Welcome Alice

Soon-to-be parents ready to head for the hospital.

One last pregnant picture.


ALICE JOY ROOSE in born at 2:13 AM!
She weighed 7 lbs 9 oz and was 20.75 in long.


First family photo.

Proud new mom!

Proud new dad!

One happy family! :)


My parent's and brother came up Thursday night and brought Jameson supper. They stayed at our house, awaiting a phone call announcing the birth of their first grandchild. We called them after Alice was born and I'd been stitched up and they came to the hospital soon thereafter.

Alice & Grandma T.

Alice & Grandpa T.

Alice & Uncle Matt


Jenessa came to meet Alice Friday afternoon between class and marching band.
Alice & Aunt Jen


Jameson's parents came Friday evening and stayed through Saturday night.
Alice & Grandma & Grandpa R.


In addition to our family, Andrew, Cindy, and Gayle from our church also came to meet our precious little girl. Their children were not able to come b/c the hosptial was not allowing anyone 15 years or younger visit due to a large H1N1 outbreak in the local schools.

Alice & Mommy (after a night of rest).

Alice & Daddy

Look at those long arms & legs!


Alice had to get her picture taken for hospital records. This is her in her 'picture outfit'.

BIG Yawn!

Alice in her 'going home' outfit (which was way to big!)

Ready to head home with our precious little girl.

Alice ready to go home.

Enjoying the last bit of summer.

With the basement behind us, we spent the last few days celebrating by spending time outside, which we'd done very little of this summer. Tuesday evening we played Tennis with some friends from church. Friday night we went out to supper and played games with Scott & Lia. Saturday we met Loren in Tama and went to the State Fair. It was a long day, but the weather was wonderful and we had a great time!

I start teaching this week. I'm teaching until the baby arrives. Jameson also starts his MBA classes this week. Thus, we probably won't be posting much until the baby arrives- just 7 more weeks!!!

Final Pictures

Monday Jameson stayed home from work and we both worked all day on finishing a variety of things. The electrical and plumbing inspector came to do those final inspections. We had to swap out two breakers for arc fault breakers and turn down how hot the water could get in the shower so it was below 120 degrees. We made those changes and by late afternoon had both of those passed off on. Monday afternoon / evening Kendil, a friend from Cedar Heights Church who does finish work for a living, came and helped us finish up the trim work, put up the stair railing, and make shelves for the bathroom closset. We went to bed with almost everything done!

Tuesday morning I worked at cleaning everything up and sealing the grout. Tuesday late morning, we had the carpet installed. Tuesday afternoon Jameson came home from work early to put up the closset doors, towel bars, and put smoke alarms in the bedrooms upstairs. The electrical inspector told us the final inspector would check to make sure we had all necessary smoke alarms, even though are permit was just for finishing the basement. At 3:30 the final inspector came and 2 minutes later was signed off and heading out the door! He only glanced in the bathroom and didn't seem to look at any details. Needless to say, we didn't need to worry about many of the details we were worried about having done just right for inspection. We were very excited that our work in the basement was done!

Here are some final pictures.









Jameson's sister, Jenessa, and her friend Amanda will be living in our wonderfully finished basement this school year. Amanda moved in late Wednesday morning. Jenessa had marching band all week, so she stayed living in our spare bedroom till she had time to move in over the weekend.

Final Work Weekend! (Friday & Saturday #11)

This weekend both our families came up for the final work weekend. Everyone kept busy and a lot of work got done. My parents and brother came up Thursday night and Friday Jameson and my dad got the ceiling put up in the bathroom. Friday night Jameson's parents, brother Austin, and Jenessa came up. Saturday Jameson's dad worked on putting up trim around doors and windows, Jameson and my dad worked on the banisters for the stairs, Jameson and Jenessa got up the jams in the windows, my dad set the toilet, my mom filled in the nail holes in the trim and repainted.

Monday Jameson stayed home from work again and worked on base trim and other misc. jobs. Monday afternoon a friend from Cedar Heights church came and helped Jameson get the stair railing up, built shelves for the bathroom closet, put up base trim in the rec room, and helped with several other small projects.

Here are some action shots from the weekend.