Our Story

We realize we may have not been the best at keeping everyone up to date with our whereabouts and adventures so for one of our first posts we wanted to give a quick refresher.  

Sara & Josh both worked at Lutheran Lakeside Camp for 3 summers, 03-06.  

 After a Saturday morning sail.

After our last summer Josh went back to Iowa City and Sara moved back to Austin to finish grad school.  After going over our allotted 'minutes' more than once and due to Josh's being seasonally affected by the Iowa winter we decided the best thing would be to move to the same city, Austin.

Josh on his first day of work in his snazy uniform.

While I finished grad school Josh worked at the greenhouse in Lowes.  After several months of hard labor Josh couldn’t wait to get back to school at the U of I so we headed back to Iowa City in June 2006.

Ali (our awesome housemate), Sara & Josh at graduation.

In May 2007 we bought our first house in Iowa City…

The first nails in our path of destruction on our new home.

Sara's dad during one of the few moments of calm in the sea of destruction.  

'What have I gotten myself into?'

We added to our family in June by adopting Kee Cat…

 

 Josh proposed in September...

 Josh sings to Sara

 and we got married in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in January 2008. 

 

We were so lucky to be joined by family and friends.

We expanded again by adopting Gatito (Tito) when we got back from Mexico

 

 

And in September 08 we found out we were going to have another addition in May 2009 with our first child. 

Taken at 20 weeks

We are now 22 weeks along, Josh is now one year away from getting his master’s in environmental engineering – that is unless he decides to stick around for his PhD and I work for the Iowa Consortium for Comprehensive Cancer Control.  I love my job and Josh is really enjoying the research aspect of school.  We are very happy with our lives right now and are trying to patiently await a bigger joy than we can imagine in May. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Josh & Sara - Puerto Vallarta 1/08

Welcome to Sweet Midget

Welcome to our blog!  For those of you who don't know what a blog is - wonderful!!!!  For those of you who do know what a blog is - prepare to be disappointed.  Recently a number of our friends who have had offspring - or are about to recreate have started blogs and we have greatly enjoyed reading about your personal lives and viewing your photos on the Internet.  We've decided to jump into the 20th century and join you all.  I am still holding out on joining Facebook and am content to spy on all of you through Josh's account - so for now - this will be our connection to the modern world.

The reason for this technological leap of faith has to do with our impending parenthood.  Josh and I are expecting our first child somewhere around May 12th.  We are both extremely excited - I am passing the days by shopping for baby paraphernalia online and Josh is....well he actually let me get him into Babies R Us and didn't run out screaming - so I'd say he's pretty excited too!

The namesake of our blog is Sara's favorite afternoon - evening or really anytime treat - sweet midget pickles.  Due to unfortunate circumstances our local grocer has been completely barren of the miniature spears of goodness until recently.  Our cupboards are now stocked and we are ready to settle in for the winter.

So again, welcome to our blog - we hope you enjoy!