Fun with Family

Holly with all of her grandsons.(Raymond, Judd, Blain and Owen)

This last weekend we had JB, Amanda and our nephew Blain come visit Omaha, so we got to spend the whole weekend hanging out at Tony's moms house. It was a lot of fun and we got to see little Blain, who is now 3 1/2 months old and getting so much bigger. We probably won't see him again until Thanksgiving time maybe, so he will be lots bigger then and probably crawling and all sorts of new fun stuff. He's such a cutie.

The boys really enjoyed seeing Blain and taking their picture with him. We also got JB a birthday cake because his birthday is next weekend and he will be the ripe old age of 30! ;) I'm not teasing cause I will be there in a year and a half. :(

Everything is going well with the pregnancy and I am now just a couple days away of being 15 weeks. We will be scheduling our ultrasound for the last weekend in Aug. and will be able to find out what we are having. Tony, Owen, and Raymond all say girl. Hmmm... I still don't know what I think.

We are planning on rearranging our house come the first weekend in Sept. We have to get rid of the guest room in the basement and move my daycare room down there, then Tony and my room will be moved to the main floor bedroom where the daycare room has been and the baby will be in the upstairs bedroom across from the boys where Tony and I have been the last 5 years. It will be very different to be sleeping just around the corner of the kitchen and all of the main floor noises. It will take some getting used to for sure.

We will be heading to my mom and dads in MO for the weekend of Aug. 1 which will be nice since we haven't been there in almost two years. Then the from the 13th - the 16th, Tony will be flying to FL to visit his dad and younger brother, so that will be hard for me to be on my own with the boys and we'll miss Tony, but my mom might come up that weekend to keep me company and stay through Mon. the 17th to help watch daycare kids so Tony and I can both take Owen to his first day of Kindergarten. ***pause to wipe eyes*** Pregnant hormonal and oldest son starting Kindergarten and a mom who is already emotional when it comes to her kids is not a good recipe for no tears. Just warning the school and all other parents and Owen, whom I've already told I will probably cry but I don't want that to scare him, it just means that mommy is happy for him to start school and have so much fun.

So that's what's going on for the next month. Life stays busy as always. I am planning my daycare curriculum that will start Sept. 1, Owen starting school and having to load up all the kids every day, being pregnant, taking care of day to day life with my kids and home, finishing up my class that I am ready to be done with, and starting Raymond off in preschool right after labor day. So busy busy busy as always.

The pictures below are of the boys with Blain and our weekend. I hope you enjoy! Plus a few extras and a hilarious video of Raymond in the car playing his air guitar that lasted for more then 10 minutes with his eyes closed and I even think he started to fall asleep while he was doing it. Tony and I were cracking up. The video is not 10 minutes, don't worry. Well the video was still uploading after 6 hours of it sitting here, so I gave up. I'll try again another time! Gosh it's only 2 1/2 minutes, that makes me really upset.

Judd using my straightener...ha ha...it was unplugged.

Raymond with his fav. animal (daddy lion with hair)

Raymond with baby cousin Blain.

Owen with Blain.

JB blowing out his pretend candles. His pink cake was a joke and said 'JB you are OLD!'

Holly with all of her boys minus her youngest son Nate