BUSY as we approach the final 3 weeks!!

I can't believe we only have 3 weeks and 4 days before Felix the Fetus is expected to make his arrival in the world! We have been so busy trying to get ready...and we wouldn't be nearly as close to being prepared if it wasn't for our families.

Tony's dad, mom, my dad and himself have been working on the crib over the past few weekends. Tony's friend Aaron helped with some of the spindles and sanding them down. With their help, at the end of last week Tony had the entire crib put together. All he has to do now is to cut off about a foot off of each post and do some 'artsy' stuff to make it look like he wants. My mom has been great, as she has been feeding everyone who has been out to work on the crib.
Yes, you can see that Sanders has been around for the building of the crib too!

Tony is planning on finishing up the crib on Saturday along with his brother Rob. They will get the 'artsy' piece done and are also hoping to get the finish on the crib, so that we can move it into the nursery the weekend of the 20th!

I've been busy getting things ready for the nursery. Let me say one thing: "I HATE LAUNDRY!" I must have done 20 loads last weekend of just baby stuff. And I haven't even begun to put it away. That is this weekend's task.

And on top of all this baby preparedness work we've been doing, we had a HUGE hail storm on June 2nd. I'm talking BASEBALL sized hail. It was insane. Needless to say, our house is beat up. I'm trying to get everything fixed in the next couple of weeks...garage doors this weekend, siding and trim next weekend. Oh, and hopefully Tony can get the screens taken care of.

That's all from us for now! I have my ultrasound tomorrow to find out how big Felix is....I'll try to get some pictures up here after that!

Mmmm...Bones....

It all started about 3 month ago, when I gave Sanders a big meaty bone from the cow we had butchered w/Tony's family. Sanders was in COMPLETE euphoria! He loved that bone. So much that he took it outside and dug a hole and buried it. It was so funny to watch him look around to make sure no one was watching him. If he thought someone was...he'd walk away nonchalantly and act like he was up to nothing but hanging out. Me, being the sneaky human I am, watched him bury this first behind our neighbor's shed. Then I watched him move it to our flower bed...where it sat until about a week and a half ago.

Sanders decided it was time to get this deliciuos morsel out of hiding. So he did. And on an evening where we sat out with our awesome neighbors and ate pizza on their patio...he hung out in the yard and munched on his treasured bone. Actually, he munched on it so much, that there was nothing left of this bone the size of my 2 fists put together. Needless to say.....at about 3 in the morning, Tony got up and heard the dog puking. He puked for an hour and a half. Then Sanders kept puking in the morning. Poor little guy! With it being memorial day weekend, I decided after he puked again at 8:30AM and the fact he looked horrible...that I should take him to the vet to make sure there wasn't any kind of a blockage.

The vet agreed with me, that raw beef bones are fine for dogs......however, ones that have been sitting outside in the elements 'de-calcifying' end up letting the dog bite off more than he can chew...We took some x-Rays..and the little guy was fine...it was painful for a couple days as he pooped out completely dry poop with big chunks in it..but it serves him right!! :P

The vet did say that Sanders has very nice hip structure! HAHA! Also, it was funny to all of us to see how skinny Sanders really is! Enjoy these rare photos of Sanders!