy I would be putting on a total of 30-35 lbs.
I was able to keep it at just that by the way for the record. Darion
decided he'd take some extra few pounds for me so I wouldn't have to
work it off on my own. Bless his heart. I should've induced him weeks earlier but can't complain that he decided to come out so fast and easy (more on this later). Thank you baby
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