So much has happened since May 3rd, I don't hardly know where to begin!


(Eric makes this expression all the time, lol.)

We came home on the 4th, people brought food every night, the Mooney girls had cleaned my house and came back the next day to get the downstairs apartment ready for my mom...


(Daddy and Eric couch time!)


(Jake making faces)


(I think Eric's bored! )

The days are filled with diapers, onesies, nursing, cleaning up messes...


(The Mooney women (Mom, Hannah, Jenny, and Melissa) made us a special dinner on Tuesday night. Roast with veggies, rolls, sparkling apple-grape cider, and fruit salad!)


(A family of three - home at last!)

There's a lot of things they don't tell you about babies... or maybe they tell you, but you just don't understand what it means until it happens to you. Like the fact that once a baby comes into your life, you rarely get any "me" time. Or, the nights where you jump at every little noise your baby makes thinking he's either going to cry or choke or stop breathing...


(Playtime on Daddy's tummy!)

I guess the hardest part was feeding him. Not knowing if he was getting enough, trying to keep a schedule so he would sleep at night, having to wake up every 2 hours and go through the laborious task of trying to get him to eat, and then trying to get him to burp so he wouldn't cry, then changing his diaper at the RIGHT time so he wouldn't poop or pee JUST when you get the clean diaper on him...


(He almost gets lost in all his blankets! )

Yes, those first few days were difficult. Its not easy having a little life hanging on the choices you make. But there's other things Mom's WILL tell you... how you just want to spend a few extra minutes holding your baby cuz you can't hardly bear to stop looking at them, touching them, or smelling their new-baby smell. Or how your heart wants to burst with pride every time somebody stops to "ooh" and "ahh" and "coo" at your child. Your whole life revolves around the little one at first... but soon, things start to regulate and you find that you suddenly have time to do dishes while the baby sleeps - and you don't have to use that time to grab a much-needed nap.


(Daddy and Eric resting comfortably. Aren't they both so cute???? )

My mom got here at the perfect time. The first few days I had NO clue what I was doing, but I was doing my best. Eric wasn't really fussy, but I was getting up every two hours so he could eat... so we were exhausted by the third day. My mom stepped in and got up with me every time the first night she was here. But now, things are on a pretty good schedule, and last night we only had to get up once in the night to feed him!


(BIG yawn!)


(So small... )

So, things are good and Eric is just precious. We've gone shopping, gone to the Irrigation Festival parade, and the church on Sunday. Eric loves car rides.


(Wrapping him up "burrito" style!)


(In his carseat, enjoying the view)


(The Eric Mooney trademark pose. )


(My little angel baby.)

Sorry our blog has kind of died out, but thought I'd update here for those of you who do still kind of haunt xanga.

That's all folks!
Jake, @mber, and Eric!

Promotional video for the Sequim Wolves we worked on last year. We're planning on filming all the games this year.

You can watch it on Youtube in high quality as well, but that takes a minute or two more to load

Hey hey hey! So, Jake and I are about to head down to California, but we had stuff to report. WE GOT SNOW!!! We woke up Sunday morning to a winter wonderland, so Jake had to take me out in it! I was like... "Wait, what do I do? What do I wear? Isn't it cold???" So after careful instructions as to how many layers (I think I ended up with something like four!) to put on, we stepped outside! We got about 3 inches on Sunday, and then Wednesday night, it began snowing again, and when we woke up yesterday, the snow was 6 inches thick!















We didn't have long since we had to go to church, so we got in the big truck and took off after about half an hour of playing in the snow. I didn't want to mess it up though... it was too pretty!





We got to church to do our bus route, only to find there was only ONE person we had to pick up! Ah well. But we went to the Mooney House afterwards!



Just Melissa was there at first, so I was surprised when Jake called me outside. Grinning like a little boy with a Christmas present he wants to show you... he displayed a sled he'd dug out of the garage! He hooked it up to the Mooney's lawn mower tractor and turned it into a sleigh!

Jake's new truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

....Jake speaking here.... Bought this truck about a month ago for a very good price. The truck needed some engine work, and the guy had a new truck and didn't want to bother with this one. So a friend of a friend said he'd do the work for half of what a repair shop would cost. He ended up replacing quite a bit of little stuff, timing belt, head gasket, fuel pump and filter, muffler, and much more, for a very reasonable price. All in all, I got the truck for a good deal! Praise the Lord, because Amber and I have been looking/praying for a 4 wheel drive that would be more versatile and dependable than my little truck (which I sold to my brother Luke for when he is old enough to drive in one year). Also, it has an extended cab!!

I already had the tool box and lumber rack. Brian Savage had bought a very similar truck a couple months ago, and we both wanted a nice new black bedliner (a layer of impact and slip resistant material that sticks to the sides and floor of the bed to make it last longer and look nicer). So, the last few days we've had off of work, so he came over, we pulled our trucks into my garage, bought the bedliner kits from Fall-a-part (I mean 'Wal-mart' ) and went to town! It was quite fun, working on our trucks!

I went ahead and applied the bedliner material on my lumber rack and on my toolbox to make them last longer and look better

This is Amber's custom made shoe shelf that Jake made this week That area between the front door and the staircase is sure awkward for any regular bin or box because of the multiple angles, so Jake had to build one 'custom' Used particle board for the body, painted it, and then added leftover laminate wood flooring for the shelves, and added and stained trim for each shelf. It fits perfectly in that corner, and keeps the shoes and boots organized!