In Z House: Fall Fun

Here are some pictures of some fun things we have done throughout the fall:

In September we went to Frankenmuth for a night (to use up a free Marriott stay).

We of course went to Zenders for the famous chicken dinner. Fried chicken just tastes better when you are pregnant. :-)

Brandon had fun at Zenders, but our picky eater didn't eat any of their food. He doesn't know what he's missing!

If you seen other recent blog postings, you know Brandon likes to wear our shoes. Well, high heels are included.

The weather was so nice the weekend we were up here, so we walked around the shops a little, and we went to the Cheese Haus, of course.

After Frankenmuth we went up to Au Gres, MI to our friends Mark and Julie's lake house.

It was so beautiful there! The sand was really fine like in South Carolina. And the position on the lake front makes the water really calm and shallow. It was a little chilly for swimming, though.

It almost looks like the Lowcountry of SC to me.

Here are Julie and I with our baby bumps. Julie and Mark have a little girl Chloe who was 10 months old at this time, and she is due with another baby girl 6 weeks after me.

Mark and Krzysztof with one of their dogs Porter. Mark is a fellow homebrewer and has also recently gotten into smoking meat (which KZ is pretty obsessed with lately), so with those interests and having our second babies so close together, we'll probably be seeing a lot of each other.

My mom (Brandon's Mimi) got to visit a couple of times this fall. The weekend she was here in October, the weather was in the high 70's the whole time and sunny! We had a great day at the zoo. Brandon got to ride the brand new carousel at the zoo.

The leaves were at their peak while my mom was here.

Brandon loved reading books and playing with Mimi, which freed me up to get some projects done around the house.

One of the cider mills we have been going to has several little playhouses outside, and Brandon loves to play in them! This led me to search for one on Craigslist, which I found!

He loves to pretend he is cooking inside. He'll bring us all kinds of food that he's cooked.

We had a couple of parties at our house to hang out with our friends before the craziness sets in after the baby is born. One of them was during a Michigan State game. Here are Brandon (Big Brandon...not ours!), Stephanie, and their 2 boys Christian and Tobey.

In order to confuse you a little more, here is Krzysztof with our Brandon and KZ's friend John with his son Brandon. Ready for more craziness? John also has a little girl whose name is Brooke, which is what our baby girl will be named. At this particular party, there was another family there with a son named Brandon, so we had 4 Brandons at one point. We're not trying to name our kids after our friends kids. This was all unintentional by all families!