Dahlia

The deer finally left me one Dahlia in my garden!

Baby Bumping...

This is a video I took this morning. I really think it exaggerates the size of my belly right now because I have only gained four pounds...

It takes a couple of seconds, but I'm holding my breath the whole time. Flip isn't!

For those of you who are wondering...here is a video of my baby belly and why I have nicknamed him Flip! Today was my 16 week check up and the doctor was surprised at how active the baby is this early in the pregnancy.

P.S. we don't know if the baby is a girl or boy yet, I'm just saying he because it sounds better than it

Front Windows

Ever since we bought our house we've been planning to replace the front windows. I wanted to keep them as large as possible, but Josh wanted them smaller. We settled on a 6 foot casement style window group. It was the biggest I could convince Josh to order. I lost six feet of window :( but gained a MUCH better quality window in its place.

Josh taking out the old windows, they were big, heavy, broken, and custom built.

Libby and Naomi helped me take off the siding while Josh did the window.
(we are getting new insulation and siding up on the house)

Josh framing in the new opening

Josh's nice neat hole in the front of our house

The new window (inside of the house view)

From Julie

Thanks for shopping for the baby and I! (sorry my bathroom is under construction so the mirror isn't too great. :(

 

 

visit my great sister's blog to see what she got for me

http://juliezambia.blogspot.com/2016/09/maternity-shopping.html

Frankenmuth

Poor Mom no longer has any preschoolers to take on adventures. So I filled in for a day and we went to Frankenmuth. Libby was our driver and photographer and laughed at us for our preschool day. We went to the farthest out of town fudge shop, and poor Libby wasn't sure we could walk that far. We knew why they had a coupon for a slice of free fudge with purchase...

We took my dirty wool to the woolen mill for them to clean and prepare it for batting and roving. That might make some Christmas presents.

We walked through the little shops area and did obey the signs that said "Do not allow children to swirl around on chairs and tables." It was hard, but Libby and I obeyed. :)

I had to pop my head into the shop called "Funky Skunk." Neither Libby nor Mom felt so inclined.

At the castle shops we viewed all the "babies" in the nursery. We ohhed and ahhed over the doll faces and cute sizes. We left them all there, for now.

We ate snacks and had a great time together.

We wanted to go to the toy store....it has a great selection of Melissa and Doug toys....but we will have to save that shop for another time.

When we went to pose for this picture a very nice passer-by-lady offered to take the photo so that Libby could be in it too, but Libby assured her that she was just fine.

Oh well. Not everyone is able to maintain the fun adventure style of being a preschooler with their Mom!

Mom and I at the visitors center

Baby Bump

Start of week 13. 

Josh was able to come with me to my Doctor appointment this Monday. It was fun to see his smile when we got to hear the heart beat! The Doctor said our baby was flipping around and moving a lot. Everything seems good and although the scale says I lost three pounds in four weeks, I don't think my belly says that. But its okay. Ice cream here I come!

New Niece

Josh's sister just had a baby last week. We hope to go meet her tomorrow. Jessi (new Mommy) says she doesn't want to put her down so I'm not sure how much of a chance we will get to hold our new niece, but I'm pretty sure she will share!