oh boy!

We went out to run some errands tonight to stock up on some stuff and came home to this:

Our deck canopy was flipped upside down onto our sunroom (well, it's the toy room!) room.

closer up!

Daniel says he can "beef up" the metal and not only fix it but make it more sturdy. We'll see!

It had started storming maybe 15 minutes before we got home. Clearly there were strong winds along with the rain, thunder, and lightening!

We got our new carpet installed on Wednesday and it is really really nice! They did such a nice job on the steps too! Now we just need Daniel to make our metal handrail. (I know, I know...baby steps!)

I was too impatient to wait any longer to get stuff moved back into our rooms upstairs so this morning, the boys and I moved their dressers, Daniel's dresser, my dresser, the elliptical, their bookshelf, their toyshelf, Emily's crib, Emily's dresser, Emily's book/toy shelf, the glider and ottoman, and anything else that needed to be moved!! We still have to put our bed back together so for now our mattress is on the floor. Hopefully that'll get taken care of in the morning. Daniel put the boys' bunk beds together last night so their room is just about done (again!). I need to get a shelf for each of them to hang above their dressers; maybe tomorrow! We need to make a big grocery store run tomorrow too to stock up on oodles and oodles of stuff. I bugged Daniel enough to get the baby stuff out of the loft in the garage this afternoon so I think we're finally ready for her arrival! Her room is all set up! I might get around to installing the carseat in the van tomorrow at some point. And maybe packing my hospital bag too (should definitely do that!). I've got the guest room ready for my parents and have tried to make sure everything is taken care of in the house so I don't have to bug my mom to do too much (or my dad!). Hopefully they'll just be able to occupy the boys and have fun.

I had my pre-op appointment with my doctor on Thursday and everything went well! Right now my c-section is scheduled for 11:15 on Wednesday morning. YAAAAAY! We're super excited.

Tomorrow we're planning to go to a (sort of) local orchard and pick some peaches, hopefully before it gets too hot! Sunday we're taking the boys to see a Washington Nationals game in Baltimore. Zach's T-Ball team was the Nationals and since we're taking the boys to see an Iron Birds game (Jacob's team name) around the end of July we figured it was only fair to take them to a Nationals game too! It's going to be our "last hurrah" as a family of 4! It should be a great weekend! (even though it's going to be a hot one!)

Pictures to come of Zach's last T-Ball game and his trophy! He is so excited to finally have his "very first trophy" as he calls it!