Naked Baby & Our Anniversary

Jacob and I celebrated our two year anniversary this week. I can hardly believe the amazing blessings we have received in just two years! Thank you to all of our friends and family that called or sent cards, you are amazing. So what did we do on our anniversary? We planned to re-enact our first date and go bowling and out for dinner. Curtis however wasn't feeling well so instead we stayed in and had pizza, margaritas, and brownies. It turned out to be a great family night once Curtis' medicine had kicked in! We do have plans to go out just the two of us as soon as my parents return from their travels for a more romantic evening. More than anything our night in made us realize how beautiful our marriage really is. Spending an evening watching each other nurturing Curtis makes us realize what marriage is really all about. We are so blessed! Our naked baby has nothing to do with this post but I thought our anniversary blog should involve at least some nudity :)

Zane Austin Koogler has arrived!!!

Sabrina and John gave birth to a beautiful baby boy yesterday evening at 7:30. Sabrina was absolutely amazing and had handled everything beautifully. She delivered Zane only four hours after her water broke and she started to have true contractions. What a champ! He is 9 lbs 12 oz. Ready to be a football player already! Welcome baby Zane!

Whats new

Curtis is doing wonderfully. He is sitting up really well on his own and really enjoys to play by himself as long as mommy and daddy aren't too far away! He has started to pull himself up on things also. I had NO idea that he would be able to do that so young. Yesterday he did it twice on the laundry basket and today he did it a few more times by holding onto his bumbo seat. We spent the day today with the Meyer clan. Lily Grace is our beautiful God daughter. She was amazingly gentle with Curtis and the two of them enjoyed the visit as well. Check out our picassa site for more pictures. The most exciting thing that happened today is SABRINA IS IN LABOR!! Finally! Keep you posted on details. Her water broke today around one and they headed to the birthing center around four. I can't wait to see if its a boy or a girl! Will post pictures asap!

The babes

I just wanted to post a blog to tell everyone how amazing Curtis and Anna are. I absolutely love these kiddos and it was so special to spend the week with them both. For starters they are just freakin adorable! I love how Anna does a bobble head motion when she is sitting up by herself. It really cracks me up when she gets her right arm into the braves motion at the same time as the bobble. She is a talented little one with great personality. The two of them are truly a sight. Curtis couldn't keep his hands off of Anna and ate her clothing every time we turned around. I think they are in love already! Our trip was absolutely amazing and it made me realize how much I wish we all lived closer to one another. I cry in the airport every time I leave them because I honestly feel like I am leaving my family behind. Michael and Emily are some of my favorite people in the entire world. I am so blessed to have such honest, loving, and dedicated friends. It is so wonderful to have friends who, even though they live half way across the country, I know are always there. I could go on all day about my love for those two. Thanks for everything you guys!!!

Hallelujah!

Jillian visits the holy land...aka the mall of America. Seriously that place is amazing! I can not describe to you the feeling you get when you realize there are hundreds of stores full of stuff and you have an amazing husband with a credit card for you to use at your discretion. HALLELUJAH! The babes rode in the strollers and the husbands entered into every techie store in the place. Emily and I girled it up and had a blast. So I am not even done blogging about our Minnesota vacation and I am already on another one! I am spending the week in Corpus Christi with my mom and dad. Check out Picasa for some pictures of our adventures here. More to come sooner rather than later I hope!

Curtis' first trip to the zoo

Saturday morning we took the crew for the babies first trip to the zoo. You should have seen how much junk we stuffed in the expedition! We had two strollers, two bijorns, two diaper bags, coolers, sunscreen, hats, blankets, sunglasses, seriously the list goes on. Since the babies were never in the stroller at the same time I ended up being the crazy lady with the empty stroller for her "baby" the entire day. We wizened up as the trip went on and took only one stroller and one bijorn on our other adventures. Anyhow the Minnesota zoo was fantastic! I highly recommend it if you are ever in the area. They had some of the craziest animals I had ever seen. Michael and Jacob had a great time being photographers and we have about four hundred pictures of every animal known to man (see our Picasa site if you are interested). The babes had a wonderful time and especially loved the shark and fish exhibit. It was really amazing to see how interested they were in all of the exhibits. Our children are geniuses I swear! Curtis had his camo safari hunting outfit on, those moose were trembling in their boots when we passed! Next post Jillian visits the holy land...

Oh geez don't ya know yeah you betcha!

We spent six amazing days up in Minnesota this month. It was Curtis' first vacation and plane ride. We had an awesome time, and I plan to blog at least five times to capture all the highlights. Curtis was a trooper through the two plane trips to St. Paul. Yes, two. We stopped in Atlanta, so Curtis spent 5 1/2 hours on the plane on the way out. Even with an hour delay he was an all star traveler and earned his wings. We visited with Jacob's Grandma Dub and had a picnic with some of his extended family in the evening. Uncle Jim, Aunt Donna, and Robbie made the trip from Minnetonka. Jim looks fantastic and is still a goof ball. Glad to see he hasn't lost his sense of humor! Dave, Mary, Jonathan, and Jennifer came down from Cambridge and rounded out the family crew. Mike, Emily, and Anna joined us as well.

I swear Curtis is already in love with Anna. He was totally intent on her the entire trip. Look at the pictures of them on the couch snuggling...looks like a beautiful relationship in the making to me! Curtis provided the entertainment of the evening with his rendition of the lost art of Native American chant. You got to hear it, too cute! More adventures to come.