Other Fall Happenings

This fall has been a very busy one with all the moving and getting things settled in our house, but we are loving it! Of course the most exciting things to get settled are Skye's things into her room, I love to just go in there and sit and look at all her cute stuff! I am getting very very anxious for her to be here! I have my 30 week appointment today, and am on a 2 week schedule now. Scott and I will be beginning prenatal classes this month, and I just took my glucose test which came back within the normal limits. So everything seems to be going very well! She is moving around like crazy now and I love the feeling of her kicking, except when it keeps me up for a large portion of the night! 

A few weekends ago Heather, Zac and Ty were our first official houseguests. We don't have the spare bedroom done yet in the basement, so they had to settle for the trusty air mattress! It was so much fun having them come visit, of course Scott and Zac spent most of their time in the "gaming room". Ty loved driving his boom booms all over the kitchen, and much to my pleasure, did not even attempt to play with the oven that had no door and was extremely grimey and yucky (It has since been replaced with a much nicer version) It is always a fun time when we get to see the Lewises!

Last weekend Heather threw a baby shower for me and Skye in fergus and it was so much fun, thanks again to everyone who came and everyone that helped with the shower. Heather is definitely the master party planner, it was great food, great company, great games and great gifts :) Scott had fun going through all of Skye's new goodies when I got home on Sunday and he said to tell everyone thanks as well! We are lucky to have so many amazing people in our lives!

It will continue to be busy for us with hunting season here, women of faith conference, two more baby showers, holidays and before we know it our little Skye will be here and we will wonder where in the world that nine months went! Love to all!Go Vikes!Ty Guy!YAY for being done with Kindercare...Scott and Donna bought me an ice cream cake from dairy queen to celebrate the occasion!

HOUSE PICTURES!!!!

Well it has been a long time again, and as many people have reminded me...I am a horrible blogger! I lost my camera cord somehow in the moving process so these pictures have just been sitting on my camera for quite some time now! Taking Heather's advice I went out and got a universal card reader so I can finally share all these pictures with you all!I took a lot of before and after pictures so you can kind of see the changes we made, but believe me the pictures do not show the nasty scuzziness embedded in this house before we got to cleaning and painting, I really doubt the former tenants ever had cleaned the cabinets or blinds...they were GROSS!!

At the present time it is not allowing me to move any text or pictures around because my computer is acting extremely weird so some of the are out of order, but I am sure you will get which ones are before and after!

24 week appointment

I had my 24 week appointment today, and everything came back great! Our little baby girl has a very strong heart beat at 150 beats per minute and my measurements were right on with where they should be. She will be here before we know it and I CAN'T wait to meet her :)
I also got the flu shot at this visit, which my arm is not thanking me for. It was good to get it out of the way, especially with all the germies hanging around work!
Well keep us in your prayers the next few days as we close on our home :) I have come to the decision that underwriters have kind of sad little lives. After going a week thinking we had been approved by underwriting they called today to let us know that we ARE approved but there is one contingency...they don't accept my reason for moving to north branch which is a ways from my work. The reason I had given was that the home prices were more affordable, thinking hhhhmmm how would they dispute that? Apparently that is not a good enough reason. They are fine with our finances, fine with income, fine with everything and apparently just want to make us wiggle until the last second. So after submitting a more acceptable reason for moving to north branch from eagan, they let me know they should hear something late tomorrow-----good thing since we close on the house first thing in the morning on friday!
My lender let me know there should be no problems, but we are sitting here squirming until we get the keys in our hands!

Love to all from Scott, Kayla and Skye!

Chaos!

So, life has been crazy and unfortunately I have not been good about posting about the happenings this summer. It has flown by so fast, and I can't believe that soon it will be fall and all the kids will be back in school-what?


We have had a pretty jam packed summer and have had a grand total of one...count it, one weekend home to relax! We have had so much fun though so that makes up for it! We have gotten to see Mr. Ty and Heather and Zac a few times this summer which has been crazy, he is growing so fast! We also went on a camping trip with our bible study to the Taylors Falls area. That was a great time with great friends, we came up with a menu prior to leaving and everyone brought ingredients, I don't think I have ever eaten so well...and definitely not while camping. Our menu ranged from bluberry pancakes slathered in berries and cool whip to hawiian chicken with yummy potatoes, it was a fun time! We also had our friend from high school's wedding to attend. It was gorgeous as was she!


We finally decided on a name for our sweet little girl-- Miss Skye ______ Brekke! We are still toying around with middle names! She is growing a ton, at least I believe she is because I wake up every morning and my belly looks bigger and bigger! She is kicking a lot too now, it is such and amazing feeling.


Well it may be a while until my next blog because next friday we are MOVING INTO OUR HOME!!!!! YAY!!!!! So not sure when we will hook up the internet and when we will have the time, I think we have quite a bit of work ahead of us...job number one...Skye's nursery just because I am way too excited!

Some girlfriends from High School

My best friend, who I missed a lot!

Proudly sporting my baby bump

The beautiful View on our hike

Next week we will be proud residents of casselberry ponds neighborhood!

(Excuse the silly string)

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!

Scott and I got to go have an ultrasound done today for my 20 week appointment, and there was some anatomy missing in the ultrasound, so it's a girl!!! She seemed extremely sure and said she didn't want to say 100%...but, 100% it's a girl! We are so excited and can't wait to meet our little baby girl! The due date is staying at dec. 15th. Shana had been nice enough to do an ultrasound for me that showed a little later, but according to her weight and measurements, it looks like my original due date of dec. 15th is pretty accurate, she already is moving a lot and was not so cooperative with the sonographer so I have a feeling she will come whenever she feels like it! Thanks for all the prayers and please keep them coming :)

WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!!!!!

This morning Scott and I heard back from our realtor that we are about to be first time homebuyers! We can't be more excited, it is the perfect starter home for us to welcome little baby brekke home! Here is just a pic from the website, in our opinion it looks much better in person!

WOW I'm a bad blogger!!!!!

Well, I have once again gotten very very far behind on the blogging. We have been gone every weekend and seem to be busy every weeknight when we get home from work, so blogging fell by the wayside.
We have been having a jam-packed, exciting, stressful few months. Most fun and important news is that we continue to prepare for the arrival of baby brekke.....baby girl or boy will be determined in about 2 weeks!!! We are so excited and can't wait to hold them in our arms! Hopefully the next 5 months fly by! Scott's sister heather recently found out she is also expecting and we can't be more excited to have the cousins so close, and it will be very fun to share all the joys of pregnancy together. We're so happy for them. Please keep both us and Heather and Mike in your prayers for very healthy babies :)
We have also been househunting like crazy still, and as of today have put in our fourth...yes fourth offer. We keep getting outbid or the other buyers offer to pay in cash---if they have 125k sitting around, why aren't they looking at more expensive houses? So it has been frusterating but we are gaining a lot of knowledge and we are feeling very good about the one that we just made an offer on, so please keep us in your prayers!
There has been way too much going on to update everything, but hopefully I will get back on track!