Two Babies, Iowa Winters, and Finals

These are all of my reasons for not keeping up on my sweet little blog. It has been a lot more work than anticipated having two little ones. It seems that all I do is feed babies, change diapers, and attempt to get them both asleep at the same time so that I can have a nap - which hardly ever happens. Jack is actaully a really good baby, which has been a wonderful blessing. He is HUGE!! Everyone around here always assumes that he is about 3 months old - now that he is just past a month. Danny is doing a lot better with the baby. He just loves his baby so much that he can hardly stand to leave him alone. I walked into the room the other day and found Danny getting Jack out of the swing and was just about to start carrying him around. We are excited to head down to Arizona this week for our break. We need to thaw out. It is snowing right now, which is always beautiful, but I can only stand so many below zero days. I am forced to stay inside all day for days on end. Yesterday was finally around 30 degrees so we went out as a family and did our grocery shopping. Danny was excited to be able to leave the house and not have to cry while he is trying to breath in the freezeing cold.

HE FINALLY CAME!!!
Well I guess that we waited long enough - 41 weeks and one day. Early Tuesday morning our sweet little boy finally decided to come to our family. Jackson Fielding Rush was born at 12:23 am. He weighed 9 pounds 14 ounces and was 21 inches long. We are glad that everyone is healthy and happy - and mom is especially glad to not be pregnant.

Well we got home a realized that there were not very many good pictures of the baby on our camera. These are the best that I could find so I will add more when we get some from the grandma's.

Still Just Waiting...

For anyone that is wondering about the baby - HE HAS NOT COME YET!!! Yes I am a week overdue and the counter on the top of the page is correct - We will post pictures of him if he ever decides to come.

Charlie's Little Obsession
Charlie got a couple of gun accessories for christmas, which he hasn't put down since. He has begged me to share with everyone a picture of his wonderful gun collection. He is very proud of it.!!! I love him so much.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

We hope that all of our family and friends had a wonderful holiday. We missed all of you that we couldn't spend time with. Even though the weather here was pretty mild, we would have enjoyed an Arizona Christmas. We pretty much just sat around waiting for our sweet little baby boy to come, which still hasn't happened. Here are some pictures of Danny with Santa Clause, which he loved and also of an ice storm we had a few days ago. It pretty much just rains ice and everything get covered with about an inch of ice. It is really dangerous and messy, but beautiful.

WOW ITS BEEN A LONG TIME!!!!

I know that it has been forever since I have posted anything - Almost 6 months. Needless to say we have been very busy so we'll just get everyone caught up-to-date with a briefing of the past month.

At the end of July we had a Feltch ( Anne's Mom's Family) Reunion in Chicago, which was fortunate for us becuase if we couldn't have driven there we probably would not have been able to go. We had a lot of fun getting together with my Mom's sisters and their families. We spent most of our time at my parents house hanging out, playing games, and making Tongan food. One of the days we headed down to downtown Chicago and took a boat tour around the lake and river. It was really fun and interesting. We miss all the family already.

Our little family at Navy Pier
Me and pregnant cousin Karen Matsen

In August, Danny and I went with my family up to Lake Michigan. We rented a little house and sat on the beach for a whole week. It was the perfect vacation. Danny loved to play all over in the sand and get pulled around on the boogie board - mostly only because he always saw the kids playing with it.

About half way through the week Danny started screaming at everyone for everthing. I figured it was becuase he was missing his dad so much. Needless to say my parents were rethinking the idea of inviting us to go on their vacation with them.

Our Weekend With the Eagers (and other friends)

In the middle of September we had the privelegde of having my best friend and her husband come and visit us. Since they were coming into town we gathered up some other long lost friends who live in the area and hung out. We got to go down to Nauvoo (without Danny) and go to the temple. It was so much fun to drive all over with them and hope they can come visit again.

Jeani Jadlot, Me, Lisa Eager, Katherine Mensch

Fun with the Kidney Bean

On top of the world - or at least the Hancock Building

Our New Little Project!

This is a little 67 bug that has been in my family for years. It was passed around the family and I got to drive it during high school. Needless to say it has been through a little rought patch, but Charlie and I have decided to take on the project and rebuild it ourselves. We have moved it over to our house and are slowly going to make it wonderful as money and time permits.

The Pumpkin Patch

Apparently when you want a pumpkin in the Midwest you have to go to the pumpkin patch and pick your own. We took Danny over to one and had fun riding the little carvinal rides, playing games and petting the animals.

ARIZONA!!!

At the end October we got to go to Arizona for a quick little visit. We were suppose to come and spend our Christmas there, but since I am due Dec 31st, we decided that would be a little difficult and impossible. While we were there we got to take part in the annual Rush Family Halloween party and go the state fair. Both were really fun and it was wonderful to see our family and friends.

Danny with our Aunt Pam Spencer - He was really afraid of her.

Yes - that is Charlie standing behind this huge steer!!!

Danny with Uncle Tim

Happy Halloween!! We spent Halloween over at my parents house so that we could be around the kids and take part in their family traditions. We have so much fun. Danny loved to see all the other kids running around and didn't really seem to mind wearing his little dinosaur costume - which made him the cutest little thing ever. He was also really interested in carving the pumpkins - which he kept calling balls.

DANNY"S 1ST BIRTHDAY

7/6/07

Danny had a lot of fun on his birthday. We had a little party over at Grandpa and Grandma Langford's (in Chicago). We could tell that he knew something special was happening. He couldn't stop smiling all day long. He didn't really like the cake - it was probably a little sweet.

We are so glad that he is in our family and love his spirit in our home.

FUN IN ORLANDO

While we were in Florida (see below) we spent a couple of days in Orlando.

We spent one day in Magic Kingdom and one day in Epcot Center.

We had so much fun, and Danny enjoyed having so much to look at.

TRIP TO FLORIDA

6/28/07 - 7/5/07

Anne's cousin's (Heather and Levi Haught) live down in Florida - so it was natural to go down and visit when we found really cheap plane tickets. We had so much fun experiencing the culture of Florida. Thanks for having us!!!

Alligator Wrestler Show

A day at the beach - Danny loved eating the sand!!!

Danny made himself right at home.

RUSH FAMILY VISIT

6/21/07 - 6/28/07

The Rush Family (Charlie's Family) flew out from Arizona to visit us for a week. We had so much fun. It is always good to be able to see family and have some one to visit with. We spent a couple of days down in Nauvoo and Carthage (our temple district) and then a couple in Davenport and one in Chicago. They were so excited to see Danny, but it took him while to warm up. Thank you guys for coming out - we love you so much.

FUN THINGS THIS SUMMER!!!

AIR SHOW

6/2/07

STURGES ON THE RIVER

MOTORCYCLE SHOW
6/15/07

WATER SKI SHOW

6/18/07

SWIMMING IN THE POOL

6/19/07