Don't even think about it.

That's right. No visitors. As I post this I'm running in a serpentine
fashion across the hospital lobby, putting my best moves on security
personnel, shouting, "Don't taze me bro'!"
She means it. No visitors.
- Guest Blogger / Amber's Dad

Is it a boy?

No worries if it's a boy. Cabela's sells "Hunter Dan" too!
Think the baby's a boy?
God knows....not me.
- Amber's Dad. /. Guest Blogger

Is it a girl?

Luckily, Cabela's sells Hunter ANN dolls. Do you think the baby is a
girl? We'll be ready!
- Guest Blogger /. Amber's Dad

Jump For Joy

Amber's labor has begun! Her contractions are 5 minutes apart and
Amber's Doc says the baby will probably be here by sundown.
This is the first time I've actually jumped in the air in years!
- Amber's Dad / Guest Blogger

Octodog

I'm a little jealous...

...of this dog.

Our friends Aaron and Ashlee's dog Nadia just had 8 puppies yesterday. 

Does that make her an octodog? Yes. 

Does that make her not pregnant anymore? Yes.

In Due Time

Today is my due date...As you can see from this picture we took today, I am so full of baby that people get genuinely concerned for me when they see me out in public. Ryan and I went to the movies last night - people sitting around us were concerned. Today we had a nice afternoon out on the pontoon with Ryan's mom and dad...then we went to the grocery - people were concerned.

I think people think the baby might fall out any second.

I hope they're right!

We've been doing everything we can think of to help move things along. We took a long walk the other night - and by "long" I mean it took a long time, not that we went very far. Ryan is doing awesome and I'm feeling great - so I guess it's okay to wait a few more days if we have to.

We sure are excited to meet our baby!

Happy 33rd Anniversary Mom and Dad!

Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ's love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They're really doing themselves a favor—since they're already "one" in marriage.
- Ephesians 5:25The same goes for you wives: Be good wives to your husbands, responsive to their needs...What matters is not your outer appearance - the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes - but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kinds that God delights in. The holy women of old were beautiful before God that way, and were good, loyal wives to their husbands.
- 1 Peter 3:1-4
Mom and Dad, I am so thankful for the love that you have for each other. Your marriage is a shining example to us all.

Dad, I love the way you have always cherished and delighted in mom - always wanting to have her around and always showing and saying out loud how much you love her. Thank you for your faithfulness to her and the way you have honored and protected her.

Mom, I love the way you have stood beside and supported dad so he could become the man God created him to be. I love how much fun you have together, your laughter and your constant encouragement. If I can be even half the wife to Ryan that you have been to daddy I will be doing really well.

Here's to another 33 years!

Farewell Designvox

Tomorrow is officially my last day working at Designvox and today my friends at work surprised me with a party! Here's the picture they gave me to remember them by. You can see that they will be hard to forget!

This has been my full-time job since Ryan and I moved to Grand Rapids. I've learned so much about all sorts of things. I've met great people and had the opportunities to work with awesome clients like SpringHill Camps and Turnstone Furniture. I think being a project manager at Vox has given me lots of skills that will help me in mommyhood/household management/Cox Corporation/Stay-At-Home-Mom (SAHM) and I think that I've contributed to the team in every way I knew how.

This job has been an adventure over the last couple of years, I am so thankful for my time here, for the experience gained and the lessons learned...and I'm so excited that Ryan has the job that he has so one of us can be home with our baby.

I am blessed.
Thanks Voxers!! I will miss you!

Guest Blogger / Rules

I can't take the baby hunting until the baby is born. This is Amber's
rule. Birth 1st. Hunting 2nd.

On being a crazy person...

I may or may not have become a bit of a crazy person in the last 6 days or so...

• I might have spent a good amount of time this weekend scrubbing the bath tub better than its ever been scrubbed before


• There is a chance that I have planned out our calendar (and the calendars of many of our friends) through next September


• Ryan might have asked me to stop organizing the grocery cart while we were shopping at Meijer the other day


• My newly serviced vacuum may already need the bag changed again


• I've had about 4 pedicures in my entire life - one of which I got tonight hoping that it might induce labor - So far it hasn't worked for me.


• What's next? How about a nice bottle of Mom Spit!

I'm kinda excited to get past this "preggo/crazy person" phase and into the "new mom/still sorta crazy" phase.