Welcome Home Justin! 30 weeks!

Justin is home!!! Yay! Justin has finished his tour in Iraq and came home on Friday to Grand Rapids! There was a coming home ceremony at Reslife Church where 300 soldiers came home from an 11 month leave to Iraq. Praise the Lord, every guy who left came home safely. It is such a blessing to have Justin home and Brian will be home soon too, what a great Christmas it will be :) Here are a few pictures from the Ceremony.

Julie and I waiting for Justin to arrive, with our sweet sign :) Not anything special but Justin saw us right away.

Justin and his good friend Josh who he met through the Army, he and him family came over to our house after the ceremony to celebrate!

Here I am at 30 weeks at Rachel's baby shower. She is 2 weeks farther along than I am.

I have not been feeling the greatest, first I have had a cold for the last 6 weeks and now I have started to feel naucious again. Back to crackers and water again for me, not fun:( Hopefully this passes soon, I am really sick of being sick :)

Other news, Ron and I finally bought another vehicle. We have been a one car family for about a month and a half. We sold Ron's trusty Grand Prix in order to purchase a more family friendly car. Last night we bought an '06 GMC Envoy. We love it!! Neither of us have ever had a small SUV before so it was very exciting to finally be able to have one. Now the baby, Kodah Ron and I will able be able to fit in one car with the baby stuff.

Here is what is going on with the baby.

Week 30: Your baby's about 15.7 inches long now, and he weighs almost 3 pounds like a head of cabbage. A pint and a half of amniotic fluid surrounds him, but that volume will decrease as he gets bigger and takes up more room in your uterus. His eyesight continues to develop, though it's not very keen; even after he's born, he'll keep his eyes closed for a good part of the day. When he does open them, he'll respond to changes in light but will have 20/400 vision — which means he can only make out objects a few inches from his face. (Normal adult vision is 20/20.)