31 weeks!

We had an appointment last week before Christmas and everything looks good! Our Doctor was out of the office, so we met with a nurse practioner. As usual, the baby's heartbeat sounds good and my belly measures how it should! The nurse practioner was able to feel my belly and decipher that the baby is in the correct position and it will probably stay that way until it is born. She said the head was down...I asked her what was on my right side, because that is where I keep getting kicked and poked, she said that was the knees and feet. Since the last appointment I have been having to keep record of the baby's movements. After looking at the chart, I believe the nurse was impressed with how active the baby is. And let me tell you, it is active...

For our Christmas present to each other, Curt and I purchased a "fancy" camera. We figured this would be a great investment with a baby on its way. Hope everyone's Christmas was good!

Monthly Appointment

We had our monthly appointment yesterday. We will be 29 weeks along tomorrow! At our last check-up in November I was told to go have the glucose tolerance test done and get my rhogam shot. So last week I went and had those done. The glucose test is a standard test to check for gestational diabetes. You are not suppose to eat for 12 hours before the test, so I went to the hospital in the morning before breakfast. Then you are given some extremely bitter lemon-lime liquid and are told to drink it within 5 minutes. After you finish the drink you are to sit there for 1 hour. I am so thankful for such a supporting husband...Curt came and sat with me and we starved together. At the end of the hour they take a blood sample to see how your body reacted to the glucose. After that process was done, I needed to get the rhogam shot because of the Rh factor.

At the doctor's appointment, they also listened to the baby's heartbeat (which they said sounds good and strong) and measured my belly. It measured at 28.5 which means 28.5 weeks...so we are right on! I am also to keep record of the baby's movements from now until the baby is born.

Last night we also attended our Pre-Admit Registration class at the hospital where the baby will be delivered. At the class we filled out some of the paperwork so when the time comes to have the baby we won't be stuck out in the lobby trying to fill out papers. The instructor also told us of the different screenings and tests they will do as soon as the baby is born...gave us an idea of how our room will look...and a bunch of other information!

We are getting pretty excited and can't wait for the little one to arrive! From now until the first of February we start seeing the doctor twice a month...so I should be able to report more often.

Baby's Room

With 4 months to go, Curt and I have been starting to work on the baby's room. Now that it is painted we can start to fill it!

Baby Barnett: 19 weeks and 6 days!

Today we went for our mid-pregnancy ultrasound. It was a more in-depth ultrasound then what we have had done at our other appointments. At this appointment, they measured the baby's legs, belly, and head. This helps to give them a closer idea of a due date as well as how big the baby is. They said we are now due February 27th, so just 1 day sooner than we thought! Baby Barnett also weighs 13 ounces. This appointment was really exciting because we were able to see a lot more detail and see how our baby is growing! They also measured the heartbeat per minute, it is currently beating 153, which is good! Even though I haven't felt too much yet from the baby, I do feel a few little flutters every once awhile, but from watching the baby on the ultrasound, it is moving quite a bit! But we also found out our baby likes to be curled up...you will see this in the ultrasound picture below. Our baby even yawned for us! It was pretty cool, because we could see it opening and closing its mouth as well as moving its arms and legs! Although they probably could have told us the gender of the baby today, we have decided to keep it a surprise to us!

In this picture, the baby has their feet over their head. You can see their eye in this picture.

This picture shows the baby's legs. The white looking sticks are the bones. The ultrasound technician said the baby was crossing its feet.

Meet Baby Barnett! Here is the baby's profile!

This last picture is of the baby's foot. It is in the right upper corner, and it looks like a little foot! We think it has Laramie's toes...the second one looks a little longer than the big toe...haha.

Double D Hitching

A couple of weeks ago, Curt, my mom, and I headed to Mattawa, Washington for Katie Detering and Chip Dobson's wedding. Katie was my roommate my freshman year in the dorms at Washington State University and then was also my roommate my sophomore year in an apartment.

We all knew that one day those two would get married, it was fate. The have known each other since they were just little tikes. When we were in college our freshman year, Chip was going to school 2 hours away, but him and another friend would drive to Pullman in the middle of the night just to come say hi (I guess), after scaring me half to death, they would go home after a few minutes, but luckily they brought flowers for waking us. I remember thinking this boy is sure crazy over this girl...and we would joke with Katie that her and Chip would get married some day and should would tell us over and over that nope that was never happening. Except, they had an agreement that if they were both a certain age and not married they would marry each other...looks like they reached that age earlier and for better reasons!

The wedding was really pretty and fun, but it was hot! It was close to 106 degrees at 6 o'clock at night! The poor groom wore jeans, a long-sleeved shirt, and a black suede jacket...luckily he had a handkerchief to wipe his brow every couple of minutes. And Katie had a beautiful dress and if you know her and her personality the dress was "Katie."

It was great to see some of my college friends who I hadn't seen in several months, I sure do miss them!

It was also fun because the couple who photographed Curt and I's wedding drove to Mattawa to photograph Katie and Chip's wedding.

Those pictures are also coming soon!

Visit from Colleen and Amy

A little over a week ago, Curt's Mom and Sister traveled to Redmond for the weekend. It was a very relaxing weekend...we joked with them that we were going to have them help us rip up our carpet (which we want to replace), because when they were here right after Christmas we decided we were going to demolish our kitchen and start that project that you can see in the pictures from one of our earlier blogs.

I think if we weren't joking they would have been all for tearing out carpet, but we aren't quite ready to take on that project (hopefully soon though).

While Colleen and Amy were here we did a short hike to Steelhead Falls, just outside of Terrebone (North of Redmond). It was a beautiful sight!

Pictures will come as soon I upload them from my camera.

Cheerleading Season Has Begun

As some of you may know, Laramie is the JV Cheerleading Coach at Redmond High School. I thoroughly enjoy being a coach and watching the girls learn from the things I have taught them. This is my second year as a coach. I have a great group of girls this year who are quick learners and eager to improve and will do pretty much anything to get better...(I said pretty much).

The week before last was the start of daily doubles, meaning we practice twice a day for two weeks. September 11th is our first game and I can't wait to see how the girls perform.

Our cheer seasons ends in February and I informed the girls of Curt and I's news (Baby Barnett) which we are due at the end of February, I told them that if everything goes good I will be there until the end of their season...so hopefully that will be the case!

Baby Barnett

Sorry we haven't added an update in a month, but we are here now. A couple of weeks ago Curt and I headed to the Doctor for another monthly checkup. Not sure as to what this appointment would hold, we were pleasantly surprised that we were going to hear the Baby's heartbeat that day.

It was awesome to hear the heartbeat. Our Doctor said it was a strong heartbeat and the baby had grown quite a bit since our last appointment. We couldn't believe how fast it was beating. We were hoping to have an ultrasound to see how big the baby had grown, but we didn't have one that day, we will at our 16 week mark in a couple of weeks.

New Addition!

Well, we are going to be adding another addition to our family and this time it's not of the four-legged variety! We are very excited and can't wait until the end of February or early March when Baby Barnett will be here!

We are only 9 weeks along, but the baby is starting to look like an actual baby! If you can see in the ultrasound, the baby's head is on the right and it's body is on the left. The doctor told us the baby was covering its face with its arm and hand...looks like it is going to get Laramie's shyness!

Curt and I are still in discussion if we are going to find out the gender of the baby early...Curt wants to find out early and I want to wait and let it be a surprise! So we will see, we will post an update when a decision has been made.

First Anniversary Trip: Mariners vs. Red Sox

The traditional gift for the first anniversary is "paper." So, we gave ourselves tickets to the Seattle Mariners vs. Boston Red Sox's game. This was my first professional baseball game and I thoroughly enjoyed it! We had a great time.

(This player for the Red Soxs is from Madras, it was fun to see a professional from close to home)

(Ichiro)

Weissenfels' Family Reunion

The weekend after the 4th of July, Curt, Echo and I headed to Anatone, Washington for Curt's Mother's side family reunion. It is about 7 hours from Redmond. Curt's Grandparent's own 40 wooded acres outside of Anatone. Curt and I, as well as his Mom, Sister, Uncles, Aunts, and Cousins, camped at "The 40" (as it is referred to). We had a great time and it was beautiful there. The weather couldn't be more perfect either. While there we celebrated one of Curt's Aunt's Birthdays, his Mom's Birthday, as well as his 28th Birthday! We had a great time at the reunion also, except toward the end of the reunion one of Curt's cousins fell of a swing and broke her arm, what a way to end a fun weekend. We thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with Curt's family as well as looking at old pictures. Even though Daisy didn't make the trip up with us (she stayed with my grandparents and mom to get spoiled), Echo had a great time and there were 8 other dogs there for her to play with!

Cultus Lake Resort

This past weekend, Curt and I loaded up the truck with some of our camping gear and the dogs and headed to Cultus Lake Resort (West of Sunriver). We met some of our friends and we stayed in a cabin on the lake. It was very hot and the mosquitos were horrible! Luckily one of our friends had her boat so we could go out on the water to cool off and get away from the mosquitos. The dogs loved the water....they jumped off of the dock several times to retrieve their toy or to just jump in and cool off.

Swimming

Once the pool was filled and the water warmed up a bit the dogs couldn't wait to go swimming. Echo is definitely a water dog! Usually we throw a toy into the water to entice the dogs into the water...but Echo doesn't need a toy to jump in, she loves it!

Daisy debating whether to jump in or not.

Daisy and Echo.

Echo got the toy!

Trip to the Beach

A couple of weekends ago we drove to Lincoln City for the weekend. Curt's mom and sister met us there for a 3 day weekend. We took Daisy and Echo with us and they had the time of their lives running on the sand and in the water. Echo didn't quite know what to think of the water coming after her when she ran to it.

Here is another cute picture we have of the girls....sisterly love. This was taken while on a trip to visit Curt's mom and sister.

Memorial Day Weekend

We came back from a long Memorial Day weekend a few days ago. Curt, myself, Daisy, and Echo headed up North to Fort Flagler, Washington. Fort Flagler is located across the water from Port Townsend, it is up in the Puget Sound area. We camped with some of Curt's friends and really enjoyed their company. We had AWESOME weather...it was mid 70's Saturday and Sunday, but on Monday we woke to pouring down rain and we had to pick up camp in it. Being that our campsite was located right next to the ocean, it was fun to be able to walk on the beach with the dogs and they could run in the water....they had a really fun time!

Welcome!

With so many things taking place in our lives, we figured this would be a good way to keep everyone updated! Bear with us, we will try and keep it updated as much as we can!

Now, to bring you up to speed with our life. We recently added a new addition of the four-legged variety to our family. Her name is Echo, she is a golden retriever. We have another golden, Daisy, who adores Echo and Echo adores her! They love to play with each other and run around in the backyard.

Now that the weather has warmed up a little, we have been busy getting our yard back in shape. Going on 3 years of owning our house, the yard gets better looking every year! It seems as if we are always working on a new project at the house, but I guess that is what happens when you buy and older home that needs some updating! Luckily, we enjoy fixing up our house and we can do most of it ourselves. Being the handy man that Curt is, he has taught me a wide array of skills such as electrical, drywalling, building of a fence, and many more.

This fall / winter we have been busy working on the inside of our house. We first knocked out a wall that sat between our living room and kitchen. It now gives it a very open feel, and you can now have a conversation with someone sitting in the living room or watch TV while cooking. We also, updated our current cabinets, removed the green and gold specked formica countertops and added new quartz counters. In the kitchen we also removed the sofets about the cabinets and added new pendants lights. Being that our house was built in 1971, it had the wonderful "popcorn" ceiling texture. It no longer has that! After a long couple of days of scraping, we were happy to see it gone! We hired a contractor to retexture the ceiling and it looks great! We also added crown moulding throughout the main living space. And with a fresh coat of paint, the house looks good! Now we are working to save money for new floors and recessed lighting! After that the last "big" project in the house will be updating the bathroom.

BEFORE

MIDDLE

(End picture is coming!)

Curt has been busy with the startup of his new business. Any free time he has, if not working on the house, entertaining our new puppy, or taking me on dates...Curt has been working in Boardman, OR at a farm working on industrial automation for their work equipment.

I have been busy holding the house down during the day, watching the dogs, and preparing for another year of cheerleading. I am the JV Cheer Coach at Redmond High (my old high school) and really enjoy it! I love watching the girls progress. I mainly work with girls who have never had any cheerleading experience, so I teach them everything they need to know and it is a sense of accomplishment to see them move to the next level. We just got through with tryouts for next year, and over half of my cheerleaders made it to the Varsity level (and they were better than most of the returning Varsity girls). We will start getting busy at the end of July with fundraisers at the Deschutes County Fair, Cheer Camp, Daily Doubles, and then the start of football season! I have also been wanting to start planning events...such as wedding, social, and sporting...so if you need a good event planner...talk to me!

Well that is a little update...more to come later! I will work on getting some more pictures up!