Believe it or not, I'm five months along! There's definitely a belly there, even though it's nothing super huge. The baby is moving around a lot, which I like because I know things must be going well in there. I'm still feeling good,so we're just coasting through this nice time.
Not so nice, of course, is the basement-cleaning project that we need to start as we start to prepare the second bedroom to become the nursery.
We had the Reinharts and Nannestad's over for a Labor Day cookout, and here's the crew that ended up playing Ladder Golf after lunch. Click the photo to see more pictures from the cookout.
We went on a 10-day trek to (and through) the Midwest in August. We visited Niagara Falls, Kurt & Cecilia in Ann Arbor, Leta & Tom & Joe in Madison, Erin & Dave in Wisconsin Rapids, and Mom & Dad in Rice Lake.
Click on the photo to see more of our trip!
I promised my parents a picture of J in his new waders and boots they got him for his birthday, so here he is in his new fishing gear! He went fishing with a colleague on Tuesday and had a good time. Neither one of them caught any fish, but J was happy to report that the waders work GREAT!
It's J's Birthday! Here's a birthday song while he was starting to play with his new GPS.
My co-worker took this of me on Friday, when I was dressed for the task of re-loading the library (we got about half way through the job). You can see that many improvements had occurred even before Friday's work...there's my new ceiling and lights, a clean carpet, NO MORE TUBES!, and most of the garbage has been removed. Once we finish unpacking tomorrow, there's the job of re-ordering and processing the 2500 books that were damaged. I'll just have to keep remembering this picture.
(Click on the picture to see others...choose the tag "Library" to see only the library photos.)
They've been drying us out using these tubes that blow dry air through the place. They work well. However, they're also about 24 inches in diameter, and they go throughout the room and doorways into the hall, which means we all have to walk around bent at the waist in the flooded section of the school. It's so dry that it makes your throat hurt. Which is better than wet, I know. But talk about extremes.
We had a fantastic time on our trip. Click the photo to see more. (Unfortunately there was some dust on our lens so we'll have to "fix up" the sky in some of the photos)
I finished my new recess hat just in time for spring! I can probably wear it today, though, as it's pretty cool around here.
We've gotten on the dutch-oven baked bread wagon and boy does it taste good! Much better than what we can buy at our local stores (bakeries excluded). And it's so easy! We've been using the updated recipe from Cook's Illustrated. I think J would like a fresh loaf every day. We didn't buy the fancy $200 dutch oven, we went with the $40 one they recommend here.
