The Hershberger Home

Saturday, October 31, 2009

How he has changed...

1 day old

2 1/2 months old

1 week old

2 1/2 months old

3 1/2 weeks old

2 1/2 months old

Its a nice fall day, hard to believe its nearly November already! Yesterday we had a guy from the gas company come out to inspect the furnace. I have never had it inspected, and we had gotten a flyer in the mail about a "special" they were running, so I thought it probably was due for a check up. Well, turns out that its a good (and bad) thing the man came over. While inspecting he found that basically our furnace has gone to pot. It has several cracks, and he said the flames that are supposed to be contained in the small area of the furnace were all the way on the outside...some of the wires and such on the outside of the furnace were charred. AND, the small room that the furnace was in had a carbon monoxide level of 485..Ben said the man told him 12 is the dangerous level. Thankfully, the rest of the house only had a level of 5, and we could air the house out yesterday and obviously turn off the gas. I'm glad its not the middle of December and we just found this out. However, it is not exactly toasty in here, and our only electric heater goes to Christian's room. Last night we just all slept in our room with the heater and Christian in the pack-n-play. I hope we find someone to put a new furnace in the first part of the week. Meanwhile, we will try to stay nice and cozy!

Back to work :(

The week has arrived that I had to go back to work at the hospital. I can hardly believe that Christian is 12 weeks old. I enjoyed every day of maternity leave being with him, and it is quite hard to have to adjust to being away from him for 8-12 hours at a time. I wish I could get paid to be my own nanny! Thankfully, Ben is the one who will be watching him the majority of the time, and we don't have to use daycare. My mom is also going to help when Ben's schedule with school overlaps with my work schedule. I'm sure I'll get more and more used to going to work, but I'm not able to comprehend the "enjoyment" in leaving as some mom's say later. So far Ben and Christian have done pretty good, they'll figure out what works best for them. Ben gave me these flowers before I had to leave the first day..his teacher at school had told him to be extra nice to me :)

Friday, October 30, 2009

Hershberger Happenings

Every month Grandpa Hershberger sends out a family newsletter the "Hershberger Happenings". It is kinda a big deal to get in the mail. Looks like Christian also enjoys looking at it...guess it is for all ages!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Shipman/Schock Wedding

Kristin and Andrew got married Oct 17th! It was a beautiful fall wedding and reception. My uncle Stanley married them, and had such a good personal message. Although it was a beautiful day to celebrate, I'm sure it was bittersweet as Shirley (my aunt, Kristin's grandma) passed away in May.

CONGRATULATIONS KRISTIN AND ANDREW!!!

Road trip to MN

We left Thursday morning around 7:15, heading to MN for Kristin's (my cousin) wedding. Ben, Christian and I went with Mom and Dad..between having a 2 month old, stopping to eat ourselves, and maybe a pitstop for Dad's work we eventually made it there. I kinda lost track of how long, I think it took roughly 16 hours. Christian did pretty good..the majority of the time he looked like this (the last couple hours..not so much).