Our beautiful baby girl is here!!!!

Say hello to Jasmine Deborah Alsaker! We are so blessed to have been given a healthy, beautiful baby girl. Jasmine was born via c-section on December 18th at 7:11am after 29 hours of labor. It was all worth it, she is amazing! We spent 4 days in the hospital, 1 day at home, and now are at Nana and Grandpa Sixta's house for Christmas. I will post more info and pics soon but am focusing on recovering now. Thank you all for your prayers and support, we could not be happier!

Love,

The Alsakers

Four days and counting!

December is going to be an exciting month! Jasmine should be here anytime now and Brian is graduating with his teaching degree this Sunday. We are so excited! Other than that not much has been going on. Brian is finishing his student teaching tomorrow and has had a wonderful experience. I have been working part time from my home office doing marketing for ColorMax/ArcaSearch. I haven't been doing any interpreting for the last few weeks. I just wear out too fast to do a good job so I will wait until after Jasmine is born to start putting in interpreting hours again.

Life is great and we are so blessed to be surrounded by loving friends and family!

The next post should have baby pictures in it!!!!

Julie

The only constant is change...

Hello Everyone!
We have been very busy in the Alsaker house lately. Brian has 3 days left of academic classes!!! Next week he starts his final student teaching and then comes graduation, we can't wait!
We are getting VERY close to closing a huge valet contract so please continue to pray that it all works out. If we get this contract I will be able to stay at home full time with Jasmine.

The nursery is complete...we just need to get the rest of the bedding and we are good to go! Here are some pictures nursery.



Jasmine's first baby shower was this last Saturday. Her closet is already full of the cutest clothes and we feel so blessed to have friends and family give so generously. Here are pictures of the shower and games we played. FYI...baby food stinks! Believe it or not everyone that guessed my belly size guessed too big!

27 Weeks!

Time has sure flown by...Jasmine is 27 weeks along now and kicking hard. She especially enjoys kick my ribs - ouch! Brian is back to school and will graduate this December!!!!!!! We have been busy with our valet company on the sales end of things. It looks like the actual work won't begin until the beginning of next year but we are making great contacts. I have been doing some traveling for interpreting and working some overnights in the ER. I love interpreting but am looking forward to maternity leave. We planned on winning the lottery so I could just stop working but forgot to buy a ticket. Oh well...

Check out the big belly I'm sporting now! Surprisingly the clearance rack in the juniors department has been my maternity clothes source. Stretchy long tanks and empire waisted tops are thankfully "in" right now.

As you can see below, Juno is also starting to get very tired in the afternoons.


Time to go to work, bye!

Julie

Drum Roll Please...

Meet Jasmine Deborah Alsaker!!! We found out last Thursday that we are having a little girl. She has been busy kicking mommy's tummy and loving the new outfits that Nana Sixta and Grandma Alsaker have been buying for her (At least she will once she is here and can see them).

According to the doctor she is aprox 10 inches now and is symmetrical, woohoo! Only 4 and a half months to go...

God Bless,
Julie

Catching Up...

This last year has been so eventful! I will do my best to summarize:
July 2006-
We moved to St. Cloud, MN. Juno still runs the roost.














August 2006-
Brian continues to work towards his Math Ed BA at St. Cloud State.

November 2006-
I get laid up from a car accident and take 3 months to rehab and get back to interpreting, ugh.

December-
The family goes to Phoenix, AZ to visit Tim and Sarah (My brother and sister-in-law). If you want a lot of fun, pile in 10 people in a van, ages from 4 to 82, and drive across the country! Here are some pics of us trying to stay sane and have fun.

March 2007-
Surprise!!!! Baby Alsaker is on his/her way!!! After 5 at home tests, 3 blood draws, and an ultrasound it is confirmed - I am pregnant! And we thought it would never happen ;-).

June 2007-
Brian and I start Prestige Parking & Valet, the very first valet company in St. Cloud. We are already getting calls from businesses with requests for meetings to see what we can do for their restaurant, country club, etc. We are excited to see what developes in the next few months.

July 2007 a.k.a today-
Baby Alsaker had his/her 2nd appointment today and is doing great with a heartbeat of 150 beats per minute - WOW! At almost 18 weeks along I finally have a belly (see pic to right).

What's next? August 2nd we will find out the gender of our baby!

Love you all!
Julie and Brian