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.

Time goes by!!!

With little over 2 months left, I am starting to feel the pressure of it all. The other day I walked into his room and realized just how little stuff we have for him. However. We have 2 baby showers coming up. So we are hoping that we will get quite a bit of what we need with those.
Baby Boy has been causing Ashley quite a bit of pain with Braxton Hicks contractions as of late.
We have staying busy day to day life really. We went down to Omaha this past weekend. We both enjoyed it. However. Not having slept in 30+ hours did not go over very well. We had to stop at a rest stop on the way home so I could sleep, as I was passing trucks and not remembering doing so.
Well. I need to get to bed as I work tonight.
P.S. We are registered at Babies R Us and Target. We will be registering at Walmart soon.

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our fourth!