We Proudly Announce...

Our little miracle!! We are so excited to finally announce that we are expecting baby #4 November 8th !!!!

We had our first baby appointment today. Everything checks out with mommy and baby.

Baby was measuring spot on: We are 8 weeks pregnant

Baby's heart beat was also good at 165 bpm

Kale and I are overjoyed!

After our baby appointment, he took me to lunch at one of our little spots. 

The waitress was so super cute. We had her take a photo of our date (because I document all of them for memories sake) and I told her about our good news.  After we were done enjoying our meal she brought me this!!!!

At first I was confused. I thought maybe Kale was playing a birthday prank...but then I noticed the blue and pink candles. I was like going to cry or something. What a thoughtful waitress!

It definitely got rid of any sweet tooth I had during our meal!

We love you all. We constantly pray for a healthy growing little Shank. We are so incredibly thankful for this blessing.

~ The Shank Family

Happy #8 Tyler Shank {part 2}

Dad's birthday surprise for Tyler was dinner and an Icemen game as a family! Tyler was super excited.

We hadn't eaten at Red Robin I believe since last year. It was definitely overdue :)

Can you say ICEMEN??

One of our all time favorite things to do is go to the hockey games in Evansville! It's such a treat to get out of the house as a family and see some real fun action. Tyler and Colten LOVE the icemen! Colten is not with us at this time and we sure did miss his reaction to going!

We weren't sure how Morgan would react to the game either. It was one of those nights where we had to decide ahead of time if we would fight her to stay or just go ahead and leave if she got fussy or scared around all the people. Well, needless to say...she is definitely my daughter. SHE LOVED IT!

Morgan was screaming and dancing and talking to everyone! It was so much fun to get our minds off life for a bit and enjoy ourselves.

Tyler really enjoyed this special surprise!

Here is our 2 year olds reaction to the Icemen Hockey Games!

Who knew Morgan was so funny? WE did!!

Happy Birthday Tyler Shank!

~ The Shank Family

Happy #8 Tyler Shank

{January 5, 2014}

HAPPY #8 TYLER SHANK!

We celebrated Tyler's birthday in the same fashion as we did Morgans this year. We decided on a homemade cake by mom and a special birthday surprise. That will be coming up in our next post :)

Tyler has had one heck of a year! He has gotten taller. He has gained weight. He has gotten smarter, wiser and messier too!

Celebrating Tyler's birth was fun. We had no birthday party and no distractions. We focused on JUST Tyler.

We woke up the morning of his birthday and I made him the breakfast he wanted...pancakes with strawberries and whip cream! He was in heaven...

Later that night we made a cake for Tyler. O.K. It's a little cheesy for an 8 year old but I tried :)

We sang to him just like we did with Morgan!

I left the birthday surprise up to Kale this year. He said he would "handle it"

I asked him several times what he was planning. He totally wouldn't tell me. He said in about two weeks we are gonna have some good fun. Stay tuned for the "handled it" post!

~ The Shank Family

509 Ruston {part 4}

After 7 long months...this flip home is finally starting to look like a home. 

Here are some updated photos that I took the last time I visited this home to see its progress.

It's lookin good and we are almost ready for it to hit the market.



These are the photos before we got in and painted:

 

The next set of photos are after we started our two man painting party:

In the middle of us painting...we had the appliances delivered...this was really exciting. Appliances means the house is SO close to being done!!

The sunroom is not yet complete and the walls were wet..but it belonged in this post..

Then...the carpet arrived as well. We were about done with the painting but we made sure that all the rooms that were getting carpet were painted. WITH the exception of the upstairs bedrooms. We still have this funny curved ceiling to deal with in regards to creating a line with paint.

The discoloration is from light coming in the windows

The kitchen was the most difficult to paint. Given our timeline of cabinet install, arrival of appliances, and carpet installation...our project went a little backwards. We should have painted FIRST. But of course not. Our heads were turning with all the small projects and to do lists, we totally got sideways and painted after a lot of things were complete. Everything turned out fine and we love it BUT if there is EVER a flip house #2....we will paint first!

We are looking forward to showing you guys our finished project. This was an interesting one at that. NOT sure there will be a flip house #2 but I will say this:

WE. LEARNED. SO. STINKIN. MUCH!

~ The Shank Family