Ho Ho Ho

Santa came and spoiled us all! It was a fun filled weekend.......

Christmas eve afternoon we headed to dad and Judie's and had lunch and opened gifts. WOW the three of us got spoiled rotten!!  The eve was spent with my Aunt Carol and Uncle Gail  at their house with a nice dinner. Christmas morning I was up at 7 eagerly waiting for Steve to get up. I was so excited :)
We opened gifts together and drank our peppermint coffee enjoying the last Christmas moring with just the two of us. We then loaded up the car and headed North to Seattle to spend the remaining holiday with Steve's family. Here are the highlights of our busy weekend................

Christmas at Mac and Jan's

 Our nephew Connor opening his Gifts

 Auntie snuggles ahhhhh!

 Christmas in Seattle 2010

Breaking ground 12/20/10

I am so excited to blog about the new addition we are adding to the basement. STRING BEAN'S GOING TO HAVE HER OWN ROOM! Yes that is correct a room of her own. Our friends Brian and Kyle (professional builders) broke ground on the basement yesterday 12/20. We are adding a large nursery with a full bathroom and a second room for my wedding office/storage. The guys got started around 8 am and I couldn't even believe the progress in just 4 hours! OH MY It's really happening!!! So excited!

The framing should be done on Wednesday 12/22 then the wiring will get started and should only take a full day or 2. Insulation will then be added and sheet rockers are scheduled to come early January. Paint then carpet. We figure it will all be ready to go by mid to late January. Here is a photo of before and the first day of framing...................

Before....

Office to the right

String Bean's room

Bathroom

Floor is in

Final day

To be continued........................

28 weeks and counting.......

I can say now I am counting the weeks! Baby is starting to really get noticed in my daily routine. By this I mean starting to slow me down (which I am not good at). For instance I headed to the transfer station, aka dump, just last week and to my surprise I couldn't lift the trash can anymore! WHAT?!? I thought.....you wimp! Well its not me who is the wimp, its the belly! I actually had to ask someone for help!!!

I am now 28 weeks and moved from Dr appts every 4 weeks to every 2 weeks. String Bean is measuring 15 inches give or take a little from head to toe and weights about 2 lbs. I feel good. Still sick almost every morning but I get by with a little bread and a glass of cold club soda. I haven't really gained alot of weight but do feel the effects of what has been put on. Hoping it will all come back off quick as a wink :)  HA!!!

Last week was the gestational diabetes test (I have attached the nasty drink picture below). The day started out very rough. Managed to get in a breakfast then a quick snack at 10am before I had a big wedding show meeting in town. The meeting of course ran over and I missed lunch. Which meant I was going to drink this sugar drink (exactly 1 hr before a blood draw) with nothing in my tummy. HA! Baby is NOT going to like this, I thought. To top it all off, Steve was in the car waiting for me texting my phone"5 min till you have to drink" then "2 min till you have to drink" Then again "its time to drink". I managed to cut the meeting short, chug the orange drink and get to the blood draw/Dr appt on time  WHOO!
So I am sitting on the cold table after getting a blood draw and a shot in my butt for my RH negative blood type waiting for my midwife. In she walks and states very quickly "you failed your test". What???? I thought....oh @!?%&! Serious?!?!

To make a long story short, I then had to schedule a 3 hour blood draw. BOOOOO

7 am Monday morning came and I had been fasting sense 9 pm. Let me just tell you that 14 hours without food or drink (including water) just about killed me! I was beyond irritated and very sick to my stomach along with a grueling headache. To make it all worst I had to drink the orange nasty drink, AGAIN! This time the drink was double the sugar.

I was happy when it all was over and found out my blood sugar is normal.
I will remember to eat right BEFORE I have to test again in the future :) Not a pleasant experience getting poked with a needle 4 times!

The Nasty drink!

25 weeks

28 weeks and counting.....   :)

Deck the Halls.....it's that time of year again

That time of year is here again.....the annual hunt for the "perfect" tree! We headed up Sunday to Leighten's U-cut  tree farm in Mill A  to hike around in 6 inches of snow with our hand saw, 4 layers of clothes and hot cocoa in hand. It was a beautiful day! To our surprise we found our 2010 tree in a matter of minutes!!!

  Happy Holidays :)

Ready.......

 GO!!!!

 Leighten's U-cut tree farm

 String bean's first Christmas tree

 A little Christmas love :)

All decorated......just perfect!

Family Photos and NEW SIGN

Thank you Dujuann and Jim for our BEAUTIFUL sign!!! It's perfect

Thought it was time for some family photos on the property. Just in time for the holidays! Here is a sneak peak

String Beans first clam dig

Just got back from a great trip to Long Beach! We clam dug Friday the minute we got there and again Saturday evening. It was a perfect night, Friday. Got our limit in just under an hour both days. Here are the highlights of our weekend trip...............

 String bean was moving the entire time....I think she liked the fresh air :)

Let the "Mr Needy" begin

We are like still a good 4 + months to go before little string bean will be born and I have a "Mr Needy" on my hands! I am speaking of Tek not Steve. I'm getting the sense that he knows something is going on. Following me all around the house, trying to sleep on our bed and cry's when I leave him at home. I have been told often lately how important it is to prepair our family pet for the new arrival. He has been an only child for the the last 10 years....OH MY this is really going to do some damage! Steve and I have started to play sounds of crying baby's on the computer. He leaves the room LOL. I am assuming he doesn't enjoy these sounds. I talk to him often about the baby but again he doesn't want anything to do with the word "baby". I recently told Steve that we need to purchase a net for the back end of the Tahoe to keep him in the far back. I know this is cruel of me but evey time we arrive somewhere he will jump over anything that is in the backseat. I don't think string bean would appreciate Tek jumping over her! This is definitely going to be interesting.......I will keep you posted!

"Mr Needy"

It's a String Bean!!

It you haven't gotten your announcement yet...tooo bad, I'm not waiting another second to post on here what we are having. IT'S A GIRL      YEAH!!!

We are very excited to know the gender so that the buying can begin. Funny thing is I am not all about the "pink". I love the neutral colors. While we were in Babies R Us, Steve and I really had some tough decisions. He wanted all pink and I refused along with DISNEY CHARACTERS AND WINNIE THE POOH!! His main concern is that people will think she is a boy....well guess what honey....you could wrap that baby in a hot pink blanket with a pink bow in her hair and someone is going to still say "ahhh your boy is so cute"! He will see...just wait! She will however have him wrapped around his little finger :) Hoping that I do too to get up and help feed/change at all hours of the night. We love you daddy Steve  :P

Babies R Us AKA: OVERWHELMING!!!

Saturday morning Steve and I jumped up and head to the Lynnwood Babies R Us. I was so excited. I'm thinking, "yeah this will be easy". HA! I was thinking this because Heidi, Lacey and I already had spent 2 1/2 hours at the Portland store discussing what I should and avoid buying. Steve and I got our register gun and headed for the bedding.  I totally lost my mind and everything I had been educated on (prego brain = department skip). From that department we headed over to the diaper pales. I feel this full body of heat come over me. "OMG why can't it be cooler in here", I thought. We start looking at the wall of diaper genies. I have never thought It would be so hard to pick out a baby poop basket! I start pulling them out of the boxes to get a closer look. I am bent over and this mad rush of new moms hits. I swear the heat continued to rise. "GOD I feel like a stuffed pig", I thought. Lets get out of this department! Meanwhile Steve has the register gun (dangerous!) clicking on some really outrageous colored items. I was getting really nervous and really sweaty.

We headed to the other end towards the bottles and such. So I have to say picking out a breast pump was my favorite part, LOL. Steve was really into it and cracking jokes. Glad he was calm and cool....literally. In the end I was starving, sweaty and HUNGRY! We only ended up with 85 items (the 85 did not include any bedding, car seats, strollers and such (due to us not agreeing) but I couldn't handle another moment in that store! We ended up spending a whooping 3 hours. I guess I know what I will be doing online in the upcoming weeks.   :)

Baby Bean's a star!!

12 weeks

First ultrasound/ heartbeat

17 weeks

 10/12 was the last of the ultrasound pictures. Everything looked good and the heartbeat is strong. Baby bean measures 7-8 inches from toosh to head. At this appointment we discovered the gender. We of course have to be difficult and make you wait for another couple of days!!!

20.5 weeks

Roloff Farms- October 17th

I am sure you have all heard of Little People Big World on TLC. Well... they have a pumpkin farm and I was determined to see the stars! The whole crew was there (except Amy) and I was just about star struck :) My cousin Erin, her son Colton and hubby Eric joined in on the fun. It was a beautiful day to drink cider and enjoy the crisp air.

Matt Roloff

Zach Roloff

Molly Roloff and grandparents with Mueller too!

Property tour ride

We're pregnant!!!!!

July 2nd 2010 was one of the happiest days of my life. The story of how I found out is defiantly worth sharing......

Steve and I had been trying for 6 + months when the whole idea of "baby" was starting to wear on both of us. It seemed like the beginning of every month was so depressing. I spoken to my Dr about the "issue" I felt we were having and she assured me it would happen, to relax and quit buying pregnancy tests so soon. On July 2rd I was officially 7 days late and refused to share the idea that I may be pregnant with my husband. I was really trying to spear the look of disappointment.....again.
On this glorious evening we headed to Walmart for some much needed items. We split up in the store and I headed to the deodorant isle. There on the back wall my eyes locked with the blue box. Clear Blue Easy was now running through my head along with.....could I be? no! well....maybe.... I snatched up a box before I changed my mind and headed for the cashier. From there I moved toward the bathroom and before I knew it I was peeing on a stick in a Walmart bathroom in Rood River Oregon! OMG I thought, this would be quite the story, wouldn't it!?!?! Before I could even pull up my pants, The test was screaming, PREGNANT. I quickly grabed my purse the pee stick and ran out the door with a huge smile on my face. I found my husband and tried to remain calm cause I was not going to tell him I was pregnant in Walmart. It was bad enough I found out there!!
We got in the car and made a stop at the Hood River port to watch the wind surfers for a bit. I reached into my purse and pulled out my pee stick and gently handed it to Steve. He immediately removed his sunglasses for a closer look. He looked at me, looked and the pee stick and again at me."Serious" he said, "serious" I smiled and nodded. He was beaming with joy.

12 weeks

15 weeks

We are so excited to meet our baby bean. Baby is due March 3rd 2011.

17 weeks

20 1/2 weeks

Vacation before baby

In May 2010 we took a quick trip to Maui with cousin Jenny and Andrew Taylor. We had so much fun. It was a good time to get away before the wedding season started. Little did we know a baby would be just around the corner :)

Work before Play

After Steve and I were married, we got the bright idea of turning the ranch into a wedding venue. It was alot of thinking and processing before the decision was finalized by me. In the Fall of 2009 the concrete was poured. No turning back now!!!

June 6th 2010 was our first wedding. We hosted 16 this season and pray for an even bigger year for 2011