Changes..

I hope you know how much I miss all of you and not being able to hang out like we used to. My dad recently decided to put our house on the market because it was just too big for him to live in and he wants to be able to travel, and I think we all know how simple he is. Surprisingly, our house sold even before we put it on the market. I am ok with selling our house, I just did not want to have to move before the school year was over. However, we will be moving out the week after Easter, which is the same week of my mom's passing a year ago. Realizing this has been really difficult for me. I didnt realize how difficult its going to be to move. I do not have a big connection to the house, but it is my home and its weird that we are at this stage in life were we start making these changes and move away from home. So this summer I will be living in Waconia with girls from crown. I had planned on living with them next year anyway so I am really excited to have this place and live there for the summer. I will be visiting Omaha a bunch because I will have a room at my sisters house. Will you guys pray for me and Dad and Jen as we start making the transition and packing everything up. Thanks. Is there any thing that I can pray for you for to? I cant wait for summer and to be able to see you more. Love you all!

Kelsey

my love is all for you girls!!

Kristin I am praying for you hard core tonight, hopefully tomorrow Callan finally decides to come out!!
How was your valentine days?? Mine was basically an ordinary day but Matt asked me to be his valentine!! He is coming to visit me this weekend and I am sooo excited!!! I spent my day at the highschool for a clinical and it was soo boring. I do not want to be a school nurse. I am getting so excited for our visit soon in Omaha. Miss you!
Kelsey

40 Weeks and Counting!

Ok, first of all, I need to know if other people can see this little blog....I have rated R things to say but only if no one else can see it. So until I find out I'm going to pretend no one can see it, and you guys are getting all the gory details of my body preparing for labor!! woohooo!!

That said I'm 40 weeks and 1 day!!!! Woo!
I'm officially overdue. Boo. I go to the doctor later today to talk about inducing labor and making sure everything is ok. Keep your fingers crossed and pray that "my hole" (as Ruthie would like to call it) is bigger =). Or for Kelsey's sake-- that I'm even more dilated than I already am and completely effaced. As of last Monday I was still only 1 cm dilated and 80% effaced and he is completely in the birth canal (soooo much pressure on my little vagina!!)

***SIDENOTE***Kels, did you know your sister is doing newborn pictures of him??!! I am soo excited!!

And we also officially have his name picked out too. We had his first name about two months after we found it was a boy, his middle name was a battle.
His little name is Callan Wayne =)
He's being named after my dad, a combination of his first and middle name (Craig Alan)--and his middle name is WAYNE!! haha. Both Jake and his dads middle name is Wayne, so I just figured we'd make his whole name sentimental. Why the heck not. plus i like the nerdy punch it adds. i find it to be rather endearing.

Hm...my nipples are leaking. Actually the right nipple is leaking... The other night I was sitting on the couch talking to Jake and I didn't have a bra on and was wearing a light gray t-shirt. I was moving around enough so my shirt was changing positions. I felt something wet and looked down and saw three separate wet spots right in a row.

I don't know how men look at women the same after going through pregnancies with them.

Lastly, on a more serious note, I need you guys to pray. Jake lost his job on Friday. Two days before my due date he gets laid off.
Part of me feels like this is still us being punished for doing this the wrong way, like God feels like constantly reminding us of how much we screwed up. Then another part of me is wondering if this is God closing a door so firmly that we know for a fact we are supposed to make a huge change.

Jake's family offered him an amazing job. A job that has awesome AWESOME pay, enough for us to be extremely comfortable with only him working, and just working one job at that. The only problem is that this job is in Montana. I would have to leave my entire family which has been our amazing support system this whole time, and I would have to break my mom's heart in thousands of pieces. Seeing her everyday would be restricted to maybe once a year, IF we could afford it, and I think the hardest thing for me is that Callan wouldn't know his super cool grandma and have a relationship with her and she couldn't watch him grow up and go through all the cute stages that I want her to be apart of soooo badly, and his only example of family would be Jake's family....and I'm sure I've told you all stories. it worries me.

I feel so torn because Jake and I neeeeeeed to get a place of our own, and we were getting soo close to achieving that goal, only for him to lose his job. its frustrating.

Oh yeah, and money has disappeared out of our savings and the bank doesn't know where it went. Almost forgot. ha.

So many things, such a big mess. This is not the situation I want him to be born into.
Pray, pray PRAY!! (please) =)

This all about skims the surface of our life right now, didn't mean for it to be this long, but what can you do....I have important things to say!!!!!!

p.s. i wouldnt mind you guys praying for a quick and easy delivery either...or that it would happen like---maybe today. ok thanks.
appreciate it.

p.p.s. if this is public, somebody tell me.

i love you all and I cannnNOT wait for everyone to visit!!!!

Ok lovecats, i need your help...

So Valentines Day is coming up and I have noooo clue what or if i should do any thing for Matt. Some people say that I should send him a valentine in the mail, but I want him to do something and if he doesn't I don't want to feel lame. You know?!?! Do you guys have any advice? It is also kind of awkward because we are not dating, but I am almost positive that we will in March. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Do you have any plans for V-Day? I was gonna plan to have a bitch fest, but its not a true bitch fest if its not with all of you!
Love you all!!

Kelsey!

Let's begin!

A blog? Five writers? This may seem a bit silly to many people, however, for me it is quite simply the best idea I have had in, well, a very long time! This blog is meant to be a connection; a connection between five, twenty-something year old girls, that have many stories to share. We cannot be together, so I have thought about it and have concluded that it is in our best interest to use the great technology that some of our, literally, genius peers have created. We have the opportunity to share the pics from the date we just went on, stories of making a complete fool out of ourselves, the new recipe we want to tackle or just the new addition to our oatmeal, get a second opinion on the expensive new boots we want, and even the day to day update on how our little first baby is doing. Let's post it all!!
I cannot wait... I think this will be a fun adventure.

I would like to end my first post with, yes you girls guessed it, a quote. Rach can and will make fun of my choice of person to quote.
Audrey Hepburn once said... "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."