Trip to Virginia...baby shower and the 4th

So I have officially been HORRIBLE about updating this. Life has thrown us a few curve balls in the past couple weeks which has taken up some time but hopefully we are on the up swing before our "little peanut" arrives. So bear with me as this could be a long entry.

First of all our trip to Virginia...it was wonderful and I am so glad that we were able to make it back before the baby. We started our trip off in DC to stay with Bonnie for a couple of days. She welcomed us with pink balloons :) We have wanted to go to DC to stay with her for so long and I am so glad we finally were able to. We got in around midnight and she had dinner on the table waiting for us! Such a wonderful hostess. We had a great time. Our plan was to go in and sightsee in DC but the weather was extremely hot and it didn't sound to appealing with being 8 months pregnant so we decided to just hang out and go see Grammers instead.

After a couple of days in DC we headed down to Yorktown/Gloucester. Blake and Michelle, along with Carrie threw us a wonderful baby shower! Everything was so nice and they did such a great job of putting everything together. We are so thankful for everything they did. We are definitelly blessed with so many wonderful family and friends. It was so nice to have all of our family and friends together and to celebrate Baby Girl Bailey! She is one spoiled/loved little girl already! Here are some pictures from the shower...Thank you for everything!

Her very first soccer ball that everyone signed!

We enjoyed our week and a half but it always seems like we don't have enough time to see everyone we want to but never-the-less it was a great trip. We spent the 4th with Blake and Michelle and went to see the Yorktown fireworks.

We left the day after the 4th in a U-haul with all of Bryan's stuff in tow. We were so fortunate to have Bill, Brenda, Barry, and Jean's help loading up...we couldn't have done it without everyone! Oh and how could I forget our little helper Maddox. He told me he used to just lift little stuff but he has been lifting weights so now he can lift the heavy stuff...too cute. He climbed in the U-haul and buried himself behind crates and wanted us to shut the door. He said he wanted to be shipped to Wisconsin :) Our drive back went smoothly and was uneventful. The first day we made it between Louisville and Indianapolis and then we stopped for the night. We woke up the next day and finished off the drive and made it home by about 1:00. My parents and brother came over and helped us unload the U-haul and my mom brought a home cooked meal over which was nice after our long drive :)

So just when we thought everything was getting put together and organized for Baby Girl Bailey...we have a disaster! We have been getting a tremendous amount of rain in the past couple of weeks. Well, during one of the rain storms our sump pump decided to stop working :( I went downstairs to find 4 inches of standing water! I was just sick and could not believe it! I wouldn't have cared if we didn't have carpet and things down there but it has been a mess. The water went up into the dry wall on top of it. So in came the restoration company to dry us out. They took off all the baseboards, drilled holes in the dry wall and ripped out the carpet. They thought that would do it but after the 72 hour window they have to dry everything out there were still parts in one of our finished rooms where the dry wall was not dry. So they had to cut out our dry wall about a foot up from the ground all the way around! Uggh I guess thats life though and it could have been much worse. It's not so bad now that we can move things back down there. I don't care if it doesn't get finished right away as long as I can organize the upstairs of the house.

This past week my dad ended up in the hospital with abdominal pain, but is doing much better which I am so thankful for. I was so worried about him and am just glad to see him doing better. My dad is not one to be sick so I knew that it had to be bad if he was willing to go into the doctor. So now hopefully we are all on the up swing!

No new news for Bryan on the job front, there have been a couple of new opportunities that he has applied for that will hopefully lead to something. I have still been feeling great I just can't believe how time is flying. She is going to be here before we know it! We go into the doctor on Wednesday and thats when we will know for sure if we are having a c-section or not. If we do have a c-section it is scheduled for August 10th! I will update on Tuesday after we know more! Hope you are all doing well...sorry for the extremely long post.