Nathaniel Alexander Schulze

Well the day has come and our new baby boy has arrived. He was born at 12:00 on the dot and measured 22 and 1/2 inches and was 9 pounds and 3 ounces. He is healthy and happy.

At 12:04 he urinated on the nurse and then again at 12:06 just after she had cleaned him up the first time. Mom did great baking this one and I changed his first 2 diapers! (It was more of a honor then a chore). Currently Mom is resting up and is doing great. There was some touchy feely moments in recovery but she's doing fine now and was walking around the hospital tonight.

Today was a great day and one I will always remember. Here are some pictures which I'm sure your more interested in.

Mom, Dad and Ryan (The Soon to be, at the time, New Big Brother) wait patiently in the Triage room getting checked in.

Dad is all ready. When I went in I wore a surgical mask and a hat so the only thing you could see, really were my eyes. I sat down next to robyn and held her hand. She held mine weakly. I stood up for a moment since the procedure had begun and wanted to make sure she was ok. Everything looked in order and I said, "Honey, are you ok." It took a moment for her to reply but then she said, "Wow, you look different. I thought your were a doctor or something."

Hehe. After that she was fine. She was quite loquacious throughout and she even laughed at my corny jokes. (When she was getting stitched up and time was dragging on, seemingly indefinitely, I asked if the Dr was stitching her initials. LOL. Well atleast it was funny to us who were there hehe)

This is Nathaniel Sleeping Soundly. What a cutie.

This was taken in the triage, preop, but its such a great picture of the two. They are so excited.

Our Room Number so we don't forget. Hehe. Not that you care. Its for our nostalgia. The doctor who performed Robyn's operation had the same room 8 weeks prior when she was giving birth and one night when we had some concerns about the new baby we rushed to the hospital and were also in this same room.


The new Big Brother. Ryan was a great helper. He made his mom Special drinks (Sprite + Juice with ice) and took care of his little brother and watched over him. He had a great time at the hospital but by the end of the day he was exhausted. (He's listening to hist crickets as I type this and sleeping like a rock.) When we said our prayers tonight he had to include Nathaniel. God Bless Mommy, Daddy and Everyone I love... Wait... Dad... We have to do it again. God Bless Ryan, Daddy, Mommy and Nathaniel. God Watch over mommy and Nathaniel tonight. Amen.


This is the latest picture of Nathaniel. I think hes sleeping for the night although Robyn is sure he will wake up at 10:00.

I will keep you posted. BTW there are no 'Real' Changes at the new house. They are in the process of taping and they added some garage doors. Taping is a time consuming process and has to be done right so not much progress other then they guys doing the taping are pretty good. I will be out again soon and will post more pictures. For now Nathaniel is dominating my time. Have fun, stay safe. :)

Excellent progress at new home

We drove out and saw that all of the siding is completed and nearly all of the sheetrocking. The progress was fun to see and it gives me a better idea of what the completed house will look like. The temporary stairs are out and the real stairs are in making it much easier to traverse the new house. They are hoping to pour the garage floor and porch floor this Friday but that all depends on whether or not Mother Nature decides to cooperate. ;) The septic system looks nearly done as well.

Here are some pictures.

Right side Elevation

Off center Front Elevation.

Right Side through the woods

Everyone taking in the views

Front elevation. There is 1 set of shutters missing can you find it?

There is also one movie. (There is a propane heater burning in the background hehe) Click here to see the movie.

Progress on the New house

We drove out on a beautiful Saturday to see the progress on our home. It was in the mid sixties and was a wonderful drive. Our house now has electricity and some plumbing. There are still a few windows that have not been installed yet but lots of progress has been made.

Below are some pictures and you can find the complete collection here.


Looking out the Master Bedroom

Looking out the Conservatory

The Jacuzzi is out of the garage!

Ryan Watched A Crane Truck

Ryan watched a truck drive in and back up and then seemingly without a controller move concrete forms from one hole to another. Later he realized that it was being remotely controlled like an overgrown RC toy. I thought the above picture was great but you can find more pictures and a video here.

We have a front door!

You can find all the pictures and movies here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/shawn.schulze/DanielDrive031507

We have windows

The Jacuzzi is still in the garage though lol. But now we have sky lights and windows in. The house is coming along nicely. (Although it was a little muddy out back)


There some videos and other pictures here. (I can add more later) We've been thinking about appliances and we're pretty sure we want stainless steel so we've been thinking about the Profile series by GE. (Link) We're still open to suggestion but we will have to decide soon as we will want appliances when we move in.


We were thinking of something like this for a refrigerator:

And this Stove

Microwave/Hood

And the dish washer

A roof. WOOT!

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The Move!

Abe, Julie, Travis, Jason and Byn's parents showed up to help us move. I had planned on more but we made do and got it done. It definitely was more then I bargained for but we did make it. Next move I will definitely hire some folk to come help in addition to inviting my friends to make sure no one has to kill themselves. (Like me, not sure my back will ever recover)



Now I am officially homeless. Here's some pictures.

A Second Floor

The house is beginning to take shape and you now get a better idea of what it will look like when its completed. Today we drove out to meet Ryan's new pedetrician and swung by the new house on the way home.


Robyn is FREEZING!


Everything is covered in snow.


More snow! Ryan and I went upstairs but the temporary stairs they have are bit frightening. We made it though. The place is coming along quite nicely. I took 15 pictures and you can find them all here: http://picasaweb.google.com/shawn.schulze/0702DanielDrive3

Progress continues despite snow!

The Project continues. We had to choose our electrical layout and floors so we stopped by the new place. I will be out there again later today. For a complete Set of pictures check here: http://picasaweb.google.com/shawn.schulze/0702DanielDrive2

Ryan Turns 8

King of the Hill

Ryry

Progress at new home: Framing Begins

Today we met more neighbors! Melissa and Ethan came came over to greet us and now we're even happier to be moving. They assured us that the builders start every day bright and early at 7:00AM. ;)

For a complete set of pictures today: http://picasaweb.google.com/shawn.schulze/0702DanielDrive

The Schulze Brothers

Our first post with the brothers together. These are ultrasounds of Ryan and Nathaniel at roughly the same age. (Give or take a few days).


Nathaniel whose name means "Gift From God"


Ryan whose name means "Little King"

A snowy drive

We explored our neighborhood and stopped by the model home to pick up the plans for our new home. (Revised plans)

Fantastic surrounding area with lots of cul-de-sacs and even a few houses for sale. Progress on our house seemed minimal with some leveling and site clearing done. Lumber is to arrive in a week and framing is expected to be completed by the end of the month!

There will be much more to do following that. Here are some pictures:

Upstairs bathroom with Marble floors now.

This is for our existing house which is now sold, but you can get an idea of how it looks now. The floors alone set me back quite a bit, but they reflect so much light through our new window that it just so wonderful to wake up in the morning. They are mirror finished as well so you can actually see yourself reflected in them. :)

It was a lot more fun then I thought it would be to refinish this.





For reference, this is what we started with: