Thursday, October 15

Allison October 15, 2009

The kite's been stuck in the tree since I was here in July.

Maureen October 15, 2009

Picking up a bundle of puppies to carry down to the basement pen where they go while we're sleeping or out of the house.

Margie October 15, 2009

I hate having a septic! At least I know the owner of the company - I used to watch his kids. He cut me a break on a new pump and some other pipe that was corroded. And, he has an awesomely cool name for his company!

Wednesday, October 14

Cole October 14, 2009


On my way to Hapkido I thought it would be cool to take a picture of the trees through the rainy window.

Jen October 14, 2009

Catching up on my scrapbooking. At least I'm getting the time to finish this. But bed rest is soo boring.

Marla October 14, 2009

My work just keeps piling up at the library. Today was a very busy day.

Molly October 14, 2009

I have gone through more of these than I care to remember. I broke down today and bought this one. It will be my last. Soon it will be someone elses problem. And that makes me happy.

Donna October 14, 2009

Went to dinner last night at Olde Towne Pub with 'the girls'.

Maureen October 14, 2009

These are, seriously, the most adorable puppies we have ever had

Allison October 14, 2009

Studio A

Annie October 14, 2009

Puppy sleeping with stuffed animal

Tuesday, October 13

Cole October 13, 2009


Panda! I love it. Here is my fortune cookie. It says "you will surround yourself with warmth and riches" Yes.

Jen October 13, 2009

This is my 33 week picture it's just a little late. Almost 34 weeks.

Margie October 13, 2009

When it was so cold last weekend, all the leaves dropped off the mulberry trees.

Marla October 13, 2009

I got dinner from Panera tonight.

Maureen October 13, 2009

Seven little puppies & their mom came to stay with us for a few weeks today. After dinner, Jim was laying on the couch, holding a puppy & watching a movie with the kids. Daisy, the cat, came to introduce herself to the pup.

Monday, October 12

Jen October 12, 2009


I missed James and Joe so much. Joe came to visit me at my mom's since he had the day off.

Maureen October 12, 2009

New winter coat + Bare feet = Annie

Allison October 12, 2009

We painted pumpkins at last night's floor meeting.

Cole October 12, 2009

I'm feeding homie G. It was fun and funny.

Marla October 12, 2009

Cole went to an "Extreme pumpkin decorating" class today at the public library. Here is his EXTREME pumpkin...Cole says that his name is "Bob the 10 eyed freak".

Sunday, October 11

Jen October 11, 2009

This is the flowers I got from Maureen. I'm so happy I finally got to go home and they moved me 4 times while I was here. The doctors said they are no longer going to try and stop my contractions anymore. If I go into labor they will just let me have the baby. They said they think that she will do fine.

Cole October 11, 2009

This is me and my freind Jack playing Wii. He is nice.

Marla October 11, 2009

Teaching Cole to make pancakes.

Margie October 11, 2009

Jesse and his friend having fun at the Halloween store.

Maureen October 11, 2009

Made apple bread in my "new" oven, today.

Donna October 11, 2009

Our friends-Greg and Cassy- stopped by today. This is their kids eating jello cups....My house is not equipped for busy kids...Yet...

Saturday, October 10

Jen October 10, 2009

Today I had a lot of visitors first Maureen came and visited and that was so sweet of her she brought me flowers. Then my friend came and then Joe and James. It was so nice seeing everyone. I love visitors. But later that night I had very bad contractions they were 6 mins apart and very strong. I had to call Joe since I thought this was the real thing. False alarm.

Cole October 10, 2009

I'M RINGO!!! Sorry I had to get that out of my system. (FART) that to. so I played Rock band all day long. It was fun.

Marla October 10, 2009

Got my hair cut today...how do they straighten it so well?

Maureen October 10, 2009

We went out to the NCC football game tonight. It was cold. They won, though - 83-7! Very different from the WCCHS games we'd been going to in the past few years :-)

Margie October 10, 2009

My Saturday evening.

Friday, October 9

Jen October 9, 2009

Still here. Food is horrible and so the nurses and some doctors I've gotten moved twice now. I guess thats the only way I get new sheets and a clean room around here. I'm so stressed out. I just want to go home. plus they keep taking my blood from my arm from different spots even when i'm sleeping and the first day I was here it took them 3 times to put an IV in my hand and it hurt so much.

Cole October 9, 2009

This is me outside of the movie with a cardboard cut out of the movie. We saw cloudy with a chance of meatballs. See the monkey? He is my favorite character his name is Steve.

Maureen October 9, 2009

At the end of the Brownie meeting, it's time for the friendship squeeze!

Margie October 9, 2009

It's not every day that you hear this question, "Mom, where's my hair?"
We had an evening of getting Nikki's hair "did."

Marla October 9, 2009

Eric and I got our flu shots today.

Thursday, October 8

Jen October 8, 2009

boo I'm still here. 2nd dose of steroid for baby and they started me on magnesium. I feel horrible.

Cole October 8, 2009

I came to the pet store after karate and I went to see the fish. This one interested me the most.

Marla October 8, 2009

Got my teeth cleaned at the dentist office today.

Maureen October 8, 2009

The hallway leading to the PTO meeting tonight (and to Shelby's classroom during the day). I presented info about getting our school/district involved in the Scripps Spelling Bee tonight & finally found some enthusiasm for the whole idea. I'd been presenting it to various people in the district & in other schools in the district, for a month now & was about to give up altogether, since, so far, the best response I got was apathy. So, the enthusiasm & the 'go ahead & do it at this school' that I got tonight was nice to hear.

Margie October 8, 2009

Madi got a surprise package in the mail today from Aunt Molly. Cockroaches! She was thrilled! Thanks, Molly, for that fun surprise! The package came in the morning, and I wanted Madi to wait until Nikki came home in the evening to open it. But I spent all day doing a Laura Petrie imitation - poking, shaking, squeezing the package, dying to know what was inside!

Wednesday, October 7

Jen October 7, 2009


This is James 1st girlfriend. She loves hugging him and he like to hold her hand.
Also today I got admitted to the hospital to get steroids for the baby, and to stop my contractions.

Cole October 7, 2009

This is me trying to figure out what to request to FM 89.1. I ended up asking Alison to play Dance Dance by Fall out boy. It was the right decision.

Marla October 7, 2009

We had a really cute visitor at bowling tonight.

Maureen October 7, 2009

Apparently, I am on the 'Health and Wellness' committee at work. Today, three of us (Colleen had the day off) put together a bulletin board, mostly because the corporate bigwigs are coming to our office tomorrow & we wanted them to think we were on the ball with this whole company-wide 'Health and Wellness' initiative... My part was the lower right-hand corner, with info about the physical & emotional benefits of walking, along with info on local forest preserves & labyrinths.