The Koch Family

Well lots has happened in the last month and a half. I will post in chronological order.

We finished painting Trinity's room.  I still have to finish decorating with pictures and such but here are a couple pictures. 

We had a family reunion on October 22 with my mom's side of the family (pictures to come).  There were about 60+ people there and it was SO much fun to see everyone.  Most of them I haven't seen in about 4 years.  It was held at my parents house here in Henderson (first time ever to be held here) and it was to celebrate family and my grandparents 60th wedding anniversary.  There was a bounce house and food and crafts and food and visiting and, of course, more food.  My Dad did a lot of the cooking so it was DELICIOUS!!!! Everyone seemed to have lots of fun seeing all the family.  We were only missing about 24 people total of the whole family.  And all those people were definitely missed!

Next is probably the most exciting and suprising.  Trinity Rose Koch (we decided to change the middle name) decided to grace us with her presence 2 weeks early (2 weeks and 2 days to be exact).  Her due date of November 12 was just too long for her to wait and she came to meet us and the world on October 27.  There will be a post dedicated to her and the birth story.  But here is a picture of the beautiful girl.

October 29th was my ward's (and 2 or 3 other wards) Trunk or Treat.  And since my Parent's ward was one of the other wards there we all dressed up as a team.  Literally, a team.  We were the New England Patriots, with Braylee as our Patriots Cheerleader, and since Trinity was able to be there too, we wrapped her in a football blanket to be part of the fun.  My parents were the away players and jerseys and Brad and I were the Home Team.  Braylee seemed to have more fun passing out the candy then going around getting some of her own.  (She did the same for Halloween night as well).  Candice was there as a Blonde Smurf which was SO cute! but I didn't get a picture. . . .

Here she is handing out candy on Halloween (although she would just get scared and we would hand it out when kids came to the door. haha.

Last but not least.  Brad and my Father-in-Law built Braylee a sandbox! She always wants to go outside and play and she would go straight to a corner and start building "sand castles" but since there was no sand it was just dirt and rocks.  So after looking at our options of buying a sandbox it seemed like a better idea to just build one since that way it would be bigger for the same amount (or a little less) of money.  Braylee was SO excited and that is all she has wanted to do for the past 2 days.