Prayers Please

So we have some not so good news that is in no part an April Fool's joke. I hate having to write this on a day when we are supposed to have some much joy coming into our lives, but here it goes:
Chad was layed off yesterday from work. He came and picked me up from work around noon to let me know. As you all know, i was planning on staying at home with our son, but we don't know what the future holds now.
I turned in my resignation from work a while ago, but i have said something about possibly coming back after maternity leave if they would have work for me, but I haven't heard anything. Chad's employer has given the people they layed off a severance package that should hold us over for a couple months. The reason for the lay off is that they are slowly closing the bryan location.
in any case, this has come as a real shock and swift punch to the gut. We don't know what God has in store for us or why he chose to have this happen at this time, but we are trying really hard to know that he is in control and knows the plans he has for us.
We have been praying-not very consistently though-about moving closer to our parents for a while now. We are thinking maybe this is God saying that we need to start acting on that thought instead of just thinking about it.
Our thoughts right now are that we will probably be putting our house on the market soon. Chad is going to apply for some jobs in the Dayton/Columbus area in hopes that something is available and he will not be jobless for too long. If he gets a job down there in the near future before we sell our house, we will move down there while still trying to sell our house. Or if our house sells, we will move down there unless i am working up here.
I am due today, but there is no sign of the little guy coming. If he would come soon, we would really love that. We could use some joy in our lives right now. The good in this is that Chad will be able to spend more time with his son now.
i'm sorry you guys are finding out this way, but i dont think i could call everybody and go through this every time. it is hard enough writing this as i am crying the entire time hoping nobody at work notices.
please just keep us in your prayers.

1 day away...

My due date is officially tomorrow...however, it seems that mr squirt is content...STILL. i went on a 4 mile walk yesterday and plan on doing a similar task today. hopefully something is happening, I guess we'll see. I'm still hoping for that April 1st delivery...times wasting away squirt...its time for you to start making your way from my belly into my arms! I can't wait to meet you!
Chad has been working hard on getting the final details of the nursery done. Since we can't find any really neat car switch plate covers, chad has resorted to drawing cars on them. We'll then paint the very artistic drawings that my wonderful husband has been putting so much effort into!
Sunday night chad and i stayed up until 11:45 (that is VERY late for us) watching a movie. What movie you ask? It's a movie called Fireproof. The acting was sub-par, but I expected that. However, the message the movie conveyed was a very good one. There is no question as to what the writers wanted to get across to the audience...sometimes, it felt as if they were shoving it down your throat...but i think sometimes our society needs that, even if it does make it quite cheesy :) I still haven't recovered from our late night and I am tired today.


Come on baby clark-many people are waiting on you and its rude to keep people waiting!

Overdue

I had my 39 wk appt yesterday and the dr seems to think that I will go over my due date...booo! we are so excited to meet mr squirt, but he doesn't seem to be all that thrilled about leaving his comfy yet cramped quarters...what a squirt! (hence the name) He still finds it very funny to kick me and make my stomach look like anything but a normal belly. His jabs are becoming more painful and menacing as the days go...he is definitely getting stronger-the stinker!
Anyway, we are crossing our fingers for an April 1st delivery! Everybody pray that it happens! We could have so much fun with the kid for years to come!
"Happy birthday sweetie! We got you a bike!!!! April Fools! you get clothes!"
Can't wait!

11 days and counting....

38 Weeks!

I went to the dr yesterday for my 38th week check-up and left disappointed. They say that nothing is progressing and I probably will be seeing them for a couple more weeks yet...rats! I was really hoping that something would be going on, but the little squirt will come when he's good and ready-and when God tells him it's time to leave mommy's ever growing belly :). I haven't gained any weight for about 3 weeks, but somehow this little guy is still growing. last week when they measure me, he was at 37, and this week he is at 39...who gave him permission to skip 38? I certainly did not, he needs to understand his mommy has never done this before so he needs to be the tiny adorable little 6 lb newborn and not the massive 9 or 10 pounder.

Squirt, if you can hear me-and i know you can, please don't get too big!!! or come earlier than you are planning!

In other news...we started painting the master bedroom. We picked the colors according to our bedspread...baked bean and something else. When we opened the baked bean, i was a bit apprehensive to put it on the wall b/c it was such a bold color. However, we started painting and I think i really like it! the other color will be a creamish color, which i need to go down into the basement and find it...wherever it may be.

We painted the ceiling this past weekend and we took the bright light out,(not the toy) before it had dried. So when we brought the light back in to paint the walls, I saw for the first time how horrible my painting skills are when it comes to painting ceilings. There were huge spots where I pretty much completely missed! It's really hard to paint white on white b/c you can't see where you've been. So, unfortunately, we need to open up the ceiling paint again and redo what we've already done...rats! I know what we'll be doing this weekend with Chad's parents if we don't get it done tonight :)

I've posted some better nursery pics for your enjoyment. I apologize for the last ones, they weren't very good. These are a little better.

This is the view from the doorway
Our cute hamper, rocker, and lamp :)
The mobile that will hopefully put him to sleep dreaming of cars!
Bedding-I just love the car theme!!!

I can't wait for our little guy to move into the nursery...it just doesn't feel complete without him here.

Please pray for Chad to come up with a name for the squirt so he doesn't have to go by Squirt when he is born. We had a name picked and now we are rethinking. Chad has the burden/privilege of picking the name...11 days left to decide :)

and for kicks and giggles, here's a pic of our friends' 2 year old daughter wearing chad's Troll mask...hilarious.

It's been a while!

So it's been about a month since the last post and I apologize. I haven't been able to get on here to do this so I am taking a couple minutes to update.

One reason i've decided to do this today is that we found our camera charger! woohoo! It has been lost for a few weeks and our camera was slowly dying. As the due date of our squirt is approaching, I was getting extra anxious to find it so we wouldn't be caught red handed w/out it at the delivery.

I am 38 weeks along now! I can't believe how fast this pregnancy has gone! The good news is that we have been working a lot on the house and the nursery is complete! (aside from baseboard, but who needs that!) The wood flooring is also done and we have carpet in the guest bedroom. The master bedroom still needs to be painted, which hopefully we'll get done this week, but who knows. It's just nice to come home to a clean house and do a little bit of work and then relax.

The kitchen and bathrooms are the only other rooms lacking right now, but they aren't too high on the priority list. They will get done in time.

Getting ready for baby, I installed the car seat in my car so we wouldn't be doing that last minute. The stroller has also been put together and baby stuff has been organized and washed...for the most part. however, our hospital bag only contains one outfit...for squirt when its time to come home...i've been a huge slacker...but that comes from my hatred of packing. We'll need to do that soon i guess.

Anyway, I've uploaded pictures of the nursery and flooring and guest bedroom for your enjoyment. We are having our fat lady (pregnant me) pics done tonight...so hopefully I'll have some 38 week shots for you all in the near future!

14 days and counting!!!!!

All of the pictures were taken this morning...so they aren't that great of quality b/c i was rushing to get out the door for work!

Our bedroom flooring complete!
1st shot of Guest Bedroom

2nd Shot of Guest Bedroom

DRUMROLL PLEASE!!!!

Now for Pic's of the Nursery!!!!

(I don't think this is how it is going to stay...we don't really like the setup quite yet...and no the sweeper will not be living in here, i didn't have time to clean the room out last night)

Updates on the house and baby :)

Here's a few pics for your enjoyment...the wood floor being finally laid in the house and me at 34 weeks!

Baby shower at work

I had a baby shower thrown for me at work...I love my coworkers :) They are awesome and are so generous! Gift Certificate to Babies R Us...woohoo!

clothes!!!

I was trying to figure out the bowl set in this pic...it was confusing at first :) Thanks Lissa and Laci!

More Clothes!



MORE CLOTHES!

I think more clothes, but don't know what I'm looking at :)

Still pulling out stuff from the bag-cut dog bib:)

Sleepers!

This pic shows my big belly at 32 weeks...its coming so fast!

Look at all the goods and the awesome CAKE!!!!

The cake was awesome and so cute thanks to Lissa! I wish I would have gotten a picture of her with the cake. I absolutely love what she wrote on it.

I also had a shower at my church the Sunday before, but I forgot my camera, so we don't have pictures from that shower, which really stinks. But I do have another shower in Columbus in a week and a half, so hopefully I remember my camera for that one :)

Our boy definitely has more clothes than I do at the present moment. Pretty soon I am going to have to start washing them all and organizing them by size.

I need to take pics of the other ones that we have for him...there are some pretty cute outfits.

As for our house...It is mostly painted!!!! we have a few areas to touch up, but not too much. Our room still needs painted, which I hope to get done this week. I'll take some pics and hopefully post them soon. Thank you Cody, Cory, Kent and Zack for your help in painting our house this weekend while we were at birthing class!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures!