Tuesday Tidbits

Not a whole lot new going on around here. The weather and my health has not been cooperating very well to get much more paining done, I got a nasty sinus infection/sore throat/ear ache with fever last Thursday and I am finally starting to feel better today so here are some random pictures from the last week or so.

Here is my dirt/chalk/dandelion/mud/sand/anything he probably shouldn't put in him mouth eating boy! Look at that disgustingly cute face! Here's Gabe at "work" he has started calling the loft of the tree house his work where he goes just like Daddy!
The boys love the neighbors hammock, the little neighbor girl even gives them pushed in it!




My Orange boys

and you just have to capture the moments of brotherly love around here!

Perfect Games

Last night I finally had a chance to go check out the building that Carl so diligently worked on for so long! Carl and the boys had already been there but since I had to work on contractors night we went last night! My mom and dad joined us for some bowling and pizza. Gabe loves bowling and with the help of the bumpers does pretty well. I thought this picture of him in his bowling shoes was so cute! Here is Daddy and Gabe at "Daddy's bowling alley" which is what Gabe calls it:) After bowling we checked out the bounce house and the arcade area. Both boys love to play the games and were thrilled with their cheap little toys they got for their tickets. We finished off the night at Coldstone for some ice cream. It doesn't get much better then this!

Miscellaneous Monday

Just a few random pictures from the week.

Gabe and Ty LOVE the laundry baskets and enjoy using them as their boats, Gabe has had a slight cold and fever for the past few days(he is feeling better now) and looks kind of tough in these pictures but he was having fun anyway.
We went to Reiman Gardens on Friday morning and enjoyed the nice weather and the dinosaurs again, this time we dug for fossils in the childrens garden and made it up to see the big dinosaur on top of the hill(I forgot to take a picture) They also enjoyed the little gazebo and wood paths.Gabe likes to fight naps now, he will sometimes stay up in his room for an hour and then come down and say he just couldn't sleep only to end up like this on the living room floor.
Ty just likes to pose for the camera:)

Work In Progress

Painting has begun on our house. So far it looks great but unfortunately we have A LOT of trim to paint and are no where near being done with that part. However the main body of the house is done thanks to our friend Ryan and his paint sprayer, the whole body was done in just over 2 hours! It went so fast, we are so thankful to him(and his family for giving him up for the day) for coming to help us, it saved us so much time. Since Saturday afternoon we have been working on trim(windows, overhangs, doors, etc) We don't quite have the front finished yet but it is close, we got rained on Monday afternoon and had to call it quits but otherwise the weather cooperated quite nicely for our weekend of painting. I will post a picture of the finished side when we get it done. If anyone is ever bored head on over we have lots of extra brushes!

Half Way Done

Hard to believe but we are half way through pregnancy #3(actually more then half since our c-section is at 39 weeks) We had our 20 week ultrasound today and we have a healthy, very stubborn baby. He/she was moving and wiggling all over the place and did not want to show us its face but we did manage to get one relatively good profile picture. All the organs are developing well and no problems were found, we are so thankful! We also got to watch it sucking or drinking or something, it was so cute! We stayed strong and did not find out what Baby #3 is, I am so excited to meet him/her in October, there is nothing better then that wonderful surprise!(I don't know why blogger keeps making my picture vertical, it is not how it is on our computer, I will have my more technologically savy husband see if he can fix it for me)

Pool!

First of all thanks everyone for your comments about baby names, funny thing that most of the suggestions given we had talked about before but just hadn't decided on anything yet, we are still undecided but contemplating(except for Carl's Jr., sorry Jared) Yesterday was very warm around here so Carl brought the boys a surprise after a work. A new pool! Gabe was very excited and wanted to get in right away, I managed to convince him to put his swim trunks on first but then we were right out to the pool. The water was cold but they didn't care. Ty was kind of timid at first but by the end of our swim time he was climbing in and out just like Gabe. Gabe LOVES the water and loves to put his head in it and everything. They had a great time splashing around. It will be great when the new aquatic center opens! I'm sure we will be making many trips(please ignore the very rough looking house in the background, painting commences this weekend and I keep telling myself it has to look worse before it can look better:)

Question

Ok normally we do not do this, we don't really want peoples opinions on what we name our children however we are going to remain strong on the green team with this baby(meaning we are not finding out the babies gender until he/she is born) and I am having the hardest time coming up with a boys name that I like and that Carl likes(that is the key) We have in the past used Bible names that can be shortened to a nickname(Gabriel-Gabe, Titus-Ty) and we like that but we don't want a super common name since our last name is common and David, Thomas, Timothy, Matthew and Peter are all used already so I am asking for suggestions. It doesn't necessarily have to be a Bible name we are open to anything. Girls name is covered so no worries there:) So leave me a comment...if we take someones suggestions we won't tell you until baby is here but hey then you can have bragging rights:) Note from Carl: It needs to be a strong name with good meaning.."no pansy names"