Doesn't feel like fall here

I had my ultrasound last Monday and the babies are growing good. They weigh about 1.77 lbs and are pretty equal in all their measurements. Their heart rates are around 140's. No....... we did not find out the sexes. Were getting too close now to not have it be a surprise. I am in my 26th week and you can tell by the picture, I am getting bigger. I still feel good thus far. This week I am going down to 8 hour shifts at work. This will be a big change for me, but I know it is best for the babies. It will be different to have a night life and be able to plan more things in the evening. We have been blessed by friends who have offered us many of their baby items to have that they are done with. We now have 2 cribs, changing table, and a side by side stroller. Tim especially is intrigued by the breast pump! We found a used rocker glider and so now I am excited to get the nursery started.

Last week Friday, I canned applesauce and apple butter with Jessica. We just have apple pie filling to go and then our canning is done for this year. Tim needs to make more shelves because I am running out of room. From the other pictures you see, Tim has been busy doing some fall cleaning in the garage and also putting our new lawn in. We put underground sprinkling in and we are praying that 3 times is a charm for putting in a lawn!!!!! So far it does look really good and since we have been having such nice weather, it have been coming up fast. Were actually excited to hopefully have lots of lawn to mow next summer!

Canning and Tooling

Saturday was the first time I canned all by myself. The canning food....Grapejuice! As you can see by the photos it was a process, but they all turned out and all of them sealed. Yeah!!!! My sister-in-law Jessica and I have been canning a lot of things this year such as tomatoes, pickles, pickle relish, jams, and soon applesuace. It is actually fun to do with someone and there is some sense of accomplishment when you look at the variety of canned goods, with all their different colors, sitting on the shelves. Canning does come with its woes. Tim had placed the grapes on the deck the night before. When I got home from work, it was just starting to rain and so I thought I should take the grapes in. Tim was downstairs for the moment and when he got back up, he said it would not be a good idea to have the grapes inside due to the fruit flies. Well too late. We now are the proud parents of many fruit flies and Tim like to take a dish towel and see how many he can kill at a time. They are getting less, but still like to annoy us with their presence.
Tim and Eric are staying very busy working on tooling to make acrylic windshields for boats. It involves a lot of sanding and laminating. They have a big project to finish by Tuesday so yesterday Tim went over and worked all day yesterday and Monday will be a big day too. Good thing they enjoy it.

Today is just a relaxing Sunday. We are having a friendly debate over which football team is going to win today..Vikings or Lions. I still remain a Minnesota Vikings fan and Tim is loyal to his Lions. I might have to borrow some of Dan and Laura's Viking wear to put on the twins (when Tim isn't looking of course)!

Were having Twins

Hi everyone....I am trying to get our blog back up and running. Our biggest update is that we are having twins in December. We are 23 weeks right now (the fartherest picture on the left) and I am feeling great. I will post some picutres of my tummy so you can see the progress and I will write more soon. This is my trial run.

It's been a while since our last post. Christmas and new years have passed by and it looks a little depressing outside. It's mid January and there is still no snow! Alissa and I don't do many winter sports but it is still brightens things up with a good thick blanket of the white stuff. Other than that not too much is happening here... Alissa is working about three days a week nursing and I am splitting my time up between finishing the last room in the basement and trying to drum up some business for FLUID Design, the business my brother and I started. My office will be downstairs so I am very motivated to finish it. We also started talking about getting in a late spring vacation. We might as well do it while we can since we do not have kids yet... I am told it is harder to just get away when you have a few of them.

May be the next post will be about religeon or politics... something interesting like that.

Here is a picture of our small group from Mars Hill

Hi everyone. I am again trying to check this whole blogging thing out. I am trying to download more pictures but it keeps telling me I have some errors. I guess I am not very savy with computer stuff. It is a terrible windy day today. Tim is up North doing some hunting (or sitting in a trailer waiting for the rain to quit so he can go hunting). I have the weekend off and am going to get some house cleaning done and tonight I am going to babysit Sam and Malachai so Eric and Jessica can go to a school sale. Oct 23 was the year anniversary of Malachai being diagnosed with Leukemia. It is amazing to see how God has worked in this last year. He now is a normal busy toddler, who has overcome Leukemia, has undergone a bone marrow and prayerfully will be void of any further Leukemia. Sunday we will get together with the Stuive's to celebrate all the October birthdays. We have not seen Todd and Kathy for awhile so it will be nice to get together with everyone. Take care. Love and miss you all.

Our First Blog Post

Alissa thought it would be a good idea to have a blog so here we are blogging and hoping someone will read it. We'll write more later but right now we just want to post some pictures.