Has it been 2 months ???
So, what’s new and exciting in YOUR life???? (This could take a while)
Well, funny you should ask… Jess and I moved into our new house last weekend. FUN, FUN, FUN…but not really. It was a LOT of work, but fortunately we had a TON of help. Remember when I said I wasn’t going to ask for any help so I wouldn’t be mad when my friends bailed on us? Well, I didn’t ask, they just all volunteered, and without them, we, well, I would still be moving boxes and shit, so I thank you all immensely.
We spent all Friday night painting after the closing, which thanks to Justin and Kell-eye, only took until midnight or so, because quite frankly, I am the worst painter in history, and deciding to put such a dark color in Dylan’s room with bad lighting may not have been the greatest decision ever, but it looks good now…lol
Saturday morning had me up bright and early to go clean up the painting mess from Friday before meeting with Nat, Al, Travis, Dylan and Bo to attack my storage units. We got it all loaded in about an hour, and made our way back to the house to unload. Upon loading and unloading we discovered that I may have single-handedly kept the VHS format alive and well for several years after DVD’s should have made them obsolete.
Jess stayed at the apartment where she was met by Whitney, Sarah, Megan, Kell-eye, and Alicia. The girls boxed up all the stuff they could fit into 4 or 5 cars and left the furniture for us to go back and grab with the truck. We emptied everything into the house and enjoyed a yummy sammich before heading back to the apartment to take care of the big stuff. All in all it took us about 6 ½ hours to move into the new place…not too shabby, and I owe everyone who helped a big BBQ with beer flavored water for them to consume.
We spent most of the last week just putting stuff in its new rightful places, emptying tons of boxes, and hanging lots of stuff with nails and screws. We are probably 85% finished. The place looks good, but still has a few things left to be done, like hanging 3 more sets of blinds, putting Dylan’s bed together, hanging some pictures, and other small things like that, but for the most part the place looks really good, and we are both extremely happy. Of course there is still work to do on the outside of the house, like ripping out plants, cutting down/back some overgrown foliage in the yard, emptying and cleaning out the 2 ponds, and stuff like that, which is coming up next, along with buying a lawn mower (for Dylan…LOL), new BBQ grill, patio set, edger, leaf blower, and a bunch of other gardening tools I have less than no experience in using…LOL
Wedding invitations are in the mail with a date of April 21st, 2007 being the big day for Jess and I… Apologies abound if you do not get an invite, but since this is coming out of our pockets, which are now 170 thousand dollars emptier than they were a week ago, we had to cut our list WAYYY down, like from 150 to 85 or so. Fortunately/unfortunately, we both have very big families, and they had to come first, which led to some people we love being cut out. We wanted them sent early enough so that if some of the out of town family can’t attend we can invite some of the people we wanted to come but were left out.
Now, as I used to say back in my Ring announcing days, “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT IS TIME FOR THE MAIN EVENT OF THE EVENING!”
Is 3 weeks too long of a time frame to wait for something??? I mean we all know Jessica had to wait 27 years for ME to come along, so she should be able to do 3 weeks standing on her head right?? But I wonder if 3 weeks is too long to have to wait to find out if you are going to have MORE THAN 1 BABY???
Yes kiddies, we may be looking at twins. We got a Doppler for the house that lets us listen to the baby’s/babies’ heartbeat/heartbeats. Well, for 2 weeks now, I have been hearing 2 heartbeats on opposite sides of her belly when we listen. I can find them every time, and they to me, sound like they are different speeds/strengths, so to me, Lenny the amateur OB/GYN (I just added the OB part, I have been an amateur GYN for YEARS….) that means 2 babies. Her grandma also informed us that there are not just 1 set of twins in her family as we originally believed, but that there are 6 or 7, so they do run more strongly in her family than we suspected. The doctor wouldn’t confirm or deny my diagnosis, saying they do not diagnose twins with just the Doppler sounds, but we would know for sure in 3 weeks when we go for the ultrasound.
So on 3/19 we will know if we are having 1 or 2, but right now it could go either way. Just do me a favor and pray for either one boy, one girl, one of each, or 2 boys, because I don’t think I can handle twin girls… No seriously…
Well, funny you should ask… Jess and I moved into our new house last weekend. FUN, FUN, FUN…but not really. It was a LOT of work, but fortunately we had a TON of help. Remember when I said I wasn’t going to ask for any help so I wouldn’t be mad when my friends bailed on us? Well, I didn’t ask, they just all volunteered, and without them, we, well, I would still be moving boxes and shit, so I thank you all immensely.
We spent all Friday night painting after the closing, which thanks to Justin and Kell-eye, only took until midnight or so, because quite frankly, I am the worst painter in history, and deciding to put such a dark color in Dylan’s room with bad lighting may not have been the greatest decision ever, but it looks good now…lol
Saturday morning had me up bright and early to go clean up the painting mess from Friday before meeting with Nat, Al, Travis, Dylan and Bo to attack my storage units. We got it all loaded in about an hour, and made our way back to the house to unload. Upon loading and unloading we discovered that I may have single-handedly kept the VHS format alive and well for several years after DVD’s should have made them obsolete.
Jess stayed at the apartment where she was met by Whitney, Sarah, Megan, Kell-eye, and Alicia. The girls boxed up all the stuff they could fit into 4 or 5 cars and left the furniture for us to go back and grab with the truck. We emptied everything into the house and enjoyed a yummy sammich before heading back to the apartment to take care of the big stuff. All in all it took us about 6 ½ hours to move into the new place…not too shabby, and I owe everyone who helped a big BBQ with beer flavored water for them to consume.
We spent most of the last week just putting stuff in its new rightful places, emptying tons of boxes, and hanging lots of stuff with nails and screws. We are probably 85% finished. The place looks good, but still has a few things left to be done, like hanging 3 more sets of blinds, putting Dylan’s bed together, hanging some pictures, and other small things like that, but for the most part the place looks really good, and we are both extremely happy. Of course there is still work to do on the outside of the house, like ripping out plants, cutting down/back some overgrown foliage in the yard, emptying and cleaning out the 2 ponds, and stuff like that, which is coming up next, along with buying a lawn mower (for Dylan…LOL), new BBQ grill, patio set, edger, leaf blower, and a bunch of other gardening tools I have less than no experience in using…LOL
Wedding invitations are in the mail with a date of April 21st, 2007 being the big day for Jess and I… Apologies abound if you do not get an invite, but since this is coming out of our pockets, which are now 170 thousand dollars emptier than they were a week ago, we had to cut our list WAYYY down, like from 150 to 85 or so. Fortunately/unfortunately, we both have very big families, and they had to come first, which led to some people we love being cut out. We wanted them sent early enough so that if some of the out of town family can’t attend we can invite some of the people we wanted to come but were left out.
Now, as I used to say back in my Ring announcing days, “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT IS TIME FOR THE MAIN EVENT OF THE EVENING!”
Is 3 weeks too long of a time frame to wait for something??? I mean we all know Jessica had to wait 27 years for ME to come along, so she should be able to do 3 weeks standing on her head right?? But I wonder if 3 weeks is too long to have to wait to find out if you are going to have MORE THAN 1 BABY???
Yes kiddies, we may be looking at twins. We got a Doppler for the house that lets us listen to the baby’s/babies’ heartbeat/heartbeats. Well, for 2 weeks now, I have been hearing 2 heartbeats on opposite sides of her belly when we listen. I can find them every time, and they to me, sound like they are different speeds/strengths, so to me, Lenny the amateur OB/GYN (I just added the OB part, I have been an amateur GYN for YEARS….) that means 2 babies. Her grandma also informed us that there are not just 1 set of twins in her family as we originally believed, but that there are 6 or 7, so they do run more strongly in her family than we suspected. The doctor wouldn’t confirm or deny my diagnosis, saying they do not diagnose twins with just the Doppler sounds, but we would know for sure in 3 weeks when we go for the ultrasound.
So on 3/19 we will know if we are having 1 or 2, but right now it could go either way. Just do me a favor and pray for either one boy, one girl, one of each, or 2 boys, because I don’t think I can handle twin girls… No seriously…