Family Time

Isn't he SO handsome! : )
I can't believe how BIG he looks . . . so grown up.








And here is Kinsey (left) and her cousin Blake (right). This is my sister Courtney's youngest, born June 5th. There is 5 months between them and their size difference is rather obvious right now! Blake is a pretty big boy and SO smiley : )

Happy Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving twice today. Lunch at my mom's sister Donna's house and then supper at my dad's sister Connie's house. Jackson had fun playing with both Tate Wagner (at Donna's) and Ellie Young (at Connie's). You can see from the picture that he and Ellie had a GREAT time "cooking"! Nice apron, huh?



Jackson wanted to "hold" Kinsey the other night. He is so sweet with her!





And here is Kinsey in her Thanksgiving outfit from Grammy. Pretty cute!

Hope you had a GREAT Thanksgiving!

Life with 2 . . . .

We were down in TH at my parent's for a few days (hunting season). Here are a couple pictures . . .

Jackson was helping me get Kinsey ready for bed last night. He wanted to help put on the lotion : )

Selling Our House . . .

Say a little prayer for us as we are still trying to sell our house here in Rochester. We have a realtor friend in the church that we were going to list our house with at about this point in the process, if it had not sold. But she told us that we would be just as well off to continue trying to sell it ourselves with her help because of the slow housing market. So that is what we are going to do, but we are starting to feel a little nervous timing wise. Or when I say "we", I mean ME! So if you could just say a prayer that we would let go and let God take care of the timing and such, we would appreciate it!

Kinsey Update

Just a quick update on how we are doing . . . . We got home on Thursday around 1:30 pm. Jackson was anxious to see us and actually wanted to hold Kinsey. He has been really sweet with her, which we are thankful for. Kinsey has been nursing well and sleeping good. She actually slept last night from 11:30-4:30 am and then 5-8:30 am, when I woke her up to eat! I didn't sleep so well because I was up checking on her several times to be sure she was ok and breathing : ) Of course, if by some miracle she does that again tonight I will definitely SLEEP! Here are a few new pictures. We will be down in TH from Wednesday night to Saturday afternoon. So if you are down that way and want to come by, just call my parents and we would love to share Kinsey with you!

Going Home . . .

We will be heading home sometime this morning before lunch. We had a little more restful night last night and are ready to be back home in our own beds.

Here are a few more pictures from yesterday . . . .







On Wednesday, Jackson was a little more interested in actually holding his baby sister. He even wanted to share his sippy cup of juice with her. Grammy helped him to hold her at first and then he wanted to climb on the bed and hold her too. You might also notice, he is wearing his "I'm the Big Brother" shirt that my mom got for him.



Grammy brought Jackson Wednesday morning to visit. They stopped for McDonald's on the way, so the best picture we could get of the 4 of us also included a chicken nugget : )

More Pictures

I couldn't resist trying on this little bow headband last night : ) It is going to be way too much fun dressing her up!!

We had an ok night. . . all the hospital noises, interruptions, etc. make for interesting sleeping! But we did send Kinsey with the nurses for a couple hours just to try to rest and then she slept well after her 2 am feeding and we were able to rest a little more.




This is a picture of Kinsey with a very special friend of ours, Brenda Butcher. She is a labor and delivery nurse here at St. John's and involved in the Creative Arts Ministry at RCC. When Jackson was born, she was on duty and took care of us ALL day (and night). And this time, she let us pull her out of bed and come in on her day off to once again help us every step of the way. We feel SO blessed to have her there for both our kid's deliveries. Thanks Brenda!!

Kinsey Grace

Kinsey Grace Jarrett
Born November 6, 2007
at 9:55 AM
8 lbs., 20 1/2 inches

















Big Brother Jackson came to visit with Grammy and Papa right after lunch. He got to see her getting her 1st bath (as seen here).

Everyone is well! Labor was shorter this time . . . HOORAY! My water broke around 1:45 am, we were admitted around 3 am, and then started pushing at 9:35 am. We feel so blessed that everything went so well once again. We were able to have another natural labor and Kinsey is already doing well nursing. More to come later!

We're at the hospital!

Dave here!

Kristin's water broke at 1:45, so we're laboring! Look for more information to come soon! Keep us in your prayers.

No Baby Yet!

Well, there really is nothing to report. But I felt that I should report that there is nothing new to report : ) We are anxiously awaiting Kinsey's arrival. Of course, I wanted her to wait until after the last weekend in October, but I didn't mean she had to wait this long! I have EVERYTHING ready, so I started packing boxes today for moving because I'm running out of busy work to keep my mind off of it. I also went to the grocery store today and stocked up on a few more things. I have pretty much been nesting for the past 3-4 weeks, so I really have EVERYTHING done!

We did have an open house yesterday, but only two people stopped in and neither was actually looking for themselves. So we'll try it again next Sunday and see if we have any better luck. We have had two other people call this past week and set up a time to come see it. But nobody overly interested yet!

So we figure everything will all happen at once!! : ) God has directed us in this whirlwind journey so far and we trust that he will continue to be faithful.

Halloween Pictures

Here is Jackson sporting his Zebra costume . . . along with Princess Claire and Frog Prince Blake : )





And then here he is with Levi Price on Halloween night at the church.

38 Weeks

I had a dr. appointment on Wednesday morning. She did the exam and said that I was already dilated to 2 cm and 60-70% effaced. And her guess is that Kinsey is already around 8 lbs. (FYI: she was within 2 oz. on guessing Jackson's weight--so she is pretty good). I don't want to have a 10 lb. baby, so we are VERY anxious for her arrival! I did have some contractions last night, but then they slowed down and stopped before I went to bed. And we have had a few more signs of things today, so my body is getting ready for her to come but she is NOT here yet!!! So hopefully we will have something to report over the weekend at some point . . . the sooner the better! : )