12 Weeks

Well im in the 12th Week of Pregnany which means I'm almost done with the first Trimester and hopefully I'll have more energy come the 2nd trimester. I've just been soooo tired working all day I'll come home and feel like I need a nap before dinner then i'm still in bed by 8:30. Oh well. Could probably be the weather that we've been having too.... Rainy yucky days.... Cloudy and just gloomy puts people in bad moods and tired! Oh well!! Being 12 Weeks along I'm the size of a Lime and growing more and more everyday. Cory says you can tell that I have a bit of a belly but who knows yet. according to online it says that the baby can kick back now if I push on my belly however I wouldnt feel it kick yet... couple more weeks for that. Along with the continued excitement of the baby coming... comes the sad news of Cory got his layoff notice again at work and so now we play the waiting game. the layoff notice goes for 60 days and we are hoping that they dont have the employee's work and he can stay home for the 60 days and go out and look for a different job... one closer to home here in Hutch... I told him to go and look for a job in Wisconsin but we cant move yet unfortunatly... Even though we both want to move back there as soon as we can! But again now with Baby coming we'll be Kansans' for awhile now. I think thats it for now.... Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we can get outside and wash and wax the camper this weekend to be ready for our first outing next week at the lake! Its just going to be Cory and I and our Camper.... RELAXING!!!! Not planning on doing a thing that weekend but just relax. We both need that!!

It's Almost Camping Season!!! :)

Yay!! It's almost camping season! We pick up our camper out of storage on Wednesday and Im sooooo ready to head out to the lake for the weekend!!! :) We finally have some dates booked for camping: May 8-10 May 22-25 June 26-28 Thats all we have booked so far but I know there will be more. We will probably be camping for our 1 year anniversary weekend too.. I guess it's better than sitting at home! But we'll book that more when we know the jbo status of Cory's job. We dont have anything booked in July yet because we are going to come home to WI in July!!! :) Yahoo!!!!! I can't wait! We havent been home since the wedding and that was a long time ago already!! In other news.... I'm 11 weeks now and feel fine. I read online that the baby is about the size of a Fig and can open and closed it's fingers and make fists. Im getting excited for our doctor appointment this week as i was reading we may be able to hear the heartbeat for the first time! I'll update more after the doctor appointment!! :)

The Video!

This is the Video we showed to our family to announce the baby!!!

Introducing Baby Kowitz

Well this weekend Cory and I finally announced that we are pregnant! It all went very well. My mom drove down from Wisconsin Thursday evening and then Friday night we had Cory's family over for dinner. After dinner we told everyone we made a video of some updated pictures and what not and for them to check it out. So they all watched in disbelief they congratulated us. It was fun. Very nerve wrecking but it was still fun. My mom is all excited! :) I'm 10 weeks now and I feel great. I have been feeling great so far... just some nausea but nothing I cant deal with. Seems to be that Sprite and Soda crackers are my friends. But i'm living. I havent missed any work yet so I think i'm doing very good.

Baby Kowitz

Due: November 8, 2009

Proud Parents: Cory and Stephanie Kowitz

I know this picture doesnt look like much but this was our first sonogram at 7 weeks 2 days!

Black Belt testing and A Spring Blizzard

Well Cory tested for his black belt Friday night into Satruday morning. This was a 12 hour test and of course Kansas had this wonderful Spring Blizzard happening. We were reported to have 6-10 inches of snow. Last night Cory left about 8 and headed to the school and I stayed home and relaxed... then this morning the plan was to drive to the school and take pictures of everyone getting their new belts. Well i opened up the garage and realized there was no getting my car out because the snow was just that deep. So, I said "I'll walk there it's not that far"... Started walking and barely made it... Luckily a Coworker saw me walking and picked me up and took me to the school. So got there and they were just handing out the belts. Cory got pictures taken.. then we tried to get his car un buried from sitting at the school all night. We eventaully got out of there... then we were 2 blocks from home and we got stuck int he snow because our raods were not plowed out yet. Luckily a cop pulled up in a big truck behind us and tried to help us get out but couldnt the policeman said "just leave your car here and we'll take you guys home... we've been telling everyone to just leave cars where they are and coem back and get them later"... there were no EMS/ no Tow trucks going today. WONDERFUL! Then they told us when we were coming up to our house that Hutchinson got 18 iinches of snow... Thats just nuts! We hopped our snowbanks and came inside. We both took naps after eating soem breakfast... Got up from the nap and went outside to try and shovel the driveway a bit. The snow was way to heavy.. We have a little path we'll work on it more later. We deicded to walk down to Cory's car and try and dig it out. So here we go down the street whith shovels in hand and go dig out cory's car... we go back and forth with the stupid vehicle and fianlly i just floor it and back all the way out to main street and almost hit soembody but hey we got out of that mess.. Finallyw e saw the plow coming for our streets so i said just go drive around for a bit until we are sure the street is plowed. drove through town which wasnt bad roads were okay for the most part. So, came home and plow put lots of snow in our driveway.. so car is now parked in the street and we came inside... no more shoveling for today.. alot of it has melted but ugh.. its way to heavy!!! Anyways here s a few pictures of our last 24 hours!!

A weekend in Topeka

We went to Topeka this past weekend for a Karate Tournament. Amy and Tyler and their kids Tristin and Rylee came with us and also Carla came with us too!! We had our school perform and we got first place. then everyone did their own indiviual forms and Tristin got 2nd, Carla got 2nd, I got 3rd 9Judges couldnt add up the scores correctly otherwise I would have had 2nd). Cory took first in weapons, and his forms. So all in all it was a good learning experiecne for everyone's first tournament. After the tournament we ate at Boston Market which was wonderful!!!!! Then we went to the Topeka Zoo and that was fun... saw lots of stuff.. then we went to the Topeka Mall which is bigger than Town East Mall in Wichita. We were really tired after walking everywhere so we headed back to the hotel and played in the pool and then we all changed and we went out to Hooters for dinner. Back to the hotel later and I think everyone just crashed. It was really a fun weekend to just get away from everything.. Work, home, yardwork stuff that will be starting up now. I am so loving the weather... it's wonderful... except when you have a cold. Cory was so generous in sharing his cold with me, I wasnt feeling very well starting saturday night. I came home from work at lunch today and took a 3 hour nap . I feel a bit more awake now. So i'll go to bed early tonight too and hopefully get feeling better soon!

Tyler, Tristin and Cory Carla, Amy, Rylee, Stephanie

Hope everyone is doing great. Happy St. patty's day tomorrow!!

Sam Goes to the Vet

Well, last friday night Sam got out of the house and was gone. So we let him wander and figrued he'd come back... Saturday morning he came back and was limping... could hardly put his left back leg down. We checked it and didnt see any bite marks but it looked like his foot (would be our ankle) was really swollen... So we watched it for the rest of the weekend and he wasnt eating/going to the bathroom/ just laying around all day. Monday I called the vet and they got him in right away. They kept him overnight and ended up doing an Xray on it...He has a hairline fracture so they had to splint it up. Poor guy. Tuesday I got to go pick him up from the vet. so now he's living in the basement so he doesnt have to do the stairs and he doesnt have to hop to far to his litter box, bed, and food. poor guy. We go back next week to see how its doing, and then again in another 6 weeks to have more xrays done on it and hopefully get the splint off ot it. He hate thes plint. he's chewing on it and we dont know what we can do to stop himfrom chewingon it... Poor guy! :(

This was right when we got home from the vet Tuesday

Wichita Karate Tournament

Well Cory had a Karate tournament this weekend in Wichita. So saturday we headed there... and he took first in everything. After the Tournament we came back to Hutch and changed clothes then we went to Amy's daughter's birthday party at the skating rink here in Hutchinson. So, we went there and I had never been there before so it was fun to go rollerskating just like at Golden Sands up north!! Brought back many old memories. We hung out there with them til about 4:00. We came home and got ready to go out for dinner with Jason and Krista at Chili's. We met them there about 5:30. dinner was very good. They were busy. Anyways.. Today we went out for Breakfast to Sirloin Stockade and then to walmart for groceries then home... Now just catching up on some movies we had around here for awhile.

With Friends.....

We went out Friday night with amy and tyler and chris. It was fun! First off Cory held a karate demo class with Amy & Tyler and their kids and also some people that cory works with. He is wanting to start his own karate school so he just wanted the parents to see what we would be doing in class and what all is invovled. We already have 1 student signed up.. Amy's son Tristan! :) yay!! Anyways.. then after the demo we cleaned up and went out for dinner with Amy and Tyler and Chris came along too. We then went to Grand Slam and had another fun evening... Nobody got drunk but it was still a fun time. Here's a few pictures! Enjoy!

Amy and Tyler playing Pool

Amy and I ... yes we were dressed alike

The professional pool player.... ok not really

Valentine's Day!

Well valentine's day 2009 is done... Corybought me flowers which was quite a story. Apparently he told them to deliver them to me on Friday at work before 2:00. Well I didnt even leave work til 2:45 and nothing showed up. The flower guys just delievered the flowers as I was walking out the door and nobody came and got me to tell me the flowers where here. Oh well. Anyways then Cory and I worked out in Wichita and then we ate at TGI Fridays which was amazingly good!!!! Then we came home and Chris came over and gave Cory's his brithday present which was a new laptop.. Cory and I ahve this problem of fighting over the laptop.. so Chris bought him a new one and got areally good deal on it. So for Valentine's day I bought cory a wireless mouse and a new laptop case to go with it.. So here's a picture of Sam getting into the bag that Cory was opening his presents from.. he didnt like it very much!

So then saturday we got a call from Dillons at work and saying that I had a delivery to go pick up at the front office.... They were supposed to deliever the flowers to our house satruday morning but I told Cory i could run out there and pick it up. So I did.. and when i got there there were 2 of the same vase, same flowers both saying for me... So i took both and came home and cory questioned why i had 2 of the same thing but both of the cards said they were from him... So oh well.. I have 2 of the same thing but they are gorgoues!! very spring like and so now i'm getting spring fever!! (hence the new background). We had Cory's neices' brithday party to attened yesterday afternoon at the bowling alley so it was funt o go bowl for awhile. Amy and Tyler and their kids came also, Cory's mom said to have any friends we want to come and join the party...

It was a very relaxing valentine's day for both of us it was just good to be together!!

This was the verse that was on Cory's card.. I thought it was nice...