Ta da!

Here's the girl, the belly and the face! (this was in shipshewana...amish country) I love the lighting on this one.
Yeah for fall!

I Love action shots that aren't posed AND come out looking cute!

Chicago...this is part of the American Gothic statue...I just love the suitcase!

We found a Hard Rock Hotel while we were walking up Michigan Ave. I got a shirt! I was a very happy girl.

This is a bean. Coolest bean ever!

new pics soon

a: my computer is a snail. (probably because of the thousands of pics i have saved on it.)
b: i loaded pics from my recent trip....i thought to this site...perhaps i was mistaken....
c: i got some other pics from jakes parents while they were visiting us in indiana...

point being:

i should get some new pics...with my face posted soon. I know i keep saying it, but know my intentions are pure!!

thanks for not giving up on me!!!

Baby U update:

last night watching Buffy season 3:...

we felt a kick...or an elbow, or something last night...i'd say about 5 times. Jake's face was soo cute when he felt it.

I have some new pics of the belly, but I spent an hour last night loading pics from camera to computer....so didn't have time to get them onto the website....grr...sorry folks.

also mom and dad U took some cute pics with their camera while we were in indiana...so i'll post them when i get them...it was sunset with some fall leaves changing already too.

as for now we are 22 weeks and 2 days and counting....almost entering the 3rd trimester!!! if you can believe it! some friends from work have asked us to register already, so i'm going faux shopping on monday....

ready or not the baby is coming!!

as always, thanks for reading.

travel

i love traveling to places

most any place will do really

tomorrow we are off to indiana! maybe not too exciting for some people, but lets just say, i just bought a house, and i think i'm MORE excited to be getting on that plane tomorrow.

we'll get to spend some awesome time with our sister and family and stay in chicago for a few days.

i just love going places.

one could be pouting because a trip to hawaii that was planned for this same week didn't work out,
but i'm really stoked to give "the other side of the family" a bit of time with their brother/son/uncle..and give them a chance to see the belly too!

Yet another amazing family that has welcomed me in as one of their own..such a blessing

anyhoo...

i love traveling
i love family

guess the best is to do them together!!!

ready or not...

here we come!

CLOSING time!...

so this morning we CLOSED on our house!! woot woo.

The realtor and financer guy both gave us NICE gifts too.

and a coke..hehe.

other than that we have a week of packing and making sure we have enough boxes....friday night we go to clean and do some preliminary moving and

Sat's the big M-O-V-i-N-G day. We have TONS of people helping....Thanks to everyone for your huge blessings..

then 3 days later we get to go see our Fam in Indiana!!!

Life is splendiferous!!

Probably won't post pics for a couple of weeks, but it's on the ta-do-list!!

as always thanks for reading and sharing in our joy!

posted pics as promised

Just under 18 weeks...more will come, cause it's only going to get bigger! yeah me.

18 weeks and counting

UPdate:

*The belly is growing everyday. Jake likes to put his head down by "the baby" and talk to "it" and listen or feel for anything...he's so sweet and encouraging.
(i took a few pics last night, i'll try to get it up sometime this week.)

*We finished Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 1 last night...some of those episodes are SCAREY!! Or i'm incredibly easily freaked out....we really like the show and are looking forward to starting season 2 soon.

*We have also started packing up some books and dvds...cataloging everything on computer...so that in the future when people want to borrow anything...we can remember who has it and when they got it...just for our records...we like to lend things out...but sometimes when i go to watch something and it isn't on the shelf...I think...now where did that go....now, i'll just beable to look at the comp and VOILA...(we're kind of nerds i guess..cause we're having fun with this.)

*We watched Valkyrie last night...I liked it...it's interesting...Knowing the reality of history, and that Hitler killed himself....I so wanted the plan from the movie to succeed....anyhoo..i liked Tom Cruise's performance...and the other myriad of famous actors in it were fun to recognize too.

*We're suppposed to close on our house on Sept 15...LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AWAY!!! very exciting..Jake can hardly wait...
.a neat thing that happened/will be happening...we bought plane tickets to visit my sister (jakes sister) in Indiana Sept 22...
so really we'll have time to move in...go to Indiana...then when we fly back home, we'll be flying home....to our HOME....it'll be like we're flying home to a new happy life...in a house!

*We have a lot of things to buy....eventually....furniture/house stuff, not to mention baby stuff....but i'm excited about practicing PATIENCE...we're doing something different with our finances....only buying things when we have the money for it. This may sound OBVIOUS for some of you wonderful people, but in the past, I've been comfortable with putting a little something on credit and then paying it off ..either when the bill comes in..or a few months later....HOWEVER...i recently paid off all of my credit card debt (celebrate good times come on!) and so ...point being we will be very patient with getting whatever couches, gliders, fun whatevers we see that we'd like to acquire...I'm looking forward to this new adventure.

*Work has been really wonderful for me..I just hit my one year mark! They gave me a cool fleece and blanket..and i think i'll be getting a plaque too.

*Our arts group at church had a "chalk the walk" activity this past Tuesday, as part of our Arts in Worship sequence we've been doing. Thus far we've done drawing, water color painting, clay, acrylic painting, photography, and chalk...i think that's everything.
some days we had live worship music, other times just cds playing. it's been a really nice time allowing God to use us through the arts to express the talents and gifts that He has given us...and it's been a great way to use those things to express worship back to Him.
*For this past activity, only a few people showed up...but we had a great time..I'll post pics of that soon...(need to get them from the person that brought the camera.)

*I didn't think I had too much to update on, but now looking at what i've just written...I hope you enjoyed and didn't get too bored!