Monterey Bay Aquarium

The day after the golf tournaments in Monterey, Chris and I went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It was cool getting to see all the different sea animals, both in the tanks and from the telescopes on the observation deck. We saw a bunch of sea otters in the bay rolling themselves up in seaweed to anchor themselves so they could sleep. We got to touch seastars and I touched a sea cucumber (very weird). We say itty bitty seahorses and seahorses that were atleast half a foot long. It was a great trip and I hope we will get to go back when I am able to be out and about more.

This was a 12 lb. lobster that was caught by a fisherman and donated to the aquarium about 3 months ago. He couldn't get himself to eat this big boy.

One of the seahorse tanks. It was hard to get a good picture of the seahorses since he actually swim quite fast.
Just a bunch of colorful fish. The one that is orange with one bright pink square is so strange. Don't even know what kind it it, but I like it.

Hey its Dorie from "Finding Nemo"!!!

Cool fish

This is a Cuddle Fish. They look so depressed and I sure wouldn't want to cuddle with one of these.

These are little eels that bury themselves in the sand.

A big black fish...I don't know what it was but it was willing to sit still for a picture.

I love the Jelly Fish tanks. They are so beautiful....I wouldn't want to swim with them but I like to look.

I love the colors of these Jelly Fish

Ahhhh!!! They're attacking Chris!!

These are very little Jelly Fish that light up and vibrate with color.

Same jellies as above picture.

I really like the markings of maroone on this one.

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.