Randomness

A lot has happened since I last posted (sorry for that).
Cooper has already rolled over and has been successfully sleeping through the night for about three weeks now. (praise the Lord!) So you would think that I could post more frequently with all the spare time I have on my hands now! Cooper has also been gaining weight very well. We go get him weighed every week just for my piece of mind. Carter on the other hand......well he has lost some weight since his 2year check up. We are trying whole milk again (in his Carnation Instant Breakfast) along with always asking him if he wants something to eat. We'll see what happens. Worst case scenario: we will ship him off to my sister-in-law who has successfully 'healthied up' (as opposed to 'fattened up') their son that they just adopted from Haiti who was very under weight/malnourished.

Matthew has been working a lot but has been making time to relax as well. He just went on a 'guys weekend' last week to the cabin and came back (thankfully) recuperated (and more appreciative of family life). :o)

I have reached another mile stone. I am now 26. We had a great date night on my birthday. Matt took me to a Thai place that I have been wanting to go to for a while, but he wasn't ever interested. We dropped the boys off at Grandma's house before hand and were able to just take our time and enjoy dinner. (I never take for granted the fact that we have family in town or the fact that they are willing to babysit!)

My baby sister got engaged at the first of the month (that is her fiance Seth in the picture with Cooper on his back), So I have been having fun talking wedding stuff with her. Congratulations Seth and Jillissa!

I can't think of anything else at the moment that is important that is interesting, but if I come up with anything, I will let you know. :)

the cabin

We got to go to the cabin last week for 10 days. It was vacation for me and work for Matthew. He was remodeling the bathroom there almost the whole time. I did help grout though (which gave me a whole new appreciation for Caleb-matt's helper) and I have the blisters on my hands to prove it!

My husband is such an amazing man. He totally gutted the bathroom and re-designed the layout of it. There used to be a window where the moose now is, a toilet where the shower is and a tiny, nasty shower insert where the toilet is now. He made/designed the counter for the sink and after all that creative work, he still had the creativity to tile it all! I don't know how he does it!

Matt's mom got to 'come to visit' on both weekends while we were there and his sister and nephew came for a day in the middle of the week. I don't know exactly which day because the days kinda run together when you don't leave the cabin for several days. It was a nice time to spend together as a family and for Carter to be daddy's helper. I loved being able to be on the same job as Matt (even if it I was on the couch). ;)

Cooper is getting very big very fast (compared to how Carter was). He decided to go ahead and roll over despite the fact that he was only 6 weeks old. I don't think he really knows what he is doing, but he has done it a handful of times already. He has started to laugh and smile at people when they hold him which is the cutest thing in the world.

Well, we are going camping this weekend with my family and I am sure I will have more pictures from that. The trick will be to actually post them sometime this year! ;)

Happy Father's day

I hope all the dads out there had a good father's day yesterday. Matt ended up having to work yesterday, but we took him out to dinner on Friday to celebrate. It was either work on Father's day or work next weekend and not see family that would be 'in town' from the east coast. So the choice was made for father's day. He did get to sleep in a while and just work the afternoon and evening. (that's better than nothing).
The boys and I went over to my parents to celebrate the day with my dad. All my sisters were able to make it for lunch (even my oldest non-adopted but adopted sister, tonya). They were also kind of selfish reasons that I went over there. I really didn't feel like being home 'by myself' all day and I knew I would have 4+ babysitters there all day. :)
So belated Happy Father's day to all our dads, grandpas, brothers (that includes in-laws), and my wonderful husband. I hope the day was special for you.





P.S. I wanted to put a picture of my dad on here too, but due to my mom's computer overheating and melting the insides, the great pictures that my sister took of him and his grand-boys were unavailable to e-mail to me. :) (gotta love computers!) I will post them once they are retrieved.

Cooper

Matt and I are both now on Facebook so I have kind of been neglecting our blog (if you couldn't tell). It is so much easier to just upload pictures on Facebook than it is to write an update for you guys on here. I know that really isn't a good excuse, and I am just being lazy, but whatever! :) So all that to say... if you have already seen my facebook pics, you won't be seeing anything new here.

Cooper came on May 26th (memorial day) and was almost an identical twin of his big brother. Everything went really well and I recovered pretty fast compared to last time. I still have days that I have no energy, but over all I feel almost back to normal. Cooper has his good nights and bad nights, and I can't wait until he is sleeping through the night!

Here are some of the pictures from the hospital.

Carter's new bed

Yay!!! Carter is finally in his new room! Well actually he has been for a few weeks now, but I can't ever make myself sit down and update this stinkin' blog. So we will just pretend it just happened yesterday. ;)
I kept looking on Craig's list for a bed and every time I would find one that we both liked, it had just been spoken for. So then we looked at a furniture store and didn't see anything we liked, so Matt just decided one night to make it. I knew he could make anything, but I wasn't about to ask him to knowing how many hours he usually works. So I'm really glad it was his idea. :)
As you can see, it is beautiful (and sturdy)and it only took him 3 or 4 evenings of working on it to get it done. He now thinks he wants to make furniture when he retires. So put your requests in now if you want to be on the list.
We don't really have any of the other things up on his wall yet, but at this point I am not really worried about it. All I really cared about was getting all his stuff in there so I could get all the baby stuff out.

I started packing for the hospital this week, but I can't afford to actually step through the doors until after midnight on Thursday morning. God has been giving me some reassurance though that He is in control and I just need to stop worrying about it. One of the major things is that the 2nd week I was checked, there was a big jump on how I was progressing (from 0% effaced to 70%). But...the 3rd week there was virtually no change from the week before! So I go in tomorrow for another appointment and hopefully they will say "he will probably come on Thursday". (wishful thinking)

I have stopped doing hair for now though (which I know is helping me not go into labor early) which I am enjoying except for having to tell people 'no' when they call for an appointment. I really am a people pleaser and it kills me to have to disappoint people, but I know that they all understand.

Matthew has been really good at helping around the house (I think he is more worried than I am that I will go early), he has done all the vacuuming and taking out the trash and even cleaned out the guest and storage rooms! Yay!
ok. I'm sure you have had enough of listening to me brag about what a great husband I have, and you are getting a little jealous. So I will stop writing now and get some other things done on my pre-baby 'to do' list.

Not much going on

So I guess I have turned into a once-a-month blogger. Oh well right? Not much is really going on here. The basement is about as finished as it was 2 months ago (at least there is carpet, and Carter's new room still isn't ready. Although Matt was able to put the first coat of mud on the walls (to patch all the holes from everything that he had hung on them)last night and said that he could sand and put the last coat on tonight when he gets home. But he wants to paint it with a suede (which takes 3 times longer than just rolling on a couple coats of semi-gloss)so that pushes my deadline back even further. Not like I am working against a clock here or anything. I am trying to not really stress about it though.

The weather has been getting really nice here. We actually got to go to the park last week and got to garage sale on the weekend. Oh yeah. There was some drama over the weekend. Maybe it happened because there wasn't enough drama in my pregnancy so far...but whatever the reason, here's what happened. We were garage-sailing (Carter, me, my friend Jill and her son Ryder) and at a house that had a driveway that sloped down to the street. The boys were having a great time playing with the toys for sale and all of a sudden, I see Carter running down the driveway into the street (there were no cars coming fortunately)so I take off after him. As soon as I catch up to him I tried to stop, but my knee buckled underneath me (due to the extra L.B.'s that come along with being preggo) and we both fell face-first into the street. I fell mostly on my knees and elbow but did fall right on my stomach. Carter was just scared mostly. I knew the baby was fine (he was moving and what-not) but Jill was really concerned, so after we were done I called my Dr's office. They wanted to check me out at the hospital so I went in. They took some blood and monitored the baby for about an hour, then confirmed what I already knew, no problems. So...now you know.

On a less dramatic note, a few of my friends threw me a 'non baby shower, Girls night in' party. We just sat around in p.j.'s, ate and chatted. It was nice and relaxing. I also got to see one of my friends that lives out of town that I don't get to see very often. So Thanks Girls for the great weekend!!!

Well I am off to the post office and the bank and if Carter isn't overly grumpy when we are done, we might go to the park. Yeah!!

Yes we are still alive

Sorry it has been a while since I have posted. We have been out of town or with family for the last three weekends. Easter weekend though, we had a nice relaxing time, just the three of us at home. I feel like I am still playing catch-up though. So here's a run-down of my month (not asking for sympathy or anything like that, just filling you in): March 1st weekend, Carter's 'friend' birthday and Borlase side of the family party. Next weekend, Carter's cousin Hayden's baby dedication back in Matt's home town (we got to stay at the cabin the night before. It was really cold). Then I was trying to get things ready to go to Colorado -again- on Thursday with Matt's dad. We had a great time and Matt said the skiing was really good (it helps when you have a new pair of skis). We drove back on Monday night, I had 6 clients on Tuesday, 7 on Wed, library time on Thursday after which I run errands, Dr.s appointment on Friday and running errands again afterwords. So Saturday I was cleaning the house all day, doing laundry and getting ready for my youngest sister and her boyfriend to come over for dinner (and to get her hair done). Sunday we got to sleep in for a little while then went to church to help out in the nursery, came home, had Honey Baked Ham for lunch and just vegged all day. So.....I feel like my March has flown by and I am not ready for April yet (except for the weather that comes with)!

We still don't have a bed for Carter's new room yet and I am kind of in that 'nesting' stage and really would like to get him settled in before I have to think too much more about the baby. Who, by the way, I think we have a name for finally. Cooper. No ideas on a middle name yet, so the poles are still open. Cooper was on our list for a while, and I'm not quite sure why we vetoed it. I found out (actually my mom told me) that it was my great grandma's maiden name. So we will still be sticking with family names and the whole 'C' thing. :) (Disclaimer: I don't say the name is for sure until I have to write it on the paperwork. In case something else strikes my fancy. So no embroidered blankets or engraved trinkets please):)

Ok. I think this post is long enough to make up for the 20day spread in between, So I will leave you with some pictures from Hayden's baby dedication and then Colorado with Grandpa Gary. Enjoy!