House Update

I just wanted to pop in and say: " WE ARE IN OUR HOUSE!!!!" Well, we will be tonight. We will move the rest over our stuff over and be able to sleep in our own bed!! Puppy is in a extreme hyper puppy mode right now, so maybe this will help her as well.

Family Additon Update

We added a new member to our family last Sunday. She is a 8 wk old short hair black lab mix and her name is Annie. Mark finally has his "Annie Oelke". My Mom has been great about her being at the house and even helps take care of her. It is a transition for us( dog included). She gave us a scare yesterday(Friday 11/23) and took a fall through the end of our temporary railing around the stairway inside. She fell around 7-8 feet and hit the last 3 stairs. She was ok, because she didn't land on the concrete floor. Here is some pictures of her.

Baby Update

Here is my baby update. She is fine and keeps growing and growing. Here is my most recent pictures so you can see how much. The double picture of me is week 28 & 30. The next picture is week 32. I have also added pictures of the nusery. Yes, it is Winnie the Pooh. It looks like her name is going to be Abby.

House Update

I haven't added pictures for awhile. WE are still not in our house more problems this time with inspection. At this point we are just hoping to be in before the baby comes. The garage raising went great. We appreciate all the help we got. Here is some pictures, so you can see how things
have progressed.

Masterpiece

This is a song my cousin Shari used for her little girls dedication and i think I am going to use it for our little girl's.

House Update

Hi All!

We have running water!! After today we will have heat. The garage raising party I mentioned has now been changed to November 17th. Anyone who is willing to help is more then welcome to come up help, check out our house and eat! The way things have been going it could change back to November 7th. I am aware of Deer hunting and that might affect who comes and who doesn't. It could be one or the other at this point. It will not be later then that because that would put us into December. I will post more pictures later.

House Being Moved

This is the house being lifted and put on the basement. Sorry pictures are out of order.

Our House Move

For the next update. As with construction things get frustrating and delayed. Our house is on the basement. We have electricity, a well(but no running water), septic system and all our stuff is in the house. We got some painting done which still needs to be touch up and of course we still have to paint the baby's room. As we still don't have a stairwell to the basement we can't get completely settle yet.

They are suppose to start the basement stairwell tomorrow. We will see if that gets going. There is a frame for the garge slab, but it is not poured yet. I hope the rain holds off so they can do that! We still need permanent stairs outside too.

My folks have been in Florida visiting my brother's family, so when they get back my Dad has a lot to do. He has to convert our gas to propane, so we can get our propane next week and have heat. He also has to hook up the plumbing to the upstairs so we have running water. This will be nice, because when you are pregnant and don't have running water it is not so nice. Mark built the fire pit this weekend so we can have a fire out there. Right now it looks like our garage raising party will be Saturday, November 3rd.

I am going to try to attach some pictures. As I have misplaced my camara some of the newer pictures will be added later. It looks like the house actually being put on the basement pictures will have to be a seperate post. The one picture is me picking apples from one of four apple trees on our lot. I will add more later when I get the pictures downloaded.

Baby Girl Oelke

Hi All!!

I am back!!!! I know some of you have been check back faithfully for updates and I am finally getting to it. I am now 27 weeks pregnant. Almost at the 7 month mark. I will post the ultrasound pictures for those that might not have gotten them. Baby girl was already 14 oz at 21 weeks, so she is probably a good 2 pounds now. She is moving around a lot more now and I can feel her on both sides of my stomache at the same time! Pretty cool she is getting long to. As you can see she gave us the thumbs up, showed us her foot,leg (she was upside down butt in the air for the leg one if that helps)and her profile. My Mom says she has my nose and Mark's chin! What do you guys think?

Our House

Our House update:

There will be a lot going on at our house this week and the house should be moved up and put on next Monday. I will put more pictures out when I have that ability again. We are officially at my folks house. Mark has put in his notice at his second job and will probably be looking into getting a job at a Subway closer to us. He doesn't like the late nights and early mornings. For which I am glad. More later! Love To All!!

Our Little One

It's A Girl!!!!

Well it is a girl!! When I have the ability to add the ultrasound pictures I will. We haven't made a final name decision yet. I will let you all know when we do.

Our Little Family

My Pregnancy

This is a Journal of my pregnancy. As I had come to believe I would never be able to have a child of my own God decided it was time for a miracle. So, against all odds He opened my womb and gave us a baby. I didn't believe it at first, so I took the test 3 times! I found out right before Mother's day so not only did I get a present my Mom got the best present of finding out she is going to be a grandma again!



I went in to the doctor for a confirmation test and found I was 5 weeks along. The next week I went in for a 6 week ultrasound. Here it is:

The reproductive specialist sais all looked good and sent me back to the Ob/GYN. I had my first official Ob appointment on June 13 when I was 9 weeks along. He said all looked good and we would be able to hear the heartbeat at the next appointment.

Here I am at 8 weeks along

I had my next appointment on July 11 at 13 weeks along and after waiting a long 1 hour and 45 minutes to finally see the Doctor we got to hear our little one's heartbeat. I will have to figure out a way to insert the recording of the heartbeat.

Here I am at 16 weeks along that is 4 months folks!

I had my next Dr. Appointment on August 8th. We heard the heartbeat again and heard the baby moving around.

My next appointment is set up for September 5 and at that time I will be getting my 21 week ultrasound and if the baby cooperates we will finally know if it is a boy or girl!

August 20th update:

On Friday August 10th I felt the baby move for the first time. I have felt it several times since then.

August 30th Update:

I am 20 weeks along now that is 5 months. The baby has been moving around a lot more and I am getting a little bigger and actually looking pregnant now. Mark still hasn't felt the baby move I hope that happens soon. Here is my current belly picture.

Our Little family is also making another change:

We are moving!!

OUR HOUSE MOVE

They are explanding 2 highways bordering our park, so we purchased a lot in Rush City about 5-6 miles from my folks house. We will be moving our house on to a basement on the lot. Work has started on the basement. I am adding some pictures of our packing process and the process of our lot. I will update as we go.

August 20th Update:

They got most of our driveway done just needs some gravel. They are ready to biuld the forms for the walls and get the septic in. If it would only stop raining so they can. I added more pictures at the bottom.

August 30th Update:

We have basement walls! They are poured and working to put the beams in so the house can be moved on next Wednesday. There was some question as to whether we could put the house on and we needed the plans from the Manufacturer and since they weren't cooperating Mark drove at to Montevideo and got them. That is at least 3 hours one way and 3 1/2 to get them to the contractor and another hour home. He then took a nap before going to work at Subway. We are moving the rest of our stuff to my folks on Monday. It will then probably be another month before we can move back in. I am going to put the newest pictures on top from now it is easier. The big dog in the pictures is our new neighbors dog.