Spring is for nesting...right?!

As soon as we found out that the expected baby is a girl I quickly clued in to a rather critical fact: we have nowhere to put a baby in our house. There were two options - 1)move the boys downstairs and the adults upstairs and put the baby in with the toys and computer, or 2) finish the master suite and put the baby in her own room downstairs. Which do you think we went with? That's right, we're finishing the basement. I have the electrical done, the phone and cable run, the plumbing done, the jetted tub installed, the cement board put up, the greenrock in the bathroom put up, and some of the sheetrock in the bedroom put up. It's going faster than I expected and I have learned a lot of new skills over the last few weeks.

Joshua took a video to show you just what's been going on. He is pretty excited about the project, and he even got to take a bubble bath in the new tub last night. I wasn't going to let anyone use the tub till the whole project was done, but none of us could resist! It's nice to work hard during the day and then relax our muscles in the tub at night.

I love Andrew

I just want to take a moment to say that I love having time alone with Andrew every day. He is such a well behaved boy and he plays so well by himself when Mom needs to get things done. The other day I was cleaning the house when I realized I hadn't heard from the little tyke in a while, so I went to his room to check in on him. I found him with no pants, Mickey Mouse ears, and a mess of felt quiet books. It was so cute I just had to take a picture to share with all of you. I love my Andrew.

5 months

Hey, there is a baby in there after all!

It's a Girl!

The boys were right, and Mike and I were wrong -- the baby is in fact a girl! Joshua has been so excited for the ultrasound. We checked him out of school early and made the apointment a family affair. The baby looks so good - everything seems normal and is measuring just right. My first thought when I found out it is a girl was "but I don't know how to change a girls diaper." I guess there will be a learning curve involved with this one. We are very excited!

Hardware Ranch

Grandpa Jaussi checking out the fur pelts

Jon: maybe if I sit by the cougar people will leave me alone...

You don't say!

Who's running that camera?

Carrie made a freind!

Anastise Smith, Zion, Abby, Adalade Smith, Carlie, Joshua, Michael, and Andrew and Isaac in front.

Hardware ranch closed for the season yesterday, so it's pretty lucky that the Jaussi clan planned their outing for last weekend. Dad and Jan brought Jona nd his family and some friends up in the big 15 passenger van on Saturday for an outing up the canyon. We had lunch at McDonalds, and then drove to the ranch. There were still alot of elk there, and several of the bulls still had their antlers. We took a horse drawn wagon ride around the meadow where the elk were grazing, and then visited the visitors center. With a group of 15 people, any activity is fun! Afterward we came back to our house and played rock band. The adults decided to take advantage of having two 12 year old babysitters in the house, so we went out to Olive Garden and ate ourselves silly for dinner. Thanks to Dad and Jan for the fabulous day.

Shuttle rocket test fire

Andrew and I spent the day Thursday with Betsy and her family out at ATK. Betsy's husband David works there as an engineer, and invited us all out to see last shuttle rocket test fire. Betsy has a little baby so we were a little late getting out the door. Traffic was heavy getting out there, so we ended up watching the test fire from our cars just barely out of sight of the rocket. I was still blown away by it's power though. Andrew was hanging out the front window, and I was trying to drive and gawk at the same time as the ground shook, the smoke billowed, and the roar sounded. I felt like I was watching a volcano erupt. After the test fire the crowds thinned and David took us on a tour of the rocket garden. All the pictures are from that. Then we picked up a few souvineers in the shop, had a quick picnic lunch and headed home. It was a very fun day!