Waterskiing with our Mechanic




This is our diesel mechanic and well yes, Todd has become quite good friends with him. So much so that we have gone waterskiing with them twice. Turns out he has waterskied a time or two and was pretty fun to watch on the wakeboard. He did a switch-a-roo and it was pretty cool!

The fun part about this is that his wife, Jackie, and I get along well too and she has the exact same due date as me! It has made for some pretty fun conversations! The water was pretty rough but luckily her and I got some of the best of the day! We kneeboarded together since I convinced her that the doctor would approve!

Unfortunately the water was so bad for most all of the day that we ended up floating around a lagoon/cove thing that we found. It was pretty fun though and it turned out one of the places was just a mudbog! It was a little startling, sinking down to your thighs in mud! Of course the guys were pretty macho about it and it was hilarious!

We also paddled around on the kneeboards and their daughter, Sydney, thought that was pretty fun!

When we finally decided to try some waterskiing again the water was much, much too choppy so we got out the tube and Ryan and Jackie rode around for awhile.

Unfortunately they got thrown off!

Sydney also got to ride but I never was sure whether or not she was happy about that!

Since Ryan had grown up around boats we let him drive for awhile and Todd and I tubed. It was pretty stinking fun, I was pretty certain I was going to get thrown any second! Thanks Ryan.

Signing off!

Perma-Belly

Well we don't really have any pictures to post as of recently. Todd has been working pretty diligently on the duplex trying to get it done before college starts around here. So no fun coming from our part of the world, but changes are rapidly happening nonetheless.

Jenny (we'll refer to her as me from now on in this post!) has been extremely tired and can't believe how much stuff I have let go by the wayside. Laundry piles up until we give in and put it away, dishes stay in the sink for days, and the bed didn't get made for 2 weeks!! Wow - this pregnancy stuff is for the birds I tell ya! I am thinking that Todd should take a turn next time!!!

But back to the reason for the post. I have a belly. It's definitely a belly. Now before these last couple of days I have joked about bellies. Like ya know, I have had one before in my life! But these bellies I've had, they were temporary. Like sometimes I'd wake up and first thing in the morning my belly would be completely flat. I always liked those times! But now (for the past few days) my belly is there every morning. In fact, since it showed up, it hasn't ever left. I finally expressed my concern to Todd and he ever so lovingly told me he didn't think it was going to get any better for a while! I was so sad at this realization.

Now some of you might be flabbergasted at my sadness - for carrying a baby is such a beautiful thing I'm sure. But this is reality, and I take my stand that if I could carry a baby with no belly I would definitely pick that option!! LOL - Hope you have a good day and enjoy the belly you currently have!

PS The picture above is NOT my belly

Waterskiing With the Welch's!

We went up to Twin Falls last week to tell the family about the good news, go waterskiing, get Jackie's old dining room table, and do some visiting. Luckily we were able to accomplish all of that!

Todd and Whit kneeboarded together.

And Jenny and Whit kneeboarded together.

Mark and Halee tubed together and it was pretty fun listening to Halee scream. Mark was able to get a little practice in "pushing his weight around" in order to keep to tube upright!




Jenny and Halee tried to kneeboard together, and trust us, we gave it as many different tries as we could figure but, alas, it was not meant to be!




Todd, of course, can't do anything unless he's doing it extreme! So tubing with Whit we had to perform some tricks! They had a good time and didn't get thrown off too much!

Mark finally got up on skis for the first time. It was pretty fun watching him, and as you can tell he is pretty proud of himself!

The other really funny part was Todd and Mark tubing together. Most of the time they were just trying to keep both of them on the tube. They quite enjoyed it and so did everyone laughing at them in the boat!

This is the first time we have been able to ski together. We haven't ever really let anyone else drive the boat and we haven't really had enough power before. But rest assured, Power can be Bought! Just ask us we'll tell you all about it!