House and Boulder with LOTS of Pictures!

This might be a long post-lots of stuff happening in this past week. Lots of pictures to go through-so enjoy!

I said before that Rob was doing a lot of work to the upstairs bedroom to get the office moved up there, etc. Well here's a few before pictures so you could see what kind of shape it was in after Rob started with it...

Tubs and Addy wanted to get in a picture

And now for the finished product...

Doesn't it look fabulous? Rob did an amazing job!

This past weekend I went to Boulder to visit Eric, Carole and Chase. It was such a great time-thanks again guys! I was greeted Friday night at the airport by the whole Lundeen clan-with the littlest one running and jumping into my arms. I sat in the back with Chase-and he just was talking and talking the entire 45 minutes home. He was so excited that his LeLe was there to see him. He kept saying "I Love You LeLe". Carole and I have a weird obsession with Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake-we have been talking about getting one since I booked my flight 5 months ago. Well Chase thought that since they bought a cake-it was LeLe's birthday. So we busted out candles and sang Happy Birthday. Here Chase is helping with the candles

After the Birthday cake-Carole broke out her Halloween costume. She's Minnie Mouse and Chase is going to be Pluto. Too cute...

Saturday-we all got up super bright and early to go see Thomas the Train. Chase was so excited! We had to take a bus to where Thomas was. Here we all are on the bus-Chase was busy watching Thomas on the TV above our headsAnd finally...we get to see Thomas! Chase took his Nana with him...We rode Thomas for a little bit-then went around to all of the other fun things that they had there. The fire truck, the petting zoo, the little trains-and we all got fun tattoos. Wish I would of gotten a picture of that-we were all like the Wonder Twins.
After we left Thomas we drove to Golden Colorado--where I learned that Coors was made in the town. After the smell the town had-I'm not sure I want to drink that beer again. We found a cute little farmer's market-and had some yummy homemade Mexican food. I bought some homemade dog treats for the pups-and some yummy Cake Balls. Once we returned home, Carole and I decided that we were going to go to downtown Boulder and do some shopping-or actually just window shopping after seeing some of those prices! Whew! Who would of thought that a onesie was worth $60? Sorry Baby Gray-Momma couldn't fathom spending that on you yet. Carole and I just went in and out of stores and had great talks-like always. After a few hours-we decided that it was time to head back.
Once we got back Chase was still napping-he was going on 3 hours-seeing Thomas and having LeLe there was making him super tired! Once he woke up we all went to the park down the street. Chase only likes to go in style

Stayed at the park for a bit-then went home and then to dinner. When we got back we were all sitting around watching TV. Well Chase wanted to jump from the ottoman onto my belly. Carole and Eric both got on him explaining that he couldn't jump on LeLe's belly because I had a baby in there. He came and sat next to me and started touching my belly and said "LeLe's Baby". I told him his name was Grayson-and Chase came up with "Jimmy" instead. So maybe Grayson will be Jimmy to Chase?!?! For those that don't know-Chase carries around a stuffed lion that he named NaNa. So he went around and gathered all of his NaNa's (I think 5 total-all different sizes) and piled them on my belly and said "Here LeLe and Rop's baby" He hasn't really gotten the 'B' down yet in Rob's name. He then went on and picked up some of his trains and put them on my belly too. I wish I would of had my camera-he was so proud of himself.

Sunday Carole had to work so I got to hang out with Eric and Chase. Eric and I watched the ChooChoo Soul on You Tube for about 45 minutes. It's a really catchy tune...I highly recommend it. Chase and I played for quite sometime-he didn't really want me to leave. We had to tell him on Saturday that I was leaving on Sunday so that he could understand. When it was time to go to the airport-Chase kept saying "LeLe up" which meant that he knew I was going in an airplane. Got to the airport-and I got out to say good-bye-Chase started crying-it broke my heart. I couldn't figure out if it was because I was leaving or if it was because he wanted to go inside the airport-but it was still sad. So we all said our good-byes-and I told him I would see him soon. Here he was helping me pack before I left

It was such a great weekend-thanks again guys and we can't wait to see you in a few short months!
Grayson enjoyed his first plane ride-he was moving and grooving quite a bit-and we can't wait to do it again in December! Have a great week!

Boy Oh Boy...Grayson John Swindle

Yup-that's right-Bean is a BOY! We are so excited. The sonogram lady was able to see everything and get some good pictures of it all. Everything looks perfect. Gray is a little big already-11 oz. I'm measuring at 21 weeks-so not officially yet-but my due date is now supposed to be around February 7th.

If I'm able to get the scanner at home working-I'm going to put some of his first pictures up here so everyone can see how handsome he is!

I'm headed to Denver this weekend to stay with Sis, Eric and Chase. I'm so excited! We are going to do lots of fun stuff-and most important-eat Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake! I'll post pictures when I get back.

Have a great week!

Almost time

I can't wait! Only 1 more day until the BIG sonogram! Bean gets excited when I think about it!

What other fun news...we have decided to go with Missy-the in-home daycare provider for the first few years. She was super excited when Rob called and told her. Yesterday one of the neighbors backed into my car-and didn't tell us about it. Another neighbor saw it happen and told us. The joys of having to get your car fixed...

Rob has done a TON of work to the house-it's pretty amazing. The upstairs is totally gutted and he's going to paint it tomorrow-then on Thursday we get brand new carpeting! So fun! I need to start taking pictures of the demolition-and then put up the updated ones.

After the big appointment on Wednesday I'll post the news in a fun way. Stay tuned...

Nothing Important...

...nothing important to post-just that this time next week we will know what we are having! We can't wait! Rob already said he better catch up on his sleep because he knows I won't let him sleep the night before!

If you don't already know-Rob and I are totally in love with our pups. Well we started playing the Baby Noise CD this morning for Tubs and Addy. We want to get them used to the baby sounds. While the baby laughing was playing-there was a part where it sounds kind of like a scream. I was getting ready and Addy comes in and sits at my feet-whining and making a little barking noise. I look down at her-and she runs in front of me-and gets me to follow her. She runs into the office-stares at Rob's computer-due to the sound coming out of it-and just wags her tail and jumps on my leg-trying to get my attention. I tell her that the baby is fine and that she was such a good girl for being concerned. Hopefully that's all she does when the real thing comes home!

This should be interesting....

12 Days and Counting...

Well this is one time that I'm happy Rob has to go out of town. Some training came up for him for work on October 1 when we were supposed to go find out what Bean is. So I had to call and re-schedule-and lucky for him they were able to get us in a whole week earlier! Yahoo! Now we go on September 24 to see our Bean! I'm so excited!

No Naked Belly...

Not much going on this week-but I did take another picture of my belly. I can tell that I've grown in the last 4 weeks. I tried a naked belly pic-and I just couldn't bring myself to put it up on here-I looked about as wide as a house! So needless to say-here's one from earlier today at 17 1/2 weeks.

Here's a picture of Tubs. I took this right after the belly shot-he kind of has a look on his face saying 'What are you doing Momma???'

On my way home from work yesterday I was jamming out to a little Proud Mary by Ms. Tina Turner. I've decided that either Bean was really enjoying his/her mommy singing--or he/she really enjoys listening to Tina Turner and dancing around. Rob said he thinks Bean was moving around and dancing trying to tell his mommy to stop singing because it was hurting his ears-I beg to differ on that.

Nothing else new and exciting to report for this week. We have just been counting down the days until we go in for our next sonogram. Rob has already figured out how we are going to tell everyone-don't worry-it will all be posted. Only 21 more days and counting...

4 Month check-up and More!

Well we've had a busy week in the Swindle household. This past weekend Rob, Sara, Joe and myself threw Mom a surprise 60th Dancing Queen Birthday Party. And we totally pulled it off! She was so surprised! Sara flew in for the Labor Day weekend and I kept her hidden at our house until the big reveal on Saturday. Mom was so proud of me for keeping a big secret from her for the last 3 months! We then spent some time with the family and the dogs on the boat on Sunday-it was a great day.

While I was out to breakfast with the girls on Monday-I came home and Rob had been very busy. I walked upstairs to our bedroom and Rob had demolished and completely removed the entire closet at the top of the stairs. We are starting the process of getting the nursery ready! Yahoo! The next step is to get someone in to re-sheet rock the area-and then Rob is going to paint, texture-and some other things that I don't really understand. But I think that we are going to be going with our original nursery that we bought a few weeks back instead of the one below. Here's the one that we are about 98% sure we are going with. I had to contact the manufacturer because there were some pieces that I wanted to purchase but you can't find them anywhere-they told me where to go and look-so hopefully we will find it.On to more exciting news--we had our 4 month check-up yesterday with Dr. Piquard. It went fantastic. She gave me a prescription that I can use on my face-so now I don't have to find a dermatologist. We listened to Bean's heartbeat-165. Dr. P said that we have a really happy baby in my belly--let's hope that he/she stays that way once he/she pops out! I tried to talk Dr. P into letting us come back in 2 weeks for the BIG sonogram-she really wasn't having it. So we have to wait until October 1 to find out what kind of baby Bean is. Only a few more weeks to go! Rob and I both have our gut feelings-but we will have to wait and see if we were right!

Found out last night that Rob and I are going to have another niece! Lucy is going to have a baby sister!

Doug and Michele are due the week of Christmas-so Christmas will be all kinds of different this year! Rob and I in Durango with Mama Donna, LeRoy, Carole, Eric, Chase and hopefully Aunt Gail and Uncle John-and Doug, Michele, Lucy and baby in the hospital...Santa may have to come early this year for the Sullivan/Pearce/Swindle clan.

Have a great week! Rob and I are headed to Lawrence this weekend for our first KU game of the season-I'm getting excited because the weather is changing to fall already-bring on the cold!