Nathan Meyer - Daniel's Great Great Grandfather

Below is a passport application of Nathan Meyer from May 23, 1892, Number 39381 in St Louis, Missouri for himself, his wife, and 3 children. Listed on the application is his wife, Rosa born in Prussia on March 22, 1868 and their children Freda ( 5 years old), Milton (2 years old), and Sophia (2 months old).

Nathan was born in Slungwr, Prussia on June 8, 1855 and emigrated to the US on May 16, 1868 from Hamburg. He was naturalized in White Plains, NY on October 25, 1876. He was a merchant at the time of the application. As part of the process, his description was recorded:

Age: 37 years

Stature: 5 feet, 8 inches

Forehead: Medium

Eyes: Gray

Nose: Small

Mouth: Small

Chin: Oval

Hair: Dark Brown

Complexion: Dark

Face: Oval

An additional document of interest is New York Passenger List of the Bavaria (noted as Steamer Bavaria on Nathan's passport application) from May 17, 1869 from Hamburg, Germany. The list has recorded Nathan as 14 years old.

Wyoming & Colorado Con't

Rocky Mountain National Park

Elk-10 feet away from the car!

Daniel's excited we made it all the way to the top!

16 weeks-Looks like I've eaten too many doughnuts

From where we left off last, on Monday, we went to Pike's Peak and Garden of the God's. We had GREAT weather except the wind chill on top of Pike's Peak was 7 degrees with the wind blowing at 50mph! We took it easy on Monday and headed back to the hotel early that afternoon to relax before traveling all day on Tuesday.

Tuesday we headed to downtown Denver, Colorado before we had to hop our flight. We wandered around some and toured their capital building which has 200 ounces of gold on the dome. It was really pretty (and expensive!) We hopped our flight and now we're home.

Things are productive around here. We're trying to get the house together (ha!). We went to the state fair today and had our fair share of terrible, fatty foods. The baby got to eat french fries, roasted corn, and a funnel cake. That's my one funnel cake a year.

Wyoming & Colorado

We left NC on Friday and headed to Denver, Colorado! We arrived, hopped in our rental car and moved on up to Cheyenne, Wyoming. We hung around their downtown, ate a fabulous meal, then headed in for an early bed (8pm their time which is 10pm our time).

We woke up Saturday at 5am their time and hung around the hotel room till we headed to Laramie, Wyoming which is only about 30 mins away. We met up with Ty, one of my dad's friends (long story) who came to my and Jason's wedding. He took us up to the "snowies" which are some really awesome snow-capped mountains in Medicine Bow National Forest. There was plenty of snow on the ground and when we got up to the highest part, we laughed at the college kids in their big, burly truck that were stuck in the snow. Doesn't matter how big your truck is if you're trying to go through 2 feet of snow. We stopped and took some pictures, and I took pictures of Daniel and Ty in short sleeves! They are crazy. Then we headed back down the mountain and ate at another great local resturant. We headed back to Cheyenne and we both were exhausted!

Today (Sunday), we woke up early, met Ty in Fort Collins, Colorado and headed to Estes Park, Colorado--home of Rocky Mountain National Park. We saw chipmunks, elk, and plenty of deer! One of the elk was a HUGE bull and he was only about 10 feet away from our car. It was extremely windy up there and the temperatures ranged from about 40 degrees at the highest point around 10,000 feet to 75 degrees or so in town. It was great. We drove around there for quite some time. We then said goodbye to Ty and headed back into the Denver, Colorado area. We went to see the burial site of Buffalo Bill on Lookout Mountain. Now we're here--sitting in the hotel blogging and about to get some dinner. Will post pics soon!

Looking Forward to the Next Trimester....

The little girls are looking forward to the start of Rachel's 2nd trimester, which starts today!

Wall Between Kitchen & Dining Room

Let the demo begin!

Temporary wall so the house doesn't fall in

New opening and old doorway

Daniel took down the wall between the kitchen and dining room. The remodel process has had a jumpstart since we found out the baby is coming...and soon! The next 6 months are going to fly by. Daniel has also peeled off all the old wallpaper that was painted over in the dining room. That wasn't too bad of a task considering 41 years tends to make wallpaper glue weak (thankfully). It just pulled right off.

As for me, I've been feeling pretty good the past 2 days. I've actually been hungry and ate a full meal! The prenatal vitamins are still a little tough but I've been taking them as late at night as possible so I can sleep through most of it. I think work is what is making me sick. :-)

Will Baby Findley be a Boy or Girl?

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Chicks in the Morning

We usually release the chickens in the morning to roam around the backyard until they're ready to roost again at dusk. Daniel took a video of them this morning coming out of the coop.

If you have a hard time watching this video, it's also on youtube at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQp-su3BPY