Week 30

I'm Back! After a couple week's worth of absence, I'm trying to get back on schedule. I once again apologize to those that look forward to the weekly belly pics, but it has just been plain crazy around here!
Baby Gertie and I had our monthly check-up last Wednesday (Sept. 2). I also did my glucose screen at that point for gestational diabetes. I have not heard a thing back from the doctor's office...so we are assuming no news is good news. As far as the monthly check-up, everything is still on track. I was up a whopping 4 pounds since my last visit four weeks ago! I guess that means Gertie is growing.

This last weekend, I was also accused of stuffing my shirt to make my belly appear bigger in the pictures. I promise, this is not the case...I guess the camera really does add pounds!

All in all, everything is still the same: lots of movement from baby, energy level is going down, leg cramps in the middle of the night, and of course, not being able to find a comfortable sleeping position!

Until next time...

Robertson Labor Day Get-Away!

We had a wonderful Labor Day weekend full of family, food, homemade ice cream, games, tractor rides, and laughs. Thanks to my mom for being a great photographer and having her camera ready at all times! I will try to keep the words to a minimum, and let the pictures tell the story...

Jerry gives Austin and Vanessa a ride in the wagon
GG loved rocking with little Juan

Dallas and Vanessa share a wagon ride

Vanessa taught Dallas how to go down his slide (which he can't get enough of now!)

Great-Grandpa Robertson with 4 of his 7 great-grandkids...there are 3 more due to come in the next couple months!!! [L-R: Jerry holding Vanessa (who belongs to Jennifer), Rajean holding Dallas, Great-Grandpa holding Austin (who belongs to Jerry), and Jennifer holding little Juan]

Katie and Amy

Steve and Sue enjoyed the first tractor ride of the day on Sunday

Jerry and Bob tossing some corn bags

Trace and Jake prepping for the football game

Craig and Jim playing ladder ball

Austin picnicking on the porch

Grandpa enjoying the rocking chair and sunshine

Doug and Brooke taking a ride on the Oliver

Doug taking Dallas and Nikki for a ride

Austin loved the wagon

Brice and Melissa taking a spin

Dallas sharing toys with Austin

Jerry, Austin and Didi

Bob and Jim playing more corn hole - also notice the campground set up in the yard!

Amy and John waiting their turn to toss

Cindy relaxing after the long motorcycle ride to Iowa

Doug and Dallas

Of course, the potato gun had to come out for a few rounds

Uncle Jim taking Brooke and Nikki for a ride

Uncle Joe, Dallas and I

Katie playing with Austin and Dallas

Craig and Amy

Trace and Doug

One last group picture before heading back to Indiana

Jim, Grandpa, Joe and John

Dallas and his John Deere

When my mom and dad were leaving, Dallas put the plug to the ice cream maker to his ear and started talking away like it was a phone!

Until next time...

DIY - Bathroom

As I mentioned in a previous post, Doug and I have been working on remodeling our bathroom. It started with me taking down the wallpaper while Dallas spent the week with his grandparents at the end of the July. Doug and I then ended up taking down all the drywall before my family came for the state fair. Thankfully, we had the help from my dad after the fair with the things we were unsure how to do. He helped us with the plumbing for the new shower; running new electricity for a vent fan, an outlet, and medicine cabinet; and hanging new drywall.

We still have the closet to finish - we had to lay new subfloor in there, so it is taking a little longer to complete. We also want to use the new shower for a while to double check there are no leaks before closing up the walls with new drywall.

Here are the much awaited pictures of the project! I have grouped the pictures to show the progress of each "area" in the bathroom - you will see it from start to finish.

This is the area above the door into the bathroom. As you can see, the wallpaper was falling off the wall, and then I found how much damage there was to the drywall once the wallpaper was gone.
This is the area over the sink and toilet. I am trying to decide what to hang over the toilet where the medicine cabinet used to be. I have either a picture, a shelf, or towel hooks.

This is our floor change...we went from blue carpet, to finding linoleum, to laying a new vinyl floor.

The new shower! Before, we only had a tub unit in the bathroom. We now have a tub/shower unit! I love being able to take showers in our actual bathroom, and not in the make-shift shower that is in the basement with the toads!

We have a small window in the bathroom and half of it is in the shower area. We were told by one contractor that this would cause a problem with a tub surround, but it was not a problem to trim the surround at all - it was rather quite easy.

Doug looked on the Internet and watched a DIY (do it yourself) video on how to switch a toilet. We were about 24 hours without a toilet, but it was well worth the wait! You can also see our new sink and cabinet unit in the last picture.

That's our new bathroom!

Until next time...

The Singing Cow and The Dancing Boy

Dallas received this cow from friends at Christmas time, but he has just recently showed interest in it...

Until next time...

Busy, Busy, Busy...

That pretty much sums up my life right now. Doug and I have been working very hard on the bathroom since this past weekend. It started Saturday when we decided to tackle the toilet. Now, it is important to remember that we are a one bathroom house, and I am 7 months pregnant. But, we decided to go for it, and 24 hours later we had a new toilet installed! On Monday, we installed the new sink - it didn't take quite as long as the toilet. Tuesday, I finished spackling and sanding the walls, and today, I finally got paint on the walls. Tomorrow, I will paint the ceiling. We also plan on putting up the new tub surround tomorrow. So...the end is in sight!

In addition to working on the bathroom, I have somehow found time to put up 7 pints of spaghetti sauce and 3 quarts of tomato juice. I have some broccoli that needs to be cut up and froze as well.

Oh, and I can't forget, I need to mow my yard tomorrow and start cleaning my house! Many of my aunts, uncles and cousins from my dad's side are coming for the holiday weekend. We did this a couple years ago and had a blast, so we are giving it another go. I hope the weather stays nice - they are calling for slight chances of rain on Sunday and Monday.

So...busy, busy, busy...that's my life!

Until next time...