Blessing in Disguise...

Last Monday while I was folding clothes in the living room, I heard something fall. I went to investigate, but I couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. Well, being this far along in pregnancy and having stood up, I of course had to go to the bathroom, again. So, I went, but when I went to wash my hands I had no water. I went out to the kitchen to see if I had water out there and I didn't. So I called Ben. He asked me if there had been anybody out by the road who might have turned our water off. (That is what happened the last time, I didn't have water.) I told him that I didn't see anybody. He told me to go and check to make sure that the water was still on at the road. Well, I stepped out onto the porch and saw some water coming out of our garage. I made mention of this to Ben and he told me to go and check the garage first. So I did, fortunately it was only a small stream and it hadn't got any of the stuff in the garage wet except the floor. So Ben told me to go and turn the water off at the road and that he would be on his way home. Well, needless to say, because Mondays are his PT days, he had only work 2 hours that day. He got home, changed his clothes, and crawled under the house. He loves crawling into the crawl space, NOT! I was right, something had fallen and it was the pipe under the house. Fortunately, it was somewhat of a cheap and easy fix. BABY SHOWER at the CHURCH On Saturday, our church had a baby shower for us. There were about 25 people there. One of our guy friends came to keep Ben company, so that he wasn't the only guy there. However, Ben hadn't been planning to go, but when he heard that Scott was coming, he decided that he should go, so that Scott wasn't the only guy there. Funny, how they were both trying to look out for the other. Unfortunately, Saturday was not one of my better pregnant days. I think I tried to do a bit too much leading up to the shower. Friday, I decided to clean my hardwood floors. It started out that I was just going to sweep them, but then I decided to also mop them. I had to take a few breaks to get them all done, but I finally finished them. We didn't do much Friday evening since I had used all my energy on the floors throughout the day. Then Saturday before we headed out to the church, I wanted to make vegetable soup, so that we would have supper when we got home. So again I was standing for a long time cutting vegetables. By the time, that I got ready to go to the shower, lets just say I was feeling quite tired and my feet had swollen. I was going to wear cute little heels, but decided to settle with just some black sandals. It also seemed that Logan was lying in an odd position, so that didn't help things either. At the shower, we got a lot of clothes and other nice stuff. Here are some pictures of the us at the shower and some of the things that we got. We were so excited to get some Steeler's stuff. We got this stuff from our church friends who are also Steelers fans. Thanks Jim and Karen!!! One final note... I went to the doctor on Tuesday and she continues to say that everything looks good and that we are right on schedule. She also informed me that Logan has flipped and is now head down. This is such a blessing and answer to prayer. I go back to the doctor in two weeks, but then I will be going every week after that. I will do my best to keep everyone updated. Well LOVE and MISS you!!!

More Prego Pics!

So I know that it has been about a month since I updated our blog, but nothing really exciting has been going on. Let me try to update you as to what has been going on in our neck of the country. A couple of weekends ago (March 20-22), Ben and I got to watch Rob and Amy's girls so that they could go to a marriage conference with their church. The girls arrived Friday morning and stayed with us until Sunday evening. They were very good for the most part, however, we did have to discipline them a little bit. We even had to initiate the "Time out stump." We were outside playing and Madison wasn't playing nice so I told her to go sit down. Well she started throwing flowers and Ben told her to stop and she didn't listen, so he made her go sit on stump over by the wood pile. This is where we came up with the time out stump. The girls enjoyed discovering different bugs that were in our back yard. We found a grasshopper, a cricket, and a lady bug. All three of them liked holding them in their hands and letting the bugs crawl over their hands. The twins have grown sooo much since about two years ago when we were in Ohio and Emma would have nothing to do with holding bugs in her hands. They also enjoyed helping to plant potatoes in the garden. Ben would give them the potato and tell them to put it right in front of his boot and they wanted to get it just perfect. Also while they were here, I helped them make biscuit pizzas. They liked to stretch the dough and put the sauce and toppings on. They are such little helpers sometimes. Both Friday and Saturday nights, we had the girls in bed before 9 pm. We were quite impressed with ourselves on that accomplishment. We took the girls to church with us on Sunday and a lot of people were impressed with the fact that we were earlier than we usually are and we had three extra to get ready. We put the girls in their class and was in the sanctuary before the music started. (We usually walk into the sanctuary about the same time the music is starting.) We loved having them at the house, but I was also ready for them to go home. I have come to understand why God usually tries to break you in slow with having kids. Ben recently went through a two week training to be apart of the Base Honor Guard. It was a volun"told" type of thing. He kind of volunteered, but he was also told that he was their choice to represent his group. He is now able to participate in the special ceremonies such as funerals, base services, and some other special events. This is one more thing that he can put on his profile that will help him to look good for upcoming positions and also his promotions.

I am just over 31 1/2 weeks along. It is hard to believe that it is only 8 1/2 weeks until my due date. When we were at church last night, people were asking how i was feeling and I have to admit this is the first time in my whole pregnancy that I have felt really BIG. It seems like Logan has grown sooo much in this last week. I go to the doctor every two weeks now and at my last two appointments they told me that he was breech. We are not too concerned about this at this point in time. But as the time gets closer, we will definitely start praying harder that he will flip on his own. Well I think that about updates everyone as far as what has happened in our lives. Look forward to hearing from you soon.