2nd day of life

Jude was taken up to the NICU around 11pm on the 10th. They took him because he was breathing heavily and some sort of an infection. They did a spinal tap to test him for meningitis. it can back negative. so they started him on 2 general antibiotics. he seems to be doing better. but we will not be able to bring him home for awhile. in the meantime both ashley and baby are doing their best to rest. we will be going home late tonight sometime and back up here early saturday morning to try feeding again and spend time with him. which will most likely be our schedule for quite sometime.thank you all for you thoughts and prayers. jake for ashley and jude

the arrival

after such a long time waiting, our son is here!!! it was a pretty long labor at 19hrs. our son, Jude Jakob arrived at 02:10m on november 10th 2010. he tipped the scale at 9.08lb 21" long. it was by no means an easy time but ashley is simply amazing and took it all in stride. she is truly my hero!
here some images for you to enjoy!

jacob.

another first

i do not quite remember how the conversation came up, but i told ashley that i have never carved a pumpkin. (that i remember doing anyway) I was supposed to get a pumpkin last week. but when i got down to hyvee, i did not know what i should get. so i decided to wait till ashley could come along with me as she has carved em before.
so tonight while we were doing our weekly shopping, we decided to pick some up and give it a whirl.
so here are some pictures of our venture into the art of pumpkin carving.

When life Hands you lemons........

Jake and I have been running into bad luck! First and For most Jake was recently laid off of work..... But we were expecting this so I wouldn't call it bad luck as much as just Unavoidable. Now the Interesting stuff... We got a call the other day from our land lord telling us that They are having marital issues and that the wife would like us to kindly pack up our stuff and leave!!!! My thoughts on this were ummmmmmmm NO! lol. we have spent most of our (jake and I) time fixing up this nursery now they want us to up and leave before we could even bring our son home to it. We had calmly talked to her and stated that we have signed a One yr lease and that with out Buying us out of our lease we are not willing to move. After all was said and done Jake and I still have a place to live but It has been very stressful. THANK GOODNESS FOR CONTRACTS!!!
One good aspect of Jake being laid off is that he gets to work on his car!!!! Its up and rumbling!!! lol.

Everything Update!!!!!

So I Am 36wks Preggers and ready to POP!!! We have the Nursery all ready, the Bassenet/pak n play up and are installing the Car seat tomorrow. We Had are Dr. Appt today and Found out that I am 2cm Dilated and 75% effaced which means he might be making his appearance Early. We Have recently taken our Maternity pictures!!!! It was really nice to get some pictures with Jake and I.

We have Also tried planning are Wedding in this Time before the baby is born. We have Already booked the Ceremony site and Reception site, Both will be Held in Sioux city and we couldn't be happier with the venues!!! I have been working on Save the Date cards for Jake and I. We took Engagement photos when we took our Maternity photos!
Keep Reading Our little Bean will Be coming soon and this will be the First place we post Photo's!

Camping!!

Sorry we have not posted in a while, just been super busy.

Well two wkends ago Jake and I went camping we had so much fun preparing for the trip, setting up, ( we got like the best camp site) swimming and fishing. I haven't been camping in yrs so to do it again was a blast. We did get some odd looks tho because I was 7 mo pregnant at the time but I didn't complain because I was having to much fun. Even the dog had a blast. Now that we got our mini "vacation" out of the way its preparing for the baby, (good thing the nursery is almost done... we only have 8 more wks) and getting the ball rolling on wedding plans!! eeeeekkkk!!!!! so much to do and we are running out of time.