The Weekend...

We had a great weekend at the Gonzales house. Friday Chris and I got a wild hair and decided we wanted Planet Sub for dinner - problem was - the closest Planet Sub is in Lincoln... So at 6:30 - we loaded into the GE car - drove to Lincoln - ate our delicious sandwiches - turn around and drove straight back to be home by 8:30 for Heidi's feeding time. You ask - was it worth it... Hell Yes!

Saturday we had yet another random plan come across our plate - Millard Days! My brother and his family and Grandma Babs and Grandpa D were all going - so why not? Heidi showed off her new hat she received from Cass and Lori - It may be a little big - but I think its perfect! One observation being outside - her hair looks really red when she is outside...hmmm

Daddy and Heidi when she tried on the hat...

The rest of the weekend was nice - here are Brewski and Heidi hanging out. Look she is already scratching his back...Brew really does like to hang out with her - maybe he knows soon she'll be eating food and probably more than willing to share. It will be fun to see how she grows and they bond!

Sad Day...

LeRoi Moore of Dave Matthews Band passed away yesterday from complications from a ATV accident back on June 30th. Sad days. DMB is by far our favorite band and he will be missed. The concerts just won't be the same. I believe he was only like 46 or 47 years old and a fantastic saxophonist...

Praise the Lord!

Heidi was baptised yesterday! Thank you to all the family who came and to Val and Tone as the godparents! I have put together a rough slide show of my and Bob's pictures. Heidi wore the same gown as I did as a kid - a little house on the prairie, but still cute!

Highlight from the ceremony - Blake on the alter, holding a hymnal and walking back and forth preaching to the crowd - it was so funny! I think we have a character on our hands!



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2 Months!

Heidi had her two month check up today. (Daddy and Heidi hanging out in the doctor's office) As Dr. Davey always says - she is just a perfect little girl (he tells all his patients that - right Christina...) She weighs in at 10lb 3ozs, she is 21 3/4 long and overall in about the 25% percentile for height and weight - she is just a wee little one. Everything checked out to be great. She is one strong little booger - so will she be a tall, light complected, red headed, Mexican/German who plays soccer - we'll just see...

She was a good baby throughout the check up - but 4 shots later - she wasn't a happy camper. Thankfully Grandma Gonzales watched her in the afternoon when the effects of the shots really kicked in. She ran a fever and was crying quite a bit but Grandma handled her perfectly - having three boys and being a nurse helps! Thank you - Thank you!

Hopefully she will recover quickly and be back to herself soon. Just last night, Grandpa Hefe (Jeff) got her laughing - a good ole belly laugh. I wish I would have recorded it! Here is Grandma Babs (Barb) hanging out with her on Saturday. Blake came over and had a real good time giving the boys treats - I think 8 or 10 treats later - he had made two new best friends!

Sleeping Beauty

Unbelievable – but Heidi slept from 8:30 pm to 5:30 am last night! We are all well rested in the Gonzales house! Even when she did wake up, she wasn’t mad or anything – just yawned and was like:

“Okay, I could eat… yep, some food sounds good… yep, I could eat, (yawn) Mom, you ready?... Cool cool (yawn) let’s go”.

I don’t expect it to happen again anytime soon, I just like the idea that one day it will happen!

She is doing really well with everything. I decided to snap some pictures of her this morning. She holds her head up so well that we decided to start putting her in the Bee Pod chair.

Um…she may be a wee bit too tiny for the chair…hehe

Update on the wee one...

I figure I should write a Heidi update. Everything is going really well with her. First, Grandma Gonzales watched her last Wednesday and did a wonderful job. She'll be watching her every other Monday while Chris will take the opposite Mondays and work from home. I finally snapped a picture of Grandma with Heidi. They came over yesterday and Heidi was ready to fall asleep on her Grandma!

Over the last few weeks and really the last week, Heidi has been giggling and laughing and cooing more and more. She is so animated, its really fun to watch her. It looks like she not only has my scowl but my ability to raise one eye brow too. She recognizes us and greets us with smiles! Its nice to have her smile and giggle and it be NOT related to poop...

To Go or Not to Go...

Go Indians! MSHS

My 10 year high school reunion is coming up in September and I’m on the fence for going. Chris is out. He has absolutely no desire to go. We didn’t go to his last year and he is not coming to mine. I’m not going to force him either, why would you want to go to someplace where you barely know anyone and watch your wife run around saying hi. It’s a solo mission…

This past weekend, Val attended her reunion and had a blast, but she went to a smaller school and I think overall liked high school better than me. I said I would ONLY go if Anne would come with me and she’ll be 8 and ½ months pregnant – so my partner in crime may be out.

They created an evite, which is nice so you can sort of tell who is going. So far…mainly girls. The funny thing is, I will come to a decision and decide not to go and my dumb luck, I run into one of the girls planning it. Like we went to church yesterday and Kim Scarborough happened to sit next to us. I know she is one of them that is planning and its not like I have anything against her or any of the girls, but seeing her just makes me feel guilty like I should go.

Then I have another good friend Ali who attended hers and said she had mixed reactions. Based on her experience, I wouldn’t want to go. Even my mom mentioned that the 10 year probably won’t be as fun as future ones. It tends to be in the same cliques as high school and no matter how much you have changed, everyone resorts back to their old ways.

At least they are doing it right. It’s at a bar with keg beer and pizza. If it was some fancy thing – hell to the no would I go. So it’s at a place I know I would have fun, its only $30 and maybe it would be nice to see some people…. So it’s in the air…

Just some pictures...

Heidi all dressed up for the Stuedemann Fest and trying to take a quick nap before the gathering...



Relaxing on daddy's belly before bed - she can really hold her head up - its crazy!

Baby-on-the-Brain...

I think Chris and I have been adjusting to this whole new lifestyle - but we had a funny day yesterday. First of all - it was Heidi's first day in daycare - so we may have been a little distracted. I went to work and was working so diligently like I do and I kept smelling something. I couldn't figure it out - then I realized - I forgot to put on DEODORANT! Are you kidding me? I was smelling myself and of course I had to forget when it was 100 degrees outside!


I went home and showered and I think I used soap like 4 times and then body wash twice and I still felt like I smelled! hehe - This morning I used so much body wash that I looked like a abominable snowman! I know I put WAY too much deodorant on this morning and probably too much perfume - but I need to make up for yesterday!

Then - what is even funnier is Chris and I went home for lunch and Chris is giggling.

He says, "um, I must have been a little distracted this morning."


I'm like "why?"

He goes, "I put on two different shoes!"

hahaha - In his defense, they were both brown - just one round and one square toed - but it was pretty funny. Let's just say Chris has a major presentation today and he made sure to lay out his shoes for this morning!

We are slowly losing it in the Gonzales house...

Stuedemann Fest!

This weekend my step brother Cass and Lori and my step sister Katlann, Tom and Julian all came to Omaha for a visit. We don't get to see them very often with Cass living in Vegas and Katlann living in Nashville - but it was good to get the family together. Well since they were coming in town and Christina and I have new babies - why not more Stuedemanns come into town? Sounds like a plan to me - so we had a mini/large family gathering. My mom rocked the food and being a hostess, which many of you know - is not her favorite thing - she always stresses and everything always turns out great - silly mom! a BIG thank you to Lori and Cass for helping her out with cooking and everything else!

I didn't take many pictures, I was too busy chatting with aunts and uncles and cousins and kiddos. I did manage to get a picture of Heidi and Great Grandma Stuedemann though...

Heidi was a little over stimulated by all the people and was overall crabby all day - but she was very happy in Lori and Aunt Nancy's arms - now if I could only hire them on a regular basis.

Here is Christina, Kendall, Blake and Great Grandma Stuedemann...

We tried to get the cousins together for a picture - but come on, can we really get two babies and two two-year olds together and sitting still? Starting left to right, Juilian, Blake, Kendall (chilling on the pillow) and Heidi ready to head home for some food.

Thank you to all the Stuedemann's for a great weekend!

Survived...

I survived my first week back to work and Chris survived being Mr. Mom. Overall, it was a crazy week, a lot going on, but I was okay. It helps when your little one smiles at you and lights up your day! Chris helped me by sending me text messages with pictures and it helps going home at lunch and getting to at least see her.

Side note, if you haven't already figured out, I'm horrible about taking pictures. I apologize in advance for the pictures I post, some a little blurring, red eye, and overall not good pictures - I say 75% is user error and 25% is the camera... I need to take tips from Christina...

I wanted to post this picture of Brewski. He does this new thing of leaning against the wall, like he is too fat to sit - hehe

DMB

Chris and I attended the fantastic Dave Matthew's Band concert last night. DMB was awesome of course, I have never been to a bad Dave concert. The concert was well rounded with a little old school - like Ants Marching and Dancing Nancies and included other great hits like Dreaming Tree, Grave Digger and Crash. They also played some new stuff, which makes me excited that they are finally going to come out with a new CD.

The saxophonist was missing last night (Leroi) - I guess he was involved in an ATV accident and is in the hospital, but his temporary replacements were great - one guy looked like Big Black from the MTV show Rob and Big and the other guy looked like David Letterman's side kick with a long goatee. Tim Reynolds was also there, he looked like a bum they picked up from the side of the road - but he redeems himself with great guitar skills!

My favorite part of the show (besides Dancing Nancies) was when they mixed it up and played Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer - it was very entertaining. I think the kid standing next to me had no idea what song that was.

It was great to get out and about, but I have to admit I felt old - we weren't the oldest people there by far, but I ran into so many young fans that is was just weird. I realize I have been seeing Dave concerts for 12 years - I only missed two summers without seeing him - 2000 (in Germany) and 2003 (broke living in San An - hehe).

We will continue to go to Dave concerts, I just wish they had an outdoor theater here - Dave is meant to be outside where you are tailgating in the parking lot, there are questionable people in the bushes, you probably will see someone peeing and in between the songs you enjoy being outdoors. But overall, thank you Dave for a great show!

Time for daddy daycare!

Times Up - I'm back at work. I have mixed emotions about the whole thing - on one side - I'm not cut out to be at home all day - I was slowly was going nuts. On the other side - I hate leaving Heidi during the day. But I'm actually glad to be back at work - I really do love my job and my boss is letting me "ease" into work by letting me go just a wee bit early at night - which really does help. Sometimes I think I'm super woman and don't need any special treatment - but in reality - I do need to take it slow! It's a little tricky making sure I'm set to go to work in the mornings and making sure Heidi is taken care of too - let alone the house, the dogs, Chris, laundry, grocery shopping, eating right and whatever else we have on our plates!

This week Chris is staying home with her all week to help my transition and I think it really is helping! He is doing a fantastic job and I think he actually likes being a stay at home dad. Now if I could only make a ton of money for him to stay home - hmmm - is it too late for a singing career? What about a movie star?

Next week its daycare - so I'm sure that will bring on a whole new set of emotions - mainly worry - but she is only going in daycare for four days and the every other Monday is going to be either Chris or Grandma G, plus our daycare is literally right across the street from us, our driveways match up and they are a wonderful family, so all should be good.

So this week - its daddy daycare. He is elbows deep in diapers, milk and house work. He even went grocery shopping during the day with all the other stay at home moms and retired peps. I can just see him now with Heidi strapped to him in the Baby Bjorn and gossiping with the neighbor ladies - his dream job. All is good in the Gonzales house!