It's Been a While...

Yes, it has been quite a while since I've posted last. We seem to have been busy. We have had our wrestling tournament in Clinton for the boys. Ben and I were in charge of the concession stand this year. We had quite the challenge getting things organized as we didn't have much information to go off of from past years. Needless to say, I am very glad it is over. Jasper continues to practice twice a week and the younger kids are done. Ben and Mason practice at home. They will both be going to a few more tournaments this year.

Ben will start to work quite a bit of overtime within the next few months. They have a two week shut down at the end of April into May.

I have been feeling pretty good, aside from this major cold I have gotten in the last few days. I called in sick to work today. I wish I could take some strong medicine to help me! I had my ultrasound in the middle of January. We took the boys as they couldn't stop talking about wanting to go watch the baby on TV. They only liked it for the first five minutes, then they were ready to go. The tech measured the baby at 24 weeks when I was only at 22 and said it weighed about 1 lb. and 10oz. already. By the ultrasound, my due date it May 7th. That will be around the time Ben will be working everyday for his shut down. Let's hope my first due date of the 15th is more accurate! We did not find out if we are having a boy or girl. Jasper was a little disappointed. He is anxious to find out. Jasper and Mason have both voted for a little brother, but lately, Jasper wants a little sister. He says that was she can help with all of the cooking and cleaning. I don't know where he got that from, but I've got news for him! I don't think we would have been able to tell what we were having anyway as the baby was quite active! My first thought....not another Mason!!! I'm going to have to find some kind of energy to keep up with those two!

I had my latest appointment this past Monday before the big blizzard hoping to get something to help me feel better before we got snowed in. She did say I could take some plain sudafed and tylenol. Hasn't seemed to be helping much. My doctor said everything else seems to be going well. She will probably have me get another ulstrasound around 30 weeks to measure the baby again.

That's the lastest. I hope to start posting more! There are just never enough hours in the day!

Half Way There!

We had another doctor appointment today. We are at the halfway mark! The boys went with us today to listen to the heartbeat. They thought it was pretty cool to be able to hear it. They could hear other funny sounds my stomach makes and listen to the baby move too. The heartbeat was around 156. I wrote down all of the heartbeats while I was pregnant with Jasper and Mason so we are going to look at those sometime and compare. I have an ultrasound on January 14th. We are thinking about taking the boys because they want to see how the baby looks on "TV". I can feel the baby move around a lot. Every once in a while someone else can feel it when the baby gives a big kick. Everything else looks good so we will see the doctor again in four weeks!

Happy New Year!

It has been a busy year for our family. I wouldn't say anything major has happend. Our big event won't be until May 2011! We have spent this past week with all of us on vacation from school or work. We have had a great time playing some of the games we got for Christmas and just being together. Ben and I did manage to get some of our computer room transformed. We are going to turn that into a toy room and the toy room will be the baby's room. Neither Ben and I will get much vacation time before the baby is born so we had to make sure we got quite a bit done while we were off. We have been very fortunate to be healthy this year and hope it continues for years to come. We look forward to this next year with some new adventures for us!

Happy New Year!

Fa la la la la - la la la la

Mom, Dad, Mason and I attended Jasper's Holiday Program at school tonight. Ben had to work and was unable to go. This was the first time the concert has not been rescheduled in three years! They also divided the grades up so it wasn't so congested as in years past. Long story short, there are four classes to each grade in the school and they had two grades perform in one hour in previous years and you were to be gone from the parking lot by the quarter of the hour for the next program. It was a new school four years ago and the only thing that they could have done differently was made an actual parking lot that would fit the families of Eagle Heights. There were so many people last year, the school broke the fire codes with people in the gym and with the parking. Needless to say, this year was MUCH better!

Jasper claims he doesn't like music class. It must be a boy thing or it may not be cool to like music. He sings a lot at home and is actually a good singer. I haven't figured out the reason he doesn't like singing yet.

Grandma Deana told Mason the rules of concert etiquette and he did great! He was getting antsy towards the end but still did very well. I am very proud of both of my boys!

Go Colts!

Ben and I went to Indianapolis the weekend after Thanksgiving to go to our first ever Colts game! It was such an AWESOME experience! Yes, we will definitely be going again. Ben has been a Colts fan for a long time and wanted to go see them play before Peyton Manning retired. They lost to the San Diego Chargers, but it was still a great time.

We sat in the front row at the 20 yard line. Adam Vinatieri practiced his kicking right in front of us.

It was a Sunday night game so we got to see Al Michaels and Andrea Kramer make their way around the sidelines.

We stayed in the downtown and we were able to park at the hotel and walk everywhere we went. It was very helpful to not have to drive after the game with all the traffic. There was a mall that took us 10 minutes to walk to so we spent part of the day there. We had to go buy more Colts apparel. We ate lunch at Weber Grill. What an awesome place!

The stadium was amazing! Ben is already talking about going again next year!

Happy 5th Birthday!

Happy 5th Birthday Mason! I can't believe he is that old already! We had a small birthday party yesterday at Happy Joe's. Mason picked out white and chocolate cupcakes decorated with Shrek.

He is a fan of Iowa State and got some new apparel.

He is very excited to be 5! Only problem is, he thinks he can start going to Kindergarten now. He doesn't understand that he has to wait for a new school year! Happy birthday Mason! We love you!

Happy Anniversary!

Ben and I have been married for SIX years today! We won't be celebrating much as he has to work today. We are going to an Indianapolis Colts game after Thanksgiving by ourselves so that's considered our gift to each other. These six years have been great! We have such a wonderful family and are excited to be adding another one next May! Happy Anniversary Ben! I love you!