He's here


I know this is a little late... Actully one month late, but Luke Joshua Gulbranson is here. He was born July 24th, 2008 at 5:35pm. He weighed 6lbs 14oz and was 21in long.




Even though he was due August 7th, my doctor had told me that she wanted to deliver early because I had high blood pressure. On the afternoon of July 23rd Josh and I were having a typical day, he had come home from work and I had been feeling fine all day. Shortly after he came home I noticed that my ankles were more swollen then normal and upon further examination I noticed that it could be preeclampsia... I called the doctors office and they had me come in that afternoon. Pretty much the first thing out of her mouth was, 'I don't like this... let's have a baby.' I felt shock for one moment and then my mind was flooded with questions.
Once we arrived at the hospital things seemed to slow down. Even though I was contracting on my own nothing seemed to be moving along, after 8 hours I was only 4cm, at 12 the next afternoon I was finally ready to get started. To my dissapointment my doctor was in surgery somewhere and I was forced to be patient. Finally after 22 hours and 58 minutes Luke offically became a part of our family, and I was glad he decided to join us.

Peaches!!!

We've been in Georgia now for half a month and it's about time we try some authentic Georgia peaches. We went to the Lane Packing Peach Orchard to see what it was all about. We went on a self-guided tour of the plant and watched peaches go from crates off the tree to crates that go to the grocery store. They have a "you pick" but it's only for strawberries and they're not in season right now so we bought some fresh peaches to take home and some peach cider to try.

Peaches come in from the orchard
Then they're washed and waxed
Then each peach gets its own sticker and its picture taken to determine color and sizeThen, based on the size and/or color the peaches are pushed through specific holes in this conveyor so that they can be boxed up with similar peaches. This is where they go after they fall through the belt and then they're boxed up from here

Off to the grocery store

4th of July

For the 4th of July we went across the street to the high school football stadium for a free concert and fireworks. The Air Force Reserve band played some songs and than Lonestar played. It was pretty good and they played all of their popular songs. The fireworks were good too and they were timed to music. When it was all over we watched everyone get in their cars and try to get out of the parking lots and sit in traffic. We just walked home!




The Air Force Reserve Band
Lonestar


















Museum of Aviation

We went to the Museum of Aviation close to our house. They have quite a few airplanes outside but we didn't look at them because a storm was coming and it was really hot outside. Supposedly it's the second largest museum in the Air Force and it's only 5 minutes from our house!





It's A Boy!!!


The new addition

Today we saw our baby for the first time, we were so excited!








9 weeks old today!

New Year, same old stuff




















Our New Year's eve was spent with some good friends from Josh's ABM class, around a nice warm fire, because it was a chilly 45 degrees out.


















As the night wore on, the music got a little louder and the fire got a little bigger until finally the moment we were all waiting came. I'm not really sure is we counted down to the exact midnight because everyone's clock said something different.


At the end of the night, after the dance competition, and the fire jumping competition, everyone was ready to hit the hay. But I have to say, we could have had all the fun if we didn't have such a beautiful clear night to celebrate on.