Vacay to Austria

Jas and I decided to take a mini pre-baby vacation to Vienna, Austria for two days.

The past month has been a busy one and it was great to just take some time to enjoy together!

First we decided to explore the city a little, where we found this adorable advertisement.  Of course, I suggested Jas put on his pretend earphones for a photo op (because what kind of photographer wife would I be if I didn't? :)

Beautiful, I tell ya...

And we did find one of the local Starbucks to indulge (Bratislava is too small a city to have one of its own).  A chai latte was in order--cold this time, since it was hot out...

The next morning we headed off to see the famous Austrian-bred Lipizzaner horses perform at the Spanish Riding School.  Jas and I were both very excited about this...

As expected, it was worth our excitement because these horses are pretty amazing.  Even if we were in the standing room section!

This double style was used for the Emperor's hunting back in the day.  The first horse pulled the carriage to the hunting ground, and then the Emperor would use the front horse to ride while hunting.  Pretty interesting...

And that's a mama and baby.  They don't turn white until they are about 3 years old!

We thoroughly enjoyed the show (that could be a good horse pun ;) and would recommend it to anyone visiting Vienna.

We were also able to visit a butterfly house, which made for LOTS of really great pics.  Check back soon, we'd love to share!

The GrillMaster

This man of mine has been talking about wanting to grill ribs for about a month now, maybe longer...

So while his parents are in town, we took the night to celebrate a belated Father's Day with some Bar-b-que rubbed ribs and mac & cheese!

There he is folks, the GrillMaster himself!

And the infamous ribs...

I must say, I'm not the world's biggest meat-lover, but these things were GOOD.  He did a great job...I'm proud!

Father, son and ribs.  What a manly picture.

While we were out on the balcony, I snapped some shots of our just-now-producing pepper plant:

Better late than never, right?!

Maybe for our next night of grilling we will be able to add some home grown peppers to the mix :)

Pregnancy Photos!

Like I mentioned in a previous post, while Brooke was here in Bratislava, she kindly agreed to do a pregnancy photo shoot with Jas and I.  She did an awesome job, of course, and if you haven't seen these already you can find these and more on her blog, or facebook also.

Here are a few of my favorites...

Brooke, they're great...we so appreciate it!  Thanks for being patient even with my crazy eyebrows (believe me, these brows of mine have some crazy angles...lol :)

32 weeks!

Well, we are now in the single digits week wise!  In hopefully some 7 or 8 weeks we'll be able to meet our sweet girl.

Here's a recent shot of 32 weeks, though it's not the best preggo shot (like the ever famous side view I've been posting for a while now)...

At last appointment, baby was right at 4 pounds (already!) and seemed healthy.  She's just really working hard now at bulking up.

We've made more progress on the nursery and finally purchased a stroller, so we're excited about those things...but really we're just waiting in anticipation to meet this baby.

Thanks for following along and joining us in prayer!  Stay tuned...now that things have slowed down a little bit, we'll be back at it in the blogging world :)

The Past Week

We've been quite busy the past week, thus the lack of blogging.  Team Ridgecrest was here (they leave tomorrow! sad!) and we had a great time working together at DEPO (similar to a community youth center).

I didn't take my camera this week, as the team was here and Brooke did a great job capturing lots of wonderful moments.  So these next pictures are all to her credit.

We made a sign for DEPO on the first day.

The kids that came had lots of opportunities to play fun games...like this one where they had to move the cookie from their forehead to their mouth.

The guys helped clear a large pile of dirt and trash from the back of DEPO.  Here they are in action.

And a group shot.  So there's just a lil snippet of what we've been up to...it was indeed a good week :)

While the team was here, Brooke and I also got the chance to have a little maternity photo shoot, so those pics will be making an appearance on the blog soon, too.  THANKS, Brooke!