Visiting Baby Jackson

So, Sunday night I got to looking at my work schedule for the week and I realized that I had the whole week off!!!!!! I was talking with Jami and she said, "do you want to fly anywhere?" I said YES, I want to go see my brother and his family (they just had a new baby)!

So we got to looking at flights and it just happened to work out that I could fly standby on a buddy pass. A buddy pass is a perk that Aaron, Jami's hubby, gets from the airline he works for. They get so many every year that they can gift to friends and family to allow them to fly cheap on planes that are not fully booked. Anyways, it worked out that I was able to fly out from Rochester on Monday morning and I made it down here at about 1:00. What a surprise!

That evening however I got a bad cold, I was afraid it was the flu at first cause I felt totally wiped out! The next morning I felt better, but still not great, but at least it wasn't the flu. I guess traveling must have worn me out and with the cold starting on top of that I felt pretty crummy.

So with me being sick and my cold progessing a runny nose on Wednesday I haven't been able to hold Jackson, I don't want to get the little guy sick :( Hopefully tomorrow I will be symptom free and not contageous. Then I will get 1 1/2 days of holding baby Jackson before I fly home on Saturday!

I need some ideas from my readers, what do you give some friends that gave you something worth $700.00 in value, and beyond that, my time here has been priceless. I don't get to visit Justin, Katrina, Austin and now Jackson very often. Any ideas for something special for them in return?

Here are some pictures of my time down here.

First Family picture

Jackson's 1st bath at home, Nana Flasch helping sooth him

Cutie


Getting cleaned up


Sleeping in his swing


Austin running away from the camera


Nana painting pictures for the boys' rooms, Vivian and Katrina are both published artists. I got to help paint a few of them can you tell which ones I painted, there are four!

Puppies for Jackson's room

2nd Set of four

Trains for Austin's room

When he saw these hanging on the wall he said they were beautiful!

*** Big News ***

We have been waiting to share our wonderful news with everyone until I was far enough along and we knew everything was going well. I am now 12 weeks and I had my first doctors appointment last week. I got to hear the heartbeat and the Dr. says that everything looks good.

So, now we are letting everyone know that in April, Nate and I will no longer be just a couple, we will be a family.

I am due April 7th. I have not had any problems with morning sickness and other than being tired, which is getting better, there is not much change so far. I have noticed that my tummy has popped out a bit, but not too much.

12 4/7 weeks

It is Decided

Fables and Fairy Tales will be the theme this year. We like to have themes for our parties, it is fun to decorate with more than just black cats and pumpkins and it is great to see everyone all dressed up in one theme.

That being said, we will not kick you out on your keester if you do not come dressed as one of the seven dwarfs, Rapunzel, Jack with his Beanstalk, Mother Goose or something along those lines.

I will post an official invitation soon.

Everyone is welcome to come, however, please RSVP if you can make it.

Comments, Rather Lack Thereof

I know of a few people who read my blog, and I know that more than half a dozen that stop by every once in a while. I know this cause I have something called a hit counter, it counts how many times someone visits my blog. Well the count is now up to 11, 922. I know that every time I look at my own blog (I do this to use the links to friends' blogs) it goes up, so there are probably about 200 or so hits that don't count, but who is everyone else?

I can name a few; Lani, Jami, Gina, Neisha, Shaun, Helen and I recently found out that Bryce was here. Oh, and Janelle, sorry I forgot to list you. Other than that I don't know my other readers.

Granted that sometimes I don't have much to say, and I haven't been real faithful in updating with new posts this summer, but I didn't have any motivation. Why update if no one reads them?

So my point is, COMMENT, say hello, don't be a visitor that lurks silently in the electronic ether. And check in every once in a while, you never know when something exciting might happen!

Halloween 2009

Halloween is just around the corner and we still have not decided on a theme this year.

I was thinking Fables & Fairy Tales, what do you think? Do you have any ideas?

In past years we have had an Egyptian theme, Wild West Theme and a Pirate theme.

Comment and give me some ideas!!!

Oh, and for those of you who would like to join us for the Annual Halloween party, it will be on Saturday, October 31st, for supper, games and pumpkin carving.