A day at the zoo

This past weekend, the entire family here in Kentucky made a trip up to Cincinnati zoo. It was a beautiful day, and we truly enjoyed ourselves.

Some of the animals were being very silly, and showing off a bit for everyone.

Since it is October, and getting close to halloween, the zoo had special activities that they had the animals partaking in. At certain times, each animal had the opportunity to have a pumpkin smashing. Even though we didn't see any of these smashings, we saw the aftermaths of many of them.

Some animals just didn't seem to care that there were people out and about checking things out. They were just as content to go about their normal, daily routine.

We couldn't have asked for a nicer day. The weather was great, and we enjoyed looking at all the animals and just hanging out with each other. It was a great weekend to spend together as a family.

10 weeks down

As we roll into our 10th week of pregnancy, I thought I would post a few belly pictures for all the world to see. Well, not all the world, but a fair amount of the US, since we have family spread across the states.

As far as how I've been feeling. Great! I've had a fair amount of fatigue, but I've been told that not only is that a good thing, but that it will pass here in a few weeks to a month. So with that being said, so far, so good. It's been pretty easy being pregnant, and for that I have been very very thankful.

ETA: 05-07-12

Well, there is a bit of news on the Gressler horizon. We are expecting our first little one in May, May 7th to be exact.

This is what started it all...We were both so excited when this is what we saw. Now that we knew we were expecting, we had to decide when to tell everyone, the exciting news. So we decided that we would wait until we had a few more pictures to share.

Here is the first few pictures of our baby. When these were taken, I was a little over 8 weeks along. The heart beat is strong and steady, and sounded like a little machine gun when we heard it for the first time. Even though it looks like the baby is smiling at us in the last picture, it's really facing towards the bottom of the picture. He or she is looking down, with their body to the left of the picture.

We've decided that we are going to take belly pictures every week to show how the pregnancy is progressing. So here is the first one. I am 9 weeks in this picture, sorry that I look a little rough, I had no idea that I looked that bad. Exciting times for everyone!!

T is for treat...

Well, actually it's for T-bone, at least this time. Mike and I were treated out to dinner earlier this week. We enjoyed some great steaks and great company while we were out. After we had stuffed ourselves, we decided that we would bring home the steak bones for the girls. So after they were cleaned up and bit and rinsed off, they got to enjoy them. At first, they weren't sure what to do with them, since they have never had a steak bone. But once they figured out what they were, they went to town on them.

Yum, yum, good stuff.....

We love our treats!!!

Garage Project take two...

This past weekend, Mike decided that he was going to finish organizing the garage, so that we could park the cars in it, since that is what a garage in for. At least in my opinion...

Here it is after all his hard work. There is still a few things that need to be put away, and out of sight, but that is another project, for another day.

Here's with one of the cars in the garage....

Here's with both of them in there.... I'm so proud of Mike for all his hard work on the garage. It's so nice to be able to park in the garage. It's the simple things sometimes.

Organization is key....

We had a productive weekend this weekend. The heat finally broke a little, so we decided that we needed to clean and organize the garage.

This is our soon to be storage area under our stairs. Since our attic isn't very easy to get into, this will do instead. Mike brought home a door, and once he frames it out, it will be instant storage for whatever is needed.

Here is what the garage looked like when we started. As you can tell everything that wasn't needed right away was just piled in the garage. It was quit difficult to find anything, let along walk through it.

The half way point..

All finished....It's not quite ready for us to park our cars in it, but at least now we can work in the garage, so that we can finish working on our house. It's been along time coming, but it felt good to finally get something done on our house again.

Happy Birthday Mama Rose!!

Last weekend Mike and I decided to make a trip to Fort Wayne to see my mom for her birthday. The kicker is that she didn't know that we were coming. So it was a surprise weekend filled with family time and lots of laughs.

One of my mom's favorite games to play when every one is home us UNO. More times than not, things can get a little personal while playing up here. Even still, we still had to break for cake and ice cream, yet another surprise for mom.

Mike wanted to help get the cake ready for mom...

Here is his handy work....at least it made everyone laugh a little.

Happy birthday mom!! We enjoyed spending your special day with you, and we look forward to spending many more with you!!