Full Term...and identified:)

37 weeks:)

That is how long it took mommy and daddy to come up with the perfect name. So whenever he is ready...he will be welcomed by a family that LOVES him, and a family that cannot wait to say....

AIDEN CHRISTOPHER...."WE LOVE YOU, and WELCOME to the madness!!"



Here is the 37 week picture of Katie....

What a week....

I woke up Monday morning and really should have thought about staying in bed. It has been one of those weeks where everything plus more has gone wrong.

My computer screen is dying....may in rest in peace and thank goodness there is a warranty that will help when I get to Circut City tomorrow.

When you learn the bad things about yourself. It has been happening all week. Realizing the things you are learning is harder and harder to understand...and yet they just keep coming. Why is that? You live with yourself for so many years, and all in one week, a day, or an hour you realize you suck at a few things you thought you had under control.

Today would be my dad's birthday. For some reason it is harder then past years this year.

Not be able to say what is on your heart and mind to the ones you care for most is the hardest thing I have ever gone through. I love them, care for them and only want the best for them, but to sit them down and tell them what is on my heart I cannot do.

Then of course something happens and you feel you are stuck in the middle, and all you want to do is wake up but you cannot. I shouldnt feel like this but I do, its not me, but somehow I feel I contributed. When you feel like you want to stick up for both parties when in reality sometimes you just have to let it be. Letting it be is easier said then done.

Life is hard. I have tried to make this week the best I can. Laughing when it is there, talking to friends to get through the rough spots, and shedding a tear for the things that make no sense. I will get through all of this madness its going to take time, but I know at the drop of a hat I have a group of frinds that will listen and lend me a shoulder.....its just letting them in...in that moment will it ever work.....however sometimes I kinda wish they would see it and come to me. Lord knows I am stubborn and only let a few folks in.....they are a few of those folks.

What a week.....can it get any worse....of course it can...I just hope it doesnt.

Nothing says "We love you" like...

a room full of post its, car window paint, and a wrestling match in the hall.......

A few nights ago I was in the library doing some homework and on Facebook all at the sametime, and I got a notifaction that said you have been tagged in a photo....and I of course was excited....and then I opened the picture and found that my friends had went into my room and had put post its EVERYWHERE...my bed, my desk, in my close, my printer, in books, my dresser, and even inside the folded blankets....it was INSANE, and to this moment I am still finding them in thos mosr off the wall places.....

As for my car....well the same friends thought it would be clever to get my keys, and put all the post its that I had picked up and threw away...well sorta I had picked them up and tried to put them in front of their door...well when I did it Lorissa was coming out and I threw them all on her....and that started the wrestling match in the hallway:)

It was a LOT of fun, a little messy, but it was full of laughs:)

big boy:)

NO baby yet....but there is good news....

Katie's check up Friday the doctor has determined that this little man weighs almost 6 pounds, and she still has 5 and a half weeks to go. SO....that means really ANY day...however a few more weeks will help his lung, so ANY day really....and I will be known as AUNT:)

...and we wait...

Most of you know I found out about Brandon and Katie's pregnancy October 24, and she is due in less then 5 weeks....so yes I found out much later then the rest of my family. However, now that we all have realized and are amazed by the fact theis little guy could be here anyday. Feburary 28th, Katie will be considered full term....however after 34 weeks his lungs will be fully devolped, and he would make it in the outside world. That....that is in exactly a week and a half.

I may have found out about this pregnancy WAY after everyone else, but I am pretty sure I am right up there with the rest of the excited ones. SuperBowl Sunday we celebrated my mom's 4o some odd birthday, and the next big function is my sister's birthday which is March 12th.....knowing that the next time we are together as a family could be the birth of a baby excites me, scared me, and amazes me. How God knew we were ready for a baby, and how God knows this little guy is ready to become apart of this zoo amazes me. We are all excited:)

We all want things to happen, we all think things need to happen on our time, and when we want it, but I think most of us have come to realize God's timing is PERFECT. This little guy will come when he is ready, we are all ready to met him, know his name, touch him, kiss him, and show him life, but we will wait. On that note....In my last blog I made a statement about starting to look for a husband. LOL...please are you kidding me. I am ready, and YES there is a potential guy in the picture, but that doesnt mean I am going to lose sight of what I was told, taught, and learned. I will wait, he will wait, and we will know when it is right. Things are going well right now, friends first, but in all honesty we both know that there is the possiablity and we....okay I am okay with that....

....so we wait....

A year....

HAPPY ONE YEAR of reading my blog for some of you. For others just keep reading and you will create sometime as well:)

It was a year ago the 7th of Febuary that I wrote my first blog....and oh how FAST a year can go. Last year at this time the FLU had taken over LCC, and we were all looking forward to our Week of E trips....however when I look back past this year I think of a few things that stuck out....
....my trip to South Dakota....
....meeting some great lifelong friends...
....a year with Target....
....and learning the news of a new baby coming....
....and a few others that I cannot think of right now....

365 days seems like a lot of days, but really they go so fast that before you know it you are a year older, and your are celebrating a year of BLOGGING.....man do I need a life......

........you know they say that if you can keep something alive, nurtured, and real you are ready to start a realtionship....I am pretty sure that is a PLANT, dog, cat, or fish, but in my case I decided that keeping anything alive and going for a year was my CUE to start looking for a future mate.........HAHAHA......I sound absolutly ridiculous right now, but its all good...everyone reading this knows my sense of humor.....so I will leave you with that....

Hanging on a limb...is Danielle looking or not?!?!?!?!