Fashionably Late Miss Miller

We're still waiting on our newest niece (first for us on the Marchbank side) to be born. Due this past Sunday, she has chosen to make us all hang on every telephone call, every P.A. announcement at school, every twinge for her poor mommy. Time is ticking by so slowly these days that I decided to have a little bit of fun with it. Although I know Lindsay isn't finding much pleasure in the land of the over-due, that doesn't mean the rest of us have to suffer so much. I've been teaching band, social studies and computers for a week and a half now at Callaghan school and every student I teach knows they better buckle down and be quiet if there is an announcement. When the "beep beep beep" noise is heard over the PA, all 15-32 of us (depending on the class) falls into silence waiting to hear the magic words... "Mrs. Craig you have a call on line 4, Mrs. Craig, line 4." Each and every false alarm we let out a collective sigh and "oh man!" and then continue on with whatever task we are on.

On Monday, when all of my band students came to class and asked whether my sister had her baby, I had an idea. I printed off the best of the best pictures of Lindsay in all of her glory and posted them on the whiteboard. I then engaged in something I'm sure is frowned upon in the public school system - I began taking bets. So far there were only two very disappointed students who had placed their bets for Tuesday, and seeing as it is now almost 9:30pm I think there will be quite a few disappointed faces tomorrow. While the grade sevens thought today was a good day for Little Miller's arrival (oh, and by the way they thought Miller was the proud parents' first name of choice for a little girl) the grade eights have a majority vote in for Thursday. Only time will tell, but I can say right now that there will be one large celebration in West Prince when this little lady finally decides to see what this world is all about.





Love you Linz:)

Thinking of my beautiful sister :)

I'm thinking about my sister Lindsay a lot today and have been sending up lots of prayers. She is due to have her baby today, the 16th, but is still very pregnant and waiting patiently. Lindsay and her husband Phil know they are having a little girl and I can't wait to see Isabelle with her new little cousin. I'm sure they will be great friends! Linz is getting more and more uncomfortable, but she has done so well throughout the pregnancy and has remained very positive even up to the due date. Only God knows when the baby will come but we want baby Miller to know that we already love her and can't wait to meet her - whether she comes today, next week, or any day in between! Please pray for a safe, efficient, and soon delivery for my sister and friend :) Love you Linz.

Brent and I were both teaching today which meant Isabelle was at the babysitter's house. She had a great day! She is standing up on her own now and does so more on the days she's around other little ones who are already running around. We are just waiting for the first steps! Brent is busy trying to get report cards ready (can you believe it is already the end of first term?!) so we had a mini marking party here last night. He'll be staying at the school late tonight to finish up. As for me, I was teaching phys ed. today which meant I was comfy all day in my sweats. Woo hoo! It was a great day filled with badminton and soccer baseball. I think the whole family will be pooped tonight!

Here are more pics from our fall!!

Isabelle getting ready for the babysitter's this morning,

wearing the t-shirt she got as a Halloween treat from

Aunt Lindsay and Uncle Phil...

And making her scary Halloween

face - one last time for the season!What a bowl of Halloween treats look like for

family in which there is a toddler,

a diabetic and a chocoholic!

We took Isabelle to the swings yesterday and had to bundle her up in full snowsuit for the first time!

Daddy and Isabelle on the swings...

Weeeee!!! She liked it!

Spaghetti!!

Helping mommy load the dishwasher...

Pony needs a wash.

North Cape windmills

Isabelle and her pinwheel!!

Recent Pictures!

Here are some more pictures - mostly of Isabelle! Enjoy :)


Isabelle and Grammy shopping


Lindsay (preggo!!), Lauren, Isabelle and Mom at our house


Lindsay, Mom and Isabelle

"Where's Jake?"

"Found him!" - Isabelle and Lindsay and Phil's dog Jake

Is a year long enough?

We made this blog when we were pregnant with our daughter, Isabelle Lauren Craig. We haven't written on it all year, but thought it was time. My sister Lindsay is pregnant and due in two weeks time and has been updating her blog daily. She inspired me. I think it's time to continue what we started. So here are some recent pictures of our family!


Halloween night, 2008.


Mommy and Isabelle!

Big Whopper Craig Baby

So I had my second profile today, and they found the baby is growing like a weed. It is now over 6 pounds and we still have 5 weeks to go before we hit 38 weeks. We got some pretty cute pictures though, so I hope you enjoy!

Baby Names Anyone?

After putting me off for the past 6 months or so I have finally bought Brent a baby name book so that he has no excuse. I figure somewhere in the book of 100,001 names is at least one that he likes. I am determined - we are going to find a name! If you have any ideas, please leave us a note... we'll take all the help we can get!

Baby Craig's First Halloween!

Since both of my parents love Halloween so much I decided I wanted to take part too. I dressed up as a Jack-O-Lantern. I mean after all, why should I let not being born yet stop me from having fun? Here is a picture of me with my mom and dad.

- Baby Craig

Halloween with the Craigs

Here at the Craig household we had a great Halloween! We carved pumpkins, decorated, ate candy and had 115 trick-or-treaters. Here are some pictures of our exciting Halloween on Evergreen Drive :)

New Ultrasound Pics - 28 weeks

Decorating Day

Lauren is the creator and manager of this blog. However, she is encouraging me to add my two cents so here it goes my first official blog. Today Lauren and I were both feeling energentic and festive so we decided to try add some spirit to our home and decorate. To be completely honest, cosmetics are Lauren's department and therefore this was the type of project where I try not to say anything and simply do what I am told. Beginning ouside, Lauren and I realized that we are not meant to be living in the city. The revilation came soon after we cut some branches off of a vacant lot to accent the house becasue we began to think that we could probably get in trouble for as in the city everything is someone's. Nonetheless, they sure make things look better.After we finished outside we added some different things to spice up the inside as well. Although this was somewhat of a girly way to spend the day, the house was empty and it was nice for Lauren and I to have the chance to spend some time together doing something not related to school. So that's all I have to say about that but check out our finished project.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving has come and gone and although it was a long weekend, it flew by. Our first stop was PEI where we stayed with Brent's parents for Friday, Saturday, and half of Sunday. It was a busy weekend at the Craig's as the potato harvest is fully underway. Brent spent the day Saturday on the farm and I prepared desserts for the upcoming dinners. Sunday was a long day as it included church, a nice walk through the fall leaves, and Thanksgiving dinner with the Craigs and friends.




Mark and Garth










Brent and Andrew Building Train Tracks

After filling our bellies we settled into the truck to drive to Amherst to celebrate Thanksgiving #2 with Linz, Phil, Jamie, Mom, and the Millers. Monday the Marchbank women took to the kitchen to prepare Thankgiving dinner. Eveything was finished early enough to allow for a nice walk to collect leaves for the center of the table. It was a blessing to be able to see both of our families on the weekend. We were extremely thankful for that!