Brad's Trip to India

I guess this post is past due. There is a reason why I am listed as super dad and not the blogger on our homepage! Rachel will be posting more to date posts very soon.

A little over a month ago, I had an opportunity to take a little trip over to India to work side by side with our off-shore team. It was a very interesting trip and I really got to see how different life is over there. It took a while for my internal clock to adjust to the 10.5 hour difference, but once it did I had no problem working the day shift then returning to my hotel at night to work on the US-day shift.

While I was there I did get a chance to do some brief sight-seeing. I took a day trip to Mysore; which is the second largest city in Karnataka. On the trip I was able to see many things, including a number of temples, tour Mysore palace built in 1912, and visit a bird sanctuary. The day was jam packed with car rides all around the countryside. I saw sugarcane and rice fields, animals on the roads and many, many people!

Overall, I had a great time and it was a once in a lifetime experience. I know Rachel was excited that I made it home in time to great little Fin! Jack was also very excited to meet me at the airport.

-Brad

What We're Thankful For...

I'm sure everyone that reads this already knows that on Wednesday, our little girl was born. We feel so blessed to have such a great little family, and these two munchkins are definitely what we were thankful for this year.

I will post a better blog all about Finley later, but I had to get this picture up. Jess made the hats (and Jacks told her what he was thankful for...Fin we just guessed!)

I hope you had as great of a Thanksgiving as we did!

Hmmmm....

I am so tired I can't even think of a title for this post, how sad is that!? Oh well. Last night Darcy came over to celebrate my due date. I wish she was coming over to celebrate a baby, but either way was fun. We decided we had to take one last picture of the two of us pregnant together. It has been so fun to share this time with her, and before we know it her little one will be here too!! (Although she'll probably feel like me at that point!)

Little Mr. Show-Off

Jacks loves Darcy...he always asks for me to go away so they can play just the two of them!

And his newest game is to pretend he's a baby...hmmm...wonder why!?

After Darcy left, we went to the mall to pick up our stockings that were supposed to be done at 5:00, and when we got there the guy said he hadn't even started them yet! I needed to get some walking in (trying ANYTHING to get labor started...) and to burn some time, Brad and Jacks went in a photo booth. Neither one of us thought they would turn out, but they ended up being adorable....

It turned out to be a fun night - I guess it wasn't such a bad thing baby decided not to join us quite yet!

Back to the Neb

We're back to nebbing Jacks. Every winter we dread the wheeze that comes along with it, and he really hates it. You would think he would eventually get used to it, but NOPE!

He would much rather do things like this with it instead... :)

Out with the Old

We got new carpet this weekend. We were told it wouldn't be in until December 4th, so we were pumped to find out it was here early and before baby!!

Jacks loved ripping the carpet out with Brad. And having an empty room apparently means it's a wrestling room. It was a lot of fun! We love the new carpet - and the best part, if it gets stained now, it's OUR stains....major bonus!

Definitely D-Day

Today is my due date....and no baby. Not even a hard contraction as of yet...

Someone once told me not having your baby on your due date is kind-of like it being your birthday but everyone forgot. It's supposed to be the "big day", right? I honestly am not surprised after being late with Jacks, but I was hoping I would have baby today....maybe tomorrow??

Since this will probably be my last pregnancy I figured I should take a picture to remember how big I was....although I'm pretty sure I never want to remember :)

Making Daddy Proud

At the mall last weekend, the boys and I split up so I could do some last-minute running around before Baby comes. When we met up again, Brad showed me this picture.

Apparently when Brad asked if Jacks wanted his picture taken with the ladies, he jumped up, threw his arms around them and smiled. That's Daddy's boy...