Restful!!

It's been awhile since I posted and I just wanted to share this picture with everyone. Isn't he just so precious!!!

More pics to come soon of the new paint job in the house done by my husband, dad, brother-in-law, and mom! It looks fantastic. And also I am half way done with pregnancy so I will post the new picture of this growing belly. Only mone more week till (hopefully) we get to find out if this one is a boy or a girl. We keep going back and forth...although Lincoln has been consistent with saying it's a girl or that he wants a sister. Well just have to wait and see.

Dr. Appt

Well we had a doctor's appointment last night and everything was great. I had only gained a 1/4 pound in 4 weeks (yes that was holiday time too)...so that puts me at like 4 lbs total so far. The babies heartbeat was 150 and was strong. It's always reassuring to hear that little sound. I will be 19 weeks tomorrow and we can't believe this pregnancy is almost half over. It has gone by so quickly. We also got to put in the order for our next ultrasound where we will get to find out what the baby is. We will be going in sometime during the first week of February. So stay tuned to find out if Lincoln is going to have a brother or a sister. We are really thinking it's going to be a boy, but I have had several people (including my students) tell me that it's going to be a girl. SO we'll just have to wait and find out. We will be delighted either way. Healthy is our main concern.

Trevor is off for the next couple of days. He went duck hunting today and then the rest of the week he is going to work on painting the main area of our house. We are really excited. My mom and dad are going to help him this weekend and Lincoln and I are vacating the premises because I shouldn't really be around all those fumes. We'll post pictures once it is finished.

We made IT!!

Well we made it through our first week back to school and daycare. Lincoln of course did wonderful. He loves his daycare and all his friends there. We feel so blessed to have such a wonderful loving bunch of ladies to take care of him. He did get a new friend at daycare this week. Our friends Ivy and Jon Byron are now taking their little girl, Zoe, to Libby's house. Grandma Lynda said that Lincoln was trying the help Zoe walk this week, but she's just not quite ready. We have such a wonderful helper (although sometimes it makes easy tasks more difficult).

Work this week was good. I am exhausted and went to bed last night at 8:00. My kids were great this week and I enjoyed being back with them. I told them this week that we are expecting a new baby. They were all really excited and all the kids told me that we are having a GIRL. We'll just have to wait and find out (probably the first week of Feb).

The only down side to this week is the news about the budget. Things are looking even worse than expected. Just in our school district we are looking at 1-1.5 million dollars in cuts- mid year. Praise the Lord that our district was very smart during good economic times to put away a large stash of money. Due to this we are not having to look at layoffs for this year, but possibly the next. Luckily I do have 5 years in the district which gives me a little bit of seniority, but it is still scary. You always think of teaching as a stable job, but when it comes down to it nothing is an always guarantee. The other thing is that if the State doesn't get their act together soon and provide a budget and pay our district our checks could be coming as IOU checks later this year. (I don't think the grocery stores/mortgage companies/utitlity bills accept these). So if you are political at all or not... give your state assembly men a call or write a letter and let them know that they are affecting many peoples lives.

Although all of this is scary..especially with another baby on the way, Trevor and I have just looked at each other and said we just need to trust. Trust that God will provide all the we need and be smart with our money now. So if you think about it just pray that our state will come to a budget decision quickly and also that I will be able to keep my job through all of these tough economic times.

On a more upbeat note our son is just the best and brightens our life everyday. He is talking so much (you can understand most of it) and he just loves to play. His favorite thing to do lately is fix things with his tools. Trevor and I say his going to be some kind of contractor or mechanic or something. Tools are his thing as you can see from the picture below. He wanted to play with this toy that has been put away because the batteries are dead and he is a little old for it. Well he found it and when I told him it wasn't working. He ran and got batteries and tools and started trying to fix it. Just gotta love it. Well I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. It's supposed to be sunny here so hopefully we can get outside a little bit.

Back to Work

Well vacation is over and reality is about to set in. I have really enjoyed my time off, but it always seems to go to fast. I could really use another week just to catch up with friends that I haven't been able to see in awhile. But I am grateful for the time that I did have. This weekend we got our patio poured in the backyard, finally. Trevor was blessed with a great bonus from his company this year so we finally had the money to get the patio done. I will put up some pictures when it is finished. The color is settling right now and the cement is still drying. We are very excited to have it done. Trevor is even more excited that he didn't have to do the work himself. Well it's off to get ready for a work day. I hope that everyone has a great week.

New Pics

Lincoln and his visit with Santa

Four Generations of Amzi

My sisters and I in our new, matching PJs. Thanks Mom!


Lincoln and his new sand digger. He calls it his tractor!


Well I finally got some pictures up of our wonderful Christmas. I hope that everyone had a very happy new year and we wish you all the best in 2009!