Fun Pictures and Updates!

So this first picture is of my poor little nephew Austin and his broken arm. They were playing on their blow up water slide and he bounced right off the side and landed on this arm. He broke is humorous clear in half and had to have surgery and pins put in. He is doing a lot better now but I felt so bad for him. And then my brother-in-law had to have hernia surgery just a couple days later! And my sister had knee surger just a couple months ago! AND Austin's little sister Hailey has been in and out of hospitals and seeing specialists for her asthma! So their lives are pretty dang hectic right now! Aubrey better watch out, cause how things are going...she's next! Please pray for them! :o)
This is just a goofy picture of my sisters Sarah, Julie and I. Julie just really likes to take pictures!
This is a picture of my sister Jennifer and I. She is also pregnant, so we thought we should take belly pictures! I am excited that my baby will have a cousin close to her age. They will just be about 3 or 4 months apart!
More of the belly! Yay!
This is just a cute picture of my mom and dad in their amazing backyard. I will have to post some pictures of their yard. It is absolutely amazing. Everyone always asks who they had landscape their yard and they are always baffled when we tell them my parents did it all by themselves. My yard is next mom and dad! Brooklee needs grass to play in!!!


So anyway, life is great, what can I say! I am definitely ready to have this baby! Ok, maybe not considering her bedroom isn't finished yet, but we have all of the cute little clothes and things just sitting around waiting for someone to use them! The shop is almost done, so we should be painting and starting things here in the next week or so. Hopefully that will make the time go by faster! Only 5 weeks and 3 days to go! YIPEE!!

Happy Birthday To My Amazing Husband!!!!

I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to the most amazing husband in the world. He is turning the big 28 today and I just wanted him to know how much I love and appreciate him. Being married to him has been the best six years of my life and I couldn't have asked for anyone better. He is the most caring, considerate, and compassionate person I know, and will be the greatest daddy to our little girl. Happy Birthday to the love of my life!!!! I love you Sam!!!!

Craziness!!!

Well, I haven't posted for a while and for a perfectly good reason too! My first day of school was yesterday and before that, I was at the school pretty much every day, all day, for about a week. It has been utterly exhausting! I am just hoping that it starts slowing down and I can finally feel like I am getting in to the swing of things. I am still trying to learn the names of the kids in my homeroom, let alone the kids in the rest of the grade! I actually teach Social Studies to all of the 5th graders. We have what it called a split curriculum, which is really nice because all I have to really prepare for is Social Studies. It also makes it hard because I have to learn the names of 115 kids in 5 different classrooms! AAAGGGHHH! It really is fun and exciting, but I just underestimated how hard it is to get anything done with a huge belly. Anyway, here is a picture of my classroom all set up and ready for the little kiddos! Wish me luck! I'll need it!

Brooklee is healthy!!!

At my last doctors appt. the doctor said I was measuring small (24cm at 27weeks) so she ordered another Ultrasound just to make sure Brooklee was growing okay and I had enough fluid and all that stuff. But I had to wait 2 weeks for the ultrasound! I just hated that I had to wait so long to find out wether or not my baby was healthy! But I had my ultrasound this morning and Brooklee is measuring perfect and amount of fluid and everything is fine as well, so now I can relaxe and just enjoy my pregnancy. It was really fun to see pictures of her again. We have this joke in my family (especially with Brian) that our baby is going to have the fatest cheeks in the world. Anyway, this first picture is a picture of Brooklee's face. The technician even mentioned that she already had chubby cheeks! So congratulations Brian, you were right! It just makes me that much more excited to see her in real life! I love chubby cheeks! Needless to say, we are releived and excited for the new little addition to our family!!!

Annual Chamber of Commerce Dinner

So last weekend we went to the annual Chamber of Commerce fundraiser dinner. Valley Furniture is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, so we go every year, besides that Steve is the President of the Chamber right now so he was kind of in charge of it I guess. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. The "theme" this year was "Big Band" like 50's music and stuff. They had a jazz band playing for entertainment. They usually have really good food too. This year they had Steak and Shrimp, which are two of my favorite foods, so I was happy! Anyway, here are some pictures of our little group that went. Penny (Valley Furniture secretary) and her husband John came. Sarah and Matt are also member of the Chamber with their business. I also got a picture of Steve and Diane dancing...Aaaah Cute! It was a pretty fun evening.

Update on the shop!

Here are some recent pictures on the progress of the shop! It's coming along quick thanks to the hard work of Sam and Brian. David Ball actually helped them yesterday and they got a lot done! Exciting stuff!!!

Finally...Our Shop!!!

So we have been wanting to build a shop in our backyard pretty much ever since we moved in 3 years ago. Well, now we are finally doing it! We actually had the foundation poured 2 years ago! So having a baby really motivates you to do the things you always wanted to do. I haven't been able to get the baby room ready because we are using her room as the office right now, and the other room that will be the office is being used for storage. So once the shop is built and we can put our storage in there, we will be able to start moving things around! I can't wait. We have been waiting too long as it is to get the baby room ready. So anyway, here are pictures of the shop being framed. I really, really have to thank my brother Brian for helping us with this. We never would have been able to do it without him! He and Sam got the shop framed in just a few hours! It is looking great!