Family Photo With a Pregnant Belly!



Does it get any better? For Thanksgiving this year we updated our family photo. We have now officially taken a family photo with each girl in our family taking a turn at being pregnant. Meaning the first year it was Jana, then it was JoAnn, then Amy and finally now me! Everyone has gotten the experience of going through it so it's completely fair! It's just perfect, let me tell you. So I thought I would post it, even though a lot of you might not know very many people in the picture at least it gives you an update of how absolutely large I am getting. I am officially in my 7th month of pregnancy and feel surprisingly great! I feel so lucky.

As you can tell the girls in our family are largely outweighed by the boys! So Savannah is a desperately needed addition!

So for those of you who are wondering I will go from Left to Right Top to Bottom:

Sharyl (mom), Jana (Jason's wife) holding daughter Ashley, JoAnn holding son David, Amy, Me

Garth (dad) holding Jason's son Colton and Tracker, Jason holding his son Justin, Adam (JoAnn's husband), John (Amy's husband) holding Tyler, Todd

Shaun (Jason's son), Nicholas (JoAnn's son), Jacob (JoAnn's son), Wesley (JoAnn's son), Carter (Amy's son), and Kate (Amy's daughter)

I Got Tagged by Multiple People.

Everyone knows the rules, if not read our previous post. (This is Todd.)

1. A fact about me that most people probably don't know is that I am a horsepower nut. I am not your average, "Hey man, fast cars are fun" kind-of-guy. I am a "Fast cars are necessary for sustained life" kind-of-guy. And the only thing about vehicles I really care about is whats under the hood. I would prefer to ride around in an ugly piece of crap 1000 horsepower Dodge diesel truck, than in a new viper, corvette, Ferrari, ect. any day.

2. I am truly satisfied with my current life situation, as I hope that everyone reading this is also. I love bein me! I mean dude I am like 6' 9" and a gold medalist in arm wrestling. Really an amazing physical specimen. I love my toys, and they are to most powerful toys made, in their respective categories. Of course I am constantly wanting to make every one of them much more powerful, please refer to # 1.

3. I love to work with my hands. I really enjoy fixing and creating things. As most of you know I have been building a garage at my house lately. It has been very fun. It is very rewarding to stand back and look at what I have made.

4. Food-Love it
I really enjoy food, and I am actually quite the baker. I am partial to breads, mostly sweet breads, muffins, waffles and such. I cook breakfast every morning as I wake up absolutely starving! It is usually quite big. I eat a lot. I grew up with the most awesome breakfasts that I now refuse to settle for cold cereal!

5. I am avid waterskier. I love to get out on the lake. It's only November and I can hardly wait for next ski season. I am fairly good at slaloming, wake boarding, knee boarding and driving Lil Miss! I am hoping to get an air chair and a better wake board in the near future!

6. I have yet to list a habit which, if you refer to the rules, is part of this whole spiel. So a habit I have that drives Jenny crazy is making noises with my mouth when explaining things. This is especially true when I am explaining how I am going to put something together and then how it is going to work. It is often a click with my tongue or make another noise very similiar to that. i.e. "See it will fit in like this (click) and then work every time I do such and such (other noise)."

Being Tagged

The rules of the game should be posted at the beginning of the post. Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1. I hate being pregnant and what it has done to my belly! Now... I know that Savannah will probably be worth it and all, but I still hold my stance that if Todd could take a turn I would totally let him!

2. I balance my checkbook daily. Everyday I go online to my bank's site and look at what has come through, etc. I know exactly how much money should be left in the account every month and track every expenditure. I talk with Todd about every expense that comes through each month including the utilities! We discuss beforehand each and every purchase both of us are thinking about making. And it makes me so happy! We have never fought about money, not a single aspect of it.

3. I often speed! I even got a ticket the other day, but I'm not upset. Todd and I decided that getting a ticket every once and awhile is just part of the price of driving for us, just like changing our oil. I rarely get caught so when I do I feel like I'm probably due and I gladly pay the fine! Todd got a $500 speeding ticket once on his bullet bike, but I wasn't upset. It could have just as easily been me! On the bright side of things it has also never effected our insurance premiums.

4. I am an avid Turkey hunter. For the past 17 years I have hunted 3-5 states with my dad. I've been successful a lot and unsuccessful a lot, but wouldn't trade a single day of any of it. I've taken Todd a few times and he hates every second of it. He hates getting up early, he hates hiking around in the woods, he hates sitting still, and he hates not seeing anything! When he goes he now chooses to sleep in in the morning and make breakfast in the trailer with my mom!

5. Todd and I never feel like going out to fast food at the same place, ever. Sometimes we can't agree and so we comprise and then we're both just plain sad! Sometimes we go to different places and get it to go and then eat together. He always feels like a burger and/or Denny's and I never feel like a burger or Denny's!

6. During the winter I try my hardest to fill up my gas tank when Todd is in the car. I don't even tell him that's why, I just make it look like I really need some and this is the best time to get some. If he is with me he'll get out and pump my gas for me! I hate pumping my gas in the winter when it's cold outside!

I tagged Cherstie, Cherise, Carrie and Josh, John, and Wendy but am anxiously awaiting Halee and Whitney's posts. Can't wait guys!

More Info On...The Garage

Since the new garage is the most interesting part of our life right now, I will continue on with yet another post concerning the progress of it!

While Todd's dad was down here visiting and helping he gave Todd his 2 cents worth. He said "Light It Up!" and being the obedient son that Todd is, he did! There is like 128' of floresent lighting going through the place!

We also recently got the rest of our cement poured. A 25' driveway to park cars on, play b-ball, wash vehicles, and enough room for our kitty to roll around on!

Todd is also done roofing. Which is very exciting. Due to it not snowing yet and all. He is currently working on installing the garage doors and one last window, which should be done by Tuesday, and then we will start moving everything over from our storage shed! He will still have to finish the siding, but getting moved in will be so exciting! Then after siding he'll build shelves inside for all our stuff! Man we are loving this whole idea!

Oh just in case any of you have forgotten how much room our kitty needs to roll around we thought we would post a picture of how absolutely large she has gotten in her old age!

The Last Trip of the Year



We went waterskiing the other day for the last trip of the year. Todd wanted to put fuel treatment in the gas and get it ran through the carborators and of course if you are going to the lake you might as well make a trip out of it! Luckily we had a warm spell where Sand Hollow was looking like it would hit 85 degrees so we grabbed a kid who we had been wanting to take all summer and ran down there for the day. It was probaly the best day of waterskiing Todd has had for a long time! There was absolutely no one else there (surprise, surprise the last week in October!) and so the water was glass!





Although the air temperature was in the 80s the water felt more like ice cubes on your toes! So pretty much he got in all the sking he wanted plus some! He got to slalom until he was worn out, wakeboard, kneeboard and drive the boat until he was pooped! It was a good trip for that. We always love to go to the lake but sometimes it's nice when Todd gets to do a little of everything! Include getting in his fair share of crashing!


The kid we took, Chris, got up on a kneeboard for the first time and the slalom ski. It was pretty fun as he was certain he wasn't going to get it and he ended up getting it pretty fast!



I also decided to get in a few runs for the last trip. I kneeboarded with the girl Chris brought and wakeboarded just a little bit. Jumping the wake on a kneeboard puts a little bit more pressure than you realize when you're not pregnant and after a few times of doing it I just decided to play it safe! It was so fun and now the boat is all winterized and ready for the cold. I explained to Todd that last year was a learning experience and this year I would not react the same way to a cracked engine! He understood and agreed and we are hoping next year we get in a full year of trips to the lake with a brand new member of the family!