Team Z: thanksgiving

Kacie, Justin and Baby Z have been doing well and keeping busy!

Justin started Junior High wrestling practice on Nov 17th, and their first meet was yesterday evening in Mitchell... so it's been hard for him to squeeze in any more deer hunting. He may go with some teacher friends to bow hunt near Chamberlain tomorrow though.

Kacie has been staying busy at work with lots of holiday events at the store lately. She has an Ice Fishing Classic weekend to organize this weekend (so unfortunately will miss the Cleveland Christmas!), and she'll take pictures of kids with Santa the next 2 weekends in a row! She's also planning for a "Santa's Workshop" for kids at the store which will include fun things like holiday crafts, writing letters to Santa, story time, cookie decorating, etc. And she's starting to plan for when she'll be on leave from work and will have to train in a few people at the store how to take over her duties while she's out... she's planning for taking the full 12 weeks that the state of SD offers for maternity leave.

Kacie and Baby Z are at 30 weeks right now -- only 10 or so more to go! Hard to believe. Next appointment is Dec 9th. So far so good. She'll sign up for expecting parent and childbirth classes that will take place in January 2011. Baby Z has still been fairly active and tends to get the hiccups about twice a day or so! Apparently hiccups mean that the baby is healthy and working to develop her lungs.

We missed seeing any family on actual Thanksgiving day (Kacie had to wake up at 3am to work for Black Friday!), so we went to see family in Canby on the weekend instead. Here are a few pictures from Vivian's house. It was fun, but the time always goes by too fast ... and it's hard to get around to see everyone before we leave! We imagine it may be a little harder yet once Baby Z arrives!