8 months later...

I guess I kind of let this blog go...thought I'd post an update.

Dan got a job! He just started a new job about a month ago. I'm not sure that he loves it but it's a job, and at almost a year since loosing his job a job is a job! Right now we're trying to adjust to him working again.

I am working now too. I've been a stay at home mom since I was pregnant with Nicolas and in August I got hired on at the Health Department as their Peer Breastfeeding Counselor. It's a new program there so it's kind of a lot of work to get it up and going but so far I'm loving it. I also help a friend at her store a couple days a week and I'm still doing some photography. This working mom thing is hard!

Elijah is in 5th grade this year. He's having an awesome year! He played JFL football this past season and loved it....and he's awesome! This skinny kid is pretty tough out on the field. He's very excited to play again next season. We moved some rooms around and he has his own room now and he's lovin' that.

Nicolas is in 2nd grade this year. He's having a better year then last but still having an issue with taking school more seriously. He's so smart, but doesn't care so much for school...hoping he changes that soon. Nicolas played soccer over the summer. He did good, but half way through the game he'd ask to be goalie so he wouldn't have to run so much LOL. He also wants to play football like his big brother, but he'd be playing flag football at his age. We'll see.

Joshua started Kindergarten this year. He loves it! And his teacher loves him...seems that he's a very good student (never had one of these before lol). Josh also played soccer over the summer and did great. Josh is a go getter and a people pleaser...both of these qualities makes for a pretty good kid. :)

Zachary started preschool this year. He loves it so far. He has some friends now that he talks about too. Zack will be 4 in a couple months, and he's starting to act like a big kid, which is kind of killing me. It's so weird how fast these kids grow! Zack also became a big brother this year and he LOVES his baby brother. He does every and anything for him.

Benjamin was born April 29th weighing in at 7 lbs 7 oz and 21 inches long. He's now 6 months old and is 20 lbs and 27 inches. My oh my has he grown! I could not imagine our lives without our little Benjamin, he definitly completes our family. Benjamin just started eating baby food. So far we've done rice cereal, homemade butternut squash, apples and now oatmeal. His favorite is apples so far! He is almost a sitter, he's rolling both ways now and loves to eat his feet!

I will try to figure out how to do updates from my phone, that way I'll update more often. :)

8 wks till baby!

It's been 2 months since I've updated? Wow! Doesn't seem like it's been that long. I won't even try to update on everything that's happened around here in the past couple months.

Dan's still looking for a job, he's had lots of interviews so far but nothing promising yet. We are believing God will provide him with the perfect job at the best time.

We are almost finished with the baby's room, have to add a few things still. I'm having a babyshower a week from tomorrow that I'm VERY excited about! I know this is my 5th, and another boy, but babyshowers are so much fun and I'm thrilled to be having one for my last baby. :) We still need a few important things for this little guy, so hopefully over the next few weeks we'll be about done getting everything together for him.

I have had a rough pregnancy so far but am still trying to enjoy it since this is my last. There's been a lot of pain, making it hard to do normal daily things. My normal contractions haven't been too bad so far, but Tuesday night they took a turn for the worse causing me to spend 5 hrs in the hospital. 8 more weeks until I'm due, but I'm still praying he decides to come in April!

A busy month!

In the past month we celebrated Elijah's birthday, Christmas, drove to Chicago the weekend before Christmas, drove to Maryland for Christmas, New Years Eve and Day, my sister got married and now we're well into January. Whew!! This will not be a long update, just wanted to mention a few things.

First of all, our baby on the way has a name! He will be Benjamin Sawyer :) I love it! (love it even more that Zacky calls him Benjy-min) I am 24 wks today and will be getting another ultrasound sometime in Febuary to check growth.

Also, Dan lost his job the beginning of last week. God will take care of us so I'm not worried (although it was pretty scary for a while) and I know he'll have another job soon...a better job!

I started a new project this year, it's called the 365 project. I will take a picture everyday, it will generally have something to do with what's going on in my life that day, and I'm posting in on Facebook in my "365 Project" album. So if you're not a friend of mine on FB you're missing out!