For those that don’t know, Kristin went with her brother to Alaska to visit her sister. She went there over spring break for about 10 days. I’ve finally gotten her pictures up in our photo gallery.
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Today was our 12 week doctor visit. It was the first time we went to Samaritan OBGYN with the new doctors since we decided we wanted to deliver at Good Samaritan. We got to hear the heartbeat again…strong and like a horse galloping. Then, as we were getting ready to leave and making the next appointment, our doctor came up and asked if we wanted to see our baby. He took us back and we got our first ultrasound. The baby was really active and we decided he/she is gonna take after James with his/her hyperness and constant movement. Well, if you tried to get to the site the last couple days, you would have noticed that you have not been able to get to it. That’s pretty much because of an upgrade I’m planning for the software this site uses. To save me hours and hours and hours of time, I wanted to enable some things to make my life easier with the server. To enable them, I needed to delete all the databases, then to find out it would also take about a day to move the site to another server. So now everything is back up and the way it is supposed to, but the new feature is still not working. Once it is, I’ll be upgrading the software. Kristin and I would like to announce that she is pregnant. We found out about two weeks and and have been waiting until the first doctors visit before we started letting everybody know. During our visit to the doctor last week, we were told that the due date is September 29th, 2009. While we were there, we also heard the babies heart beat already, which we were told is a really good thing and the risk of issues drops greatly. We will probably be updating this blog more often now that things are going on. We would post a picture of the belly bump, but there is no bump so there’s no reason. Well, I’ve finally found the vehicle that I’ve wanted my entire driving life. Back when I turned 16, I wanted a Jeep Wrangler that had just came out (the 1997 model came out in 1996). Of course, being young, I could not afford the jeep. I’ve been saving up for a while and looking everywhere for what I would call a perfect one and I finally found it and bought it. Kristin and I had to drive all the way up to Indianapolis to pick it up, but it is home now. Here’s the specs:Cloth High-Back Bucket Seats Mist Gray Interior Heavy Duty Electrical Group 4.0L Engine(ERH)/5Sp Man Trans(DDQ) Power Front Disc/Rear Drum Brakes Sport Bar w/Rear Padding 5-Speed Manual Transmission Command-Trac Part Time 4WD System Dana 30/186MM Front Axle 3.07 Axle Ratio Dana M35/194MM Rear Axle 4.0L Power Tech I-6 Engine Full Metal Doors w/Roll-up Windows Sentry Key Theft Deterrent System Air Conditioning 19 Gallon Fuel Tank Chili Pepper Red Pearl Coat There are pictures also:    It’s been a while for updates on the house fixing uppers. It’s mostly been painting and touching up things. About two weeks ago, we started working on the back porch. It started out as a repainting project. We wanted to paint the porch a white to match the rest of the house. We took down all the screens on the back porch and my parents offered to help by cleaning them up and repainting them. I had borrowed their pressure washer to clear out all the loose paint before we started painting. After that I started working on the electric out there. The previous owners just had wires danging between the lights that was just painted over. I removed all that and added pvc conduit and put everything back up. I think it looks a lot better now. I started using the pressure washer to get the loose paint off the back part of the porch, which was going well until I started spraying the box gutter area. The pressure washer was just shooting right through the wood. I also noticed that in one place they even had put metal up and painted it. I removed the metal and realized that all the wood of the box gutters was rotted out. So now I’m in the process of just removing the box gutters and putting normal gutters up in their place. I’ve already removed most of them on the back section and I’m going to leave the side alone until I finish the back section (to get a good idea of what I’m going to do before doing the harder section). I have pictures of the progress here.      We went to East Fork Lake this past weekend and took the two jet skiis. We spent most of the time on the beach hanging out with our friends. We took the camera and added the pictures to our photo gallery.         We will be heading to Caesar’s Creek next Saturday (Saturday, August 9th) from 1pm to around 6pm. We will be on the northern part of the beach (part on the left when looking at the lake from the parking). We will also be bringing our Jet Skis again. You can get directions by going here. Well, this is a little late, but we are back from our first vacation in 4 years. We headed down to the Outer Banks with family and spent a week relaxing. My parents had rented a six bedroom house on the sound side that included a pool. It was a really awesome house. We were probably 3 feet away from the shores of the sound. It was an easy walk to the beach also. We have taken tons of pictures and put them in our photo gallery already. It was a pretty nice place. Great for lots of relaxation and not too much going on. It didn’t have a night life, which was fine with me. I just wanted to enjoy laying around in the sun, water, and sand. I’m trying to remember some things that happened. On the first day, Kristin, my parents, Julie, and I showed up about 2 – 3 hours before we could get in. We ended up leaving the Jeep at the house and driving around in my Mom’s tracker. We found a sign that said Beech Access 4×4, so we took the tracker out. The first time, we had no problems, but the second time we got stuck waiting in a line to get off where someone at the beginning got stuck. After digging out the tires, putting burned wood under them for traction, and letting some air out of the tires, we finally made it off the beach though. We also stopped at Hadaras Light house were Kristin wanted to go to the top. After going straight up without stopping (we were only 2 out of 4 people that were able to do that), it was nice and windy to cool us off. We also got some great pictures, so check the photo gallery for those.        Kristin has officially finished her masters program. I’ve added pictures from her commencement in our photo gallery. Here are a few of them:
     Well, it’s finally happening…I’m going to graduate with my Master’s of Education in Curriculum and Instruction with a math focus (that’s a mouthful) from UC on Friday, June 13, 2008. The ceremony is at the Fifth Third Arena in the Shoemaker Center on UC’s campus and it starts at 1:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come! My brother, Gavin, is graduating on Saturday, June 14 at 1:30 p.m., also. He’s receiving his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from UC’s College of Engineering. Everyone is welcome to attend his graduation ceremony, too! James is thinking of hosting a graduation party for the both of us, possibly the following weekend, at our house. Information will be forthcoming if you’re interested. |
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