jackson

well, our son is 10 days old now and i have yet to post about him! i guess when you are already a bad blogger and then you have a baby, you definitely don't get better at it! and the other thing is that we can't find our cord that connects the camera to the computer...hope to find that soon!

but jackson benjamin creasman started making his way into the outside world on his due date, but didn't quite make it on time. after 33 hours of not so fun labor he arrived at 11:39am on the 21st. he weighed in at 8 lbs, 7 oz! we do have these two pictures taken from ben's phone. this will have to tie you over until we find our computer cord. these are just a couple of the many faces of jackson. parenthood sure is hard but we love our little/big guy to pieces! hopefully more to come soon.

new staff picture

you can tell i'm bored (waiting around on baby) when i begin updating our blog weekly instead of every other month or so! anyway, this is the latest picture of our staff team including all the newbies (9 new staff are coming on this year!). we all had dinner together at chicora alley in downtown greenville, a staff team favorite & shared victories and struggles over the last year. it was a lot of fun. our director asked those staff that became christians during college through our ministry to raise their hands and most of our staff fell into that category, which is really cool. we love what we do and we really love our team so we hope you enjoy the pic!
oh, we also got "staff awards" for the year, which were kind of a joke. frances and i (the severely pregnant ones) won the "watermelon smuggling" award. we were so encouraged.

hopefully our last preggo pic!

Ok, here I am at "about to pop weeks" (also know as 39 weeks). Hopefully there will not be a 40 week or 41 week picture, but we will see!

a few nursery pics

Here are a few pictures of little Jackson's nursery. All it needs now is a little Jackson (and curtains, a rug & a few more things on the wall yet to be purchased, but we doubt he'll even notice)! We have 8 days left until the due date, but would love for our little man to come early, but I guess we'll have to wait and see! If I get brave enough, I'll get Ben to take a 39 week picture of me to post on here! I've been at the point the last few weeks where I can't go anywhere without being asked if I'm fixing to pop by somebody!

a great day

I came across this picture from a shower that was thrown for me a little over a month ago. Friends, Colette and Rachel threw a lunch shower for me in downtown Greenville at the park. We ate at the Overlook Grill and it was a beautiful day spent with wonderful friends over lunch! Here's the whole gang!

house pictures

Finally some pictures of our house...you'll have to stay tuned for pictures of the nursery...hopefully after this weekend we will have it finished! I had a Dr.'s appointment this morning (I'm 37 weeks)& she says she'll be surprised if I make it to 40 weeks, which is good news for us since we'll be taking little Jack to the Leadership Project and would like for him to be a few weeks old before we go! But I guess we never know!

Here's the dining room/place to store the stuff we still haven't unpacked yet. Mae asked to be in this picture!


Kitchen of course.


Living room. We have yet to hang any pictures in the house, so the walls look a little bare!




That's it for now...we'll keep you posted on the pregnancy progress!

monthly update

Well, it seems like I am only good at updating this blog monthly, so I guess it's time for another entry! Today is our 3rd anniversary (and Earth Day b/c we are so eco-friendly)! It's hard to believe that 3 years have gone by already. We never went on a "babymoon" like most people do, so we decided to go on a one-night getaway tonight (not too far away since baby Jack is due in less than a month). My qualification for a place to stay was an indoor pool (to relieve some body pains from carrying around this big ol belly) and Ben's qualification was a jacuzzi tub in the room....so Holiday Inn Express in Hendersonville here we come! I joked this morning that probably only rednecks go to the Holiday Inn for their anniversary, but what can I say, we are what we are!
I got really motivated yesterday to take pictures of our house to post on here, when the water guys came and parked a big tractor in the front yard because we have some major leak between the house & the road. So still no pictures & I guess when I do post them, we will have a torn up yard!
I'll try to post more in the weeks to come since our little guy will be arriving soon!
Here's a 35 1/2 weeks preggo pic with my great friend Frances (37-38 weeks preggo). It's been fun to go through this pregnancy together even though this is her 3rd!