Lives Always Changing

So I did not plan for my big belly to be the first picture on this blog but that is just how it worked out. I am now 16 weeks pregnant with baby #3, due February 13th, 2009. We are hoping for a girl, but waiting till "birth-day" to find out if it is a girl or boy. Yes, this is the last one! He/She was trying to push a limb out of my belly button last night. It was cool to clearly feel her for the first time.

Partially due to this baby's coming and the fact that they dont do v-backs on Maui, we are planning to move to Kalamazoo in December for a few months. Then we will head up nort to da UP eh (Houghton), in the spring or summer.

We are still trying to sell our house.

Clayton is 4 and in preschool. He talks and sings and loves to read and watch movies and play with cars and trains. He is very independant.

Jeriah is 2 1/2 and goes to preschool 5 hrs a week. He has been talking in sentences since he was 1 1/2. He is a social bug and a mamma's boy. I am hoping he adjusts to the baby ok because I am 'his' mamma (he always says, "My Mamma"). He turns 3 about 2 wks before baby #3 is due.

Eric has been busy working 2 engineering jobs and remodeling different parts of the house--the downstairs bathroom and new stairs were the most recent. He officially finishes up at Boeing next Friday, September 5 and will be full time with his new job at PDS, which is located here but is allowing us to move to Michigan.

Well, that is all for now but we will keep you updated as life progresses.

Blog Start

Sarah and I are starting this blog in an attempt to capture experiences while raising our kids, being pregnant (not me... her) and living the life God has given us in general. Experiences cannot really be captured well like this but I presume these nuggets of text will bring back valuable memories of the events to help us rebuild the experiences in our minds and hearts. We will see how this turns out. If it were left to me this might be the first and only blog but I think with Sarah in the mix maybe, just maybe, there is a chance that this will go on for a while creating a potpourri of memories allowing us to reconstruct a semblence of this wonderfully abundant God given life. I think this may also be a great thing for our kids to read when they are older to get a better understand of how thier lives progressed and personallities and character formed. I pray they will know the Lord in the most real way in there lives as I have had the privledge of experiencing.

Cheers,
Eric