Our little girls first foot print

While we didn't get any real good ultrasound pictures, we did manage get a great foot print. What do you think? Tall like her Dad or shorter like her Mom? Probably a little too early to tell :)

A day of Celebration

Yesterday was a fun day filled with Celebration for us. Here are some of the reasons we had to celebrate.

1) Wanda and I both got off work at 12:30 to go to our 20 week Dr's Appointment. Short days at work are always worth celebrating.

2) The ultrasound went well and the baby is in great condition with everything being average and not seeing any issues. With this considered a high risk pregnancy, this was so wonderful for us to hear. Praise God for the good health of our little one.

3) We are having a baby GIRL!

4) I received 4 free tickets to the Twins game yesterday morning and my parents were able to come down and go to the game with us last night. We had a great time at the game, seeing Target Field, and spending time with each other. (FYI - Losing was not part of the celebration) Here are some photos of the twins game.

It's a God thing! We are expecting!

As you all know, we had plans of adopting and had begun the process. Apparently God had other plans. You did read the title correctly. Wanda and I are expecting and the baby is due on December 9, 2010. Read on for more details on our story.

April 10th - Wanda took a home pregnancy test and there was a VERY faint second line. We assumed it didn't mean anything. We were hesitant to think it was anything else as we hadn't been able to get pregnant for the last 10 years.

April 12th - Some friends tried to force us to go to a clinic and get a test. Due to not being able to find a close clinic to where we were we decided to do it a little later.

April 14th - Wanda went to a minute clinic where it was confirmed that she was indeed pregnant. She came home with a gift for me and also gave me the results of the test that they did.

April 15th - Wanda went to the actual doctor's clinic to do more official tests. I had taken off work early due to an Adoption Meeting we had at 1:30pm. We officially put the adoption process on hold and instead went to get an ultrasound done to determine how far along we had been. I was blessed to be able to go with to the Ultrasound. It was amazing to see the little baby that looked like a peanut on the screen. Even more amazing was to watch the flickering on the screen that was the Baby's heartbeat! This was absolutely amazing! They determined that we were exactly 6 weeks along.

May 24th - Wanda and I went in for a checkup with her new doctor. It was during this meeting that we got to hear the "whoosing" of our baby's heartbeat. When we first heard it we both almost cried and had huge smiles on our faces.

May 27th - We are officially 12 weeks along!

June 21st - Next doctor's appointment to do some tests to make sure the spinal cord is developing properly and do some early tests for Down-syndrome.

Please Pray - This pregnancy is considered a high risk pregnancy due to a couple items. Wanda has had a couple miscarriages in the past 10 years in which the baby never made it past a few weeks. Her diabetes also adds to the increased risk of the pregnancy. Pray for good health for both Wanda and the baby.

We are not sure why God has waited so long for us to get pregnant. We were fully prepared to just go with the adoption process and were not expecting to get pregnant. God obviously had other plans. We give Him the glory and praise!

Fishing Opener 2010

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Dan, Matt, and I planned an early season fishing trip this year. We planned on going a couple weeks from now but due to conflicts we ended up going on the fishing opener. I prefer to avoid that weekend due to the busyness of the lakes but it worked out pretty well for us. We went up to my parent's house and were going to fish the local lakes in the area (near Alexandria).

Friday night we drove up there and decided to go fishing. The opener wasn't technically till Saturday so all we could fish for were crappies and bluegill. The only problem we had was we forgot the leaches at the house. We didn't end up catching anything but we had fun going out on the lake. When we returned to the house we grilled ourselves some dinner and decided to try something different the next morning and thus we had to get the paddleboat and canoe ready.

My dad joined us for our trips on Saturday putting 2 in the paddleboat and 2 in the canoe. We dropped into Little Oscar lake where there is no public boat access (but public road side access where you can drop in a canoe/paddleboat). We had the lake to ourselves all day. Dan and I were in the canoe and Matt and my dad were in the padddleboat. That morning we brought home 4 nice northerns and 1 nice walleye. We also caught numerous bass (3-4 pounds each) as well but had to throw them back since the season is not open yet. Dan caught a 5 pound walleye and I caught a 10 pound northern.

We returned home, cleaned the fish, had lunch and then ventured out with the guns for some pigeon shooting. Note that these were not the clay variations but instead the real thing. I was ashamed of my shooting since I did so horrible but Matt and Dan cleaned up pretty well. This is a lot of fun and is a major part of the "fishing" trips we take.

Saturday evening we returned to the same lake in hopes of catching some more northern and walleye. We returned with 8 more northerns and another walleye, putting us at our limit of northern for the day. My dad caught a 5 pound walleye and a 10 pound northern. We cleaned the fish that night and then fried some of the fish from that morning up and had some great tasting fish at 10:30 at night.

Sunday we decided to change it up a bit and Matt, Dan, and I went out to a close lake to do some crappie/bluegill fishing. The motor didn't work for some reason so we just trolled around a small part of the lake. We returned with 11 Crappies and 3 Bluegill. We returned home, cleaned them, and then ate about half of them for lunch before packing up and returning to the cities.

We had a blast and brought home plenty of fish for all of us. Thanks to my parents for letting us crash their place and have a blast catching some fish. I think my dad should be thanking us as he wouldn't have caught his walleye had it not been for us being there :).

Total # of fish caught:

15 Northerns (2 of them were 31 inches long - approximately 10 pounds each)

2 Walleye (24 inches each - approximately 5 pounds each)

15 Bass (all 3-4 pounds each)

11 Crappies

3 Bluegills

1 Perch

1 Perch

Other Misc/Fun Facts:

# of lures lost - 1

# of trees snagged - lost count

# of Pigeons downed - 12

# of fish that jumped out of the boat/bucket/cooler - 0

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Adoption Update

We received new information on our Adoption status tonight while attending an Infant Care Seminar. View our Adoption Website for more details.