Boy or girl - place your bets!

Well here is my first official (and long awaited) blog post. I'm still learning how to use this thing, and I'll be honest - it's a little hard! But I can't rely on my husband to be the blogger of the family anymore because he's already passed the torch to me, so I thought that we should probably make an official announcement about our new little addition! We're having a baby in March, on the 2nd to be exact, but we don't know what it is yet. We find out on Oct 7th - 7 days from now!! So I'm posting a poll to see what everyone thinks we're going to have (boy or girl, because we already know it's a baby!). We've discovered that neither Jason nor I have any parental intuition and have no idea what it is, so that's why we're requesting your input. We sure are excited though!! I bought a crib on Saturday, so now we just have to clean out the spare bedroom, which will be no easy task.

Here are some shots of my growing belly! The first one is at about 3 months, the second is at 4 months. It may not look like a lot now, but just you wait!

fire station excitement

the last two shifts have been pretty slow, even for station 10. today started with some excitement, a small (very small) fire at a local high school. it was a full alarm so 3 fire engines, a fire truck, the battalion chief, and me in my utility (water boy) truck. when i got out and walked over to meet my crew i was greeted by a group of high school students asking "hey, who ordered a stripper?" kids are so clever. i told them to stay in school and say no to drugs. other than that, i spent my day reading my text books and examining the fire stations sprinkler system. in the afternoon the my captain brought us out to practice throwing ladders up onto a building which was really a trick to get me to wash the windows. so not only did i sharpen my skills our windows look great now. so i will probably head to bed now, so i can get some sleep before the next elderly person falls out of bed.

state fair 08

last night we went on our annual trip to the state fair with our good friend jeff jackson. we had a great time as expected, fun you can only have at the fair. we saw a giant sculpture of cows made from butter, the great clips nascar, a bunch of captive tigers, many interesting fair going people, and countless animals. i had funnel cake for dinner, with dippin dots for dessert. while i was in line to buy my dinner, linds and jeff made their guesses what i would come back with. linds guessed it right on, including the kinds i was debating between. my girl knows me so good. the night was bitter sweet though, bitter for linds, sweet for me. due to being pregnant linds could not ride the zipper, which is what she looks forward to all year. i on the other hand get the night off from feeling nausious. all in all, a great night

ok, catching up on blogging

so its been awhile since i typed anything on this thing and i've recieved a few complaints about that. so here's what jason and lindsay and daisy have been up to. i'm happy to report that daisy still has 4 good legs, knock on wood. keep her in your prayers. we bought a boat a few weeks ago and since have been putting all the our money into big oils deep pockets. (totally worth it.) Linds is carrying our child, constantly sick and sleepy but is a little trooper. i'm real proud of her. she only throws up when i'm not home so thus far i'm no help. this week our baby is the size of a lemon. we have our second baby appointment tomorrow morning, so in about a month we'll be able to find out what sex it is which will be exciting. linds is busy at work helping students fund their education, and doing quite well. although she still refuses to hang her diploma on the wall of her office, probably because she doesnt want to intimadate anyone who comes into her office with her intelligence and expensive looking picture frames. hopefully more pictures to come on this blog soon.