Life moves so fast

Today at work I was cleaning and organizing my desk. I found articles and pictures that have chronicled the last nine years of my employment. Life moves so fast.

At 4:30 today I picked up my wife from her school. She's eight months pregnant now. I'm married?! I'm going to have a baby?! Wow, life moves fast.

Do you remember when summer break used to feel like an eternity? When a one hour car ride with the folks to visit relatives stretched on forever?

I wonder if I'll ever get that back? Maybe heaven will feel that way. Maybe a sunrise over a foggy valley will last forever and the dew will rest softly and linger long enough for us to take it all in.

Baby Belly

This is a home photo shoot I did. Annie is six plus months along.

Baby on Board

This picture is for the folks.

We had our 20 week ultrasound on Wednesday.

It was amazing...

We saw the baby move around a lot. It was mostly face down and curled up at times, but we were able to see everything that we wanted to.

Perhaps the most amazing thing was being able to see its heart beat in real time.

Here the baby is being shy...or just tired of getting pushed and poked at by the nurse.

I think the baby has Annie's feet. Aren't they cute?

Here's a good side shot where you can see the back.

Here's the last picture we have of the baby. This one's pretty neat because if you look real careful at the head you can make out the ear and a little bit of the profile of the face.

Looks like the baby has its mother's good looks too!

Thanks for all your prayers for the baby and Annie's health. Keep them coming, we're halfway to Birthday!

This was a custom wine rack that I built for my work's fundraising auction.

John Barney, a woodworking fanatic and friend, donated the use of his shop and tools to help it become a reality.

At auction it brought in $300, but that included 24 bottles of wine. I estimated the rack to be worth $200 and the wine was $400. That's how auctions go sometimes, especially during tough economic times.

Check out this monster size carrot from the garden! Of course, this carrot was consumed moments after being photographed.

New Patio and sidewalk

Another townhome improvement project done!

This summer we noticed that the foundation blocks on the house were starting to wear away and that water was draining toward the house rather than away. After discussing our dilema with the neighbor, we came to find out that the neighbor two houses down did concrete for a living! After receiving a fair estimate, we decided to give him the work. He did a fantastic job and it even met up to the standards of Annie's dad who's a general contractor.

Now we have a patio and a place to hang out and entertain.

Salsa Time

We had a bountiful harvest.

The garden did very well this year and we had enough produce to do two batches of salsa. Everything in the picture is from our garden. We didn't put the squash and zucchini in the salsa, I just thought they looked good in the picture.