30 weeks and growing...

Here's a prego progress picture (nice alliteration, eh?).

I don't know how much more I can expand. Mostly people just stare at my round-ness when they see me nowadays... I don't really cry about it anymore (just kidding); if I don't see you for a while- I change a lot! It's hard to believe the little guy is only about 3 pounds right now. Can't wait 'til he's closer to 7 lbs! Bring it on, kid!

the pouring process...

This project got started WAY early at about 7:00AM. This is the huge cement pump that pumped the cement over our house into the back yard (scary). What you don't see is the 2 cement trucks waiting down the street and creating a nice road block. Funny thing happened; one of the pipes that works the hydraulics on this pump broke before the pump was fully extended- spewing hydraulic fluid all over the street (nice huh?). The mess is still there (woops!) There was an hour delay while it was getting fixed.

View from the back side...
This is our newly-poured front step...

The finished product... nice to be done!

Patio Project

Mike finished up a HUGE backyard project about 3 weeks ago... our patio. He had a lot of help from his brothers and Dad. They did all of the prep work for the concrete. It was a BIG project! This shows the progression from dirt, to level gravel and finally to the almost-finished project.

Looks pretty good... at least, we think so! The walkway goes to the front/side of the garage. It took A LOT of work; working until well past dark many, many nights to get this project done. Mike did an excellent job and we are enjoying the fruits of his (and his brothers' and Dad's) labor.