Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Read All About It!

The last few months have been quite the experience for us- new house... and we are expecting a new baby! We are thrilled that God has decided to bless our family with a new bundle of joy and we can't wait to meet him or her!! Baby is due November 5th 2012 and we are almost 13 weeks along now. We had our first Dr. appt. this week and it was amazing to see this little one on the screen... to see and hear his little heart beating so fast.... this may be our third pregnancy, but it still choked me up to see the miracle of life! Kris' mom came to watch Jonathan and Aaron and they had a great time!

In some ways this pregnancy has been much different than the other two. With Jonathan I craved melted cheese (especially from Taco Bell... I know it's not healthy and I didn't eat it every day, so no judging! lol..). With Aaron the go to food was peanut butter. I could just eat it by the spoonful. This time around, even the thought of Taco Bell cheese turns my stomach and I can't eat peanut butter either, I end up with the worst stomach aches! It's so weird! One food that I have been craving though is sour cream. Before pregnancy I could take it or leave it, but now I'm looking for excuses to eat it. I want to make a baked potato just so I can slather it on! And juice! Oh I could drink juice (100% juice of course) all day long! With the boys I remember morning sickness being true to it's word, I'd feel sick in the mornings until I got a good breakfast then I'd be ok for the rest of the day. With this baby for the first 12 weeks I felt icky all day long from the moment I'd wake up until the moment I'd fall asleep at night. If I let myself get too hungry it would get worse but then nothing would sound good to eat either. Thankfully that seems to have settled down quite a bit. I'm getting my appetite back, but I'm not sure where all my energy has gone. I have been SO tired- much more tired than I remember being with the boys... I know it has a lot to do with the fact that I have 2 children to chase after while growing this little person. Kris has been able to be home a lot which has been a huge blessing because about every 3rd day or so I can check out for a couple hours and take a much needed nap!

Jonathan and Aaron are really excited about this baby. They want him/her to be here now! Jonathan has seen enough of my friends while they were pregnant and I think he understands more about how long it takes and where the baby grows, etc. while Aaron is pretty clueless. When we talk about the baby he keeps asking if it has arrived yet and if he can hold it. I was pretty nervous about Aaron because he's pretty territorial and such a snuggler, but seeing him with our friends' babies! He just sweetly kisses that babies' heads and holds their hands. I can't wait to see how the boys interact with this little one. The other day Aaron told me, "I have a baby in my tummy too. It is a boy and I'm going to name him Aaron."

We have a new Dr. this time too. We are seeing Dr. Brunel in Sonora. He came highly recommended from friends. We chose to go with a Dr. in Sonora because it is much closer to us than Jackson (which is the hospital that our previous doctor delivers at). We met with Dr. Brunel for the first time this week and really really liked him! He is very mellow and is a Christian. He even prayed with us at the end of our appointment! Baby was measuring right on for his delivery date, but my placenta is a bit low. Dr. said that it's still early enough for it to move up where it belongs. So we'd appreciate prayers for that.

Here is a picture of our little miracle, that we're calling Chewy for now. It's not that clear of a picture, but you'll get the general idea, lol.

Baby Chewy at 12 1/2 weeks

Home Sweet Home

Well we did finally move into our new house on April 7th!! A HUGE thank you to Brook, Ethan, and Victoria Moes for all their help loading and unloading the big U-haul truck! It went pretty quick considering that everything was already packed and in our storage unit. We started around 9:30am and had the truck completely unloaded by 2:30pm, and that included a good 45 min break for lunch!

It's been a lot of fun unpacking and organizing, setting up this house to function as our home! Here are some pictures:

Dining room looking into back yard

backyard

Kitchen

School supplies area

Living room from hallway

Living room from front door

Entertainment center

Master bathroom

Master Bedroom

Laundry Room

Boys' Bathroom

Sarah's desk in the office

Kris' desk in the office

Boys' bedroom

Boys' bunkbeds- which they LOVE!!

Hands

A bit of backstory... we'd planed on moving to our new house in Copper on April 1st. A few days before we called our landlord and found out that the house wasn't ready and that he was in the hospital with internal bleeding. So all moving plans were on hold. We were disappointed for sure and even looked online to see if there was anything better that might be available right away. We did find a listing for a rental in Angels and Kris went to go take a look at it. He came right back in- the Suburban wouldn't start. Grr! Of course this was a Friday evening and it was getting dark. So my mom took us to look at the house which wouldn't have worked for our family anyways. The next day it was dumping down rain, Sunday too, so we sat all weekend without a vehicle. Meanwhile Kris spent a lot of time online researching what the car's problem might be. On Monday the weather cleared and my dad took him to the auto parts store. Grandpa let Kris use his driveway to work on the car... Kris bought a new fuel pump assembly, but after spending a couple hours getting the old one off (he had to drop the whole fuel tank which weighed about 75+ pounds) only to find out they'd given him the wrong part! It took him most of the day to get the new fuel pump on and everything back together. I kept checking on him and his morale was good. He appreciated having my Grandpa nearby for advice. Then the moment of truth arrived. He started the car and the engine roared to life. Then he put the car in gear and it died... and then wouldn't start again. By this time the sun was setting and it was time to call it a night. The next day Dad took Kris to get new spark plugs and wires and a distributor cap, which still didn't fix the problem. Finally between Kris and Grandpa they thought it might be the ignition module. Luckily Grandpa had one in his shop. The put it in and voila! The car lived again!!!

What impressed me most about the whole ordeal is that Kris will tell you that he is NOT a mechanic... not in the slightest... but he researched the problem and moved forward with the information he had... he sought advice from others like his brother and my Grandpa and my Dad who do have more experience with cars. He maintained a fantastic attitude even though it was certainly frustrating and bottom line- he got the car working again!



So here are his hands at the end of day 1:

What I love about this picture is that Kris' hands are rarely ever this dirty... but these same hands that wrenched on our beast of a car are the same hands that wipe our childrens' tears... the same hands that gently hold my face as he looks into my eyes to tell me that he loves me. And I love him so much too!

Out of the Mouths of MY babes in March 2012!

A wonderful mom whom I deeply respect encouraged me to take note of all the fun things that the boys are saying so that we could look back and remember them, so I've been trying to jot them down and will post the boys' quirky sayings at the end of each month. Thanks so much Chere!!

3/6/12 Jonathan: "Mommy, my throat is sore. I think I need a fruit roll up!"

3/8/12 Aaron at the dinner table. He's told he can't have more garlic bread until he eats some of his chicken. After a few minutes he pipes up with, "Mommy, I'm cold, I need a piece of bread. That will warm me up!"

3/9/12 We're driving up HWY 4 past Murphys headed toward Hathaway Pines. Aaron says, "Mommy, I opened my mouth and it made the engine louder!" Then know-it-all older brother says, "No way Aaron, that would never happen!" I explained that Aaron probably yawned and it popped his ears, which made the engine sound louder. Mystery solved!

3/26/12 Jonathan points to the place behind his knee and asks, "Mommy, what is this place called?" I told him it was 'behind your kneecap'. "Oh, well I thought it might be called my leg-pit, you know, like how I have arm pits?" I told him that his answer made sense, but that everyone else called it something else.

3/27/12 Kris says to the boys as he leaves for work: "Boys, be good listeners for Mommy. She has a sore throat and she doesn't need to be repeating herself." Aaron looks up from playing and says, "Ok Daddy." Then he turns to me and says, "Mommy, I'm so sorry that you have a short throat."

3/28/12 Jonathan: "Mommy, this growing up is sure taking much longer than I thought it would!"

Loving Disney

Well we've been in our new house for a week and it's almost organized enough to take and post pictures! I ran across these pictures from a few weeks ago and had all intentions of blogging about them,  but must have gotten sidetracked. Oh well, no time like the present right?

One of the fun things about living with my parents was getting to share some of the older Disney movies that I used to watch as a kid. My parents amassed quite the collection while my uncle owned the video store in town. They are all on VHS and amazingly my folks still have a VCR... and since naptimes are long gone, we'd spend most afternoons curled up in blankets watching a beloved Disney tale. Some of their favorites were: 101 Dalmatians, Dumbo, The Little Mermaid, Wall-E, Tarzan, Monster's Inc., Winnie the Pooh... and Bambi- I think we watched that one the most. I caught some great pictures as they laughed and giggled while they snuggled with their Bambi animals.

Laughing while Bambi slides around on the frozen lake

Bambi is so silly!

Snuggle Time

I love this movie!

After watching Wall-E for the first time, Kris took a box and made Jonathan his own Wall-E box/costume. He had a fantastic time crawling around, talking in his Wall-E voice.

Here's Wall-E

Wall-E side view