ONE bouncing baby on the way!

If you haven't already heard the good news...there is a baby on the way! Today I had my first trimester screening and got to see the little one bouncing all over the place. Here are some pictures from the ultrasound.

Here you can see the full body view of baby

Look closely and you can see the little face

Here is the belly shot, on the bottom is the heartbeat, 171 beats per minute (much higher than the boys, could that mean something???)

God's creation is amazing, wouldn't you agree?

To answer the most popular question I've heard...yes we are going to find out the sex of the baby, on my birthday:) Our due date is on Matt's birthday, March 12th. So we are hoping for an arrival early March. We'll keep you posted!

pumpernickels?

Matt was so excited to have a really big garden and grow lots of tomatoes for his salsa. I requested that he grow some pickles so we could make dill pickles. It appears that we planted the pickles a little too close to the pumpkins and ended up with...pumpernickles?

My wonderful hubby knew how excited I was to make the dill pickles so he surpised me yesterday morning by picking up a bag of pickles from a local market.

We cut some into spears and others into slices as we were boiling jars and lids and the dill mixture. It is quite a process. Our kitchen was the Buntrock pickle factory for a couple of hours.

After all was said and done we ended up with 10 jars of dill pickles. I can't wait to try them!

Great America

Grandpa Mark, Grandma Jill, Nana, Buppa, Cousin Amy, Dylan and Summer went with Casey to Great America on Monday. According to them, our Casey is an amusement park junky. His favorite ride was the Whizzer roller coaster (one of my favorites too!) He had a blast splashing around at the water park and going on any rides he was tall enough for. Grandpa was a real trooper and went on almost all the rides with Casey. What fun memories!

Annual Reed Luau

For the past seven years Leah and Nick have had a Luau every summer. Everyone brings a dish to pass and Nick cooks up some meat on the grill. This year Matt's parents were in town for the fun. Here are some fun pictures from the day.

Group photo

Casey swinging to the moon

Caleb loves riding around town in this hot pick ride!

Riley and Hailey looking festive!

3 generations of handsome Buntrock men

Caleb loved playing catch from way up high

Lucy got a turn too

7 years

On August 1, 2003 Matt and I started our adventure together as man and wife. We decided to go to Door County for our honeymoon (we called it a minimoon). That was our first time in Door County and we fell in love with it. Since then we have gone back at least once a year and stayed in some type of a condo or B&B. Every visist to Door County would bring us to Peninsula State Park to hike, bike or use the beach. We had always wanted to camp there but since it is the most popular state park, it is hard to get a site!

This year I did it, I got a site! The trick is to book it on the first day they will allow you to, something like 11 months in advance. So to celebrate our anniversary this year we took the boys to Peninsula State Park to camp!

We had beautiful weather. Each morning we took a bike ride on the Sunset bike path before heading to the beach until naptime. The boys had a great time and I think they loved the park as much as their mom and dad. It is fun to visit a place where we have made so many "married" memories.

I love you babe! Every year gets better. I can't wait to see what year 8 has in store for us!