My Hubby, 36 weeks, & Alan Jackson

So here is my wonderful husband with a boquet of roses for me...no reason...just because :) The longer I am married to this man (almost 5 years!); the more I love him. He continues to affirm me as his wife, values family, makes me laugh, works hard at being a great pilot, puts God above all else, will make an incredible daddy, and loves me unconditionally. I could keep going; but will leave it at that for now :) God has blessed our marriage in many ways and I am confident that we will continue to laugh together even when our hearing aids stop working :) I love this man!!

Here we are at a recent University of Arizona Football game.
9 MONTHS!!! (Only 3 weeks left...crazy!!)
Last night we hit up the Alan Jackson concert. We purchased really great tickets for the show that was originally scheduled for this past May and re-scheduled for September 11th. Needless to say we have been anticipating this show for several months now! Andy has been busy at work so we decided it would be no big deal to miss the opening act which was to start at 7:30. We left our house at 7:40 and arrived at 8:15 to find out that there was no opening act and Alan ended his concert at 8:40. Sooo, our tickets purchased us 4 songs at his concert for a total of 20 minutes! We were a lil frustrated of course; but can't stay mad at him for long...he is our favorite :)

Baby Showers

In the last week, Andy and I have been so very blessed by people that have taken the time to shower us with gifts and support of our little Tyler. On Labor Day, I had the privelage to meet 2 of Andy's Aunts that live up in Washington. They came to visit for a sister weekend with "Aunt Bunny" (as Andy calls her) who lives in Tucson; and took the afternoon for a meet n' greet/shower. It was fun to have 9 Korsmos (including Tyler) all together for the afternoon. I had a great time and was so blessed by their generous spirits. Thank you!!!From left: Cousin Joanne, Aunt Elaine, Aunt Bunny, sister Pam, us...Pam's daughter Meg, and Aunt Sigrid


Strolling back from a dip in the pool where Aunt Bunny lives :)
Second, I was thrown a surprise shower from my co-workers at the Child Development Center last Friday. They had the breakroom all decorated and people poured in during our nap time at the center. I was shocked because I had only been working there for 3 months and was still getting to know everyone. Everyone was so generous and I am grateful for the short time I have spent there. Here is a lovely picture of the "oh so flattering" smock we get to wear. The larger I get; the more I resemble a triangle in it...hmmm not good.
With Amanda; a wonderful Christian friend here who I have felt much support from...thank you!
Just a few of the many people I work with...or at least until this Friday...time flies!

Puerto Penasco, Mexico

Over Labor Day weekend we drove 4 hours to Puerto Penasco or "Rocky Point", Mexico. This tourist town is located on the upper curve of the Sea of Cortez. We were anticipating a very relaxing weekend; but came out with much the opposite. A friend of mine told me she was excited to hear what story we would have as it seems like we always come out of a trip with a good laugh..well we got one!
We camped on the beach the first night. Beautiful warm ocean water and waves crashing to soothe us to sleep....yep...not quite. First we didn't realize how deep the sand was and had to get towed out from the guy next to us. Turns out we were the first of 5 people to get stuck that night!
We had to move our tent back because our "next door neighbors" had a large speaker with our favorite music: TEJANO!! For any of our friends that spent some time with us in Del Rio...you know what I'm talking about :) With high humidity on the water it was pretty difficult to fall asleep easily. Thankfully we had help!
It was 10pm and a rather large truck decided to drive close to the tide that was rolling in. Andy walked over to tell him the sand gets deeper and that he would get stuck. He didn't listen. After an hour of 8 people pushing and his engine nearly overheating...he finally got out. We turned the AC on in the car to cool off and went to sleep. An hour later we had a new neighbor with a trailer who decided to take their 4 ATV's out for a spin at midnight. During this time, another vehicle got stuck which added to the quiet soothing noise of the ATV's for a sleep-filled evening :) After waking up I couldn't fall back asleep....so I slept in the backseat of the car while Andy had the tent. Shortly after a Hummer pulled up next to us maybe 20ft away with his buddy on the other side....both blaring TEJANO from the cars....we were thrilled!!! With everyone screaming in a drunken stooper, they didn't quite realize that their Tahoe was nearly swept up by the tide as it was stuck with it's back bumper 5ft from the waves and the front facing an uphill climb out of the sand. Being the good Christians we are; we simply grabbed a bag of MnM's, sat on our chairs, and watched in amusement as their giggling quickly turned to crying. Oh...I can't forget that we turned up our radio playing good ol' country boy Alan Jackson music as if to send the message that we weren't digging the "Mexican Polka" style music. Thankfully for them and their Tahoe, an F450 got them out before water rose to the tires. By this time the sun was rising....
So we went in the water :)

Looking back during low tide at the beach we camped on.
The mountain range that gives Puerto Penasco the name: Rocky Point


The second night was spent at a beautiful hotel. What we didn't know is that MTV spring break was there taping on location (not really; but it seemed like it). We spent the afternoon by the pool with many high schoolers and college students on break. The same 20 rap songs repeated from 11am to 10:30pm at night. We were hoping to get to bed early as we only had 2 hours total the night before but the base was too extreme...so we got some early dinner, Thrifty ice cream, and kept the TV volume on high until the walls stopped shaking.



The same view of high tide (above) and low tide (below) from our balcony just in a matter of hours.



Andy had a great ride with an ATV on the sand dunes the day before. I couldn't go so the next day we rented this instead. I think we'll trade in our Honda :)
Well, needless to say we headed for home a bit early. All in all it was a great weekend; we were just awake for too much of it! For anyone in the Tucson area; I would definately recommend visiting Rocky Point. The water is increadibly warm; beaches are nice, and hotels are beautiful. Just avoid camping on the beach during a party weekend...that is...unless you love TEJANO :)

34 1/2 Weeks

Well things are progressing nicely. Had my 34 wk appt last Thursday and the second the doc saw my belly she knew he had started to "drop" (which essentially means he is starting to move down towards the pelvis and is getting ready to make his grand appearance!). The nice thing about this is that I have some room again to breath...downside is I have to pee all the time!! She said I shouldn't go past my Oct 6 due date and that if he continues to progress he may come early. We will see...it's all up to the lil' guy :) I put my resignation in at the Child Development Center last week and my final work day will be Sep 12...which is next Friday! That will give me a couple weeks to get the house ready for a baby and a big move!!
This is just a cute picture of Andy and Georgia. She was a lil' sleepy so she just laid on his lap like this for a half hour. Pretty soon she's going to have to share all the attention :)

Out at the lake

On Saturday we drove up to Phoenix and hung out at Canyon Lake with some of Andy's classmates. There aren't too many lakes in Arizona so it was nice to get back on a boat and cool off for a while. There were some massive cliffs that surrounded the larget part of the lake and the channels too. Georgia was invited so you can imagine her excitement when we pulled out her life jacket from the garage. She has never been on a boat before but you couldn't tell...she adapted very quickly :)

The cliffs were HUGE!!



She loved the fact that she had a "diving board" off of the boat :)

I was told this was the Arkansas version of a floatie...it seemed to work quite nicely and didn't make your hips look big either...haha!!
Getting dried off and heading back before sunset

Family photo...awww...

Random

So here are some random photos from the last few weeks:
Here are some of the kiddos in my Pre-K classroom during arts & crafts. It has been fun getting to know each of their "unique" 4 year old personalities and watching them learn. This week we focussed on the Olympics (I wonder why!!) and had them explore new sport activities through projects in and out of the classroom.
Hanging out with Andy's A-10 class for poker/opening Olympic ceremonies night
The gals...and the two newly emerged beautiful babies. (Tyler is also in this photo just disguised as a basketball :) Getting bigger and bigger at 8 months...only 7 weeks left...crazy!!!

30 Weeks and 4D Ultrasound!!

So here I am 7 1/2 months pregnant. I thought I'd be brave and show you an actual belly shot below to get a better idea of how much Tyler is starting to make his protruding appearance! Had a doctor appt today and she said everything looks good. I have been taking iron supplements for the anemia that developed and that has been helping. Apparently I have been measuring 1 week ahead but that doesn't necessarily mean he will be big or I will deliver early. She said typically women who carry all up front tend to measure larger; so I'm hoping that's the case.
Following my doc appt, Andy and I met up to have a 4D ultrasound done. His head was down towards my bladder and but/legs up towards my ribs. It was hard to get a face shot so the doc after 15 minutes took a break and asked me to move around so he would shift positions. I did jumping jacks, mountain climbers, stretches, you name it...well it worked! These are the very brief shots we got of him as he was looking at the camera. Enjoy!!
Right ear/right arm and hand
Sweet baby sleeping :)
...and yawning :)
right elbow touching right knee
We think he is praying or just ready for us to stop looking at him :)