Our Second Anniversary!

So yesterday was Dan and my 2nd Anniversary and funny enough we have now celebrated both our anniversaries in Austria. Last year at this time we were in Austria on our vision trip checking out the Oasis. This year we decided to go into Vienna after we were finished with our team meeting. We had a great late lunch/early dinner at Flanagan's Irish Pub very close to the famous Vienna Opera House (we had gone there last month for the goodbye dinner for our beloved Irish team member, Eileen, and had thoroughly enjoyed the food). It is actually the closest we have come to finding food that reminds us of home. I was pretty excited about my guacamole chicken burger with cheddar cheese so I got that a second time, while Dan decided to venture out and have fish and chips! It was perfect; we enjoyed a great meal sitting out under an umbrella on a beautiful, sunny and not too hot day. After that we just enjoyed strolling along the streets of Vienna. It was also fun reminiscing about dating, getting engaged and our wedding. Two years has gone so fast, and yet I can't really remember what it was like without Dan in my life. I really couldn't have married a more loving, devoted, hardworking and self-sacrificing man. I am so thankful to God for bringing Dan and I together and cannot wait to celebrate many more anniversaries in the years to come!


Our 1st Anniversary, in Baden, Austria


Our 2nd Anniversary, in Vienna, Austria

Our Exciting News!

We are excited to announce that our family of two is going to be growing into a family of three come February! We just had our second doctor's appointment and are 3 ½ months along. We got to see the little one for the second time and it was amazing to see the difference seven weeks make. At our first appointment we saw what we liked to lovingly refer to as our "beating blob", that pretty much sums up what our baby looked like. Today it was a whole new ballgame! The little one is literally 10 times larger than before and actually looked like a human! He/She was super active during the entire ultrasound, even seeming to wave at us at one point. The doctor says that everything looks great and the baby is already a big one!

We are incredibly happy and look forward to the arrival of this little one sometime around the first week of February. The baby will be born in Austria. I was recently told that Austria was rated as having the best health care in Europe, which is a comforting thought! I will continue working full time at the Oasis until close to the due date. After adjusting to life with a baby we will figure out how I can still be involved with some of the Oasis ministries. Both Dan and I are really looking forward to taking on this new chapter of our lives. We are also hoping to take a trip home in May 2009 to visit and introduce you all to our new baby! We will keep you posted in the months to come.