Big Boy Bed

In October my dad began building Josiah's "big boy bed." He had it all done, but the decorations and the polyurethane. It has only taken us over a month to finish it, but Monday night Josiah got to sleep in his big boy bed. He was very excited about it. He was not the least bit upset that he was no longer going to be in his crib. In fact yesterday he wanted to take a nap early so he could be in his bed. So far he has slept great in it. Today, while he was taking a nap, I snapped a picture.

The bed is made out of cedar. We liked the natural look so we put polyurethane on it. We painted Josiah on the head board in Beaver Orange and put a Lighting McQueen and Mater sticker on it. On the foot board we painted Swick and put OSU stickers on it.

Can't believe my due date is only 3 weeks away. We are not ready at all for the arrival of the baby. Right now you can't walk into the baby's room it is so disorganized. But we plan to work on it tomorrow. No...we don't have a name picked out. We don't even have a list. Maybe that will be something we do while I am in labor. :) I did have a baby shower on Saturday and received lots of warm clothes for him, so I do have the peace of mind knowing he won't freeze to death once he comes out.

In other news, Josiah is going to have an uncle. Yep...Auntie Pam is getting married. We are so excited for her and Matt.

Josiah the Weatherman

When my parents were here the end of September we took a trip to Portland to the Oregon Science Museum. Josiah had a lot of fun exploring the different exibits. One of the exhibits was about weather and it gave an opportunity for you be a weatherman on T.V. Here is the video of Daddy and Josiah doing the weather.

Pumpkin Patch

Today I finally felt motivated to blog again. I spent yesterday doing a lot of cleaning and my back is reminding me today that I probably pushed it too far. But I still have a burning desire to accomplish something so I decided to blog.

A couple of weeks ago we went to a local farm called Heavenly Harvest for the Octoberfest activities. The farm is an organic farm owned by one of the members of our church. They have lots of activities for kid and you can take a hay ride down to the pumpkin patch and pick out your own pumpkin. Josiah had a blast.

Josiah running the pump in the rubber ducky race.

Playing in the boxes of corn. Here he is making a corn angel.

This is the family on the hay ride. Josiah was so excited because we got to sit up front near the tractor.


No I am not hiding a pumpkin under my shirt. :)

We found our pumpkin. All 30 lbs of it.

In other news, Josiah came down with a cold. He has a high fever (104.2), runny nose, and a slight cough. We finally got his temperature down enough to where he is sleeping peacefully. Pray it doesn't last long and that the rest of us don't get it.

Brief Update

I know it has been awhile since I have posted anything. The truth of the matter is I haven't really been in the mood to download pictures, sift through them, and then post them. Being at 33 weeks (7 months) of pregnancy the aches and pains are growing which means I am moving slower. Moving slower means it takes me a lot longer to get anything done and I feel overwhelming behind on all the stuff I need to get done before the baby arrives. But today I felt a little bad about not updating all the family on what is going on, so I it made a priority. The bad news is, like always, Jason has the camera, so I don't have pictures.

The rainy season has finally started here. Makes it difficult to spend time outside, but Josiah and I go to indoor park where he can play with other kids. It has been fun watching him interact with the different personality types. I think he is learning a lot about the world and it is preparing him for having a brother around. He always makes his mommy proud because he is very good at sharing and I never have any problems with him beating up other kids. (I feel bad for the moms that do). Today, bless his heart, he got "attacked" by a little girl. She got excited about the game they were playing and she grabbed a hold of him and pulled his hair and pinched his neck. While he did cry (I think he was scared) he was very quick to forgive and they had a great time chasing each other up and down the slide after the incident. He really is a great, well mannered kid and he makes his parents proud.

We finally got the main part of the house resided (thanks Dad, Jeremiah, Chris, and Adam) and Saturday we were able to paint it before the winter rains set in. It is a yellowish, orange color. It reminds me of a sunrise. I think that is why I chose it. I can be reminded of the sun, even though there will be times when I won't see it for days. We are also finishing up a "big boy" bed for Josiah. We hope to have him in it by this weekend so he can get used to it before the baby comes. My dad built most of it and then we decorated it. Now we are going to polyurithane it before he stick it in his room. After that is completed we are going to back off on the projects for awhile. Jason is busy with work and school and I want him to focus on that so he can get everything done so he can enjoy Christmas break with his family.

I think that is it for the major events in our life at the moment. I will try real hard to get the camera from Jason soon and post pictures.

Auntie Pam and Matt

So this post is a little late. It has been a couple of week since Auntie Pam and Matt came to visit, but thought better late than never. The only day we took any pictures was the day we went to the beach and then headed north to Tillamook to the creamery. There we watched the production of Tillamook's famous cheddar and enjoyed eating their fresh ice cream. All the pictures that I have are from the beach. Even though it was going 60 degrees and the water was around 40, Josiah loved playing in the waves.

Mount St. Helens

The school year is quickly approaching. In fact, the freshman show up on Sunday and a week after that school starts. Since our life going to be wild and crazy for awhile, we decided to take a day trip to Mount St. Helens for a day as one last vacation to end the summer. I have always wanted to go and since it is only a few hours away we decided to go. We had a great time, but we are all a little tired today.

Josiah and mommy at the beginning of the trail.

This is a picture of Josiah and mommy 2 miles later at the end of the trail. We are pointing at the Visitors' Center on the far hill. If you blow up the picture I think you can see it. We were both tired at this point. Josiah had walked about 1 mile or more of the trail. We had the stroller too, but he wanted to walk like everyone else.

This is the view of Spirit lake with Mount Adams in the background that we got at the end of the trail. It was really pretty.

This is a neat picture of St. Helens. You can see some smoke coming up from the lava dome in the middle. When we got back to the visitors center we noticed that there was a earthquake around the lava dome which means that some more lava pushed into the dome.

Daddy and Josiah toward the end of the trip back. Josiah is completely checked out. If the mountain erupted he probably would never have heard it. We know because when we got back to the visitors center we watched a video about the eruption and it was really loud and he never moved.

We had a great time hiking around together. Josiah was still talking about hiking today. Thanks Jason for making it a priority to make family memories. :)

A Hike on Mary's Peak

In past blogs, I have shared my frustrations with my lower back and hip pain on my right side. A couple of weeks ago, I had another checkup and told my doctor my frustration and he gave me some stretches to do to ease the pain. The stretches worked and I have been able to do a lot more. One of the fun things we went and did, since I can now walk again, is went for a short hike on Mary's Peak. Here are some pictures of our adventure.








Jason also wanted me to put up this video. It is a cute video of Josiah looking around the forest. I almost didn't post it because at the end Jason is making fun of my expanding belly. I will post the video anyway, but feel free to bombard him with comments for making fun of a pregnant lady.

P.S. Dad, if you post a comment about me being fat you're going to be sleeping outside with the dogs.