The Weekend

Josh finished his rotation in Columbus on Friday and drove back to Saginaw to spend the weekend with us before heading to Indiana.  He gave me a little scare when he called me on his way and asked if I wanted the good news or the bad news.  The bad news was that he blew a tire out, which I will take over a car wreck or something like that I was imagining!!  I was kind of bummed that after stopping to get a new set of tires he wouldn't be home til late that night, but luckily he had tricked me into thinking he wasn't as far as he was so I was super surprised when he walked in the door before dinner!  Do you think these guys were a little excited to have their daddy back??

It was great timing for him to be home, there were lots of fun things going on and we packed the weekend full.  On Friday night after dinner we made a run to Culvers for concrete mixers.  Then Saturday morning we took the kids to Lowe's for their kid's workshop. 

It was so cute to watch these two working together

I mostly tried to keep Marissa from wreaking havoc and losing all our nails. 

The finished products, "creeper keeper" boxes.  Hence the scary faces.  The kids loved these boxes!

 We stopped by a birthday party, had lunch, and put Marissa down for a nap.  Then we carved a pumpkin with Shane.  We asked him what he wanted to carve his pumpkin into and of course he wanted to do it into one of his cars, Acer. 

So Josh sketched it out and we carved it and I think it turned out pretty good!

 Then we went to the trunk or treat and chili dinner at the church.  

I was so glad it was this weekend so he could do it with them since he won't be home for Halloween.

Sunday was the primary program at church so Josh got to hear Shane say his part, then he had to leave to make it to Fort Wayne on time to check into the apartment they're putting him up in (hooray for saving some money!)  We were a little worried about if Marissa would warm up to him again right away since it had been almost 3 weeks but that was not an issue at all!  It took about one minute for her to register that her dad was back, then she followed him around like a little puppy all weekend.  I was worried that she would have a meltdown when he left again, but I think it worked out good that he left during church so she didn't realize what was happening.

We had so much fun even if it was really quick.  It has been a little bit of an adjustment again today but I know now that for me it gets a little bit easier as time passes and we will be going out there this weekend.  Oh, and here's a belly shot since I had someone to take it of me.  I barely had anything the last time we saw each other and I think I shot out like 3 inches just this week!  This is me at 19 weeks, the belly is cute now, I am just scared that I will be huge by 40  this time around!!!