Anchor Point Friends!

The girls at church put on a baby shower for Gideon.  It seriously could not have been any cuter!!  We had coffee and dessert, my friend Anna did a devotional and led us in prayer and then we colored these cute little pictures to make an alphabet book for Giddy.  So sweet!  It was really fun and such a lovely group of ladies.

Update.

We have A LOT of snow.

AND this boy is 6 weeks old on Thursday!!

Our sweet baby BOY!

When Robby said "its a boy!" I had to check to make sure.  I was so sure it was going to be a girl that I was a little in shock.  I'm totally loving having a baby boy… he's feisty yet sweet and his chubby cheeks are getting chubbier every day.

Overall everything went great with the delivery.  Gideon was pinching a nerve in my back causing me to be in SO MUCH pain that I got induced on my due date.  I was scared to death to get an epidural… but I ended up getting one to help me sleep before delivery and it was the best decision I could have made.  It was amazing and I don't think I could have a baby without one now.. haha.

Our life has changed quite a bit now that Gideon is here.  It's been fun, challenging, exhausting… and every time I look at him my heart melts.  It's such an unbelievable feeling and an unexplainable love.

We've been so blessed by all of our friends in Duluth.  We have had meals dropped off almost every night for three weeks…. I haven't had to cook.  It's been such a blessing because the last thing you want to do with a new baby is cook.  Also, we've had friends shovel our driveway, run errands for us and the list go's on.  Seriously, such a blessing!

Here is a fun little glimpse at all of the fun visitors we had at the hospital!  It seems like so long ago already!

And here is a glimpse at all of our Skype visitors…

 The Headricks!

We also have had a ton of visitors to our home…

Fun With the Frey's

My little love boy!!

Cutest Puppy!

We entered Kenai in the cutest puppy contest.  The contest raised money for the John Beargrease Sled Dog Race.  I never imagined there would be soooooo many people to come out just to see puppies.  It was crazy… hundreds and hundreds of people.  Kenai did SO good.  Robby took her for a run to burn off her energy before the contest.  She was so calm and gave all of the kids kisses.  She was a hit that's for sure!  She ended up bringing in 3rd place… out of 40 puppies not too bad!  We still think she was the cutest there by far.  We won VIP passes to the sled dog race, a fancy leash, dog food, dog booties, treats, gift certificates to pet stores and all kinds of other things.  She is just such a little love!

The Duluth Trading Co. even tweeted her as their pick for cutest puppy!!

Our vote for the @johnbeargrease Cutest Puppy contest. Meet Kenai, Siberian Husky, 6 months. #beargrease pic.twitter.com/hLhLgkBxoT
— Duluth Trading Co. (@DuluthTradingCo) January 25, 2014

Happy New Year!

I have been such a procrastinator with my blog - i'm sorry!  I plan to put much more effort into it this year & have a feeling my blog will be full of all things baby (and puppy).  Here is a recap of some fun things that happened the past few months.

We went down to the Duluth hot air balloon festival.  Sadly, it was too windy to put up the balloons so this is the best picture I got.  The moon rising above the lake was well worth our trip down to the lake to a balloon festival with no balloons.  :)

Jill & Shawn have been busy brewing their own beer.  We made it down to the cities for Thursday night brew night.  It looked like a chemistry project going on in their kitchen. Fun!

 Baby Dane got baptized at camp!  We have a mini reunion of camp staff celebrating Dane's baptism together.  We had such a fun time catching up with everyone and meeting sweet baby Dane.

And we got to meet baby Gus - GUS HAS HAIR!  Seriously, does he just melt your heart?

 Every morning Kenai & I have coffee together.  It's just the best.  This was when I could still hold her… she is getting big so fast!

Robby & Duke released pheasants together on the farm.  They buy the pheasants from a farm, band them and then release them onto our farm.  It was really neat to watch.  Robby was so excited all he could do was hug uncle Duke!

Michelle is my new co-worker who also happens to be a NDSU alumni.  We celebrated one day by sporting out Bison gear at work.  It was fun - most people were like "Where is NDSU?"

Robby got to go elk hunting in Montana.  He was really excited to experience elk camp!

My two favorite Duluth girls came over for a hot chocolate party (with unlimited marshmallows)!

Alexis and I grew up together and are both having our 1st baby!  She is due two days after me.  It would be fun to have a baby on the same day!

 This is after our 1st crazy snow storm.  We got 34" of snow in one storm!!

I was so excited to put lights on my charlie brown tree… the snow kinda covered them up.

 Kenai LOVES the snow.  It's hard to get her to come inside.  Robby says she looked like a killer whale going through the snow.  She burrows all of the way under and then pops up.  It's pretty fun to watch her in her element.  Most of the time her head is buried in a snow pile.  When we are done playing and she burns off her energy she loves to cuddle!

35 weeks pregnant and still flipping lefse like a pro.

 The crazy Ohren/Balgaard/Hoff Chirstmas photo.  We are never really normal so why pretend?

We do a women's gift exchange at our party and FOUR out of the nine women gifted the new Pioneer Woman Cookbook.  I mean of all the things you can give as a gift… what are the odds?!?  It's a fabulous cookbook!

 Robby was in charge of our New Years Eve party.  A grain belt for my love… a sanpellegrino (best ever pregnancy drink) for preggers & sushi rolls for dinner.  I didn't get a picture of the best part though… KEY LIME PIE.  I could die on the couch eating key lime pie.

Two of my running buddies are also pregnant and none of us are finding out the gender!  When running became a pain we started walking together every Wednesday night.  Can't wait to get our strollers out for a good run together!

Natalie was due two days after me… and surprise she had her baby a week ago!  She had a boy and named him Jax… he is so sweet and so little!

Roberto, Kenai & I out for a walk.  The little puller got put on a gentle leader and our walks are much more enjoyable now.  Can't wait to teach this baby girl how to Skijorn.  She is a puller that's for sure!!

39 weeks pregnant!  This is my bosses wife and she is just an incredible person.  They don't live far from us so she will make a great adopted Duluth grandma!

Robby's work threw me a baby shower a couple weeks ago.  Everyone was so nice and it was a lot of fun!

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 You might be wondering what you do at a military baby shower.  Well they do pushups of course!  Why wouldn't they?  A pushup for every week.

And here I am 39 weeks pregnant!  ALMOST THERE!