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Project Sunken Treasure

You probably didn’t notice or care. But this site has been down since August 22nd. That’s 8 weeks to the day.  That was a rough day as I woke up to 8 inches of water in my basement.

I learned a few lessons that day. Here are a few of them.

1. Don’t store your computer tower on the floor.
2. Don’t put your hard drive in the lowest bay in your computer tower.
3. Your backups of your computer files should not be on the computer next to your tower.  (I wasn’t quite at the 3 - 2 - 1 backup rule.)
4. You’d be surprised how much junk you store in your basement that you don’t need.
5. Throwing away your stuff is emotional. (It was my junk!)
6. Thank God for insurance.

So despite that major setback in life, things have been crazy busy and the world drives on.

Jack is 6 years old!

Today is my son’s birthday. Time seems to be speeding up the older I get.

2008 seems like such a long time ago.

Jack is in kindergarten now. Watching him learn new things is quite amazing.

I can’t believe how good he is at reading.

I laugh at how juvenile and boyish his humour is. I can’t imagine what he’ll be like in jr. high.

He makes me want to be better for him.

Update

Hey all, Just wanted to update everybody cause I know a few people are reading this alot. Today has been a good day. Jackson is very healthy and doing well. The doctors say he is doing great. He passed his hearing test with flying colors. He is feeding well and sleeps good. He is a very quiet baby and doesn’t fuss much. When he does cry, he calms down very quickly after being held. He and Amy are both napping right now. We have had lots of visitors from friends and family. Thanks for stopping by. I’ll update soon.

Delivery Day Pics!

Amy in her hospital bed.

Leaving for Hospital!

A Note from Amy

Thank goodness for Epidural’s and wi-fi at the hospital. Water broke around 2:30 last night and we checked into the hospital about 4:30 this morning. Despite the water breaking, I didn’t go into labor, so I was given the inducing drug around probably 8 or so. After dealing with contractions for a couple hours, I got an epidural around noon. It is now 3 and I’m still just put-putting along. Hopefully soon I’ll get to meet my son. Derek is finally napping. I’ve gotten a couple naps in already today, but he’s been by my side waiting for me to need him. He was the perfect support during the contractions and didn’t complain even when I was hurting him! He’s been updating his blog and has a few pictures and that will have the most current news as we progress. I would be posting this on his blog, but I don’t know the password and I’m not going to wake him. Both grandma’s are here and we’ve just been hanging out. thanks for all the messages, texts, and calls! :)

update

It’s 5:40 pm. Things are progressing good. We are predicting a delivery around 20:00 hours. Thats 8:00pm for all you normal people. :) Amy is doing good. I am tired.