Counting down the days!

Our countdown is finally down to 50 days! 50 days give or take a few! I can hardly believe it!  I am so ready for this constantly moving, kicking and punching baby! 

Brother Jordan's basketball team made it to state and won their first game already! We are planning on going up to Des Moines this Thursday and Friday to cheer Western Christian on!  It will be a nice break from work!  It also works out perfectly to meet our new niece in Oskaloosa!

Josh's middle school basketball is done for the year and soon he will be starting girls soccer!  Always busy with something. 

We are so ready for the nice spring weather, we even got the grill out and running last night for supper!  Can't wait until we can spend most of our evenings outside in the backyard!

 

32 weeks!

 

30 weeks!

Grandma showing me how to sew! Which I have since become addicted to! :)  This baby will have plenty of bibs and burp clothes!

Spending the day with aunt lindsey!

Bibs! :) Ready to be drooled on!



Last Trimester!

 

We are so excited to finally be in the last trimester!  The more uncomfortable I am becoming the more excited I am to be holding this little one in my arms! We are trying to make the final preparations to the baby room and finishing up on any house projects we would like to accomplish before baby.  I have quite a collection of fabrics to make bibs and burp rags - thankfully mom had an old sewing machine collecting dust in the basement for me to use :) and thankfully grandma Folkerts is so willing to teach me how to use it and help out with all my sewing projects!

 

 

29 weeks!

My sticky note countdown at work :)

Fabric to recover the cushions on the rocking chair

 

Valentine's day flowers from Joshua :)

Life Lately

Josh and I have been quite busy these last few weeks.  Our nights are usually filled with : Jordan's basketball games, Josh's 7th/8th grade boys games, youth group, prenatal classes, etc.  Then on the occasional weekends we will hit up a Eric Church /  George Strait concert with my family!  O my goodness what an amazing concert that was! 

Waiting for concert to start.  I am sporting my nasty white winter skin tones :)

Us three were pretty excited!

Eric Church :)

King of Country - George Strait as he left the stage after singing the Cowboy Rides away.

Had to get concert shirts :)

We/I decided we needed to paint our basement family room area that we rarely use now.  Since it is the only place in our house that has carpet besides the loft I figured we would be putting it to good use once we had a mobile baby!  And, if we didn't do it now it would never get done!  This picture was taken before we were all done painting, in case you notice the not so great trim job.

Here I am looking pretty large at 27 weeks!  We are now under 100 days til baby's arrival, what a countdown!  Sleep is getting shorter every night - what joy! :P  I have been going a little crazy online shopping for baby clothes lately, trying to get an equal amount of girl and boy clothes! Hoping to redo my mom's rocking chair in the near future as well as hang up decor in the nursery.  So much to do and time is running out!

Over Halfway!

I am now at 24 weeks - and everything is going great!  We had a great Christmas/New Years with family and friends!  Our baby nursery is almost complete - we received so many great gifts for Christmas!

3 preggo "sisters"!  Jessica due April 30, Ashley due March 22, Jenessa due March 19.

Josh and I out to eat for New Year's eve with sister Lindsey in Sioux Falls.

At 23 weeks we finally had our ultrasound!  We sure think baby VG is really cute!  Baby was pretty squirmy and full of kicks during the ultrasound but we still got some great pictures!

Love that face so much already!

23 weeks!

24 weeks!

This coming weekend my family is all going to the George Strait / Eric Church concert in Kansas City! We are pretty excited! 

halfway!!

19 weeks!

FInally 20 weeks!! 

We have big plans to get the baby room painted this weekend so we can set up the crib!

o baby!!

Here are some baby bump pictures!  

9 weeks

13 weeks

16 weeks

17 weeks

Our First Home! - Before Pictures!

On July 1, 2013 we finally were able to move into our first home! We had closed on the house on May 1, so we had a few months to wait, it was torture!  Looking back I think we would both agree we could have attempted to pack our apartment a little better before the move.  I worked til about 1 and Joshua took the day off and started the move around 7am.  Family members showed up throughout the day to help us out.  Not only did they help me finish packing the apartment but they also helped me clean it up good! Very thankful to be close to family and that they are so willing to help us out! 

 

Side of house

Kitchen

Small bedroom we use as an office.

Bathroom

Huge tub!

Another Bedroom - Guest Room

Fun wall in our laundry room/hallway off garage

Master Bedroom! :)

Walk in Closet :)

Master Bathroom

Walk-in shower

So much counter space!

TV room off of the kitchen

Stairs going up to loft space

loft landing

 

Basement landing

Family room

Everything is just thrown in there for now, excuse the mess!

Garage for our beauties

Patio in backyard!

 

Love that it is fenced in! And has a fire pit!

 

 

We have made a few changes to the house since these pictures.  Check back now and then to see our progress!