Our annual visit to the Odle lakehouse

We went to see Jarrad, Misty and the girls last weekend at the lake.  it was a very fun weekend!  they just got a boat so we had a blast just goofing around.  my parents came up on saturday afternoon too so that was nice to see them again.  we tried to do a pic of all three kids and i guess it didn't turn out too bad but i really like the one with my dad and his kiddos.  

on the way home, we had to stop outside of dayton to go to the funeral home for one of steve's cousins.  that was of course a downer, but he got to see some of his family that he hasn't seen for years.  so that also meant that i met a lot of his family that i hadn't met before.  it was great to meet some of his aunts, uncle and cousins and they all loved zander.  

and i posted last week that zander was 12 weeks old...well this wednesday was his official 3 month mark (or as i said on facebook...his 1/4 birthday)  he's started giggling a little now too which i love.  i only have 3 days of my leave left so i'm definitely bummed that its coming to an end!

can you see any similarities??

the top pic is steve at age 1 right before getting his very first haircut.  and then the 2nd pic is me of course.  i was about 3 months i think.  so steve and i keep arguing about who we think zander looks like.  not like it matters, but its kinda funny.  a lot of people see steve and his side in zander but then when i look at my baby pic, i can maybe see a mix of both of us. i know one thing..he's not quite pushing up with his arms yet like i am in my pic.  he's definitely getting stronger, but he still has a bit to go.  i just keep saying that maybe he's a bit slow on the physical side, but that's ok because he's going to my little brain!  HA...guess time will tell.  

12 weeks old...

well in about 5 minutes, zander will be 12 weeks old.  i can't believe that i have been off of work and at home with my new little guy for that long!!  i am sooo NOT ready to go back to work, but then there are definitely times that i crave the sense of accomplishment that i get out of a good day at work. so i guess it is bittersweet.  its just going to be very odd to go from spending pretty much every minute of my  daytime with zander to not seeing him except for tuesdays and most weekends i guess.  i really wish that i didnt have to work 10 hour days. oh well, i guess the real world is about to slap me in the face in about 1.5 weeks.  i'm also hoping that it all works out ok with steve and his schedule.  he will be in charge of zander a lot more and it could get harry with his sleep/work schedule.  so we are praying that all works out well.   i will cherish my tuesdays off with zander for sure!!  it will also be weird because i wont see steve near as much either.  it has been awesome to spend quite a bit of time with him.  so i may go through double withdraw....less time with both of my men!  

and speaking of accomplishment...we still only have 1 working car BUT our garage is looking soo much better!  for those of you who didn't see it in the beginning, it was full of piles and piles of stuff/junk!  we have a 3 car garage and until we had car problems, it didn't house any cars.  so steve's car has been in it now while he has been working on it but we still had stuff in a large part of the rest of the garage.  steve and i have worked very hard the last few weeks to clean out and relocate stuff in order to get our garage into garage status!  woohoo.  go us!  :)  it only took about 3 or 4 months after moving in.  we'll just use zander as our excuse.