another clarification.

remember THIS post when I had to make it clear that the clothes washer was NOT a hot wheels car wash or a hot wheels garage?
well, it seems I also need to make it clear that the dishwasher is also NOT a hot wheels garage or a hot wheels car wash: 

oh, he makes me smile!

thinkin' about it thursday.

top 10 things NOT to say to your 8 month pregnant wife:


10.  "I finished the oreos"


9.  "mornin' pumpkin!  hey, you're starting to look like a pumpkin!"


8.  "well, couldn't they induce labor?  the 25th is the super bowl"


7. "Fred at the office passed a stone the size of a pea.  boy, that's gotta hurt"


6.  "I'm jealous!  why can't men experience the joy of childbirth?"


5.  "are your ankles supposed to look like that?"


4.  "get your own ice cream"


3.  "oh, I ate the rest of the ice cream"


2.  "man, my back is killing me - can I sit on the lay-z-boy while we watch survivor?"


...and finally...


1.  "by the looks of it, this kid will be 50 pounds!"


*for the record, I found this in my file cabinet and thought it was funny, I'm sure it came from an e-mail eons ago.  also, this does not apply to Will in any way.  he takes extra special care of me while I'm pregnant.  yea, I'm lucky, I know.  only 2 weeks to go!*

thinkin' about it thursday.

in a very, very short time, our family will no longer look like this:

so crazy.
and honestly, I'm thinkin' about this a lot more than just today.

thinkin' about it thursday.

babies, babies.

look at our new little niece!

this makes will and I so excited, just 4 more weeks for us.  unbelievable.

with the birth of another baby, we've been thinking a lot about family.  we are so grateful for our family.  and we are so blessed to be a part of a great family.

on a different note, I made sure and called my dad tonight to ask him if he realized that now ALL of his kids HAVE kids.  and added that he was officially old.  we'll see if he talks to me for awhile.  :)

thinkin' about it thursday.

my awesome day.  yesterday.

so, it all started tuesday night.  right before bed, I loaded the dishwasher and tried to set the delay start.  nothing happened.  will tried to mess with it, and nothing, wouldn't turn on, wouldn't start, nothing.

it's probably 6 or 7 years old, so naturally, we thought it had just died.  luckily, we have the right connections.  so, first thing in the morning we have a new dishwasher.  greg (warehouse manager) comes out and spends an hour getting it hooked up and positioned just perfect, and goes to turn it on..............and..............nothing.  no lights, no power, nothing.  great.  

we decide it's an electrical thing and so will calls everywhere in town looking for someone to come out "today" (because it's soooooooo important it can't wait a day.)  well, the electrician gets here and spends a little time, but is confused because one part has power and one doesn't.  He looks up above the dishwasher and sees the switch and flips it.  problem solved.  awesome.  

my 2-year-old was the whole problem.  he was playing on the counter while I was cutting vegetables the night before and was flipping the switch on and off, on and off, on and off, and was trying to see what was going on and off.  I saw him doing it, I was right there.  will and I never knew what the switch was for and never even thought the problem could be the switch.  what's even worse is that the switch was installed upside down so even though the above picture looks like the switch is "off," it's not, it's really "on."  awesome.

so, I had to spend money on a new dishwasher when there was NOTHING wrong with the old one.

I had to pay an electrician to come out and flip a switch.

and I had to waste a good part of greg's day unhooking the old dishwasher, hooking up the new dishwasher, unhooking the new dishwasher and hooking up the new dishwasher, again.

talk about an expensive, unnecessary day.  awesome.

yep, kids are so expensive...................but totally worth it.  totally.

and, here is a picture of the guilty party.  everytime I get the camera out he stands by me and says, "cheese, cheese, cheese." until I take his picture.  it is so cute.