4 months old!!

Noah is over four months old and we can't believe it!  We are headed to Canada this week and can't wait for a short vacation.  As much as we enjoy Noah and being a new family, balancing work and family have been a challenge.  Sarah has been at a national conference in Seattle all week and Josh has been preparing for the busy task of recording a new Seattle band.   At his four month checkup, the Dr. loved him, and he is very healthy and doing great!

On a personal note, we will be moving again in July!  Sarah has been offered the fantastic opportunity to work in family housing and we are all so excited about it!  Josh is mostly excited because he gets a BBQ, but we are all really excited because it offers Sarah some professional development and also affords our whole family a great opportunity to get to know other families.  We can't wait!

Overall, Things are great, Noah is great, and we are tired new parents!  Enjoy some of our pics above, since we can't figure out how to get them to show up below the post!!  

Noah is growing!!

Just a quick post to let you know that we are doing great!  It's been so long since we've posted...being a parent is a busy job!!  We are loving our new life as a family of three!  Noah is growing and learning every day!  Enjoy some pics....

Baby Noah is here!! Noah Giovanni Gremer, born October 28 - 7.76 oz, 19 inches long

Sorry for the delay in posting!  One week after his due date, my water broke in my doctor's office and 27.5 hours later, baby Noah was born!  He is perfect in every way and we are loving the new addition to our family!  When I have some time I will post the birth story and other details, but for now I'll just share some pictures with you....

Officially Overdue!

Here we are at 40 weeks, 3 days.  I am on maternity leave and just waiting for this baby to come.  We've been getting lots of phone calls and well wishes - everyone keeps hoping the baby has come!  We have decided that this baby is either really lazy or we just need to learn patience.  Either way, this baby will be here soon!

Love to everyone, and hopefully the next post is the birth announcement, not another preggo belly pic!

Getting close!

Drumroll please....we are now at 38 weeks!!  The baby could come anytime, which is scary and exciting all at once!

At my 36 week appt, the cervix was starting to soften and thin, but there was no dialation yet.

At 37 weeks, I was 50% efffaced and 1 cm dialated.  the dr. said she was very happy I had made progress and that all the work my body does now is just less work I have to do during labor.

Thursday Josh and I noticed I could breathe and the baby is finally out of my ribs!  You know what that means, the baby has dropped and is now in position (happily it's the right position, the head is down).

Monday we will go for our 38 week appt.  and see if we have made any more progress.  It could happen any time now....we're so excited.

It's so cool to get these reports and watch my body do what it is supposed to do.  This really is a miracle and as odd as it is to go through it, it just feels so completely natural and right.  

We are so excited to meet baby Gremer and can't believe how fast this pregnancy has flown by!  Hopefully the next post will be the one post Josh does on his own announcing our newest bundle of joy!

Love to all,

Sarah and Josh

We Moved!!! Oh, and the baby is ALMOST here!!

ok, here we have it........34 weeks!!  As you can see, the background is different, because we have now moved!

So much has happened since I last updated, so I will do a quick update in pictures.....

This is the view of the hallway from our bedroom, before we had a bedroom wall - this is about TWO WEEKS before we moved in - I was not happy in this pic as it was not looking the way it  should!!

This was our kitchen at that same time.  Now there is a dishwasher there and it looks great, but considering it should have been a LOT further along....not so much.

Of course at this point, I am realizing that you are going to want to see pics of the new apartment....we haven't taken any yet except for the babies room - we'll have to do that soon!  

I uploaded all sorts of pics to the blog, and they are not in the order I want them to be, but I can't figure out how to actually move them, so we'll just talk about them in a really random order.  Bear with me!

This was taken at the baby shower - the balls in the air took SO LONG to do, and they turned out pretty great looking!  The shower was at the community center where I work and it was a GREAT day!!  It did rain, but I guess that's supposed to happen at a shower.

Random pic of Dusty, Dad and Shelley's puppy.  I love her, isn't she cute?  Note: that bear was supposed to be for the baby, but Dusty gave dad the puppy dog eyes and guess who's bear it is now?? :)

Josh and his sister's Sarah and Emma decided to take the shower decorations and use them to compare their pregnant bellies to mine - who wins?

Here it is - the babies room!  I love the safari theme and everything about it!!

Another angle - we put everyone's bets from the baby shower on the closet doors - if you want to add your guesses, just let us know!

Josh got this great pic of Aly's reaction to feeling the baby move

Dusty again, still cute.....

Preparing for the shower - this was at 32 weeks

This is the baby shower cake - isn't it amazing?  A friend from work made it for us and it tasted and looked delicious!

Sorry for the late update - things have gotten really busy here.  We're just trying to get ready for the baby and prepare for the big life change that is rapidly approaching - it's almost here!!

Love to all, 

Sarah and Josh

Cannon Beach

We had so much fun relaxing for an entire week at Cannon Beach - we also got a new digital camera!!

We stayed about 4 miles South of Cannon in Arch cape, which has a much prettier beach and lots more sea life.

It was cold our first night, but we just had to get to the beach!!

This is one of many self taken portraits.......
I love how Josh and Jamie look so cute and innocent here, and there is Marci in the background, ready to party!
I did this A LOT during the vacation....

Shelley was the grand winner of many game nights (plus a little money!)

We played a little Wii Bowling (dad has a great kick he does at the end of every shot)

self portrait at sunset.....

This is the 27 week shot (note: I'm almost at 29 weeks now, new pic coming soon!)

And we finish with a beautiful sunset....We had a great time, played lots of games, drank a lot (well, I just looked at all the pretty drinks...), slept, relaxed...it was wonderful.  Can't wait for next year!