Quick summary of Life Since October

I'll let the pictures do most of the talking.

 October 15th, 2012. Daddy holding one day-old Gabe 

10/27/12. A visit from Nana and Papa 

10/28/12. Carving pumpkins with friends and we prepare for Halloween!

11/08/12. A visit from Oma and Uncle Jason

 December 2012, Gabe's First Christmas

December 2012. Mom and Gabe snuggles! 

Lots of snow this year. Mine and Lucky's favorite! 

December 2012. Enjoying the Ansbach Christmas market. 

January 1st 2013. He found his thumb! 

1/12/13. GQ. My handsome boy! 

Ready to go play in the snow!

Isaac's "mini me"

Smile! 

:) 

Hurray for the Jumperoo! Though he was a little too short for it and so we used to game box for some needed height. 

I made a cake celebrating time with an saying goodbye to very dear friends. 

Put together a baby shower for Bianca and baby Dominick.

This cake was so much fun to make!

Hanging out with dad in our hotel room the night before Isaac's second knee surgery.

Silly faces with mommy!

Our Superman!

"It's a bird, it's a plane! No, It's Superman!"

"Stop fiend!"

Dressing up for St. Patty's Day. Loving the sweater Aunt Debbie made!

Hanging out...

Finally at 5 months Gabe takes the pacifier. He stopped taking it after 4 weeks old.

Play date with his friend Illi!

 Cheese!

I found my toes!

My little gangster all dresses up for Easter.

Chillin' with the bunny.

Cupcakes I made for Easter

I couldn't resist. I love these pictures!

April 6, 2013. Hanging in Berlin with Uncle Luke and Aunt Hannah! So much fun!

The family in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

Memorial to the murdered Jews in Europe

Bundled up Gabe...it was chilly in Berlin.

Berlin Wall

More snuggles!

6 months old! Gabe really likes his toes...mmmmm :)

His first day eating food! Nom nom nom.

He's not to sure about that....

April 21. Aunt Megan comes out for a visit and meets Gabe for the first time!

Then we head to Salzburg, Austria

 Aunt Megan in Salzburg

We pass castle on our way to Trieste, Italy.

Our view from the small house we stayed in, in Trieste, Italy.

Gabe and Mom hanging out on the Beach while Dad skips stones.

Aunt Megan

Aunt Megan

Aunt Megan

"Aunt Megan! Watch out for the Orca!!!!!"

A family photo....That sun was really bright.

Isaac really liked that wall.... Outside the apartment in Trieste.

Gabriel!

We had a few drinks during our stay...

Gabe playing in the sheets

I love my family!

A day trip to Slovenia!(about 30 minutes from Trieste)

"Go horsey!"

And a day trip to Venice, Italy.(About 2 hours from Trieste)

Gondola!

Our train ride back from Venice :)

Gabe was the star of the show in our train car! So many people just wanted to hug and squeeze him :)

Pictures are out of order....but here is more Venice. This is Isaac(pushing Gabe) and Aunt Megan walking through St Marco Square.

Gondola, Gondola, Gondola, Gondola....

Cool Gabe, hanging outside the Hard Rock Cafe in Venice.

Megan's last day in Germany so we did a girls trip to Nuremberg!

And got some beer. Mmmmm :)

A little Shopping

Took seeester pictures!

Yay! Ice cream!

May 1st, Gabe trying on Dad's Army hat. 

May3rd. Our last German Fest :(

Gabe's first Festival in Germany

This server at the fest thought Gabe was just too cute and wanted to give him Fest Hugs! <3

After a beer...or two ;)

Friends

Good times :)

After much preparations, very long and stressful travel days we made it to El Paso Texas in May.

 Gabe, 7 months old. Relaxing in our hotel room in El Paso.

Driving around in his Jeep right after it was delivered to us in our home in El Paso.

To Be continued...

Waaaaaaaaaaay behind.

Time to get back on the ball and start posting again.

But I don't wanna!

His arrival

Well, I fell behind on posting again.

It is now February 1st and my last post was in August....that's a lot of catching up to do, but thankfully I have pictures!

Here I am, September 25, two weeks away from my due date(October 8th) and giving baby his eviction notice. ;)

Gabriel ignored that notice and held on for another 6 days after his due date before we were finally induced.
Within that time I slept, as much as I possibly could and tried to hide from everyone.

On October 13th I check into the hospital to see if their eviction notice was more effective. 
The contractions started at 4am the next morning and he arrived at 1:08pm that afternoon.
We were blessed with a smooth and healthy delivery and I couldn't have pushed through without my amazing husband by my side the entire time.

More cake please :)

It's been a while since I have blogged. Again....oops :)

I am now 34 weeks along and the humidity here is killing me! I look like I just had a bucket dumped over me most days. lol!

Here is a belly picture at 32 weeks and I will be updating the blog soon with a new belly picture(I think he has dropped a little).

We also have just about everything we need for the baby and his room and I will be hanging up the pictures and such as the last touch. I can't wait for it to be done but I keep wanting to rearrange the room...slowing down our progress. Oh well!

I was asked by a friend to make a Hello Kitty cake for her daughter and she specifically asked for fondant. I love love love using fondant but it is also so very temper mental! 

I had more fun making that cake than any other cake I've made since I was working in a bakery over 4 years ago.

Other then that things have been quiet here but my creative juices are flowing and I feel a few projects coming on in the next few days!

Projects...

These are a few things I have done over the past few months.

Baby shower cupcakes (for a boy).

Baby shower cake (for a girl :)

A t-shirt I love but never ever wear...that went from this...

To this...

Made with just these

And this

And this!

The t-shirt bag I found how to make from this youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6yDxK68OZc

Pizza or cheese?

Saturday Isaac and I were doing some grocery shopping and were talking about dinner. He wanted something very very cheesy and I wanted pizza.

We decided on, and created this monstrosity!

CHEESE!!

It was a simple 30 minute ordeal with a can of Pillsbury pizza dough, about a cup (maybe a cup and a half) of ricotta cheese mixed with WAY TOO much shredded mozzarella, Parmesan an egg and herb seasonings. Oh, and some four cheese pasta sauce to remind us that we were making a pizza. We baked it and then put more mozzarella on top and baked it some more. 

Holy shmoly! 

It was incredibly cheesy delicious but next time(if we ever dare again) we're going to broil it so the cheesy goodness gets a nice little crunch on top. 

Talk about a weekend splurge!

Catching up

So it has been an unreasonably long time since my last post! I hit my second trimester and just went nuts with all the energy I HAD. 

With doctor appointments for myself and Isaac and summer starting up, school and so many other things, blogging was placed on the back burner. Well, NO MORE.

I'm currently in my 28th week of pregnancy and definitely slowing down because of lack of energy and I just can't be doing as much as I had done a few weeks ago. It's a little hard to handle but a healthy mama and baby are absolutely worth it. :)

I have avoided the baby bump pictures for as long as possible and the requests kept coming. Guilt finally overcame me and I know that one day I would like to look back and say "That was when I was pregnant with Gabriel!", so I took a quick photo this morning for all to see!

I will try to get a better photo with Isaac as well. That will definitely be a keeper.

The discomforts of the third trimester are setting in, but that's all they are...discomfort. My lower back has been aching something fierce and my feet are beginning to swell now and then and achy hips and difficulty bending over have become a constant. On those bad days I make my way to the pool and savor each moment of blissful "water therapy".

Through all of this, I'm so incredibly grateful for mine and baby Gabriel's health!

Lucky is doing great and is so spoiled with all the play time with "daddy".

He has been very attentive to him, seeing my discomfort and helping out with walking Lucky also taking him out and playing fetch until he drops. A tired dog is a very very good dog!

What a fantastic husband I have!!

Isaac has managed to still work out almost every day, pushing through his knee pain and general discomfort. He is going to have surgery to remove the torn miniscus and is working on scheduling a date. He also is continuing with his school classes/pre reqs for the nursing program so he's been very busy these past months.

We've been rearranging our home for our future addition and I think I may have hit the nesting phase because I can't seem to stop finding something to deep clean or completely reorganize and even throw away. 

Isaac and I after sunset paddling :)

With all that we are all happy healthy and continually blessed by God.