Barrier Glory 300 work party!

dad and girls getting ready for the water! - if only I wasn't 9 month

prego :( ...I didn't get to enjoy the jet-ski's

Lexi and her new missing front tooth - one week before school pics!!

kam and her adorable weird poses

messing around

the girls absolutely LOVED the jet ski's - wish we had one, it was fun

dad and girls

the wonderful cake

silly girls posing

dad and shelby

some of the employees

We set a goal to hit 300 accounts added this summer with our company - and the guys achieved it!! We had a lot of fun building up to it and celebrating this past weekend. 
We rented jet-ski's and spent some time at the lake.  We then had a fun pizza party with awards and an amazing cake.
We had a fun and very growing summer - but it was filled with lots of work and sacrafice.  The guys had some great employees that helped make everything possible.

First BSU game of the season!

Here is our lovely BSU celebration for the game against Georgia kicking off season 2011!!

We gave in and got cable this year so Mike can have all the college football and sports center he wants this season.  Mainly because we are going to have a newborn and I'm not hauling him around for games.  This way he gets his football and I still get him home :)

So we were excited for the first game of many at our home - GO BRONCOS!!!!

dress up with Grace

Emily came by the other day and visited.  The girls played some dress up and here are the cute poses!  They had a lot of fun playing together :)

Things I look forward to with baby belly gone...

Usually the #1 thing on my list when I'm 9 months prego is...Can't wait to lay on my tummy again! but not this pregnancy.  My #1 is by far - Can't wait to have NO heartburn!!!  I can't believe how horrible it has been this time around.  I down about 4 or more tums a day and they do nothing.  I have it at all hrs, not just bedtime.  And it's just automatic, not effected at all by what I eat.  So even with a tired body and sore from beginning nursing...I'm going to definetly be rejoicing with the lack of heartburn! :)

Other things I'll enjoy:
-wearing my normal clothes again
-laying down anyway I want
-jumping, running, kicking, yes...even walking normal
-I say on every pregnancy that I'm going to excercise b/c I can't now...we'll see, I never follow thru
-holding an adorable baby boy

But I will miss:
-feeling baby kick around in my tummy
-having 5 people's laundry to do rather than 6 :)
-full nights of sleep (though I haven't had those for a while anyway)
-actually sitting thru church and getting something from it, here we go again :)

Baby update again

*37 wks*

*Emily - Me - Rosie - Lara*

So I went into the Dr. yesterday and found that our little guy is still breech - but he is measuring just as small as our girls. So my doc feels real great about me being able to still do this birth vaginally. I feel good about it too seeing his confidence and after many many prayers...have prepared myself for this birth. He is going to start me next weekend - I can hardly wait to have this little boy in my arms. This has been a long pregnancy and I'm ready for the end :)

Last week my wonderful girlfriends threw me a baby shower - it was wonderful. How fun to have blue and yellow colored decor instead of pink. I was spoiled with way cute boy stuff - it made me even more excited for our little man to get here. Two of my girlfriends made me adorable quilts - I felt so honored and can't wait to show them off - also Em made me her famous burp rags...this time with matching binky clips and way cute onesies with ties sewn on them.

He is going to be looking like a stud :) How fun this will be!

I have wonderful friends - they are awesome! Thanks girls for making it a special night!!!

Update on this baby boy of ours...

I had been in a lot of discomfort and pain for over a week and stayed down on the couch all week long. I didn't bother calling the Dr. because I knew he would just tell me to be on bedrest. So I

went in on Tuesday for my Dr. appt to have him check me and we confirmed that this baby boy of ours is BREECH :( I didn't know quiet what this meant or what to expect - but I learned real fast that this is the reason for all the pain and discomfort I've been in for the pregnancy. I also learned I was about to face options and emotional feeling I had never thought of before.

I learned I had basically two options: 1) schedule a C-section or 2) try to flip this baby. So I went with the 2nd option and left the office crying. I was very overwhelmed with all the new news I was trying to process. I've always had such easy pregnancies and deliveries - now I was learning just how lucky and rare that is.

Mike's mom came in and stayed with the girls and Mike and I had to go into Labor and Delivery and be checked in by 6pm. I was hooked up to an IV (poked twice, it hurt b/c she went thru the first vein) and got some drug to relax my uterus so I wouldn't have contractions. Then the dr. did an ultrasound to see the baby's postion and began pushing my belly hard to roll the baby around. Let's just say it was extremely painful and I feel like I've had my belly beaten and bruised. During the whole process they had to keep monitoring the baby's condition - ready to take me C-section at anytime if something went wrong. This was the scariest part for me - knowing at any moment something could go wrong and I'd have a baby 3 1/2 wks early.

Well the baby is a stubborn one - he's bum would not budge from my pelvic bone, so he wouldn't flip. But my dr. did get his feet up so he's in a frank breech postion now, making it able for me to deliver normal. So I go in again next week for another ultrasound to measure the baby's head. If he is the size of the girls my dr. is going to let me deliver regular - if he is any bigger, or feet first again - I will be a scheduled C-section.

I'm pretty scared still trying to process this all. I'm scared to try to deliver normal and have something go wrong and do an emergency C-section...but I will know more next week and I'm trying not to worry about it too much until I know more.

So I have been real tender and sore from all the pushing and pulling on my belly. Also sick the day after coming off that yucky drug that made me shaky and jittery. But today I'm feeling better and this baby isn't hurting me as much as the before - so that is welcoming :)

I'm just ready to be done with this stage and move on to having the baby. We're ready for him and can't wait!

Kam's first day of Preschool

Kamree was sad she wasn't getting to go to school like Lexi. She really wanted supplies, shoes, and clothes. But we are doing the same preschool that we did for Lexi and Kamree has been loving it!!

She is very grown up and ready for school. I asked her what she wants to learn at school and she said 'to read and write words'. She takes her backpack with sanitizer and scissors everyday, even though the supplies are already provided - she wants to be grown up though. She has share day that she is looking forward to tomorrow.

She is a lot like Lexi - they get frustrated when others aren't listening or obeying the teacher. She gets frustrated that others speak out of turn and don't raise their hand. She also tells me that she's the only one that clears her spot after snack and pushes her chair in...haha.

I think she is going to do really well because she is eager to learn and be grown up.

Her first day of school pictures were so cute with her posing that I had to post them all :) She has been awesome during the day with just her and Shelby. She enjoys being the older one around and is so helpful. Today she cleaned her room, made her and Lexi's bed, pick up her clothes, and emptied the dishwasher all because she wanted to and wasn't asked. She is so sweet and I love Sundays at church because she still lets me hold her on my lap. Kam has never really been a cuddler so we take advantage whenever she gives it!