Well, we're officially registered at the hospital where we're going to have Luke. Though somewhat routine (we just had to sign 4-5 papers), it was fun to walk into the hospital and think about when we'll be back for his birth! It's the same hospital where we had Sarah (It wasn't built yet when Julia was born.) and we had such a great experience ( Read more... )

...walked into a bar. Ok, so maybe not a bar, like the joke usually goes. But we walked and walked and walked, about 6-8 blocks on Halloween and got a stash of candy! Here are the pics!


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What's on my mind these days is pretty much all posted on my pregnancy journal at this site ( Read more... )

Both the people we asked to be godparents for Luke said yes! So Patti Mackin and Paul Dobo are going to be Lucas' godparents. We're very happy with our choices and feel these two people will help our child grow in the faith throughout life, and just be there for him in general ( Read more... )

...oh what a beautiful day, I've got a wonderful feeling!!!! Everything's going my way!" My mom used to sing this song on a spring morning when I was growing up. And this morning feels just like that, a spring morning in MI. The weather is BEAUTIFUL! Sunny and about 75 right now at 8:42am. And despite only getting about 3 hours of sleep (for ( Read more... )

I just signed up to participate in my first consignment sale. Since we're getting rid of all our girl clothes, I went through all of them that Sarah has outgrown this past weekend while my mom was here and have about two large boxes of clothes good enough for a consignment sale. It's the second weekend of October. If I were to just drop off my ( Read more... )

My mom has been here since Friday evening. Her visit ends tomorrow morning when I take her to the airport before heading to work. It's been an awesome visit and I'm so glad that she got to come. She's been so helpful. She watched the girls all day Saturday while I was working so that James could get some sleep before heading to work that night ( Read more... )

4 years ago today we were at our wedding rehearsal dinner at Waves, followed by the rehearsal at the church. How time has flown. Julia was four months old. Sarah was just a thought in my head. It's been four years of ups and downs, but I'm very happy to say that we're on an up (and have been on an up for several months). Things are going very ( Read more... )

So, I'm laboring at work on my Labor Day weekend, BUT it could be worse. I could be IN labor on Labor Day, which thankfully I won't be. My little one needs to cook about another four months or so before he's ready to be taken out and laid on my belly (aka: the cooling rack ( Read more... )

The title says it all. I had the ultrasound this morning and he is very healthy and growing well. I'm very excited! I even started to add boy stuff to our Target registry. (This registry was only created if people ask for it. I don't want to make it look like we're asking for more stuff. But obviously we don't have any boy stuff.) I just don' ( Read more... )