Surprise! We are pregnant....again!

Hey everyone,

Joel, Lydia, Makayla, and I are so blessed and excited (and a little panicky) to announce we are completing our family of 5 this September with the birth of our new child.  January 27th I got a wonderful, and shocking, positive pregnancy test that sent us into a bit of a whirlwind!  While this little bundle of joy was not exactly the way we planned for our family to be completed, we are putting our complete trust in the big Man upstairs that all will work out according to His plan.....and we all know His plan is always better than ours (He has proven that to us time and time again)!!! 

We truely are looking forward to this next year and our third, sweet, little baby.  Lydia is certain, most of the time, that she will finally have a little brother!  Our next ultrasound will be sometime in mid May, and we will attempt to find out then if her little intuition is correct!

I have felt so great this whole pregnancy, I'm 15 weeks, and I cannot be more grateful for the incredible opportunity with which I have been blessed.  I honestly can't say enough times how much I love being pregnant and how much I will miss it after this one.  I think Juno said it best when she said "pregnancy often leads to an infant"...but if it didn't, I would be pregnant all the time!!  I am lucky enough to be able to do this 3 times, and I think we will leave it at that!  :)

Love,
The Oele's

(Sorry it's a little fuzzy, my dinosaur phone

doesn't take the best pics!)





A few of my favorites from March!

The girls and I have had such a wonderful time enjoying this gorgeous weather! Unbelievable how warm and sunny it's been.  Perfect for walking down to Plainwell Ice Cream Co., playing with the neighbor kids, and getting really dirty in our yet to be seeded front yard! :) 

At least she can still breathe!

A flower for my baby sister! :)

I am just relieved she isn't serious!

(Sarcasm...if you couldn't figure that out!)

And this one is never serious.....

I never knew siblings could be so different!

That's better...a little smile!

It is so incredibly nice to have a kitchen again. 

We opened it up the week after

Christmas, so we've had it for a while! 

After living almost 3 months under constrution though,

I will never again take a kitchen for granted!!!!

Looking from dining room toward back family room.

There are 2 pendulum lights above the peninsula that need installation still,

 otherwise, everything's done except floor and trim.

Joel built this cool cubby for the fridge...

I love it!

Future back family room!  A couple rows of ceiling left, carpet,

and trim and then that's done too! 

I'm sure it will be more of a toy room

than a family room...but I'm okay with that! :)

Our "Tropical" One Night Getaway!

We went to a hotel in GR for one night last weekend (as a late Christmas present to ourselves), and had a blast!  It had a big pool, which Lydia loved more than the kiddie area I think, and a hot tub with bubbles, which Lydia also had fun with, and a big slide for me and Joel!!  Makayla hung out as well, and enjoyed the water.  It was a cozy 86*! 

Go figure, another beautiful smile from this little girl! :)

Popcorn and a movie before bed!

Updates!

Hi everyone! Just thought I would post an update. We now have all the walls of the kitchen painted, the cabnet pulls are now on, Joel has finished the dining room floors, and hopefully we will put up some floor boards today. The kitchen still needs countertops, sink, floors, and a banister around the stairs to be completed...getting closer! :)

Happy Weekend!

Kitchen is 90% done!

I am a very happy girl after this busy weekend!  Joel did an amazing job (as usual) installing our kitchen cabinets.  We have temporary countertops until we can decide what we want, but we have a functioning dishwasher (best. day. ever.), fridge, and range.  We have the cabinet pulls and will put those on sometime soon, and floors will come in a little bit too.  Getting so much closer to being done, but for now, I am thrilled to finally be living much more normally!

I absolutely LOVE our new range!

Looking from dining room through kitchen

 to back family room.

(the color is not quite as orangy as it looks in the picture!)

Christmas #5 (finally, the finale to Christmases!)

Yay! My new kitchen! Thank goodness it's pretend food

because I have "eaten" so many yummy meals

prepared by Lydia! :)

It only took 5 Christmases for Makayla to figure out

it is fun ripping presents open!

Uncle Dougie and Moira meeting Makayla finally!

Uncle Steve loves her too! ;-)