With the boys getting older, the holidays just keep getting better every year. This year we started getting ready for Christmas with Elf on a Shelf. Elio decided the elf was a girl and named her Elfie. She watches them all day, then at night she flies to the north pole and reports to Santa, whether they've been good or bad. In the morning she shows up somewhere new in the house. Every morning the boys were filled with excitement to discover where she was.

We really tried to get into the Christmas spirit this year, and do as many activities as we could. We went to the Lighted Truck Parade, saw Santa several times, Elio was in his first Christmas play, and went to the annual Festival of Lights at the Botanical Gardens.

He was the cutest little donkey we've ever seen!

The weekend before Christmas we celebrated with my family, then the following weekend we headed to Vacaville to be with Kyle's family. The boys loved every minute of Christmas. They were both into opening presents this year, actually it was kinda hard to stop them from opening.

Waiting at the top of the stairs.

So excited!

Daddy's surprise...A bee bee gun!

Elio, Nico, and Trent

Teeter Totter!

 With all of us being sick, I really slacked on Christmas cards. Plus I didn't really think about it until it was too late to order online. Bummer. So that means no Christmas card from the Nelepovitz Family this year. It doesn't mean we aren't thinking of you, we hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!

I'm over 18 weeks and baby is growing fast, he's about the size of a bell pepper now. I started feeling him move about a week or so ago and everyday it's happening more and more and getting stronger. I don't think anyone else can feel him move yet, but I'm super excited for the boys to feel him kick. Elio loves listening to my belly and giving baby kisses, and as soon as Nico sees that happening he wants in on the action too. It's pretty cute.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Our tree is decorated

 We had pictures with Santa. Nico cheered up after Santa offered him a candy cane.

 

And Kyle was in charge of the float for Rossi's this year for the lighted truck parade. It turned out great, so great that they won 2 first place trophies!

 We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. We celebrated over at the ranch with a ton of family members, I think there were around 50 people including 18 kids! Needless to say we all had a great time.

 Here's most of the kids.

Elio and Lou went on there fist hunting trip, and they loved every second of it. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

15 Weeks!

Here's a couple pic's from the sonogram I had on Monday. We were lucky enough to have both of our boys, Richard, Marisa and Valerie there with us to share our joy.

Here's a little video of the heartbeat, and baby. 

OH BOY

Yesterday we had our gender prediction sonogram, and we are having a boy!

 Since my last post, I've been feeling pretty crummy, I guess I spoke too soon about feeling good! I've been super tired and a little nauseous. I haven't been as sick as I felt with the other boys, but far more tired. I feel really lucky that the boys are such good sleepers and that they have been taking naps at the same time during the day.

I'm finally starting to feel better now, and I'm really looking forward to enjoying the rest of this pregnancy. We are so glad to know the gender and be able to pick out some names and start decorating the nursery.