pregnancy update

under construction....

.........teaser post


your calls (demands) for pictures of my ever expanding belly bump have been duly noted. at least one picture will be added along with some updates on what's going on with the babe.


in the meantime, here is the absolute latest...we have an ultrasound (2nd one) tomorrow morning. dave is quite excited. he is currently outside tending a fire with his soon to be daddy buddy Colin. Apparently they have spent the last couple of hours talking about babies and fatherhood puncuated with discussions about home renovations and their partners pregnancies (both successfully missed out on the first trimester - david was away on the train the majority of the time and colin's girl was out of town working)

our first visit to Mitchell

This past Sunday David and I (and copper) made the trek to Mitchell, Manitoba to have brunch with Gody and Miss Emms (unfortunately Naomi was at work). It took us approximately 1/2 hour to go from door to door, which really wasn't that long at all and we enjoyed the mini road trip.
Mitchell appears to be a great community and Gody and Naomi's new house is new and quite lovely. They have already made the space their own and the backyard is huge!
Emma was quite pleased to have us over and was very proud to give me a tour of the house and to show off her room, adjacent playroom and where she rides her bike downstairs. After a lovely brunch, we all checked out the backyard, and as Gody's pictures demonstrate on Emma's picture website, there was much running about. David captured some shots and videos as well. Uncle David captured miss emma's crocodile tears when we were leaving.

Miss Beans and Jessie and "Where the wild things are"

David and I took Breanna (aka Beans) and Jessie to the movie "Where the wild things are" are at the Towne Cinema downtown (where I worked in high school, best job ever to have at that age).

Breanna enjoyed the film but I think the movie themes were a bit too mature for Jessie and I think she lost interest. I had a feeling they would be but I wanted an outing that included both of them. David is pumped about taking teen Beans to the movie Zombieland and apparently I am not invited to this future outing.

It was nice to see both girls and to hear what's going on with both of them.
Breanna started grade at Glenlawn collegiate this year and despite her initial concerns about jr high, she appears to be doing quite well (team captain for volleyball and was selected early for soccer in the spring).

Miss homebody Jessie is grudgingly warming up this full day school thing and is settling into grade 1.

David's new thing - knitting

David has taken up a new hobby - for those who know him well know that David has many hobbies including typewriter hoarding, instrument collecting and playing (the violin has been recently added to his repertoire), YouTube searching/viewing, hunting and and gathering large rocks and stones, fire starter, "safe league" hockey player etc....

Gody, Naomi and Emma's spent their last night in the city before the big move at our house. During the visit, Dave demonstrated his first attempts at knitting. Apparently (as told to me by Dave) Gody quietly watched Dave knit and then decided to ask to try it himself and to perhaps show Dave a few things to help him improve his technique. Apparently while knitting Gody commented that knitting is very similar to tying knots for Hydro work. David said Gody became so engrossed with knitting (see picture) that he ceased to watch the hockey game that was on tv. Gody, please feel free to use the comments section to correct my second hand telling of the story.

When I arrived home from work today, Dave was excited to show me that he taught himself how to cast off.

Fall Harvest

Despite our unusually cold and wet summer our garden grew, as did our grapes. Unfortunately the Italian plum and crab apple trees did not produce this year.
We managed to can some cucumbers to make dill pickles (Dave is counting down the days until he can open up a jar) and I managed to make some tomato sauce to freeze. We still have carrots sweetening in the garden soil and last night Dave and I made some grape jelly with plans to make juice with the remaining grapes (if we can muster up the energy sometime this week).

Dave was impressed with the amount of work required to make 8 little jars of jelly.

summer catch up post #3 - our big news

This summer was significant for us because I became pregnant! We found out in July and shared the news with family the first week of September and with friends shortly after. The summer months were a bit rough for me as I was terribly fatigued and queasy and Dave was on the the train (lucky him, as he missed most of the first trimester).

It was interesting attempting to hide a pregnancy at all of the weddings we attended. My lack of drinking at Gody and Naomi's wedding was noted and got the tongues wagging!

summer catch up post #2 - weddings weddings and more weddings

It was the summer of many weddings. well it started in the spring with our friends Michelle and Andreas' wedding in April (our city wedding in a nice old building that we got to explore). It was a very sweet and personalized affair (the bride wore a billowing blue dress!).
this was followed by our friends Jacquie and Herve's wedding in July. They live in France but they had the full on Manitoba wedding experience. David was a groomsmen and I was the marriage commissioner. It was held out of town and the weekend was beautiful, lots of sun and good times. David also dj'd in between the band's sets. It was great because we got to meet Herve's family as well as some fabulous girl friends who stayed at our house in the days leading up to the weekend extravaganza.
The next wedding was a very important one for the Streit family- Gody and Naomi's wedding which really deserves a separate post. David was the best man and I was the marriage commissioner. Shirley was in heaven planning and implementing the growth of the wedding from "just a simple ceremony at the lake" to a larger production that required a small army of volunteers. Who knew that the airport hall could be transformed into such a lovely venue! David was dj at the wedding and had a great time interspersing songs with call outs to the crowd. It was a beautiful night enjoyed by all. Miss Emma and Jessie were fast friends and danced many songs together.
The last wedding of the summer was Meaghan and Steven's. Miss megs and the teven planned a very personalized and lovely wedding that reflected their love and life together. The wedding transitioned into a fabulous outdoor party with dancing under the stars with music supplied by the now much experienced David at the DJ helm.