Finished By Friday

So here's the scoop...  When they tell you every pregnancy/delivery is very different, they pretty much know what they're talking about.  I THOUGHT my 19 hour labor with Madelyn was long... On Wednesday, July 10, (No, you remembered right... She WAS born on the 12th!) I started having some contractions but didn't think a lot of it since I had had pretty bad Braxton Hicks contractions once or twice before, the only trouble was when I went to bed that night this was bad enough to wake me up every little bit (NOT a sign of false labor!).  So after a pretty much sleepless night, I was STILL having contractions and knew I was going to sit around miserable all day if I didn't find something to do.  Lucky for me, my sister was visiting from out of state and up for some shopping.  After taking Madelyn to Nana and Papa's house for a nap where there were people to keep an eye on her, My mom, my sister, and I spent the afternoon on the town (it just makes Walmart and our l...

Here are just a few random pictures before we start into hospital and baby Kathryn pictures... I know it's cruel of me. :D  I was horrible about taking "fat" pics this time so finally on July fourth I had Jon take a couple so I'd have SOMEthing (and because I was afraid she'd come early... I HAD planned to take those sweet little family pictures before she was born but... well being hugely pregnant and not fitting in one's clothes doesn't exactly inspire one to put the effort into getting dressed and dressing the rest of the little family and trying to get pictures where you actually look... well I won't even say GOOD.).  We were excited to have a place to actually set up Madelyn's little pool this summer.  She thought she was pretty big stuff in her two piece but unfortunately she actually wasn't big ENOUGH...  Haha! She had trouble keeping it on. She was young enough last year that she didn't remember being in the pool so this year she wa...

OK, here's the thing...  I have one whoppin' excuse for not blogging for soooo long (technically two but for this blog we'll stick with one.)...  Back in May, we moved.  After looking at probably a dozen houses over the last couple years, the one we've been looking for came on the market.  We wanted something we could fix up and make our own but that was livable WHILE we did so.  This little house came on the market as a bank repo in a great neighborhood (just around the corner from our Apt actually) and at a great price!  The only catch was that it had been badly abused and neglected by a handful of rental tenants and who know who before that and then left to sit for a few years we believe.  Long story short, we boogied our little selves through ALL the annoying paperwork and managed to outbid a couple other offers (withOUT going too high since it needed a LOT of TLC) and within only a few weeks we had closed the deal, mudded, painted, and cleaned ev...