Happy New Year!

From our house to all of yours, I hope everyone is having a happy and safe New Years eve / day this year. Lauri and I are finally able to sit down and enjoy our new home this evening, so we are very happy about that! Here's a picture that probably only a select few will know the true meaning of, but this IS new years eve for our families (the pots and pans may make an appearance later too - hint hint).

2007 has been quite a year for the Shields families, it was one that we experienced both great joy and great sorrow. In the words of one of the photographers, whose blog I follow, good bye 2007 - hello two thousand and awesome. It's going to be a big year for us with our new addition on the way, and I'm sure there will be many more things to be greatfull for. I can't wait to see what the Lord has in store for us.



Happy New Year, and God Bless!

John

Work in Progress...

So I haven't posted a blog in almost a month now, and I'm sorry to say there won't be a picture posted with this entry either. Lauri, Baby, and I have been pretty busy over the last month. That's what the picture I was going to post would have shown. We've moved into our new house and we're working on settling in now.

Let me tell you, moving is for the professionals... That will be the last time I try to move all of our belongings without hiring a moving company. We owe a HUGE thank you to our family and friends for helping us with the process (Mom and Dad Shields, Mom and Dad Zabor, Jess and Tony, Lindsey and Ryan, Matt and Chrissy, Meghan, and Jim). Especially Matt, for letting us use his trailer and doing so much work with us. If anyone out there needs an irrigation system for their house, get a hold of Matt at Michigan Irrigation , they do good work.

Lauri and the Baby will be taking it easy from now on while I do all the hard work. We had an unexpected trip to the hospital on Saturday night (which is why I didn't have time to get a picture posted yet), thankfully everything checked out ok with both Lauri and the Baby. On the bright side, we did get to take another look at the baby via ultrasound, and wow has it grown (the last time we saw an ultrasound was on Haloween)! We've also done a test run to the hospital for when the baby is ready, hopefully there won't be any police officers out on that night either :) ... Oh and sorry to all my family that was over on Saturday night for both the scare and having to cut the party short... We'll have to do it again some time.

So maybe later today I'll be able to get some pictures posted. I have a shot my Dad took of Lauri and I finally relaxing in our new house after a long move, and one of my brother's dog - Rocky - from when the two of them came over last week to help me with a few things and check out the new house.