almost there...

I can't believe that our little babies due date is only 5 weeks away!! It is so exciting, but yet it seems so far away! My sis-in-law is due Friday...still waiting though. I am kind of jealous, I wish it was me this Friday and her in 5 weeks. Although, I am sure she isn't thinking that :)
We are almost ready for this baby to arrive...we still have to decide on his name...who knew picking out a 2nd boys name would be so hard! We have a couple of different ideas, but we aren't sure yet.
Joshua is ready to meet his little brother too! Every time he sees something little, he says "Baby!" Last night I was in the nursery and it was so weird to see Joshua in there...he is the biggest kid in there now (not the oldest, just biggest). When Hailey (his best nursery friend) came in he instantly became so excited! He stood at the gate and jumped up and down and clapped his hands with a huge smile and said "Hi Aile (Hailey)!" It was so cute. Then when Kyle (Hailey's new baby brother) came in in his car seat Joshua said "baby Kye seat!" He is starting to talk so much! It is fun to listen to him trying to say everything I do!
Well, the last few weeks of pregnancy have hit me hard with fatigue, please pray that I can rest enough for the big day!

thought you might want to know...

We have snow! Can you believe it... The weather out here is so funny. At the beginning of the week we were out in light sweaters and tonight we have 2 inches of snow and its still falling!!
Everyone here knows how much Nathan I love the snow...when ytou don't get any, you start to love it even more! We were saying how it was actually weird to see it snowing!
Oh, anf Joshua had no problem going out it the snow!! He was actually excited to see and be in it!!

Happy Birthday, Adam

"Happy birthday to you,

Happy birthday to you,

Happy birthday dear Adam,

Happy birthday to you!"

We hope you have a wonderful day!

Love,

Nathan, Rachel, Joshua and Baby

Love

Roses

Nathan knows how much I LOVE roses...

especially when they are from him ;)

He always goes out of his way to make sure he can buy me roses for Valentines Day!

This year we didn't have the extra money to buy each other gifts. So, I made Nathan his favorite cookies (peanut butter) and he came home with roses for me!

I love him for it...its not just the fact that he is buying me roses because of the day.

I know how much love is behind each rose!!

Over the last few valentines days (since we have been married) we have been able to do

something special with just each other. This year our church had a Couples Valentines Banquet. It was a lot of fun to spend time together with a few other Christian couples.

We played a few games (We won one!) ate some chocolate and love hearts, listened to a Bible

lesson, and ate our dinner.

It was really neat to see how the Lord worked through this evening...

like I said before, we didn't really have the money for valentines day this year and we were going out to a restaurant for the couples banquet. The whole time not knowing exactly how we were going to pay...(we ordered the cheapest meals we could)...'oh us of little faith.'

When everything was done, the couple sitting across from us grabbed our bill before we could even look at it and said that they were paying for us!

It was such a blessing!

When you trust the Lord as a couple...

the Lord will bless!!

I LOVE you Nathan!!

Baker in training

Who would have known that our big 20 month old would who loves to play

cars, sports, work with Daddy and dinosaurs (100% boy)

would also like to bake?!?!

I was planning on baking a cake anyways and Nathan needed to get something done without the

constant "Da, Daddy, Da Daddy!" So I put him up on a chair and

he was a super helper!

He loved it too ;)

After he finished helping me, he made his own...

He even put all his dishes in the sink when he was finished!

Sick again...

Please pray for our Joshua. He started the week on Monday throwing up all night; that lasted a couple of days. Then last night he woke up for the first of many times at 12am with a stuffy nose and a cough. This week as turned out to be a rough week for our little man. Pray that he will be better so he can go out for church tomorrow!

Only Joshua

These are a couple of things that only a cute little guy can get away with...

#1. Wearing a tie and suspenders with whatever you want:

For whatever reason, Joshua just loves to wear his ties!

This time, he wanted to wear his suspenders too :)

#2. Making Mommy's shoe an airplane:

Joshua flew this dog around in my "red" shoe for probably 20 minutes...

like I said, "only a cute little guy!"

There are a couple things that only cute little guys can get away with... :)