SHOWERED WITH LOVE!!

I have been so blessed and humbled lately....friends and family have helped get us into our house. And then while I lay on the couch with the heating pad, there have been people in and out doing my laundry, washing baby stuff, fixing meals, cleaning, and on and on and on.....It has been soooo hard for me! I definitely am better at being on the serving end than the receiving end...but my love for these sweet people has grown a hundred times over, they have shown me how to be a better person and made me realize how each of them lets the light of Christ shine through them. So thank you, thank you, thank you!! I have learned so much!
Also on St. Patrick's Day Maretta, Melissa, Camille, and my mom did a baby shower for me...and once again I was overcome with gratitude. We had a yummy dinner, lots of fun visiting, gifts, a game, and delicious desserts. As I looked around I could see the love that we all have for each other, how blessed we are to share such a special love and connections with each other. Thank you all so much for coming and for the wonderful gifts and most of all for loving me! I love you all!!

Sadie was my big helper and folded the tissue paper!

Maretta is going to kill me for putting this picture on here, but I just thought that it was so funny, heeheehee!!

The girls are checking out the new high chair:)

Life, life, and more life....

TOOTHLESS TUCK!!

For a few weeks Tuck's two bottom teeth have been loose...but last night he was eating an apple and the one became super loose. So I asked him if he wanted me to pull it out, so I got a piece of floss and tied it around the tooth....He was too nervous and decided that he didn't want me to pull it out. He then said, "Why can't grandpa just pull it out?" I said, "why do you want grandpa to pull it out?" He said, "because you don't even know what you are doing." I just laughed because I have talked about loosing my teeth several times with Tuck. And my dad pulled out every single tooth of mine, so he must be an expert:) Anyway the next thing I know Tuck is getting off the phone with grandpa. I said, "What are you doing?" He said, "I just called grandpa and he said that we could go up there and he would pull out my tooth." So we all loaded up and headed to grandpa's. Grandpa did such a fantastic job that Tuck had him pull out both of his teeth that were loose. It was so cute and Tuck was so excited. Thank you so much Grandpa!!

TREASURE ISLAND!!

The Dutch John Elementary had the Masoula Theater come teach the kids for a week. The worked very hard to put on a fabulous production of Treasure Island. Tuck was the cutest seagull you have ever seen:)

33 weeks!!

Life has been pretty hectic lately...We moved up the the hill to a bigger house!! We worked hard to replace the banisters, paint, clean, replace rotten floors, and move. A few days after we got all of our stuff moved I started having 'side ache' type pains...I didn't think much of it until on day 3 of the pain, I couldn't handle it anymore. Also all of the pain had been cause some pretty good contractions and I was only 32 weeks pregnant. So I called my doctor and of course he wanted me to come down. So we went down to the hospital to get checked out...Luckily the baby was doing fine, but my kidneys on the other hand weren't looking so hot. I have hydronephrosis in both kidneys and of course more stones...So the Doctor monitored me for awhile and then gave me instruction to take it really easy for the next 2 weeks so that we could at least get to 34 weeks. He also gave me some meds for the contractions and some pain meds. Anyway we are just taking it a day at a time...trying to get as far along as possible. We are so grateful to be past 34 weeks, and are now praying that my kidneys will hold up to get us to 36 or 37 weeks!!

PRETTY GIRLS!!

These girls have so much fun playing together. Sadie (left), Kallie (middle), Gracie (right)