Its a........you will have to wait!!!

I have been feeling lousy lately. I have been sick since last Tuesday. I thought I was feeling better, but then it got worse. I have a sinus infection! I went into see doctor Danz yesturday and she put me on an antibiotic. Hopefully I will start feeling better soon.

I had my ultrasound today! According to my due date I am 21 weeks. However, the ultrasound put me at 21 weeks and 5 days, which would make my due date Jan. 26th but they aren't going to change it. It is still Jan 31. The baby was moving around a lot. It is so amazing to see it moving around in there when you feel it too! It was so cute at one point when she was over the baby's face, we could see the mouth moving. We didn't want to find out the sex. The tech said she thinks she knows what it is, but she couldn't really tell. So even if we wanted to find out we probably wouldn't know for sure. We will all just have to wait until Jan to find out! The heartbeat was 154 and the baby weighed around 1 lb and 1oz. Everything checked out great so that was good! The baby was in a strange position so she didn't get that great of pics, and she tried some 3d ones, here are the best ones:


































Little baby foot!!












We couldn't get as much detail as we would have liked, but this is the face in 3D.

Happy First Anniversary Taryn and Don!

Today is my best friend Taryn and her husband Don's first wedding anniversary. They moved away to Washington state after they got married, they have visited once though. We miss hanging out and playing Cranium. Miss and love you guys!!

Happy Anniversary Taryn and Don!













I LOVE this picture! Walking down the "road of life" together. I wish you a lifetime of happiness!

Update

Sean and I have been really sick lately - sore throat, fever, etc. We are finally starting to feel better!

Well, after working a grand total of 10 hours this last week(it has been over a month since Sean has had 40 hours), Sean put in his 2 weeks notice with TC Building Repair. We can't survive off of the hours Sean had been working with him! Thank God my dad has a lot of work lined up and could use Sean back on the crew. So Sean has a job with SP Construction again, which is great!

Today the Great Lakes Children's Museum re-opened!!! We went there at 10 am for the ribbion cutting ceremony, and Ethan even got to help paint the last part on the wall to "finish" the museum. The museum is a blast! It is a lot like it was before the move (I worked there a few years back) but with some nice improvements. One being that it is only a few minutes away from our house! They also added a "toddler beach" which is a great place for Julia to play. Ethan loved the water table with the "cute little turtles." They got their faces painted and put their hand prints on a canvas in memory of the re-opening. The museum gave away free boats to the first 100 kids and ice cream on the way out. We all had a great time! I took some great pictures but have to get my film developed before I can share.

When we got home we had lunch and Sean and I decided that we would stain our front porch. We have planned on doing it for a while but finally bought the stain. Well, we thought it would take a few hours, but it ended up taking us about 5 hours to get the first coat on! It looks great! We are staining it white, our house is blue/grey and has white trim, so it looks great!

Ok, my ultrasound is this coming Wednesday. Sean and I don't plan on finding out the sex, but here is your change to change my mind. Also, give me your guess as to what we are having, I am interested to hear what you all think!

Pictures and an Update

This was at the NW MI fair. Ethan had his face painted (he got a spider). He wanted a shark, but the girl didn't think she could do that.
Ethan playing his FAVORITE game, "Shark Attack!" He had to play it at the Cherry Festival, Harbor Days, and at the fair.

Fun at the fair, I love how happy Julia was!
This was taken yesturday at Aunt Neno's work. Thanks to her digital camera. Look at Julias hair! I finally got some small hair ties and have been playing around with her hair. It is hard working with that fine hair. Ethan is so sweet to his baby sister, he loves her!

All of these pictures are thanks to Annette and her digital camera. I will have more pictures once I get my roll of film developed. Ethan started preschool last week. He will be going Tues. Wed. and Thurs. from 8:30 - 12. He is going to the Long Lake Head Start center. His teacher seems really nice and he likes it so far. Julia has been talking a lot lately, learning more words all the time. She says: mama, duck "guck", woof woof, baby, book, juice, bear, awwe, and she jabbers all the time. It is so cute when she hugs her stuffed animal and says "awwe"! Ethan and Julia really love eachother, it is so cute, they play together all the time. They love to hug and wrestle. They do have their moments though, when Julia stands in front of Ethan and he can't see the TV, and when Julia doesn't want to play she let us know with a sound we call "break pads". She squeeks when she is annoyed.

Well, God has blessed us with a new car, it is a Saturn 1994 SW2. Getting everything straight with the accident has been a mess. All of the paper work and phone calls. Hopefully everything will work out. My boss finally had her baby on Sept 4th. They named him Remy Thomas. Sean's job hasn't been going very well. It started off great, he had a bunch of overtime, but over the last few week things have really slowed down, and it has been hard. Three weeks ago he only got 31 hours, two weeks ago he got 16 hours, and than last week he only got 13 hours. He is making less than when he was on unemployment. Also, his boss is really bad with communication. Some nights Sean won't know what he has to do the next day, his boss always says he will call him, he never does so Sean calls him at like 10:30pm to find out what he is doing the next day, and his boss tells him he will call him in the morning. Only to get a call at 8:30 that he doesn't have any work for him. Sean has been considering going back to work with my dad, but if he would get full time work, this job would be a good thing. But we just don't know how many more weeks of this we can handle. Sean is trying to sell his drum set, so if any one knows someone looking for one, let us know. I am almost half way through this pregnancy. With so many things going on, I forget I am pregnant sometimes! Except for my huge belly and the little flutters that aren't gas! My ultrasound is in a few weeks, so it will be really cool to see the baby again.

Well, that is about it for now.

Crash!

I know I haven't updated in a while, but I will soon and plan to post some pictures of the kids. This is just to ask if anyone is selling, or knows someone who is selling a car. Sean got in a car accident on his way to work this morning. Thankfully he wasn't hurt (since he doesn't have any health insurance) and it wasn't his fault, but it still is horrible. The car was in my parents name, and we only had plpd insurance on it. The lady was turning left and she ran a red light and they smashed into eachother (there wasn't a stream of cars turning, it was like at the last minute she decided to speed up and go through the red). The front of the Honda was completely smashed in, the windsheild was cracked, and the air bags went off. We didn't actually take it to an auto body shop, but we called to see a ball park for the damage that was done, and he said at least $3000. We didn't even pay that much for the car and we can't afford that much to fix it. It really sucks too cause that was such a great car, it got 28 mpg and ran great. So now we have to figure out what we are going to do about another car, and we need to figure it out fast: Monday the Secretary of State and the insurance place is closed because of labor day, and Tuesday Sean and I both have to go to work.

We really don't have much we can spend on a car, and only plan to get plpd on it cause we have full coverage on the van and can't afford to pay that on two cars. Ahhhhhh, why do these things have to happen!? We were talking about it and wonder if God knows these things are going to happen, or if they are part of his plan, or if they just happen. We were finally in a good place with our car situation and then this happens. I have been crying on and off today, I think partly because of the pregnancy hormones, but also because this is really difficult.

If anyone has any thoughts please let me know, thanks!