Shutterfly how I love thee

I had to start another post about one of my favorite websites, Shutterfly.  Thanks to Shutterfly, I am able to save photos on line easily like a website, make calendars, and photobooks.  I am also excited to get 50 free holiday cards just by blogging about it!  Plus the many offers that shutterfly provides is awesome.  So thank you Shutterfly for being such a great website, I will use you for many years to come!

Thankful for many things

I am thankful for many things....my husband: he is wonderful.  I may not say it often enough, but he does so much for me and the boys.  My children are another thing I am thankful for.  They are just awesome kids.  Andrew is such a great big brother and a great helper around the house.  He has learned so much at pre school the past few months it amazes me everyday.  Jacob he is our little stinker.  If I ever thought Andrew was strong willed, he far surpasses Andrew with this.  Jacob likes to have his way and will let you know if he is not happy about it.  He can be very loving giving hugs and kisses and waving bye bye too.  I am also thankful for a pretty uneventful pregnancy.  Besides still feeling like I am in my first trimester a few times a day.  Things are going pretty well with the little guy.  I am also thankful for 2 day work weeks!  Next week I only have to work Monday and Tuesday and then have the rest of the week off.  I am hoping the long weekend at my parents will be enjoyable and a restful time for us all.  I am looking forward to seeing my family and friends.

Another baby boy!

That's right we are having another boy!!  We did not find out what we were having with Andrew or Jacob, but decided to with this one.  My life changed with losing the baby, especially how it all happened, in March.  Going from not even planning to get pregnant, to finding out we are, to having an ectopic pregnancy, and it rupturing is a life changing event.  At any rate we were in the ultrasound room and the tech asked us if we were finding out.  I looked at John (because I wanted him to make the decision if we were going to find out this time) and asked him what he thought and he still wasn't sure.  I told the tech I was pretty sure it was a boy again because of how active the baby is.  So the tech proceeded to do the ultrasound.  She then came to a point where she obviously knew what the baby was and said, well do you want to know?  I looked at John again and he said ok, let's find out.  The tech said you were right, its a boy!  I was so excited and so was John.  Don't get me wrong, I would have been happy with a girl, but I just feel like I was destined to be a mom to boys :-)

Speaking of boys, our neighborhood (which I call the horseshoe) has 13 boys 5 and under.  One boy who is 8, one girl who is 6, and two teenage girls.  Of course we are due with a boy sometime the end of March.  A gal who lives across the street who has a 2 year old boy is due with a boy a week before me, and a neighbor on the corner is due the beginning of March with her first...a GIRL!  Needless to say, the boys in the neighborhood will not have any problems finding friends.  so when all the babies are born in March there will 15 boys under the age of 6!  That is insane, but what a fun neighborhood to live in.  I know we want to build a house in the next 5-10 years, so it will be hard to leave a neighborhood with so many kids (especially boys) our sons age.  However, our house isn't getting any bigger and it is a dream of ours to build.

Well here is another Saturday.  I enjoy Saturdays for the obvious reasons, day off of work, no need to hustle and bustle around, and college football!  Since living in Iowa for over 5 years, I have developed a love for the Hawkeyes.  Growing up, we never really had a strong love for any team in college, except Notre Dame.  College football is just different in Iowa than any other place I have lived.  I always felt that growing up in the UP you were either a Packer or Lion fan.  I am smart so therefore I am a Packer fan!  Now I live with a Bears fan who is brainwashing our children to be Bears fans.  Eventually they will learn that the Packers are the superior team!

For those who read this, you all have figured out that I am not great at keeping this up.  I also got ticked off and the picture uploader and so I am not wasting anymore time putting pictures on this.  However, if you check Shutterfly or Facebook, I do put pictures there.  Point being, I would love to post some pictures of the boys decked out in their Halloween costumes, but you aren't going to find it here!  Halloween was super fun this year, and we have way too much candy.  Jacob and Andrew's buckets were overflowing by the time we came home.  We lasted the entire two hours and were able to trick or treat with some friends of ours and their girls. 

Other news of the week is the mid term election.  I often have to chuckle about some of the things I see people post on FB about the election, especially my bleeding heart libreral friends.  This election was obviously letting the powers that be know that the people are tired of what is going in the government.  Too much of anything isn't a good thing; food, tv, and government to name a few.  I for one am not a fan of Obama and think he is not a good President at all.  In fact its amazing that he is sitting in the highest office in the land and what do we really know about him.  Listening to news and radio programs we (as a whole country) know very little about the man.  It seems those who elected him were so disgusted with George Bush that they were enamored with a person who is able read a teleprompter.  He has been in office for 2 years and Congress is already making a shift and his biggest supporters are even questioning why they elected him.  I just hope Americans will come around and not elect him to a second term.  Well enough politics for this post.

Up next in our household is Thanksgiving!  I always look forward to this day as its a day to not do anything and just EAT!  I love it.  We are heading up to the good ole UP this year and join in the festivities with my crazy family.  It will be good to see my grandma as she is 95 years old this year!  Of course its always good to see my sister, her family, my parents, extended family and my friends.  We usually make it up there twice a year and its always so busy and a quick visits that I usually never get to do all that I would like or see everyone that I would like to either.  Oh well!