Tuesday, August 26, 2008

A Tribute to Our Awesome Dog BABS

Just wanted to say that our little girl has now moved on where she can run again, and do spinny circles. :) Tyler took Babs ("Babsy, Babsolina") into the vet to send her off to puppy heaven. He said it was all so peaceful. She just went to sleep as he rubbed her ears. We will miss our pretty little Babs, she was always a great caretaker for Buster (and I am SURE he will miss her very much). Tyler and I will greatly miss her sweet face, rabbit soft fur, her cute little bark and her spinny circles. (But definitely not her bad breath) :) LOL. Thank God she had a good life with us, and that she can be healthy once again.
WE LOVE AND MISS YOU ALREADY BABSY. Thanks for all of the fun memories!

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Just wanted to share with you the awesome 3D images we got of the baby today. It was so fun to see what the baby looks like and see a bit of his personality.Hank really kept kicking himself in the head with his feet... and as we poked him a little bit he started to move his feet out of the way. We got some great photos from inside the womb and as we persisted to wake him up he showed us a big frowny pouty lip. (We got a pict of it).It was so cool to see that even inside the womb he has emotion. SO CUTE!!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Touring Hank's Room

Getting Ready for the Big Day

Before we know it, Hank will be here. We are trying to complete all the steps required before he comes. We have pre-registered with the hospital (saving us hours of paperwork when we arrive to the Hosp). We have found a pediatrician for Hank and have heard that the Doctor is a great Christian Pediatrician, which we are required to have a doctor for him before he is born. There is still lots of insurance steps we have to complete beforehand, but we are almost completely ready. And we have resolved some Maternity leave issues with my work... Praise God.
The house is actually starting to come together. We have Hanks room ready, our guest room ready, the great room and kitchen are ready, and in our Bedroom, we just set up the bassonet/pack-n-play (see below). The garage is almost ready... poor poor garage :)
We have done what we can to cut our budget and expenses, and have consolidated the little amount of debt that we have, to get us a lower interest rate. We feel like we've done what we can to prepare. The rest of the stuff... well, we'll just have to "wing-it" :) Here is a pict below of the new pack-n-play we got on sale at Toys R us for only $100. SWEET.

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Garage Sale and a Whole Lot More! WHAT A STORY!!!

This morning, I am sitting here in the kitchen with our pathetic dog at my feet. I'm staring out the window only to notice a car stop by every 30 minutes or so for our yard sale, which we have done two days in a row. Yesterday we made a sweet $5 bones, and today so far have made $180. Which is from the couch we sold to our neighbor across the street. SWEET.
Well, yesterday was the longest start to the day ever. We're calling it the morning in hell. We are happy to have made $5. But for the trouble it caused, it wasn't really worth it. Tyler was walking inside and let the garage door close behind him... a shelf fell off of the garage wall (which had a can of dark chocolate stain on it that we used to stain our log bed). The can hits the cement floor and takes a spill that coats half of the garage. We immediately start on hands and knees to wipe it up. (OH THE SMELL!) And Tyler takes another 1/2 hour spraying Goo Gone to get it out. (Which by the way works like magic).
After that is all cleaned up my husband decides that he was going to work on one of his projects in the garage (that involve a mixing of certain chemicals). He is using our camping burner and a large pot to melt some chemicals together. (NOT RECOMMENDED!). He decides, since he has done this before, to take a match to the mixture (mind you he is still inside the garage). A large cloud eruption of smoke and fire are set off inside my garage! We are SO LUCKY and thankful that all it burned was the garage floor. We had a LOT of onlookers wondering if they should call the fire department as Tyler is telling them that he has "it all under control and it is just one hell of hot garage sell." I WAS NOT AMUSED, and frankly I said some words I've never even heard before HAHA LOL.Great day... not to mention that I got a doctors phone call that told me I have to go back in and take the 3 hour glucose test for my blood sugar. Sweet, gotta love the orange elixir they give you.
So after today. We are going to take a nap. A very long nap mind you. (Two days of getting up at 5:45 on our weekend, and a whole lot of shenanigans. We are tuckered out. It will be good when we can look back and laugh at all of this. I am hoping that that day comes soon :D As for now, no more "interesting" projects. They are off limits. Those of you that are Labrums, understand why Tyler is on restriction. (I LOVE YOU HONEY:) I would show you right here a picture of my garage... it is far too upsetting still. :D
So here is a picture of our house instead:

Friday, August 1, 2008

A Portland Shower, without any showers :)

We just flew in from Portland and boy are our arms tired. J/K (lame joke) :) We had a wonderful time with all the family and it was so good to see everybody. It was the first of 3 showers, and we were blessed to be together and receive some really great gifts for Hank. Thank you to all of our family that helped make this one a great shower! We love you.
Here is Tyler with his older and younger brother, and his dad (L to R: Travis, Dad, Tyler, Michael)
Here is Me with my sister inlaws, and mom inlaw (L to R: Angela, Mom, Me, Liz)
Here is Tyler and I with my sister Jade and her little boy Phoenix, they drove up from Eugene Oregon to visit us.