Videos of Heidi - 1 week old

Here are a couple of videos that I took when Heidi was one week. I actually haven't taken that many videos since then, especially this long. She is just keeping me more busy now! Sorry that they are so long. I was (and still am) a new mom, what can I say? I will not get offended by any means if you only last through the first 10 seconds or so. :) One of them is of her hiccuping, which she did so much at the beginning and now only rarely does. They grow up so fast!

Heidi crying 2 weeks old

Here is one of our first videos of Heidi from when she was about 2 weeks old and crying. She had a full head of hair back then, which she lost, and now is trying to grow back!

Our baby!

It's been almost a year since our last post! How sad. Our life has definitely changed since then. Yes, we still have the Jeep, but now we have a baby girl, Heidi! She was born June 8, 2010 8 lbs 4 oz and 20 inches long. She is now 6 months old, at 14 lbs and 27.5 inches long! How much she has changed... Here are a couple of pictures from her birth. Enjoy!

The hat was knitted from some ladies at a retirement community nearby. They have knitted over 40,000 hats for newborns! It's too big in this picture, but it now fits her 6 month head.

More Jeep Trips

Its been a while since an update. I decided to revive this blog so I'll try and spend this week catching up on the stuff we did this last year.

Starting with some offroading. We put 12,000 miles on the jeep this year. Probably a thousand of that off the pavement. In March we lifted in and put some new tires on in. The photo is from May 2009.

Our Jeep Travels

Since we got our Jeep in the beginning of January, we have been on 2 off-roading trips, not getting into too much trouble despite our non-mud terrain tires.  

The first time we went to Reiter trails up past Monroe on highway 2 in mid-January, just a couple weeks after buying our Jeep.  Here are some pictures.

All the Jeep Wranglers.  A CJ, TJ, and JK

Andy's checking out the fresh mud on the Jeep

At the view point, above the clouds

Finally a picture without the Jeep

Our Jeep going through some mud

We just went to Tahuya near Belfair, WA, on Sunday Feb. 15th

I'm eating a strawberry during a break time

Going down the first hill climb.  It was a lot steeper than it looks in the picture.  It looks like it's straight down!

Going through some mud.  There was much more mud in Tahuya than Reiter. 

We made it!  It's a bit more frightening than I would like, but we'll see how it goes after we get the new lift and tires.  

Holiday pictures

Here are some Christmas pictures with our families as well as some from my nephew, Clayton's, 5th birthday party.

Kragt family on Christmas

My nephew, Owen, on his first Christmas

I am playing Owen's maracas

Lucas is measuring the snow, about 15 inches

Clayton is 5 years old!  Sadie, his sister, is on his right, Audrey, his cousin, is on his left and Finn, his cousin, is in the front.

Jenni and me

Jenni, Grandma Bott, and me

Andy in Clayton's Star Wars helmet

Clayton in his helmet

Claire-bear

Sadie with a coffee candy in her mouth and me

Back in the states

Well, Andy and I have been back in the states for almost a month now.  We spent time with both our families for the holidays, and then found an apartment in north Seattle right after Christmas.   Andy started his new job position with Kiewit Pacific right after the new year.   He is working right in downtown Seattle walking distance to Safeco field.  He's been given a lot more responsibility as an office engineer on the project site.  I am now looking for a lab job.  

Here are some pictures of our apartment, first day and now furnished.

The move-in team

Our apartment now - our new furniture

Our kitchen and dining area

We also needed a new car, so Andy was really excited to get this 2007 Jeep.

I am driving the Jeep for the first time