34 weeks and counting

Pumpkins from the weekend with Kim and Jordan, see below for story.

So this blog will be an update on our lives. I am going to write a seperate blog about my two baby showers and will post some pics from those later.

This is our crib, all ready for baby Jack. We are getting really excited. The next two pictures were taken by Kelsi Rea, my best friend since the second grade who is now an excellent photographer, these are at 34 weeks.

So I have had many questions about why do people get maternity pictures taken? I would say for me, I really want to remember what I looked like at this time. Most pictures are not very flattering, but I want to have a picture documentation of the whole experience, and it's fun to get really good pictures taken after getting makeup and hair done (something that doesn't happen all that often for me because I am in my house alot). I did get a haircut prior to these pictures, short, like it used to be, much easier and mom like :)

What else has happened, we went home for my birthday weekend, and then we got our household goods and moving definitely pooped me out, being on my feet for all day bending and lifting made me super tired, but my husband was soo helpful and we made pretty short work of it (if you know us we both can't stand clutter so about 3 days of boxes was all we could tolerate). After the move I hosted a coffee for our Army wives group and it went really well. There are lots of very nice wives here and our social events have been alot of fun. We have made some new friends here and have had some of them over and been to their houses. Then we had a great visit from Kim and Jordan Howell where we went to see Dracula the play and carved pumpkins. (pic above). It was great to see them and I personally think the friends you make in the Army for life are the best part, no matter where you live you are connected to them. After that weekend I went home for the better part of a week to see my extended family and had a great time.

When we traveled home for my birthday weekend and after 2 weeks of car trouble decided it was time to get rid of our car, and we recently acquired a Santa Fe. It is very nice, much more spacious and AWD which was very important to daddy for this winter.

Jake's school is going well and it is a great time in the Army for us. I have managed to stay quite busy. My average week involves

Monday: walk usually and phone date with Jessi

Tuesday: Swim early and friend time or down time/grocery shopping

Wednesday: Walk usually and getting paperwork type of things done

Thursday: Bible study in the AM and swim in the afternoon

Friday: Walk and Jake usually gets off early so cleaning the house prior to the weekend and then getting ready for weekend fun

Being a housewife has been nice for me and I can't imagine working and getting ready for a baby and moving all at once...

So we feel very blessed, we have been going to on post chapel here and enjoying it, but we especially miss our Hawaii church family on Sundays.

Well it is Tuesday night and SYTYCD is on so I have to get going, but I hope this is a good update. I can't believe that I only have 6 more weeks of being pregnant.

Pictures from the weekends

Jake and Jordan after cleaning up the dishes, what a couple of good guys.

Kristen and I in Cincinatti after eating candy by the aquarium

Jake and Josh, who did wear almost identical outfits.

Catching up

Okay, so I know that I have not been very good at blogging so far, but I am now going to catch everyone up on our lives since our last blog.

I am officially 30 weeks + 1 days pregnant, into my last 8-10 weeks, it is hard to believe. I am posting a couple of pictures here, one is of Kim and I when I was about 27 weeks and one is from last weekend with Kara at 29 weeks, I can tell that I have grown alot the last 2 weeks. My 28 week visit I measured at 30 cm which could be because I am short, or because this is going to be one big Jake sized baby.

So what have we been doing?

Well after leaving Hawaii, which was very hard to do we flew to Seattle and roadtripped across America. We went to Seattle, Spokane, WA, Glacier National Park, Yellowstone, Mt. Rushmore, the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD, Wisconsin, then up to the UP of Michigan, Mackinac Island and then down to Indiana to see family.

We had a great time, camping and driving, the car did great and it was a wonderful vacation. Our pictures are posted on facebook if you want to see them. Yellowstone was probably our favorite, it was amazing.

So after visiting family we came down to Kentucky and God was watching out for us because we got into a house within 2 days and not just a house, but a temporarily furnished house from which they will remove the furniture when our stuff gets here in mid-October...this was a huge blessing because we thought we would be in a hotel (ughh) or in the house with an airmattress (double ughh). So me and my very pregnant belly are happy about the whole situation.

After getting to Kentucy we have been to visit the Howells and the Jack Daniels distillery

We also visited Kara and Seth Ray in Cincinnatti and got to see Jake's brother Josh and his wife Kristen who were in town for a wedding. We had some car issues, but we were able to spend an afternoon together, which was great since they live in Orlando, Jake hadn't seen his brother in over 2 years, so that was a treat.

Since then we have come back to Ft. Knox where Jake's classes are underway and I am enjoying my role as a housewife. My main taks are composed of making sandwiches for lunch, making dinner, and taking pregnancy walks. We are getting ready to head to Winona Lake next weekend for my birthday and baby shower. After that I can get ready to nest in preparation for the baby.

Okay, I hope you have enjoyed my blog, I promise to be better about updates from now on :)

My first blog

So my friends have been telling me that I need to blog for a long time now, but I haven't really felt the need because I saw them all the time and so I would just tell them all about me in person, but then my friends started to move away and I decided that they still need to know about me, so I will now begin to blog. Even though Jake thinks we don't really have anything too thrilling to say, I think that some people will keep up with it...

So us.

We are currently expecting a little boy. I am 22 weeks plus some change into my pregnancy. I feel fine, just big. I think this is going to be a Jake sized baby. The other news is that we leave Hawaii in 16 days, which does not feel real at all. I am totally in denial, but for good reason, I still have 7 days of school left. But those last 9 days I am going to jam all I can of Hawaii into my brain.

I will finish my masters degree and finally be able to call myself a nurse practitioner. I love my new line of work and I will be very excited to get my new job in North Carolina eventually.

So we will soon be off on our trek across the country, then to Fort Knox until about March/April 2010, then onto Fort Bragg, NC. My goal is keep the blog updated with posts about us and the baby when he gets here.

Okay,

Well, this may be a boring blog, but I will try to make them more exciting later on. I am now going to try to attach a picture.

Today was Jake's last day of official work, so we are off to Chili's for... chicken wings of course.