Happy St. Patty's Day Everyone!!!

I hope everyone is enjoying the day and will be able to get out and enjoy the weather and the festivities :) Dan and I will be enjoying the night with the pups just to relax for one night this week...LOVE IT!

Hershie is healing well, she is very tired as to be expected, but still giving kisses as always so that's a great sign.

Hershie cuddling with Dad on her new bed:

Thanks everyone for your kind messages and prayers!

Love the Buchholz's :)

5 weeks...

3/18/2011~

We are to five weeks...

Morning sickness at its best! When we first found out I prayed a lot and promised God and myself I would not complain because this is all a miracle from him, and I feel blessed and honored that we would trust me with such a blessing. I'm not complaining merely just telling you that I have had morning sickness, I thought I got it under control with the vitamins and fish oil as well as eating healthy snacks frequently... still every morning until around 10-10:30 my stomach feels a little queasy... I know it could be worse so I don't have a reason to complain! :)

Lunch:

Banana, carrot, Turkey Sandwich on whole wheat, and String Cheese :)

(It's a lot easier to eat healthy when you know someone else's life depends on it)

The weather here is getting so nice! High of 63 today...who can complain about that? The schools are actually on spring break so we have our all day programs for families that don't go out of town...today we are walking to the bowling alley! This means great exercise in the beautiful weather, then tonight I will probably go for another walk 30 minutes three times a week is what they recommend for me.

Some updates from Dan- Had his annual review and has improved every quarter=RAISE! I couldn't be more proud of him, he may struggle with actually loving his job, but he puts a smile on and does his best every day...it will pay off...just be patient. He has been doing really well lately at work, being one of the top bankers in the state for 3 weeks in a row :) Other than that he is still grasping the whole baby thing. Although, last night he rubbed my stomach for the first time which I loved...(even though I don't have a bump..yet!)....

House projects- Well the closet needs to be finished ASAP however, I'm the painter in the family so I'm not sure when that will be finished...we started in August 2010 and it still isn't finished...we like to take our time apparently! No, it will get done...hopefully I will have a post for that before you have a chance to read this post... We have a lot to do before baby arrives!! :) It will be interesting to see what posts you get to read of "finished" projects before you read these posts about the baby.... I'm hoping, the closet, front door, and living room will be finished when you read this post (7 weeks)....you all will have to let me know how we did!

Budget- We are still kicking away at the budget and finances! Dan spoke with our insurance company the other day and we seem to have a great plan...but we will change it once baby gets here. We are still following Dave Ramsey's plan...he says when you are ready to have babies you have babies you don't wait until you are debt free. He advises that you stop putting all the extra income into debt and get three to five months saved up...Think we can get that?!? Right now we have about 20% of what we need but we still have (at the time you get to read this) 6 months :) Which means we are back to paying minimum on everything again...however we have no Furniture to pay on, no camera to pay on, and no Wartburg to pay on....so that money is starting to add up :)

This weekend, Dan has to work, I have to work Friday and Saturday night at Old Navy, classes start back up Monday so I might work ahead on some assignments that I know are coming up...and hopefully some housework :) Oh and my Parents get home from their cruise so I'm looking forward to hearing about that....

That's all for this week...

Love you all!

The Buchholz 4.5 :)

News Flash...

3/11/2011-

I don't usually date my posts however, since this wont actually be posted on the day I write it, I did, so you can follow our little story:

On March 9 I felt a little sick at work, in fact I stood up from a table and told my co-worker I thought I was going to be sick. Keep in my the flu has been going around school like crazy! I had this feeling for about a week prior however I never thought I was actually going to throw-up until that night. I never did but I did start to question if I had the flu or if I was growing something inside me.

The next morning I didn't have my morning class so I decided with 3 days until my period I would take a pregnancy test and at least rule that out. Well it wasn't ruled out, I took one and it came up a very faint positive, I was excited but didn't want to get too excited just in case it was a false positive. I sent a photo of the test to my sister and she said, "I think that's a yes, but you better take another one to be sure." On my way to class I stopped by the dollar store (big mistake) to get a test, and got two. I took one in between my classes and it was negative, so of course I was really bummed, went to class, came home because class got out early took another test.....negative....I did some reading online as to how this could be one positive and two negative, and it said that the morning is the best because that is when the HCG (Pregnancy hormone is built up) and being that I hadn't actually missed my period there wasn't a ton to start with. That could have been what cause the two negative results. So what did I do...drank a ton of what the rest of the day, went to hang out at my parents house...(no body knows at this point that its even and option...besides my sister) leave there around 10:00 run to Walgreens pick up two more tests...run home and take one...POSITIVE :) Dan is out at pool league this night and has no idea what is going on, didn't even know I was taking a test....

Dan got home around midnight...I waited up....mind you the night before I was up until 3:30 studying and doing a project, and I have been exhasted for two weeks now and couldn't figure out why... so Dan gets home, I'm watching Drop Dead Diva in bed. It went a little like this...

Hollie: "Honey, we need to talk."

Dan: "I think I know what you are going to say"

Hollie: "Really? What do you think I'm going to say"

Dan: "You are pregnant?"

Hollie: "Yep, I took four tests today, two came back negitive insert story I just wrote above but I am going to take another in the morning to confirm." "What are you thinking?"

Dan: "I knew it!"
Hollie: "How do you feel excited?"

Dan:"Yeah"

Hollie: "scared, nervous?"

Dan: "Nervous."

Hollie: "Everything is going to be just fine!

Then just like the night we got engaged...neither of us could sleep! I guess what you have all been waiting to here is, WE ARE EXPECTING!! :)

The day I found out :)

It was a roller coaster of emotions this week...I found out my advisor had messed up my classes so I wont be done until 2013 which I'm okay with now but I wasn't at the time (this happened Monday...)and by Friday I was finding out we were going to have a baby.

We weren't really planning on having kids until I was out of school however, we know God had his own plan and we couldn't be more excited...at the time I am writing this none of you know and I wont actually post it until after we tell our families on Mother's Day, as that is when the first trimester will be over!

Here is the start of the 9 months: 4 weeks 3 days :)

Either way this is the start of our journey...hopefully you enjoyed this post...there will be many to come :)


Love,


Dan, Hollie, Tyson, and Hershie...and little Baby B :)

Short...and....clean?

Hello Readers!!

Hope everyone has been enjoying this lovely Spring like weather. I'm so ready for Spring to just stay here rather than one day here and there. This past weekend Dan and I took the time to rake up all the doggy doo and get the backyard ready for spring (It needs some work!)


Nothing better than the feeling of cleaning out "stuff" that we don't use/need, am I right?

Things have been actually rather calm around our house lately, which also means, my house is a mess, laundry needs done, and I have a lot of homework to do before next week...hahaha...

On a lighter note, we did get some things done/worked on last weeked...we have been contemplating the color in the family room, not the red the other goldish color we have... a reminder below... (this was right after we finished painting and we're waiting on the furniture to arrive)

Yes, I'm talking about that wall color...we officially decided we didn't like it, it's just a little too gold and a lot darker than I think we initially wanted and thought it was going to be. We looked around at a couple places and finally found one we really like. Instead of painting the living room to start (I knew I wanted the same color in the hallway leading to the back of the house) we painted the hallway to make sure we really liked it! Take a look...much lighter than the living room, but it will really open that room up again once we finish it.

This was suppose to be posted 2 weeks ago...woops oh well I will post it now...and repost a updated one later today! :)