Fishing Family

2010-02-22T16:46:00.000-08:00

The Many Faces of Emma!

They say that the first baby gets all the pictures and by the second and third parents stop taking pictures, but I will probably prove them wrong I just love taking pictures and when the subject is this cute how can you resist. Here is just a bunch of random pics of Emma from the last couple months since I have fallen behind.

wow can you believe those eyes? I hope they don't change.

telling me all about her day. :)

tuckered out!

MOM! it's to small!!

Suprise!

yum, yum.

squishy!!

a little too close. really makes those eyes pop!

you mean this one?

love my new chair. Thanks Michelle.

2010-02-22T15:37:00.000-08:00

Madras Aquatic Center

Emma really loves the water so we took her to the pool in the neighboring town and she had a blast. She kept trying to drink the water and when she got excited she would splash like a maniac. We went in the lazy river and the fountains and she loved them all.

There so welcoming here.

Im a maniac, maniac!

the next two should be swapped .

Paddle, paddle, paddle

2010-02-22T15:01:00.000-08:00

Splish Splash

After one time taking a bath in the deep tub the was no going back to those baby tubs. This girl LOVES the water. She kept sticking her head in it trying to drink it, funny girl! Can't wait to see what happens in the big pool.

2010-02-22T14:54:00.000-08:00

Civil War!!

Cutest little beaver ever!!

2010-02-22T14:26:00.000-08:00

Presents!

Watching Emma open presents for the first time was so funny I think she might have actually

liked the wrapping paper more than the gifts watch how he holds it out for all to see! So cute!

use those teeth!!

Ta-Duh!!

2010-02-22T13:23:00.000-08:00

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

I know these pictures are way late and out of order but I have so much catching up to do I just quickley put them on. I absolutley love Christmas time! I really wish it was all year long I usually start listening to christmas songs in July or August I know crazy right? I love it. Every year since Dave and I met we go cut down our Christmas tree together this year I got the biggest fullest tree ever it took up most of our living room but It was beautiful!

2009-11-23T16:22:00.000-08:00

How did I end up here?

Emma is trying to learn to crawl but for now she mostly just rolls around wherever she wants to go. When she tries to crawl she usually get her arms under her and ends up pushing backwards. I was quite suprised the other day when I went into the kitchen for a moment and came back to find a very confused face peering out from under the couch.

I began laughing so hard that she thought she was being pretty funny and started smiling herself.

Crazy kid!!

2009-11-21T10:47:00.000-08:00

Saying Goodbye

Dave as we all know loves to fish but if your gonna go fishing you need to take a camera because you need evidence when all you do is catch and release. So when I bought my camera many years ago before meeting Dave I never thought of all the fishing (swimming) it would be doing. My cute little Nikon took many great pictures and went on lots of fun trips, many of which it became submerged a time or two. But that good ol' camera kept on working.

For a long time we have talked about getting Dave a underwater camera so we didn't have to worry about it not living through another fishing trip. I just couldn't quite get myself to say ok to this though because my camera still worked just fine. A few weeks ago however Dave came home from a fishing trip and told me that not only had my camera been swimming again but it had gone swimming with it's lens open. Dave thought she was done for but I thought for sure she would make it again, she always did.

The next morning I got up early like I usually do and started breakfast for Dave. I preheated the oven and started the cinnamon rolls. When the oven beeped that it was heated and the rolls were reay to go in I opened the door to and there in the oven on a hot plate was...

MY CAMERA!!

The poor thing was melted completeley, destroyed beyond repair! I quickly grabbed the camera and went running to the bedroom where Davey was fast asleep I said "WHAT THE HECK IS THIS!?" quickly he woke up and stared at me. Then he proceeds to ask "why didn't you look in the oven before you turned it on?" there was nothing left to do the camera was destroyed and the accomplice was in complete denial, so I just laughed! There is no use crying over spilt milk. The damage was done and I have to admit it was a pretty funny way of loosing the camera.

It went out with a a bang or should I say burn.

The only thing I really regret is this happened a couple days before my cousins wedding so I had no camera to use. But we got a deal on a new camera and it is water proof down to 30 feet so Dave can take it fishing anytime he wants!

2009-11-01T12:51:00.000-08:00

Happy Halloween!

like most things in my life these days I didn't remember get a costume so at 3 pm on Halloween I tried to think of a cute costume that I could throw together.I didn't have much to work with so I found this hat and played around...

Then I thought why not use all the fake grebera daisies I have around the house and make her a flower! She is so cute! definatley the best looking flower I have ever seen!

2009-10-31T20:02:00.000-07:00

Fall Walks

With the weather outside changing and the scenery becoming more colorful and beautiful by the day I use this time to take Emma out for walks and get her eyes busy looking at our Heavenly Fathers beautiful work. She looks so cute all bundled up and happy to be out.

I am so bummed this picture ended up being a little blurry she got excited and moved to quick for the setting I had my camera on. Dang it! Still cute though.

2009-08-21T21:38:00.000-07:00

SCRUBA DUB DUB!!

Our little Emma has really grown fast. She is so sweet and smiles all the time. After her bath I couldn't resist taking a bunch of pictures. Those big blue eyes just draw you in. I blew up a few of them and put them in nice frames to put in her nursery.

Come and get me!!

This bottom one is one of my favorites she looks so cute and her big blue eyes seem to go right through you!!

2009-06-26T09:09:00.000-07:00

YEE-HAW!!!

Move 'em out, head 'em up,Head 'em up, move 'em on.Move 'em out, head 'em up Rawhide. Cut 'em out, ride 'em in,Ride 'em in, cut 'em out,Cut 'em out, ride 'em in Rawhide!

Every year Prineville starts the rodeo weekend with a cattle drive down the middle of town. They used to have a lot more cattle but they would get out of control and romp all the towns landscaping. So this year the almost seemed to have more horses than cattle. It's quite fun to watch but if your not there on time you will miss it. Enjoy these shots!

2009-06-26T08:52:00.000-07:00

Kaden's Birthday

This last weekend we went down to Corvallis for Kaden's 4th birthday party. He turned four a couple weeks ago but had his party later. One of his gifts was this guitar from my mom, she had to ask permission though because last year she got him a pretty loud acordian (sorry Heather). I took a lot of pictures but out of them all this was definatley my favorite. I think it says it all.

ROCK ON KADEN!!

2009-06-26T08:18:00.000-07:00

Born to Fish!

Our little Emma had already been fishing by the time she was a week old I guess she was just born to fish. We are lucky to have a creek in the back yard so Dave got the great idea to fix up his old creel and take some pictures. They turned out so cute! Little Emma is definatley the best catch either of us have ever had.

2009-06-25T21:28:00.000-07:00

Our Little Angel

Being a first time mother I never really understood how much love we are capable of. I have found that when you have a child a bond is formed that makes life better than ever. To know that this little angel depends on you so completly makes you change your whole life around her and smile while doing it.

Even when feeding time comes at 2 a.m. knowing I am with my baby Emma makes me happy. I am sure you can see by these pictures how she wraps everyone she meets around her little fingers. She truly is adorable.

2009-05-07T20:08:00.000-07:00

Emma Baer Halbleib

Ok so I finished the nursery (and hospital bag) on Saturday and cleaned the house pretty spotless because we had Dave's parents and my dad over for dinner Sunday. I guess I really jinxed myself because when I went in for my weekly dr. check-up on Tuesday I never checked out. They sent me across the parking lot to the hospital birthing center. There were a few different complications and red flags that caused it, but in the short run it was mostly my blood pressure level. And after they said they were gonna possibly send me to the hospital to have her today the blood pressure went WAY HIGH!

I called Dave and told him he better leave work and head to bend! I called my parents and sisters and everyone was on there way. I checked in, got in the dumb gown, got the IV put in (I hate needles so this was really hard for me) and waited. After a couple hours everyone showed up. Because I wasn't dialated at all they had to give my drugs to start the process. Nothing happened for a long time so everyone went to grama's house to get sleep until we called. At 12:30 that night my water broke. Needless to say that was a very strange feeling and when I started laughing it only got worse! We called in the nurse and she was very happy that it broke on it's own, then she told me things would really start happening now. I thought bring it on let's get the ball rolling...bad idea!! The next few hours were awfull. I was reacting badly to the contractions and they wanted to start me on pitocin which would make the contractions worse so I got the epidural. It worked wonders on me, but as soon as the contractions started coming more frequently things went down hill for baby. I was pretty out of it because I was so tired and no longer in pain but I knew the doctors were in the room and watching me. I could here them talking to Dave every once in a while. Every time I had a contraction Emma's heart rate would drop. When it hit 60 around 4:30 am they told me I had to go in for an emergency C-section. I got the shakes really bad and wouldn't let go of Dave's hand telling him I couldn't do it and not to let them take me in because I was terrified. He assured me that it was gonna be ok and he would be there with me. They all got in there scrubs and took me into the operating room. I demanded Dave had to be there and as soon as he came in I felt so much better. With all the drugs I didn't feel a thing and just locked myself on Dave until 5:05 am when they said "here she is" and I couldn't believe it was over. They let Dave cut the cord and brought my beautiful baby to me. Then said my job for the next two hours was to sleep. I thought that sounded pretty good! The next thing I remember was my mom walking in at 7:30am and asking how things were coming along, needless to say she was very suprised to see Dave holding a beautiful baby girl. My family was all gonna be in the room when I had the baby so for them to miss everything was a shock. My baby is named after her great great great grama Emma Baer. I hope you all enjoy the pictures.

Love at first sight!

Dave looks good in scubs!!

This one is a little out of order. This is before baby.

look at all that hair!! and it's wavy too!

A smile already! She is so cute.

Her first bath. Look at that mohawk.

Wrinkly little feet and toes.

AAWWWWW!!

I was just praying that my baby would be healthy. I got healthy and beautiful! We are truly blessed to have this sweet little Emma in our lives.

We love you Baby Emma Baer!

2009-05-07T15:21:00.000-07:00

Baby Emma's Room

So at 37 weeks along I thought I had better get started on that baby's room I bought the crib on craigslst on thursday and sent Dave off fishing on Saturday and got going. This is the old guest room which I moved everything from there into the bigger third bedroom and put the baby's room here.

This is before...

So I put the queen bed into the other room and moved the entertainment center as well then I put together the crib and moved in the book shelf/ clothes shelves and this was my end result...

And this cute bedding came with the crib.

2009-04-05T11:35:00.000-07:00

Our piece of Hawaii

2 years ago when we went to the beautiful island of Oahu we brought back with us 4 plumeria plants. One we gave to Dave's parents, one to his bother Mike, one to my parents and one we kept for ourselves.

The instructions that came with the plant said that it would not grow more than probably a foot or two because they were small cuts. The three we gave away and our bloomed very nicely the first year. And we were pleased with the beautiful site and smell of Hawaii in our home.

Shortly after summer time it stopped the bloom and the plant went dormant so to speak. Ours continued to grow leaves but wouldn't bloom again. We continued to norish it in hopes that we would soon see flowers again. The other hree we gave away had all bloomed and like our went dormant after the summer. But unlike ours they did not grow any more leaves. They all (including ours) got a little creature called spider mites. We tried everything to get rid of them and before we new it our parents and brother had thrown there's away. My mom told me that my great grama used mayonaise to smother the bad creatures on her plants so I thought what the heck im gonna do it. I spread mayo all over the plant and soon all the bugs died. We hoped it would not have ill effects on our plant because it seemed that the leaves we smothered as well. But in time it came back and stonger than ever it is now huge and growing more and more every day!! It has all but taken over the dining room. We love our little piece of Hawaii and hope this summer we will get back the blooms.

2009-03-15T19:00:00.000-07:00

"MONSTER FISH"

One of Dave's favorite prey is the monster Metolious Bull Trout!

He caught a beauty of a monster this day. This is one of his favorite pictures of the beast, because the head of the beast is the only thing that fits in the net. And it's not a small net.

He was 29 inches of fight.
Good Job baby!

I'm sure he was using his awsome casting skills. He went to the Sportmans show last week and decided to have a little fun and enter the casting contest. Of course he was awesome and made it into the finals. The only problem was that finals were on sunday.

I guess we'll never know how awesome he really is. Although i'm pretty sure if you get a chance to fish with him you will figure it out pretty quick when he gets all the fish in our hole from 50 yards downstream. What can I say I married the best!!

Love you Baby!!

2009-03-15T18:34:00.000-07:00

FISHING WITH UNCLE DAVE!

When Heather and Dave went to Hawaii Kaden stayed with grama and Grampa in Prineville. But you can't come to Prineville without uncle Dave taken for a fun fishing trip.

We started in the creek behind the house, and ended up dow in the town park.

Kaden was the official netter. He made sure he had the net at all times.

Look what I caught!!
Good job Kaden!!

Beauty! It was a successful day all around although it was freezing. We had to call grama halfway through becuase poor kaden was shakin like a leaf.

2009-03-06T18:45:00.000-08:00

Blast From the Past

In High School I was on the dance team and we went to Portland for Nationals. We didn't buy the video which now I really wish we had but we did buy the professional shots and this is one of them. My mom was going through some boxes in the garage and found a bunch of my childhood photos. So I thought I would share this funny picture that looks nothing like me (too much make-up and that hair!)

(and I know this is just like Jaclyns blog but I assure you it was total luck my mom just found it)

2009-01-28T22:31:00.000-08:00

GETTING HUGE!!

I am already into my sixth month. I can't believe it. Time is really flying.

So far the only thing I have really craved have been gummy worms!

I can still see my feet, thats a plus. But they say you grow the most in the last 3 months so I am hoping I will grow gracfully. She is really kicking around a lot now.

Dave was so sweet the other night, he felt her move for the first time and got excited and then he wiped out and fell asleep with his hand on my belly. So sweet.

And I am pretty sure that the little one knows her daddy's voice when he gets home in the morning he comes in and says hello and then she really starts kicking around. I think she misses her pops since we hardly get to see each other any more with the new work schedule.

2009-01-28T22:19:00.000-08:00

SLEIGH RIDE!!

Christmas morning after presents we had a nice big breakfast and Dave took Kaden out for a ride on the Flexable Flyer his classic sled.

Hold on Kaden!!

Dave is really burning off all that breakfast Kaden kept saying "faster, faster!!"
Wickett is looking on like he is missing something.

2009-01-28T21:57:00.000-08:00

For those of you who don't know Dave is a twin. Him and his brother are really close. Unfortunatley Dan recently got a job offer down in AZ so Dave is gonna be really sad for a while. We will miss ya Dan!!

The boys love to go fishing together. Unfortunatley that dosen't happen as often as it should. So when it does you can bet the fish will be biting. These two could catch a trout in a gold fish tank. They always seem to know just what to use to get those fish to the top.

I think they look very different but for those who can't tell

Dave is in front and Dan in the back.

NICE ONE!!

Rain, sun, snow, or sleet you can't keep these two off the river. Dan's fingers hurt even the next day from how cold they were but he is still smiling big and you can see why.
Dang Dave that is a fatty white fish!!

2009-01-28T21:23:00.000-08:00

Decorating the mantel piece. Isn't it beautiful! Oh and the smell.... with the fresh cut tree and the limbs I cut off for above the fire place. It really smelt like Christmas in our house.

I wrapped the pictures on the entertainment center and it turned out great.

Dave and I taking our christmas pictures. You can really start to see the baby bump now.

2009-01-22T20:48:00.000-08:00

OUR FIRST CHRISTMAS AT OUR HOUSE!!

these are a little backwards but thats ok.

I guess Dave and I are not as good at getting the tree tied down as we thought.

How did the tree get like that?

It was so cold outside when we picked our tree that when I got back to the car I realized that my hair was all frozen where the condensation had got on it from breathing.

When i turned on the car to warm it up it said it was -2 degrees outside.

NO WONDER!!

We found it!! Yeah Dave! chop chop!

It took forever to find it. Alot of wondering through the woods.

2008-12-21T15:10:00.000-08:00

Last weekend I went to corvallis for my cousin Chris's weeding. On our way home we ran into a lot of snow. Mom and I drove together and dad was beind us in the truck. We took our time and took some nice pictures along the way. Check out the tree at the bottom that still has its fall leaves. It's beautiful.

sheep creek Bridge

2008-11-06T21:38:00.000-08:00

So our newest adventure is one we will be on for a long time.

We are due on May 19th for our first little bundle of joy.

We are both thrilled.

I was 3 months on halloween and the morning sickness seems to be going away a little. Thank goodness. Driving to work every morning seemed like a roller coaster.

I am starting to get a bump it was like I woke up one morning a I could suddenly really see I had grown and dave trying to get me to eat anything and everything dosen't help!

2008-11-04T19:11:00.000-08:00

Our trip to the coast! what a pretty starfish!

We caught a beautiful glimpse of God's artwork. The picture dosen't do it justice I needa better camera.

After we camped at the coast for a couple days we decided to visit the forest were the trees of mystery are. It's a little smaller area but awesome tree's.

We drove our car through the tree's and I thought they were gonna swallow us whole.

bye bye little car!!

Sorry my pictures are a little out of order this is a picture of Dave at the California coast we just kept driving south and ended up here some little town but the coast was beautiful.
Don't fall Davey!

Ok back to the trees.....

Think there's any spiders in there? hmm..... stick your head in a litle farther lets see...

Man there tree's are ginormous!

I guess no spiders!

but im pretty sure I see a big spider monkey ;) he's so cute!

It's a good hole but I don't think we could live there. We couldn't make a fire to keep warm.

2008-10-19T20:47:00.000-07:00

This summer we also hiked up to Steins Pillar a pretty little hike just outside town.

mmmmmm... Wild strawberries!

Dave scales the big boulders!

about halfway there we can see the pillar now.

Perfectly beautiful Central Oregon landscape.

Winding my way up the rocks

You can't see from here but the tree I am leaning on is the last thing before a few hundred feet drop! Don't lose your balance!

AWW! isn't he cute!!

What a fun trip! we did start a little late though. It was a Family home evening trip so we left after work it was dark by the time we got back to the car. It was really worth it though. Like I said " Life's an adventure"!

2008-10-19T19:54:00.000-07:00

Everyday with Dave is an adventure. Mostly fishing!

isn't he a beauty!

and I caught this little beauty on the deschutes last weekend!

2008-10-10T20:37:00.000-07:00

This summer we got to work on the outside of our home. Isn't it beauiful.

We even started a little garden.

catching up

2008-02-16T20:00:00.000-08:00

Ok time to play catch up Dave and I have been married for almost two years now I know its hard to believe time flies when your having fun! Since we've been married we have had tons of adventures. Starting with our wedding day...

I would have to say I am defiatley the first girl in the family to come riding in on horseback.

and toting a long rifle and a shotgun.

Overall it was a beautiful day that we will never forget.

Since then a lot of our adventures are with fishing and hiking.

I caught this little beauty on the Lower Deschutes last fall. We fished for about 12 hours this was one of of the two fish caught all day but its my champion fish best i've ever caught. I was so proud!

Here is one of Daves pretty little hens. Same place different day.

Then in March of last year we took an incredible trip to hawaii.

Even in Hawaii Dave was unable to put down the rod and reel he had a blast.

Our First Day!

2008-02-11T18:58:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,
This is our first day of blogging. My sister told me how cool it was and so I thought we would give it a shot. I will try posting pictures tomorrow after work. but this is it for now I just hope this works.