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Easter at the Zoo

Over Easter weekend, the family had a chance to travel up to Minnesota and see our families.  We took off on Thursday night and headed to Glencoe to get a jump on the three-day visit.  Friday was a gorgeous day and we (Fred, Cathy, Jacob, and Jon) enjoyed the warm weather by going on a walk with the red wagon – still going strong after 30+ years!  After church, we spent some time with both Great Grandma A and Great Grandma Jean.  It was a pleasure seeing both of them and having a chance for a more personal visit (as compared to family holidays).

Saturday morning we met Teresa at the Minnesota Zoo and spent some great time looking at all the animals.  The weather was a little rainy, so we mainly stuck to the indoor/protected areas, but there was plenty to see.  Later that day, we parted ways with the Werth’s and headed to the Degen’s.  After mass on Sunday, we had a great feast and a exciting Easter Egg hunt in the downstairs (as there was still snow on the ground).  While Henry was a little too young to participate, Jacob had a great time searching for the dozen eggs (I’ll see if I can get the video up…but it’s a bigger one).

In the meantime, enjoy these shots from the Saturday trip to the zoo:

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Photos from March

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January Photos (#2)

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Photos from January

As promised, here are some of the recent photos that I’ve been working through.  Enjoy the first of many batches…

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Not so healthy

The past month has been a harder time at the Werth household. There’s been a variety of sickness going around and unfortunately we’ve experienced most of it – which is probably why I haven’t written anything lately!

As I write, Jacob is battling a stomach bug with a slightly elevated fever. About a week ago, and he was getting over an ear infection that came after a cold. Henry is on the tail end of a lung infection that had one scary trip to the emergency room (due to shortness of breath). Elise and I managed to dodge most of the sickness, except for one or two days each.

Despite the variety of illnesses, it’s been a decent month filled with family visits and birthdays. Jacob has continued to develop his vocabulary and speech at an astounding rate and Henry is becoming quite the little personality. He is now five months old and, upon a doctor visit last week, weighed in at 18 lbs and 26 inches.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from the last few days. Enjoy!
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Christmas!

This has been an exciting month at the Werth household.  Our activities included a lot of holiday-filled events, such as:

  • Visiting the reindeer at HyVee
  • Christmas light hanging on the house for the first time
  • Hunting for a Christmas tree at a local tree farm
  • Getting the tree in and set up!
  • Henry becoming more engaging and talkative
  • Playing and recording in a wonderful cantata at our church
  • Elise spending two days at home for snow days
  • The Werth’s (Fred, Cathy, and Teresa) coming down for Christmas
  • The Degen’s (Larry, Mary, and Laura) coming down for Christmas II
  • Enjoying the Christmas cards of many friends and family
  • Lighting up the fireplace and occasionally smoking out the house
  • Finally getting back to working on the downstairs remodeling (installing plumbing for a new bath tub)

It’s been a great time and I’ve enjoyed spending time with the boys, Elise, and our families.  Unfortunately, I did not get a Christmas card out this year and have been a little lax on the blog.  So… I’m hoping to get a number of updates and photos up soon – as I’ve recently gathered all of our photos from various places into one (the trouble of having many devices – phones, cameras, computers, etc).

For now, enjoy these photos of our Christmas holiday!

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Christmas Tree Hunting

It was a strangely gorgeous day in Iowa City – 45 degrees and sunny despite it being December 8th.  As a result, the Werth crew decided to go hunting for a Christmas tree.  Upon the advice of Elise’s co-worker, we navigated to Handley’s Holiday Hillside Farm in Solon, Iowa.  With Henry in tow and Jacob ‘running’, we set out to find the best tree.  After some searching, much running, some yelling and some crying, we settled upon on a nice white pine.  We flagged the workers and they came to cut it down for us.  Jacob helped to drag it back to the truck and while Dad was getting the tree shaken and bagged, played on the model train.  We headed back home and made use of our new tree stand while the boys napped.  Unfortunately, we don’t have it decorated yet, but I’m sure there will be photos at a later date.  For now, enjoy these photos of the hunt!

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Hanging with T

At the end of July, Elise and I had the opportunity to drive to Duluth, MN to spend some time celebrating the wedding of our college friend, Brittany.  Due to the long trek from Iowa City, we dropped Jacob off at his Aunt Teresa’s house to spend the weekend.  The two of them had a blast together, spending some of their time together at a fantastic park (I know I’m jealous!).  Compliments of Teresa, here are the photos from their weekend together.  Be sure to check out the giant Teddy bear – don’t worry, you can’t miss it!

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Fun around the House

July came and went fairly rapidly for the Werth family.  We spent the 4th of July hanging out around the house and getting a few things done (including some flooring and cheesecake baking!).  Hanging out at home during the summer, Elise and Jacob also spent some of their time building forts in the living room.

As the date gets closer for second child, we’ve been preparing and making sure we have the necessary equipment.  Of course, Jacob has to make sure it’s good and ready!  In the gallery below, I’ve also put in some of my favorite glamor shots of Jacob.  We had been hanging out in the kiddie pool and upon coming in, the light was playing beautifully through the living room window.

 

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Fun at the Park

Sometime around the middle of June, we spent some time at the park and the local splashpad.  I think you may have seen some of these photos, but I thought they were worth sharing again.  I should mention that it was very windy at the splashpad.  Also, we set up Jacob’s big boy bed to have him start getting used to it.