A new job.

Just a quick update on us, I was recently offered a job with North West Farm Credit Services to be a credit officer and I accepted the offer. We will be moving to Twin Falls Idaho in April after we graduate where I will train until November and then from there we are not sure where we will be, it should be somewhere in the Twin Falls area. We are trying to get them to let us go the the office in Boise so I can continue school and get my MBA which they will pay for. So that is what is going on with us after graduation.

Pregnancies and toy boxes

Here is stephanie at 31 weeks she is now 35 weeks so we will put up a new picture next week of her.

Stephanie and her sister Alissa being pregnant together

Here is Lena who we are having a race with to see who will have their baby first. Lena is due 4 days before us we measured their belly's here and they were exactly the same size, we are pretty sure Lena will be beating us at the birth race since she has been on bed rest for the past month.

Here is the toy box Stephanie asked me to make her for Christmas this is during the sanding stage which I did in the apartment since it is freezing outside but we were cleaning dust off of everything for a couple of days.

This is during the staining process which took a long time, we put on 2 coats to make it a little darker.

This is one of the final things to do laquering the left has the laquer and the right is just the stain so it shined it up really nice. This took a really long time again we put on 2 coats to protect it and you have to wait a long time in between coats and turning the box.

Here is the finished product I cut out the letters at home and Steph painted them. We are pretty happy with it, it is currently filled with diapers the toys will come though as the diapers dissapear.

Oh Christmas Tree.

This past week we went up to Stephanies families cabin in Island Park, where we spent a couple of days and cut down our Christmas tree. We left the cabin and had Thanksgiving at Stephs grandparents and it was very good. We then woke up at 3:30 in the morning to participate in Black Friday which was totaly crazy but we wre able to get everything that we tried to get and a few other things. We got most of our Christmas shopping done for cheap. Luckily we never got trampled or had anything stolen out of our hands, but we did talk to some people that had stuff taken from them by other people, people are so crazy to save a couple of bucks.
That is our most recent adventure.

Here we all are up at the cabin.

My father in law trying to get a little to close. Trying to intrude on my three feet of comfort zone.

Well this was the origainal tree we were going to use but we decided that 30 feet was a little to tall.

This is what later became our tree we just cut the top off of the tree.

Here is Steph decorating the tree for some reason the camera would only take fuzzy pictures maybe from all the tree lights.

Here is our completed tree.

26 Weeks and a baby shower to boot.

Here she is 26 weeks and counting. We can see him move now he pushes out her belly and rolls around. A couple of days ago I was pushing on Stephs stomach where he was and he would push back so we had our first father son bonding moment.

Here is Steph and her also prego sister Alissa who is 20 weeks along and finds out what she is having tomorrow. So our Conner will have a little cousin to play with on both sides since my other sister in law Lena is also pregnant and due four days before us.


This is my sis Whitney who threw the shower putting up streamers and Alissa handing over tape.

This is Stephs littlest sister Teresa and of course they are hovering around the food.
This would be one of the best parts the loot. Look how excited she is having all her freinds and family there to shower her with gifts for our unborn child.

Stephs mom and sisters and family and freinds, enjoying some festivities and food. The crazy thing is Chelsea looks like that all the time.

Thanks to everybody that came and for the gifts that were given and for those who gave of your time to put together this shower for our little child. He thanks you with a kick and a punch through moms belly.

Into The Wild!

Last Friday Steph and I released my big chichlid into the wild at the pond in the Benson science building. You see my fish is an aggressive African chichlid and he got so big that he killed everything else in my fish tank and anything that we put in with him he killed even fish of his own species if they were smaller. Fish his size are hard to find and really expensive, so instead of flushing him we found that there were chichlids in the pond in the Benson building. So Friday night around 10:00 P.M. we snuck into the buidling and put him in the pond with the other fish. there are some bigger than him and some smaller so he fits right in. Here are some pics of the realease.

He measures around 5"

We smuggled him in my back pack,

just after we put him in a security

guard came around the corner.

Here he goes into his new home. It was

either this or the toilet.

Just me saying good bye.

Here he is in his new home.

22 Weeks

Here is Steph at 22 weeks along, the baby is really active now and she can feel him move all the time. I am able to feel him as well when he is moving I will put my head on Stephs stomach and listen to him move then he will kick me in the head, so he is already in alot of trouble when he comes out.

Now I think steph is finally passing me up in the belly department you be the judge. I may be pushing out a little but not much.

So we have continued out journey of gathering all the necessary baby gear for when the little tike comes out so here are our recent purchases and purchases from grandparents in the little boys behalf.

This will be his car seat and stroller we just ordered it yesterday so it is on its way.

Also my mom bought us some sweet crib bedding with a mobile.

I also bought him these pimp trains. Sorry Vicki they are not thomas the trains.

My wonderful mother inlaw also is hooking us up with this, pack and play so when we come to visit our child has a place to rest his head that is not in a shower filled with pillows. (kevin and lena know what I am talking about)

So this is what we have gatherd thus far with still lots more to go. The next big thing on our list is of course the crib. We are trying to accumulate stuff slowly so the dollar figure is spread over the months we also have time to wait for coupons and good deals. These are some of the places we look for coupons and stuff, good ol Ty Robbins told me about these two. www.dealcatcher.com and www.stealdeals.net these two have been very good to us, you just have to be patient and the good deals will come.

We will keep you all updated on the progress of the little one and us aswell.

It's a Boy!

So we had our appointment today well actually it was supposed to be yesterday but the receptionist told us the wrong day and wrote the wrong day on the appointment card but shceduled it for yesterday. So we got there and they did not know why we were there so they got us in anyway and then we waited and waited and watched numerous people that came in after us go by, so luckily one of the nurses recognized us and brought us back the wonderful receptionist did not put in the computer that we were there so they did not know to get us. But luckily as soon as we got back there things went alot quicker and we were in the ultra sound room within no time and hooked up and ready to go. So everything is perfect on the baby Steph is 20 weeks and 4 days today and according to the ultra sound she should be 20 weeks and 4 days. So we have a healthy perfect baby on our hands. I could clearly see it was a boy and promptly spurted it out before the doctor did.
We were able to experience all this on our three year aniversary so it was a cool present from our son to know what he is. Steph and I were so excited last night that we were hardly able to sleep, it was like trying to sleep the night before Christmas when you were a kid. So after the doctors appointment we went to dinner at Wingers and then celebrated by buying a boy baby outfit. So it was an excellent anniversary and baby appointment.
I tried to put up the vedio of the ultrasound but I have no idea how so if I figure it out later I will put it up.