Home Improvement

We've been steadily plugging away at the home improvement projects around here.  Unfortunately, our pace to accomplish the tasks we've set before ourselves is moving as slowly as I am these days, at almost 39 weeks pregnant.

Jen and Jed, 38 weeks

Because we were in desperate need of help, we hired a handy-man friend to help us with the basement projects of finishing the guest room and the basement shower.  And we are so happy to have the help!

So that's what most of our days consist of, besides the normal daily grind of living with four crazy monster tornadoes.

Looking forward to Jedidiah's arrival, hopefully any day.  I've been having lots of contractions, but most of them are the strong, annoying Braxton-Hicks kind.  A few have been the real deal the last few days, and there was noticeable progress at my last doctor's visit.  All of this is hoping that my boy will arrive nearer to his ultrasound due date of the 13th rather than the calendar date of the 18th.

But not only do we get to celebrate the arrival of our newest hooligan, my sister and her family will be arriving from Louisiana on the 15th.  To say that I am excited would be the understatement of the century.  Or maybe the decade, anyway.  This will be their first trip to Minnesota, and I can't wait to see their reaction to the accents up here.

Our little helper, Isaac

You betcha!

Busy at work with his tools