Jack Daeland's Nursery

we have officially finished the nursery!!! so we are ready for jack to be here....we are anxiously awaiting jack to be here! we did not think it would really come down to the week of christmas and he would not be here! the dates i thought have come and gone....the dates we didnt want, have come and gone.....but fortunately for everyone else, who picked dates....they may get their wish! it seemed convenient for almost everyone that he would come this week.....sometime between the 22nd and the 27th.....but after that it starts to be a little inconvenient again...so i guess we will have to wait and see, but at least his room is ready!
i have even added a picture of my ever growing belly for all those who have asked(i am not sure why i look so angry at the fire pit, but it is the only side view i have that is recent)....it is very large, i know and realize, i am feeling the pain from carrying it around with me everywhere i go and sleeping with it everynight and trying to find shirts that will cover it....oh yeah and crawling into a mcdonalds playground....all the way to the top to save my 2 year old who was stuck and horrified!
so we only have 10 more days to count down....december 31st...thats our focus! but if he decided to be here before then, we are prepared and super super excited, i cant wait to meet him and see his tiny little hands and feet! YAY Baby Jack!!!

roper mountain lights

we went to see the christmas lights at roper mountain last week! the boys loved the lights and we drove through twice. we stopped and roasted marshmellows and we got to meet santa.....again! and again eli wanted nothing to do with him. he said "youre not the santa i talked to at home depot" we have tried to explain to him all the "helpers" and santa is a busy man....everything......i just dont know if my first born child will every believe this santa business!!! cope doesnt mind, he will sit with him, he ask for christmas trees....he doesnt really get whats going on....i better get all the pictures of him i can with santa, because next year he may be like eli! i thought it was a given that you believe in santa....i didnt know you had to convince them!

the boys

some random pictures of all the boys lately! we have decorated for christmas, finished our christmas projects and even made a house from the new dishwasher box!

its almost christmas!

the boys met santa the other day when we went to buy the tree! they were so weirded out and confused...it was funny! then we saw santa again on a class field trip to chick- fil- a....eli wouldnt sit on his lap again....all he would say is "i just saw you at home depot and told you what i wanted"