She’s Here!

Hi! We’ve had a good week here in Northern Utah. The weather is warming up a bit, there are buds on the trees, and…oh yeah…we have a new granddaughter! Daisy Ray Bauserman joined us about 10 days early on Friday night. Lauren had a crazy day of contractions and running back and forth to the hospital on Thursday with no progress. Then on Friday night, little miss didn’t waste any time and was born just before 10 pm. There was a bit of a hiccup in delivery when Lauren’s blood pressure dropped (and of course, so did baby’s) due to an extra dose of pain meds in her epidural. But she recovered and was able to deliver normally, despite being extremely medicated and numb. Miss Daisy’s a cute little thing and looks an awful lot like her big sister. Needless to say, we are tickled with our newest addition.

Marching On

Hello from beautiful Utah and Happy March! We had a good two weeks in Missouri, playing with kids and helping out. After two long driving days later, we are resting up in Utah for new adventures coming up! Although Nathan was fighting illness the whole time, we had a...

A Very Merry Birthday

We’ve had a good week here in Ohio and West Virginia. Nathan is still in a battle with a cold virus, but it’s been great beside that wrinkle. We’ve played with the kids, done some projects around Lauren’s house, and even found time for a trip to the dentist (Bo :)). We just happened to be around while he was off with his brothers and dad on a hunt, so it was a bonus to be able to help Lauren. She’s in her last month of pregnancy number four, so things are getting exciting! Despite being 8+ months pregnant, she prepared me a spectacular birthday dinner, making ramen from scratch (including handmade noodles) and a glorious flourless chocolate cake. I was spoiled to get fancy chocolates from my hubby, texts and calls from lots of people I love, and plenty of grandkid giggles and hugs. It’s been a good one! We’ll be picking up and moving on tomorrow…Missouri is next!

Saying Goodbye to Leipzig

Saying Goodbye to Leipzig

We are on the road this week, but I think I will save all the details of our travels for next week’s post. You can leave your guess for which city we are headed for in the comments. Whoever is closest gets the prize of…the satisfaction that they were the closest.

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Time to Fly

Time to Fly

Greetings from one of our all-time favorite cities: London! We are here for my birthday.

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Winter, Continued…and Q&A

Winter, Continued…and Q&A

Since there’s not a lot of news, we are going to answer some questions from my sister (Thanks, Jana!) This is Nathan’s debut at the blog, so that’s news, I guess!

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Weeks on the Road

Just a Little One

Hello! We are still enjoying our time in the beautiful mountains of Utah.

Golden State

We’ve had a great week here in California. We heard some great chamber music, made a trip to the aquarium, took lots of walks, and spent time with some of our favorite people. Tomorrow we move on.

To the North!

Here are some highlights from the first half of our Scandinavian cruise. We sailed from Southampton and had stops in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden. We also had an unexpected change of plans.

Not Warm. Loving It Anyway.

Hello from chilly Ohio! We had a great week traveling northward toward one set of grandkids, despite Nathan coming down with a cold. We had some fun in Nashville, where we had a pleasant surprise, and in Dayton, where we finally visited a museum we've been trying to...

London (and Beyond)!

Our trip to London was a blast, but we also have some news for what is happening in the coming days and weeks.

Swiss National Day

We made it back to St. Louis and started right back to the usual: projects at Alex's house and hanging out with the fam. August first is Swiss National Day, marking the date of the signing of the original Letter of Confederation in 1291, so we decided to do a few...

A Little Bit of Everything

This will be a quick post as we are traveling this week.

Off to Atlanta

The week started with everyone being sick and three days of rain. Now we are spending the long weekend knocking around Atlanta.

Country Roads

We made it to Lauren's house! It was good to drive up their bumpy little road and to squeeze our West Virginia crew. It's been a pretty laid-back week. We worked on a few projects at Lauren's place (shelves in the laundry room and pantry and battling a population of...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello! We hope you had a wonderful holiday, whether you had a wild a raucous party with lots of friends and family, or you had a quiet day in! We had Linnell family dinner at my niece’s home (Erin) on Thursday. Then we had Mueller family dinner at Nathan’s brother’s place (Warren) on Friday. We ate REALLY well and enjoyed catching up and just being with family. We also went to see the new Wicked movie on Tuesday and comedian Ryan Hamilton at WiseGuys Comedy in Salt Lake on Saturday. It was a full and fabulous week and now we are packing up (again) so we can head east to snuggle some grandkids. Have a great week!