Some Demolition Pictures

Family room, looking out towards the pasture, the pile is the hardwood floors that will be installed beginning on the 21st of April
The Hallway
The kitchen, the island still needs to go, we are holding out until we have to since it has the sink.
The living room and dining room, complete with kitchen appliances! Just where you would expect to see the fridge and the stove!
Towards the entry way standing in the living room.

It's almost here...

What is almost here, you might ask? Well, thank you so very much for caring enough to ask me, how thoughtful! Well, since you asked, the floor change is almost here! Tonight will be my last night walking around on the half torn apart floors at our house! Starting tomorrow and going into the weekend, all of the floors will be torn up, followed by a mad dash to paint and then beginning on the 21st, the new floors will be installed. I swear, pictures will be posted soon, they really will! I will start with the beginning and work through the progression. I have half debated waiting until everything is done and then posting the prograssion photo's all at once, maybe I will stick to that...but then again, maybe not. =) oh devious me!

Oh yes, and Brandon is coming to live with me because he has a job up here (in case you don't know Brandon, he is my bro in law, proud dad of Tanner and little Bo, er, Jordan). He gets to come move into the disaster that is the house, no kitchen and all. No couches, no stove, no floors, no tv, no cable, *gasp* no tv!!! Yes, that is right, no tv. On 2 acres with a torn apart house, you would be amazed by how much tv becomes a non-necessity. Pretty soon, Brandon will be so used to it that he will go home and say "babe, lets get rid of the tv" to which Ali will *gasp* for air and faint! Tee hee, sorry Brandon, it is all in good fun! It will be nice to have another person around! Plus, paining is fun...er...yea, it's fun! So is mowing! I will hook up a cup-holder, all you have to do is drive and sip, repeat!

Jordan Bo-McNair Rich

Here he is, my new nephew. Born at 4:20am on 4/1/2008 weighing in at 8lbs, 8oz and 21in long.

My cute nephew with my sister--oh yes, and I can't handle it!

My nephew Tanner is so adoreable!
Wow! Look at that belly!

Every time I look at the preceding post, I fall into fits of giggles! There is something unnatural about being able to "try on" hair! Nick was laughing because they all look like wigs. The fan favorite has been the long and curley. The second favorite is the one right above it. The shorter one is the one that I think my hair would look most like. I totally wish that I could get my hair to do the one below though. Maybe I can get a "soft perm" --funny.

Hair Cut

Hey guys. I was thinking about cutting my hair...wait, I am getting it cut on Saturday and I want some advice. Below you will find some possible examples...or I can just trim what I have right now :-) You can click to make them bigger.

I wish I could do the curly one :-( I like the bottom two the best...I think.

Traveling. and because I think I am funny

Nick and I have some travel up our sleeves that will begin pretty soon and I am so excited to get to go on some trips!
Up first...Kona Coast, Hawaii (April 25)!

Up next...not sure, I will figure that out!

Up after that?? Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida!

The baby's here! And other realizations.

Jordan Rich (middle name TBD) was born at 4:20am on 4/1/2008! He weighed in at 8lbs 8 oz with TONS of blond hair. Ali went into labor and by the time they got to the hospital, the baby was making good progress. Within 1 hour and 20 minutes of arriving at the hospital, he made his debut-in all his glory. He spent 25 minutes being on oxygen after birth. They almost had to do an emergency C-section because Ali was contracting so hard that it was stopping his heartbeat!



Everything turned out okay and he is doing great! Ali is recovering wonderfully and they will get to go home on 4/2. I had to come to work after being there all night with no sleep, so I am very tired!



I had an interesting, and unexpected thought that crossed my mind when gazing at my new nephew. I was in love, naturally. I love being an auntie, I really do! If you look back at my more recent posts, you would see that I have been pressuring my husband to have kids sooner rather than later. While looking at my sister and Jordan, it really hit me how much of a commitment babies are. I know, silly, right? Everyone knows they are a commitment! But I mean, it really hit me in a strange way that children are a time commitment, money commitment, love commitment, a commitment that takes everything you have-everything, your heart, soul, spirit, mind-it is your own heart, walking outside your body. I realized that someday I will be a great parent. Someday I will be ready for this commitment. But that day is not today or even tomorrow. I knew at the moment that I saw him, that right now, being an auntie is perfect and it is all I need to be right now. It was a strange feeling to have so much joy and be so excited to be an auntie all over again, and yet, to have such a huge realization like that. I am content to be married, enjoy my free time, enjoy traveling, enjoy my friends, sleeping in, saving my money-or spending it as I choose. And what a realization this was.