Nesting ....Dinner Time!

Mark and I have enjoyed numerous meals around our first dining room table.  It was a good little table that served it's purpose, but couldn't serve many mouths. 

So when Gramma passed away I inherited her dining room table with several leaves and a few memories of good meals shared together.  My excitement level was low about the 1960's finish though and so the table sat in the garage for a little bit while we decided its destiny ....

A few coats of flat black paint, a set of new chairs and VOILA!  A star is born!!!!

Nesting ... in the Guest Room

The Guest Room.  The Purple Princess Room.  The Spare Room.  Erin's Room ..... we call it a lot of different things. 

I made my poor husband "spruce up" this extra bedroom before he could start any of the baby projects.  I don't know why.  Maybe because we've been in the house for eight years and it needed a face lift.  Or maybe because I acquired treasures I wanted to honor when Gramma passed away recently.  Or maybe because I was too overwhelmed to let him start a project with actual purpose and needed a practice-project to get warmed up. 

Whatever the reasoning, our Guest Room has been updated.  And it's full of things I love.  It's still delightfully purple.  And Erin has slept in it twice, giving it her approval!

One of these quilts came from my Great-Grandmother Cordia!

The large urn was my Gramma Jeanne Betsey's!

The chair came from my parents house!

The lamp is from Hong Kong, the hat box is full of vintage chapeaus and the mirrored tray was my Gramma's!



Mark's updated toy ...

Mark is in surgery right now getting a new Internal Defibrilator.  It's hard to believe that almost 6 years have passed since we started down this crazy road.  It was the morning of July 9th, 2005 when he went into cardiac arrest.  And then respiratory arrest.  And then died.  And then received three really GOOD hits from the EMT's External Defibrilator that brought him back to life and a two week stay at Overlake.  God bless the folks in the Bellevue Fire Department, Overlake Emergency Department, the ICU and the Cardiac Care Unit! 

We talked about many of those past events this morning as he was prepped for this latest round of surgery.  Thankfully Mark does not remember anything from the week leading up to it, his time at the hospital or even too much about the day he was released.  I wouldn't want him to remember any of that anyways .... I wish that I didn't remember any of it!  But today is a different story.  Today is a simple procedure to put in a new Defibrilator that will take up less room in his chest and should have a battery life of 10 years.  So we applaud technology and all of the medical staff here at Overlake. We thank the Lord for continuing to care for us and bless us.  And we are headed to Burger Master as soon as Mark is cleared for release .... no one deserves a milkshake more than that kid!!!!

Car Shopping .... Eastern Addition

Pam and Dave have been car shopping in Saudi Arabia.  The process has been VERY entertaining for them and they are now the proud owners of a Toyota Landcruiser.  We call those "land-crushers" at Casa de Goetz and Mark was worried about them keeping gas in the tank of such a gas-guzzler until I reminded him that they ARE living on the Arabian peninsula .... they just GIVE gas away for FREE over there!!!  My folks were kind enough to share a few pics to help all of us, back at home, experience the Eastern addition of car shopping!

Welcome to Auto Row of Yanbu:














Here is your selection - hope you wanted something in white:

You can rest in the waiting room while the paperwork is being drawn up:

I'm incompetent

Well, I'm not incompetent, but my cervix is.  And I don't want to gross out any poor male reading this blog by throwing around anatomical terms or diagrams.  Suffice it to say my cervix is supposed to hold the baby IN until it's time to deliver and our doctor just is not confident that mine is capable.  We're trying some meds and monitoring baby-boy with weekly ultrasounds.  He's an absoltue jumping bean so I'm supposed to remain seated as much as possible and limit standing to 30 minutes or less.  This means no more Zumba classes and no more step-aerobics and no more Spin classes and no marathon trips to the mall or crazy days spent on yard work or new home remodeling projects.  I have been told to hold still ..... Mark didn't even flinch when the perinatologist instructed me to "act like a princess."  Lawd have mercy on us all!

So now I just sit around the house:

And I watch Mark cook dinner.

And then I watch Mark rotate loads of laundry.

And then Mark carries in the groceries.... etc.

And then I check my lunch-lady-arms in the mirror .... yup, a few more weeks of this "bed rest" business and I'll be ready to take my flabby arms to the Bingo Parlor or a Swap Meet.  It's a good thing that I already like our little jumping bean so much!

does anyone REALLY eat turnips?

Week #17: Baby weighs as much as a turnip - 5 ounces, with a length of 5 inches from head to bottom.

Last week baby was the size of an avocado and that was much more fun.  We had guacamole!  But honestly, does anyone REALLY eat turnips?  I had a hard time finding one at the grocery store.  And then I had to Google this root vegetable to familiarize myself with it ....okay, so folks down South like turnip greens.  I knew that.  But does anyone actually seek out, look forward to and want to eat the turnip itself?!?!?

Please report back if you have something to share regarding the lowly turnip!

Expansion Team

Team-Goetz is proud to announce the impending expansion of our Ball Club .....

We anticipate the debut of our very own Farm League in late September!

While several fans had expressed hopes for fast-pitch softball, current and unsubstantiated reports indicate baseball is a more likely outcome.