The Cole Family: January 2009

Well I am sure that you all thought I would never update our blog. It is a new year, so I can try to do a better job. Our last two months have been very busy. I finished up working for Homes4Good and as of today I am officially unemployed! YEAH! I have been so blessed to work from home the last 3 1/2 years. It has been great to be at home with my kids the majority of the time and be able to bring some extra money home for our family, but with BABY #3 due at the beginning of April, Matt and I decided that it would be better for everyone (especially my sanity), if I quit and stayed home 100% of the time with all of our children! Some of you may be shocked to read that! If you didn't know I was pregnant, sorry! We are so excited about the arrival of our little girl (who does not have a name yet). Jacob really understands that there is a baby in mommy's tummy and that he is going to have another little sister. He wants to name her Hannah too, but we explained that it would be too confusing to have two Hannah's! Hannah looks at the ultrasound picture and says "baby sista", but I am sure she will be shocked when we bring home another baby. She is quite the momma's girl, but I am sure she will be a great big sister.

We were very blessed during the Christmas holidays to spend time with both of our families. We had a great time with everyone and I will share plenty of pictures. After Christmas I started having some severe lower back pain and some contractions and I was only 26 weeks pregnant. After two trips to the hospital and ruling out pre-term labor (thank goodness), I was diagnosed with Kidney Stones! Happy New Year to Julie! So now just about 3 months before I give birth to our 3rd child, I get to possibly go through worse pain than childbirth! That's exciting. So we are taking it day by day. I am uncomfortable now, but not in terrible pain yet. I pray that they will pass before other measures have to be taken! Matt is doing good and work is going well for him. We have enjoyed having him home with us for some good family time over the holidays. Well, I guess that is all the update I have, so here are the much anticipated pictures....the reason why any of you check the blog anyway! Stay tuned for the next post of pictures with the Cole family for Christmas. I didn't want to put too many pictures in one blog.

Cole, Trollinger, Brewer Family

Attempt at family picture at Granny's

Mommy and Hannah
(of course her thumb is in her mouth)

Jacob's favorite spot at the train exhibit
(Construction Area)

Grandanny and Hannah

Daddy and Jacob at North Park's train exhibit

We went to a placed called Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine with my family and the kids got to play at an indoor water park while it was 27 degrees outside!