After much nagging...

Ok so this will be quite the hodge-podge of pics. My mom has been nagging at me pretty much since the reunion to post new belly pics. I finally got around to taking them this morning.

I'm also throwing in some pics of Andrew, and the Rose John made for me during the boys play dough time! Oh yeah, and look what we woke up to this morning... about 3-4 inches of snow.

And the ultrasound said...

Yep, that's right... a girl! Monica Grace Young! Andrew is so excited! John and I are slowly adjusting to the idea. :)

On Friday, John got to work and found his cubicle in wall to wall pink streamers and balloons and candy. Here are a few pics. The last one is PRICELESS!!!

Before and After

Ok, so I just realized that I still never got these pictures posted! I'm so sorry! But the house is 99% done now. All we have left is the trim around the door and we plan on repainting the doors them self, but that will have to wait til this fall when it cools off a little! The sunlight has not been cooperating so the lighting for the pics is a little off. But you get the general idea!

Mom also pointed out that I never took pictures of Andrew's new big boy bed. He graduated from his Toddler bed to a loft bed! It make the perfect fort or play area underneath, plus it's much easier for prego mom to tuck him in at night. We currently have his nap mat set up underneath in case of midnight accidents it's an easy transition instead of stripping and remaking the whole bed at 1am. Night accidents rarely ever happen but when they do, like last night (as you can see by the lack of bedding on the loft) it's a life saver!

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Andrew's new bed

A whirlwind week

Our weekend went pretty smoothly! As ou can see Andrew had lots of fun in his pool this weekend. Then Monday hit. WHen I got to work that morning my car was smoking! yeah, white smoke coming from under the hood. So Andrew and I started our day yesterday by going to my ob appt., were he got to hear "cutie's" heartbeat for the first time. Dr. Hayes was great about getting him involved in the process and asking him good Big Brother questions. Then we grabbed a quick lunch at Culver's, and headed over to the car doctor. Where we sat in the shop for 2 hrs. Only to find out that the other day when John pushed the plastic guard back into place, he pushed it too far and the plastic started melting against the exhaust pipe. Luckily they didn't charge us for looking into it. So worried we would have a $200-$400 bill, I walked out of there paying $48 for the 28 point insp/oil change and replaces two light bulbs.

After all that we met John and our friends Simon and Karen for dinner at the new Rodizio Grill Brazilian Steak House in Fort Collins. I have never ate so much food in my entire life We had over 15 different options cycling to our table as often as we wanted... 4 types of beef, 3 ckn (including ckn hearts) , 3 pork, pot roast, pinapple, turkey wrapped in bacon, grilled zuc., mahi mahi, and a some type of sausage. Plus 21 different salads options along with rice, blk beans, stroganoff, mashed pot., and pasta alfredo. Oh, and some of the best sweet blk tea I've ever had. I was even amazed at how much Andrew ate. He's not a big meat eater so I was worried. But he loved the basic salad, rice and mashed potatoes, and then he pigged out on the pork tenderloin, ham and grilled pineapple. When we got home he told us he was "tired all the way to Jesus and outer-space" and "mama, can we go back there tomorrow and get more pineapple?" :)

So even though yesterday was very busy, it turned out very good!!! Except for one little piece of bad news. My ultrasound was supposed to be done before our trip to MO. However they need me to be at least 18 weeks. I turn 18 weeks on Thur. Aug 6th, but the ultrasound tech is only there on Tues. And we leave for MO at 7:30am Tues the 11th. So we had to schedule it for Aug 25th. SORRY MO friends and family!

The count down has begun. We leave for MO in 13 days! :) We are so looking forward to seeing everyone. Espeically at our Friends and Family Fiesta and Fireworks party that Friday! :) Hopefully the humidity and temps will stay unseasonably low like they have been! Pray Pray Pray!

Week 15

Ok so I'm not actually 15 weeks until tomorrow. So these pics are 14 weeks and 5 days.

Our Daycation in Estes!

It seems like summer is slipping by so fast. We haven't even had a chance to go camping yet. But yesterday we decided to play hooky from church and get away for a little "daycation" as a family! We took off for Estes first thing in the morning with the plans of having a picnic at Endo Valley then climbing around the Alluvial Fan. We also found a new park part way up the canyon, Viestenz-Smith Mountain Park , that has quickly become a new favorite spot.

John doing his normal. CLimbing around on anything that is in or over the water! :)

The branch of the river the runs through Endo Valley

Me trying not to fall in backwards

Andrew making his silly face near our picnic spot

THe Alluvial fan

JOhn and Andrew headed up to the top! I was surprised Andrew's little 4 r old legs did so well. He only needed a few boosts from John.

If you look towards the right had side of the water, you will see John and Andrew amongst the bushes waving! They were about half way up!

OK, this one is the hardest to see, but all of a sudden I looked up and saw John and Andrew on the other side of the water fall at the VERY top of a HUGE rock! If you look at the top of the rock on the left of the water you will see a little blue dot. That is Andrew and John. John found a shallow spot in the waterfall, so he took off his shoes and socks, picked up Andrew and decided to cross the FREEZING water! And of course he saw a shiny rock in the water. If you know the Young's, then you know they are rock hounds. So he decided to stop in the FREEZING water and try to pick it up without dropping our son down the waterfall... he was successful! :)

Here is a zoomed in pic of the boys at the top!

John and Andrew trying to dig to China at the new park.

My climber! He was so proud. He said he was climbing up to rescue someone like a firman! THen he slid down the fireman pole! :)

John once again monkeying around to get out in the water as far as possible with out getting wet! The river runs right along the park. It was beautiful and the sounds of the water was unbelievable! The perfect park!

They have a few huts with picnic tables inside and fireplaces. They were awesome!

My two handsome rock climbers! :)

Well that's the quick run down of our weekend. I'm know I still need to get up the before and after house pics as well as some new prego pics. I promise, they are coming soon!

VBS and Lakeside Service 2009

Last week we had a wonderful VBS!!!! We had 210 kids register with an avg of 175 in attendance each day! We ended the week with our 2nd annual lakeside service and hole hog roast! It was the most wonderful day! We had 400-450 people there, which is almost double our normal Sunday attendance. But the best part was that 39 people were baptized! It was such an amazing day, that I can't even put it all in words. Hopefully a picture is worth a thousand words! :)




The Kindergarten class in the missions class at VBS. The outdoor tent was a "boat" and they traveled all over the world in it.


Each day different kids got to wear the life jackets while they took their "missions boat ride"
Friday it was Andrew's turn!



VBS kids getting ready to sing their theme song at the Lakeside service


Singing the Boomerang Express song!!! "All aboard!!!"



Pastor David giving a short sermon, lakeside! What a beautiful day!



A small view of the 400-450 people that attended the lakeside service


My little beach bum

Our fearless Youth Pastor. And yes, that is what he wore into the lake to help with the baptisms! We love you Eric!

39 people were baptized at the Lake service! AMEN!!!!!

Now this is the way I want to get around the Lake.

The Lake was so cold...

But it didn't take long for both my boys to turn into fish!

John was harder to get out of the water then Andrew was!

My little fish! No matter how cold it was, he LOVED the water.