Summer Days

We've had some nice hot weather this past week.  It's usually cooler to sit outside in the shade than in our non-air conditioned house, so that's what we do.  We lunch outside...

Play with Daddy outside...

Lunch with Grandpa and Nana outside...

Speaking of Nana and Grandpa, Josiah just loves loves loves them

Grandpa definitely can turn anything into a game. 

How fun to have Grandpa and Nana so close to us during these summer days!

All things Girl

Last week some ladies from church got together to throw me a baby shower. I felt very blessed and loved by these women in our church.  My friend Sarah helped throw it and she made this adorable diaper cake (again, sorry for the poor picture quality that is my camera). And below is a sweet gift Lizzy made for baby girl (she is so talented!!) It's very fun to have a closet full of pink,

ruffles and bows :-)  Already sister's clothes take up more space than brothers :-)  I guess that's to be expected with little girls. 

We pray Jeremiah 17:7,8 over our little girls life as we are getting very anxious to meet her one of these days. 

 "Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.  He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.  It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green.  It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."

A Boy and his Dog

The "video" button on my blog showed up, so I'm going to take advantage of it and upload another cute video.  One of my favorite things Josiah does right now is walk the dog.  Martin is such a good dog and patiently allows Josiah to walk him around even if it means walking with him while he rides his car... They are too cute together and have become great friends as Josiah walks Martin around the neighborhood on a daily basis. 

now it's just a waiting game...

Well, I'm still pregnant. 14 days to go!  I keep having these contractions especially at night and I always go to bed thinking, "OK this could be the night, and then I wake up in the morning and realize it wasn't the night."  So in the meantime I'v been spending alot of time laying by Josiah's kiddie pool reading this really great book. It's called "The Power of One" by  Bryce Courtenay.  It's been very warm here lately (but I'm not complaining, I'll save the complaining for the cold winter months).  So since there's no pictures of a new baby to share, I'll share a video of my old baby.  This was on Fourth of July while we were waiting for the fireworks to start. 

Happy Fourth of July!!

Happy Fourth of July Everyone!

Toes painted? Check.

So this past week I spent a day pampering myself with my wonderful friend Johanna who is also pregnant and due a month after me.  Can I just say, her and I got more comments and attention walking around town than I'v ever gotten in my whole life.  People were drawn to our big bellies and had to comment on the fact that it was so cute how we were both waddling around pregnant! Our day started out with pedicures then a lovely soup, salad and bread stick lunch at The Olive Garden followed by the ever entertaining Twighlight Saga Eclipse movie (we're big fans, Go Team Edward!).  Then we shopped a bit and ended our day at an amazing French restaurant downtown.  Talk about fun and relaxing.  I realized my toes are painted, feet look pretty, it must be time to go into labor right?

 I'm currently down to 23 days until the official due date. Went to the doc yesterday and the baby weighs approx. 6.5 lbs.  Her head is down, I'm dilated at a 2. We're ready to go when she is!

Fun in the Sun!

Well, we at least had one day this week where it was warm enough to pull out the swimming pool. Josiah loved it of course and made sure to throw every ball he could find into the little pool.  This pool is just a bit smaller than the pool at Christie's which makes getting things out of the pool that he throws in alot easier!  The little dog in the background is our neighbors sweet Mini GoldenDoodle puppy named Quigley.  Martin and him are going to be great friends one of these days!

Here's to summer!!!!