I’m starting to “nest”… does that mean the baby will come early????  I hope so!  All I want to do is get the house in order, clean the baby’s room and get things settled.  Is that signs of boredom or signs of early delivery? :)  Or maybe it’s just that we have a new house and I’m ready for it to feel like home and as I start to get decorations up, it starts to feel more like our home.  I certainly don’t want to get my hopes up for a 2006 baby but it sure would be nice… and lots cheaper!

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I’m entering the home stretch… 3rd trimester! Hard to believe I only have 3 months left!!!

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We spent last weekend in Detroit with Kevin’s family. Ethan loves to play with his cousins… here are a few pictures.

Ethan loves matchbox cars now

Jordan liked helping Ethan color

Baby Jaylen… what a cutie

Busy playing

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We had a great time celebrating Kevin’s birthday on Oct. 6th. We went downtown Toledo to Real Seafood Co. for his free meal and had cake at home. Here are some pictures to reflect on Kevin’s last year in his 20’s.

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This years camping trip was … well, let’s just say colder and wetter than what we had anticipated! Each year we try to take a fall camping trip with 2 other couples from church, it’s a fun time to hang out and catch the last bit of somewhat endouring outside weather for the year… well, not this year!!! The forcast said rain for all of Friday night and all day Saturday, but Sunday was supposed to be great! But who believes weather reports anyway??? … Kevin!

After much discussion on whether we should go or not, we decided to go… but only b/c a friend of ours so graciously offered us the use of their camper.

Believe it or not the weather report was dead on! The rain started to fall at 2:00 AM and didn’t really stop till Saturday night. Our friends who toughed it out in their tents woke up the next morning pretty soggy. So needless to say we cooked most of our meals in the camper instead of over the open fire. but we did get to hang out and had many laughs and were even able to play a few games. And don’t forget the memories!

Since we had the camper, we were the only ones that stayed till Sunday and once again the weather report rang true… Sunday was a beautiful day!!!

Check out our Camping Album Below:

* camping NOT FOUND *

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Thought I would post a picture of my growing belly. This was a month ago at 23 weeks. I’ll have to get an updated one up shortly.

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I’m finally posting pictures of our new driveway and sidewalk! We got our new drive the weekend of Labor Day and it was quite a process! Two days to tear up the old cement, dig up the beast of a tree stump that caused the driveway to crumble, a weekend in between and one day to pour the cement.

Ethan loved all the action in our front yard. He would stand at the window and watch the big truck and backhoe tear up the driveway and yard. The workers enjoyed “showing off” for him too.

One of the guys (your typical, stereotype construction worker) decided to take a short cut and not help break up a larger piece of concrete to put in the backhoe to then transport to the dump truck… instead he decided he would use his own weight to balance it on the bucket while the driver of the backhoe would lift it to the dumptruck. They were successful in their endeavor until the guy was making his way down when the driver moved a gear and, “crunch”, his hand got smashed in the gears of the bucket! I was, of course, out taking pictures when it all happened and, ugh…. all I could think was “oh my gosh… it just cut off his hand!” Needless to say they all left and took him to the hospital, and the guy was back working in 3 hours! He ended up only breaking a finger. Such excitement!

Besides the “finger” incedent, everything was going great and on schedule until they started in on the stump. We were told in the beginning that they could pull out this monsterous tree stump no problem and that they would do it for no charge. We knew cottonwood trees were known for their massive root systems so we made sure it was ok with them to do it… they said ‘no problem’… boy were they kicking themselves when they started in on the whole process. It set them back a whole day just to get the stump out! At one point they had dug a trench all the way around the stump about 5-6′ deep and it wouldn’t even budge!!! They finally managed to pry it loose but not without a lot of frustration!

The pictures should tell the rest of the story… check out the album by clicking on the picture below.

* driveway NOT FOUND *

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