He's Here!

Little Jaxson decided to come this morning at 10:04. He weighs 9 lbs 10 1/2 oz and is 21 1/2 inches long. Mom and baby are both doing great!

We will update you all soon. We need to get some sleep.... or try! :)

Just waiting...39 weeks yesterday!!

 

Revelation Revealed

 
Here are some pictures of what Mike and the production team at the church have been doing. He and Jason worked TONS of hours the week before getting this set ready. It is a 12-week series so thankfully everyone will be able to enjoy it for a few weeks.  Like I've said before, Mike is loving his job and enjoys the challenge and opportunity to create stage sets. And let me just say, he does a phenomenal job!! It's been great to be beside him and not only see the finished project, but to get to hear his ideas. I get a glimpse of what he sees before the final product is revealed.  This particular week you see pictured, was the first week of the series and they did a "reveal drop" during the first song. It was a breath-taker. Getting to see it all happen live at a couple of the services made me more proud of Mike and all of his hard work.   Really, it's something you'd have to see for yourself, I can't put it into words. In the other pictures, you can see that the screen and truss moved down while the "Revelation Revealed" moved up. Again, a very cool worship experience that added so much to the morning. It was exciting to see everything fall into place after the team had worked so hard!

Baby Taylor

Here are some pictures of Jay and Sheila's little girl. She's adorable and we can't wait to meet her!

Here is new mommy, Sheila, holding Taylor with Grandpa holding Caleb and Tucker in the middle!

Here is new daddy, Jay, holding Taylor.

Our nephews...

We will add pictures of Taylor as we get them, but here are some updated pictures of our nephews, Tucker and Caleb!! They're so cute!!

Grandma and Grandpa with the boys...

Our niece is here!!

Jay and Sheila are the proud parents of baby Taylor Eillen. She was born in Topeka on Monday, July 30 at 5:17 p.m. She weighed 8 pounds and 12 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long. Mom and baby are doing great. We'll have more pictures as she continues to grow. I don't get to see her until the end of October, but uncle Mike has to wait until probably Christmastime. :( She's going to be changing so much...that's the bummer about being so far apart. But it's going to be an exciting, crazy Christmas at my parents house this year and we're looking forward to hopefully having all the new babies together! Grandma and Grandpa are excited for sure to have all their grandkids and kids home at the same time. Hopefully we can all work our schedules to be there together. Stay tuned for more updates about all the babies... :)

It's been a while!

Yes, we know it's been a while since we've updated our blog. Let's see, where to begin...We bought a house the end of May and worked on it through June and moved in the end of June. We love it! The second picture is the living room from the kitchen.
We loved the colors of our house in Joplin so much we decided to do pretty much the same thing in this house..with the exception of getting to find new colors for Baby Jaxson's room! :) The nursery is ready for him to arrive. The crib is put up and the clothes are washed and organized in the closet. We had a shower this past weekend at Mike's parents' house and got tons of great stuff, then we had a shower Wednesday night at the church and got more great stuff! Daddy put the swing, stroller, and vibrating seat together so Jaxson has fun toys waiting for him. We have about 6 more weeks to the due date.


Jessica and Jonathon had their baby, Caleb Douglas, born Monday, July 16. Uncle Mike and I were able to go see them Tuesday afternoon. You can see their updates here! Little Caleb is doing great and already changing so fast! He's ready for Jaxson to arrive so they can play
together! :)

At the shower this weekend my parents', Joy, and Tucker were able to stop by on their way home from Indiana after a couple days of visiting the newest addition to our family! Here is a cute picture of grandpa and Tucker playing. Tucker is growing up so fast. He has 8 teeth and loves making noises like rolling his tongue! :)

Some of you have been asking to see my belly so here you go...this is from a couple weeks ago. Jaxson is moving around quite a bit and just last Sunday I felt his hiccups for the first time during church and then daddy felt them later that evening. I haven't felt them since then, but it was kind of an emotional time, I enjoy every punch and kick, it's reassurance that our little boy is growing and will be ready to visit us soon!

That seems to be all at this point. It's crazy it's already the end of July. We've been keeping busy with work and preparing the nursery. We really love it here in Indiana and look forward to the changes that a little baby brings. Hopefully we'll get you updated in a couple more weeks and then definitely will introduce you to Jaxson as soon as he arrives. Mommy and Daddy are very anxious to meet him, too!