Chris' golf tournament

Chris and three other guys from Lake Almanor West golf course qualified in a tournament to go play at Bayonet and Poppy Hills golf courses on the Monterey Peninsula. I went along for the ride and stayed at the hotel while they had their tournament each day. The weather was beautiful and cool feeling. It was foggy each morning and by mid afternoon the fog would start to roll back in. Chris and the other guys had a great time and were able to go see the famous Pebble Beach golf course and the US Open trophy.

The bay from Pebble Beach Golf Course. There are just a FEW seagulls there.

This is what Chris had to hit his golf ball into at the Bayonet Golf Course. Amazing he was able to even find his ball after hitting it. Makes for a little bit difficult round, but fun.
Chris and his friend, Dave, at Pebble Beach Golf Course. They were like kids getting to go to their favorite toy store. So funny to see....

This will be Chris' some day, just wait and see.

View from the 18th tee at Pebble Beach looking at the clubhouse. Very beautiful area. Too bad I only saw it from pictures but am so glad Chris got to go there.

My wonderful husband on the 18th tee at Pebble Beach Golf Course.

Chris teeing off at Bayonet...hit this one about 290 and split the fairway.

28 weeks

Just a couple of pictures of Chris and I when I was 28 weeks pregnant (currently 32 weeks pregnant). Chris was warming up on the driving range before heading out to play golf with a few long time friends of his, the Van Elderens.

Yeah I was big then...bigger now, Yikes!!

Catch up

This is a bit late but life has been crazy around the Herrbach house. Here are some pictures of our new house since we've moved in. We have a lot of work to do but with our little girl coming it has been put on hold. We have plans to landscape the front and backyards, put up a fence around the backyard and much more. Boxes are slowly getting unpacked and the mistakes that were done during construction are getting fixed by Chris. He already did a wonderful job with the master closet. We have been blessed with a great house in a nice neighborhood and soon we will have our little daughter to bring home to it.

Our guard dog by our front door

The back of our house with our temporary fence line. Chris is currently working on putting up the wood fence while I am in the hospital.
Our dogs enjoying their new yard. They'll love it when they get the whole yard to play in.

The front yard. Chris has been adding fill dirt to level out the ground before putting in a lawn and sprinklers.

The front of the house.

The dining room Kitchen from the dining room.

The kitchen

Living room from kitchen

Living room. Bedrooms are down the hall on the right side of this photo.

The nursery has been storage, but Chris' mom and sister said they will help get it ready before I come home with our little girl....whenever that might be.

Guest bathroom.

The newly remodeled master closet. Chris did a great job!!

Other side of closet.

Master bedroom looking at the entrance to the master bathroom.

Can't forget the king of the house...Putter the Great!!

Its a GIRL!!!

Well we have been told that we are having a baby GIRL!! On Friday the 15th we went to Lassen Radiology and were able to see our little girl squirm all over the place. Apparently she really likes TCBY frozen yogurt cause she was VERY active after I ate it. We saw her sucking her thumb, laying like a little froggy then hop up so her little bottom was up in the air and her head and feet were down. She rolled back and forth and waved at the camera for us. It was so cool to watch her move around and see what she is actually doing when I feel those little bumps of hers inside me. We have been asked to come back on June 12 to do a second look to make sure our little girl didn't sprout any other appendages in those 4 weeks. Though the views that we saw, it looks pretty clear that we are having a girl and not a boy! :)

Profile of baby girl Herrbach

Another profile of her
View of her spine with her head down

Little girl Herrbach waving at the camera

Baby Herrbach 15 weeks 3 days

Here our the newest pictures of baby Herrbach at 15 weeks 3 days. The doctor still can not tell if it is a boy or girl but we have a detailed ultrasound appointment May 15 at the hospital with a special tech person, not my regular doctor. They say we will be able to find out then what it is :) Hooray!! For now all you get to see are the bone structure pictures (which are a bit creepy looking. LOL!!) of our little one.

I started feeling baby "kicking" on sunday, but found out that those "kicks" are actually our little boxer punching me with its fists. It puts its arms above the head and starts wacking at me! (we saw our baby doing this while these pictures were taken) Very weird feeling. They are still not strong enough for Chris to feel them.

Head on left with arms above head. Picture cuts off at mid torso.

Head on left, very defined skull bones. Left fist in top of picture.
Close-up Baby Herrbach giving us the evil eye :) You can see the lens of the eye in the left eye socket. Creepy looking picture.....I love it!!

Waving its arms above its head again. Trying to hit mommy!!

Kinda hard to see, but these are the feet. Look to the left side of the dark circle, those are two little feet.

New house updates....which are now old updates!

Sorry for the delay in updating house pictures....its been a little busy around here. Carpets should be getting installed today, so we will have more pictures to post later. For now, we have pictures of the new sink in the kitchen, shower doors in both bathrooms, mirrors and the finished counters in the kitchen. Things are coming along and we are still told that we should be closing on May 1. I don't know though, it seems like they still have a lot of work to get done before then. The outside paint still needs to be done, the driveway needs to be paved, the pellet stove needs to be installed, the kitchen appliances need to be installed, the property needs to be graded, the house needs to inspected by VA and we need to do a walk through where we point out the problems that we see (we are already starting a list of things that need to be fixed) and they need to have it all fixed before we sign papers. They need to hurry up if they expect us to sign the papers May 1.

Kitchen and part of the dining room. Counters are done and sink is installed.

The cupboards aren't covered in plastic anymore...we are outdated already.
Here is our new sink....we picked it out and told them to order it. Apparently they were having a hard time finding a stainless steel sink in their price range.....I found one in about 10 minutes at homedepot.com.

Nice faucet...it has the pull-out handle.

Shower doors in the guest bathroom.

Shower door in the master bathroom....they must have dropped it on the shower when installing because there is a chip out of the fiberglass shower on the outside (part of our list that needs to be fixed).

Big mirror in the master bathroom and faucets installed.

And this is the meadow near where we live that we will be taking our walks in...not a bad view either.

Baby Herrbach picture

Here is our first picture of baby Herrbach, well that you can actually see something!! When we got the ultrasound we could see our baby kicking and wiggling and moving its arms around so fast! It was so neat to see our baby move so much. This is actually a bad picture compared to how much we saw. We could see the arms and legs and the little fingers while it moved and kicked. I think the doctor clicked the freeze button just a little too late. In this picture you can see the head and body with a little fist just above the belly and a little knee or foot moving around just to the right of the body. Chris and I were so excited to get to see our little one moving all around today!!

Baby Herrbach at 11 weeks and 3 days. Kicking up a storm!

We weren't even supposed to have a picture taken today, but the doctor was having a hard time finding the heart beat. It turns out that the baby is higher than he expected right now and was looking in the wrong spot. Which I am happy about because we got a nice picture out of it. Today I had to go in for an appointment to test my sugar levels in my urine because they were too high last week. Well...I failed the test again this week and need to go in for an hour long glucose test, probably tomorrow, to see if I could possibly get gestational diabetes. I'm not worried about it though. They also tested my blood today with a finger prick test and my blood sugar levels are very normal. So I guess we'll wait and see what they say after I fast and take the glucose test tomorrow morning.

Anyhow, I felt like it was a very good appointment and am starting to feel a lot better. My energy is starting to come back more and the nausea is not as strong as it was. I still avoid certain foods though. I am so thankful for how well the pregnancy is going and for having such a wonderful husband that has gone with me to all my appointments so far. We are so blessed. I will keep you posted on any new developments. After the glucose test tomorrow, my next appointment is not until April 16th.