hello to all!
i haven't constructed a blog in quite some time. i apologize. as you may guess i just hadn't been feeling like myself. but now my head is out of the toilet, and i am smiling on a regular basis. this is great progress...or so i am told! :o)
marshall and i had our second baby appointment today.
the greatest thing happened:
we heard the baby's heartbeat! YAY!
i think we were both more excited to hear the heartbeat than we had anticipated. i couldn't stop grinning, and i will stand firm in my observation that the father-to-be had a couple tears in his eyes. ah, priceless.
the doctor seems to think i am doing just fine. i haven't put on any excess weight, but i have finally gained back the weight i lost from being so sick. (in regards to grandpa kole-to-be) we have taken one belly picture a couple of weeks ago, but we are both struggling to notice a "baby bump". i am confident that in the next couple of weeks a baby bump will probably be more noticeable and we will want to document the growth. if you are interested in these pics, let us know, and we can send them to you...but i'd like to avoid posting them on the internet for all to see.
i hope all of you are well. please continue to keep all three of us in your prayers!
ah, feels good to be back! :o)
miss you and love you all!
SLK
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
To Be Alone With You
Legitimately one of the best songs I know...
"to be alone with me, You went up on a tree."
There have been times when I've listened to this song for hours on repeat.
It's connected to a lot of memories and a lot of what I believe.
I don't think I'll ever get sick of hearing it.
We go to the doctor tomorrow for our 14 week check up, check back to see what news we get.
"to be alone with me, You went up on a tree."
There have been times when I've listened to this song for hours on repeat.
It's connected to a lot of memories and a lot of what I believe.
I don't think I'll ever get sick of hearing it.
We go to the doctor tomorrow for our 14 week check up, check back to see what news we get.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
The ocean conspires against us...
We had some friends from Iowa come and visit us yesterday afternoon. They were visiting some family in Vermont and stopped to spend the evening with us last night before continuing onto NYC today. It was kind of odd at first to see people from back home... Like they were out of place being here in the 'Shire. It wasn't odd for long, though, and we ended up having a great time showing them around and talking for hours.
One of the things we decided to do was drive to the beach so in order to check out the ocean. It's gotten pretty cold here recently and the wind coming off the Atlantic was chilling yesterday. The water was pretty rough, too, and we saw a good number of large waves crashing against the granite breakers just off-shore. There was one large rock about twenty feet out into the water that we were able to walk to because of the tide being low. We took the opportunity to climb the rock and take some pretty awesome pictures of the sea and the waves. After about twenty minutes on the rock, though, we started back to shore and realized that the tide had begun to come back in. Instead of having pebbles and stones to step across on our path back to shore, we had about 8-12" of 53-degree salt water to walk through. It made the short walk back to shore much more difficult than it should have been. Pants were soaked, feet were cut on rocks, and an ankle (mine) was mildly sprained. It makes for a good story, though, so I guess it was all worth it.
We went out to eat after our little ocean adventure, got some dessert, and came back to Durham. We talked about politics and God for the better part of two hours before watching the last couple of innings of Game One in the World Series and going to bed.
Sarah and I have really missed the opportunity to spend quality time with other Christian couples who understand and value the place we're in right now in our lives. Last night was a great chance for us to reconnect with God and with a couple the we truly love and appreciate.
Thanks, Thaddeus and Jenae.
Here's a picture for the rest of you... The sun came out long enough for us to take this one decent picture while out on the rock yesterday.
Stay Gold, everyone.
MMK
One of the things we decided to do was drive to the beach so in order to check out the ocean. It's gotten pretty cold here recently and the wind coming off the Atlantic was chilling yesterday. The water was pretty rough, too, and we saw a good number of large waves crashing against the granite breakers just off-shore. There was one large rock about twenty feet out into the water that we were able to walk to because of the tide being low. We took the opportunity to climb the rock and take some pretty awesome pictures of the sea and the waves. After about twenty minutes on the rock, though, we started back to shore and realized that the tide had begun to come back in. Instead of having pebbles and stones to step across on our path back to shore, we had about 8-12" of 53-degree salt water to walk through. It made the short walk back to shore much more difficult than it should have been. Pants were soaked, feet were cut on rocks, and an ankle (mine) was mildly sprained. It makes for a good story, though, so I guess it was all worth it.
We went out to eat after our little ocean adventure, got some dessert, and came back to Durham. We talked about politics and God for the better part of two hours before watching the last couple of innings of Game One in the World Series and going to bed.
Sarah and I have really missed the opportunity to spend quality time with other Christian couples who understand and value the place we're in right now in our lives. Last night was a great chance for us to reconnect with God and with a couple the we truly love and appreciate.
Thanks, Thaddeus and Jenae.
Here's a picture for the rest of you... The sun came out long enough for us to take this one decent picture while out on the rock yesterday.
Stay Gold, everyone.
MMK
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Cleaning
Sarah and I cleaned the apartment today. Well, one of us did more than the other. It was probably 75% Sarah and 25% me. I guess that's how it goes sometimes. Anyway, it looks nice. We're preparing for company later this week. One of my good friends from Iowa State will be coming through NH with his wife on Wednesday, so we're going to spend the afternoon and evening showing them around the area a little bit. They're absolutely great people, so we're stoked that they'll be here.
It's getting chilly here. I was wearing a hoodie and jeans outside tonight at about 8pm and very well could have had a coat on, too. Everyone keeps telling us just to "wait for the snow." This statement is always accompanied by a sly smile and some snickering. I tend to think that people here don't realize that Iowa is nearly at the same latitude as this part of New Hampshire, and that we get some pretty wicked winters back home. Oh well... I'm not worrying about the winters here, really. We'll survive.
I have MTVU on in the background and they are playing the newest T-Pain video. I just heard him say "I'll put you in a mansion somewhere is Wis-Can-Sin." Really, T-Pain? Really? What a stretch... I guess that's what you get, though, for being a total joke of a musician who lacks any talent whatsoever.
"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." - C.S. Lewis
I'm so ready for the election to be over and done with. I'm growing tired of hearing talking points. I'm done with the slander and the lies.
Oh, snap... It's time for SNL to start. I can't wait to laugh at Sarah Palin.
Stay Gold, kiddos.
MMK
It's getting chilly here. I was wearing a hoodie and jeans outside tonight at about 8pm and very well could have had a coat on, too. Everyone keeps telling us just to "wait for the snow." This statement is always accompanied by a sly smile and some snickering. I tend to think that people here don't realize that Iowa is nearly at the same latitude as this part of New Hampshire, and that we get some pretty wicked winters back home. Oh well... I'm not worrying about the winters here, really. We'll survive.
I have MTVU on in the background and they are playing the newest T-Pain video. I just heard him say "I'll put you in a mansion somewhere is Wis-Can-Sin." Really, T-Pain? Really? What a stretch... I guess that's what you get, though, for being a total joke of a musician who lacks any talent whatsoever.
"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." - C.S. Lewis
I'm so ready for the election to be over and done with. I'm growing tired of hearing talking points. I'm done with the slander and the lies.
Oh, snap... It's time for SNL to start. I can't wait to laugh at Sarah Palin.
Stay Gold, kiddos.
MMK
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