Secret Location

So I'm currently in a location where I can guarantee blogging is not part of my job description! :-) Can you guess where I am? However, after making serious progress already today I feel that I need a little time for myself!

I have been receiving texts from our new babysitter, Jade, telling me that she has rearranged our family room...wow! If I was good at organizing furniture I probably wouldn't be as psyched as I am...however, I am really excited to go home and take a gander! Clayton and I can never agree on how we want our furniture to be arranged, so it is constantly changing.

My mother-in-law is coming to visit tomorrow and will stay through the weekend and at the rate I'm going, she will have no place to sleep because our house looks like a tornado went through it! Currently our entire master bathroom and dressing room has no flooring. Clayton is slowly but surely working on laying tile...which yes, I am very thrilled about! It will look so pretty once it is complete!

I have asked Jade to stay late tonight so I can do a quick tidy up around the house. However, to my surprise she just texted me and said that hopefully she will have everything clean when I get home so I won't have to worry about it!...ha! did I hire the right person or what?!?!? awesome!! Maybe I can get her to do my laundry...or better yet, hang my clothes up (my absolute LEAST favorite thing in the world to do!!)

Tamaroa Marie

Born: September 14, 2008

Time: 11:17am

Weight: 8lbs 4oz

Length: 21.5 in

Cutting the umbilical cord

On the warming table getting cleaned up

First heart beat check

First family photo!!

Yesterday Clayton and I went to the doctor for our 39 week appointment. Our doctor offered to induce me on Thursday, September 11, 2008. But I just feel so horrible rushing Tamaroa if she's not ready! So what we've decided is that if Tamaroa doesn't come by her due date, Tuesday, September 16th then we'll go ahead with the inducing on Thursday, September 18th...hopefully she'll come before then!

Belly Pictures

8 weeks

21 weeks

25 weeks

28 weeks

35.5 weeks

9 days to go!!

Since I had to be growing so much, Clayton decided to grow out his goatee...honestly this pictures does a horrible job at showing how long it really is!! (he promises to shave it when we are ready to go to the hospital!)

Pictures of the To-Be Mommy & Daddy

Old Time Pictures

June 2000

July 2003

August 2003

Fall 2003

Easter 2004

Canoe Trip with Harley & Bella Rose 2005

19 Week Ultrasound: SHE'S A GIRL!!!

Look at that spine! Totally amazing!







19 week ultrasound: When it was time to find out if she was a boy or girl, she would not hold still for the ultrasound tech to figure out what she was! She just kept squirming around!

Her face is looking at us

She's a girl!! :-)

Tamaroa Marie: Our Little Bundle of Joy

Our very first ultrasound, 6 weeks 5 days: Her little hearbeat was 171 beats per minute!!! We are due September 16, 2008 (the day after Grandma Dobberfuhl's birthday!)

Our second ultrasound, 10 weeks, 5 days: This time her heartbeat was 164 beats per minute and her little legs were RUNNING so fast! They would not stop moving! She's going to be a cross country runner for sure! :-)