Our Newest Feat

Robbie and I brought back several puzzles from Grandma Jean at Christmas time. This was the first one we attempted, and it took us much longer than anticipated to complete it. Our friends Dave and Emily (http://beatleys.blogspot.com/) also just completed a puzzle that racked their brains, I've asked them if we shouldn't do a swap.

John Day Fossil Beds

Here are a few pictures from a day trip we took to the John Day Fossil Beds. The Thomas Condon Paleontology Center (visitor center) is located about 45 minutes from our house, at the Sheep Rock Unit. We took the longest trail offered, The Blue Basin Trail, about a 3 mile loop. The trail overlooks the valley and only changes in elevation by about 600 ft.

Christmas Photos

Uncle Robbie with our Niece and Nephew Olivia and Rowan.


It was defiantly a white Christmas.


Grandpa Bob modeling a Krusty Hat Original.


A star in the making. Olivia shows off her new guitar.


Rowan's my name, and "Da Da's" my game.

Christmas Morning!

25 Weeks

Well here is a shot I took this afternoon with our Skype Cam. As you can clearly see, Plus One is growing and so is my belly.

Robbie and I are still in the process of determining who or how we will have Plus delivered now that we are settled in John Day. While living in Juneau, we were attending the Juneau Family Birth Center and were seen by three wonderful Midwives. I've had it in my mind during the pregnancy to birth outside the hospital setting, if at all possible and we remain a low risk pregnancy.

John Day does have a hospital and one Midwife who performs Home Births. It was time for a check-up so we met with the Midwife, Sherry, last week before heading out to Sandpoint, ID for holiday. She is very knowledgeable and has already confirmed that I/we would be comfortable with her delivering Plus One. Now we just need to do all the responsible stuff, like find out if our insurance will cover the cost of home birth and Sherry's services. The hospital here as one can imagine is pretty tiny and does have Labor and Delivery services available. It is amazing in this town how many people ask where we are going to deliver and as soon as we mention Sherry, they tell us how she birthed their children, or that she birthed them. Can you tell I'm already biased, and practically have my mind set.

Anyways, our last check-up went great, and the baby should be about 1&1/2 pounds now. We heard the heartbeat again, and we were able to hear the swooshing of the blood going in and out of the heart valves. It is amazing to know that all that is going on inside my body. The baby has been much more active the last few days too. I think he/she must be doing somersaults or something and causing quite a bit of commotion.

As we approach the third trimester, I will try to be better about keeping you updated. I'll add pictures, but suspect they will be hard to distinguish my belly size until right before I explode. What you will be able to see grow and stretch is probably my tattoo. Robbie and I wished we had measured it early on in the pregnancy to see how big it will actually get. Any wagers?

I know, we are slacking off!

Just want to let you know we have not forgotten about you or the blog. Hopefully this evening or tomorrow we can give you an update on our move, our new home, and the baby. Please be patient, as we just got our belongings yesterday, and the computer hooked up with internet last night. Look forward to telling you more later.