It’s been a long time… sorry! I have posted a bit over the last couple months at www.dinewithoutwhine.com/blog if you want to go read small little updates.

I am sure most of you have heard that we are expecting baby #4! So the last couple months I have been sleeping, feeling nauseous, and sleeping more. We are now 13 1/2 weeks pregnant and FINALLY I am SLOWLY starting to feel a bit better. I still take my 2-3 hour naps a day, but during my awake hours I am almost able to function again. Baby is due Oct. 13th. And yes… I am hoping for a girl, but my intuition is telling me it is another boy – which will be just great too! We of course are just praying for a healthy baby. We pretty much all call it “him” right now, so we’ll have to change our wording if we find out it is a girl. We had an ultrasound the other day, and they couldn’t tell the sex yet, but he/she was moving around and was cute as can be – all looks well.

Things are going well – spring is slowly making her appearance. I actually went and ran a couple errands on Sunday and didn’t even have to wear a coat! Of course we also are starting to have our fair share of spring storms. I broke down and ordered an emergency weather alert radio the other day. I probably should have bought one right when we moved here, but we are pretty on top of the weather (well I am..) and we do have ones we can turn on if a bad storm is coming. The one I just ordered actually sounds an alarm when a bad storm is coming to wake you up in the middle of the night – such as if a tornado is on the way. I read a story in a magazine the other day, while I was waiting for Matt in surgery, about a family who was having really bad storms and then they finally ended and they went to bed, then about an hour later they were sleeping and a tornado completely destroyed their house. Thankfully everyone survived including their two small children, but the children were hundreds of yards away mixed in with the rubble. After crying my way through that story, I decided I needed an emergency radio. (Matt thinks I’m crazy)

Matt had surgery last week (wow, that feels like so long ago!) on his sinuses. He has had sinus problems for years and finally decided to get it taken care of. So they went in there and reconstructed things last Tuesday. He goes in tomorrow to get some plastic piece removed that is stitched in there along with all of the packing. (Yuck, sounds just terrible to me!) Hopefully once all is said and done he will have a much happier nose. The upside of the whole thing was that we left the kids with my friend down the road and we got to go out to dinner and stay overnight at a nice hotel the night before the surgery – it was a nice quick mini-getwaway – although we were both kind of nervous about the surgery and we had to get up at 5:30 a.m. to get to the hospital on time. It was still time away without the boys which was a nice break.

Well Dane seems to think he is hungry so I have to run, but there is a brief update. I will try to be a bit better about updating now that I’m starting to feel a bit better!

C-