Good Friends & Good Wine

This Saturday, we joined our friends from Dallas (Whitney and Max, and Baylee and Brad) to relax and tour the Texas wine country. Although I wanted to do more than "taste" the wine, it was still nice to spend time with such good friends. Hopefully being in the Hill Country will inspire many more to come and visit!

Lone Star Brewery

This Sunday J and I joined his brother and cousins for a tour of the Lone Star Brewery in San Antonio. It has been unoccupied for years, but a new developer is turning the old brewery - formerly owned by J's great grandpa, Harry Jersig - into a multi-use facility including town homes, apartments, restaurants, organic food market and spa. Collins is already plotting how the family can buy back most of the brewery and live all together in a compound of sorts!

After the tour, we met the rest of the Kuper family for dinner at La Fonda (a restaurant I am quickly learning to be a Kuper favorite!). I have been emersed in the San Antonio culture and am loving every minute of it!

Take a Hike Ike!

We were supposed to get a visit from the Underwoods and the Arnetts from Fort Worth this weekend but forecasts showed heavy rain in the Hill Country so we postponed the trip. Of course the weather is awesome (which should have been expected). Rach and I decided to hit up Fredericksburg to get a sampling of the local German food and drink. I hear that brats and beer are good for prenatal development... Or at least it is in Fredericksburg!

Live from Luckenbach!

Once Rach and I heard that Ike might make his way to Boerne , we decided we better head over to Luckenback! Thanks to the power of the iPhone, we can broadcast our blog directly from the one place where 'everybody is somebody!' We wish y'all were here!

Meet Baby Kuper!

Today we (finally) had our first doctors appointment! We were able to see our baby moving and hear its heartbeat - which is an indescribable experience. The due date is March 14 ... just two days after my 26th birthday. J joked that this would be the last year I would be getting any birthday presents!

Quote of the day:
"For some reason I thought the doctor was going to come in and say, 'You're not really pregnant' ... I just wasn't expecting to see an actual baby!" (J Kuper)

Honestly, as I've started feeling better with less morning sickness, I have had the same thought cross my mind. Especially since I am still not really showing. So seeing a real baby squirming around inside of me made the reality of our pregnancy much more real! (This is a picture of the squirming baby below.)