Memorial Day Weekend in PA

Wow, what a great weekend. Laura and I spent our Memorial Day weekend with some friends. Friday night we left our place with Brian, Meredith and Jack Snyder and headed for the Snyder’s camp in the upper Appalachian Mountains in northern Pennsylvania. It was a wonderful weekend. It felt so go the get out into the country again and do some fishing. The trout where biting pretty well. Most of them had some good size to them. Between everyone that was fishing our count was in the 60's.



Our Friend Brian looking happy to be in the streams again. We fished in the South Branch of Tionesta Creek.





We caught a new breed of fish called a tiger trout. They are not only pretty neat looking but excellent fighters. I heard that they are supposed to be a cross between a Brooke and a Brown Trout.






The cabin was nice and cozy. Me and Jack had a great time together. Look at his face as he realizes that my watch is a Penn State watch.





Laura on the bank of one of the rivers with Brian's mom Beth.

Baby Shopping and More

Today after a hard day at work me and Laura went and started the "long and painful" task of registering for baby shower gifts. I guess I'm exaggerating a little bit, it wasn’t all that bad. I did get to walk around and play with some really cool toys. We are registered at . Laura will give out all the information to everyone when we are done registering.


The rain is finally over with in Ohio. At least for a little while. After the long wait our new tractor showed up. It's a 9,400 John Deere. It boosts a 455 hp engine. We have two 17 yard scraper dragging behind it. It’s a massive earth mover. Here is a picture for everyone to look at that I got off the internet. I will take some of ours soon and get them posted.

I you haven't already, you have to check out my youngest sister Holly's Blog. You can find her link on the left of my page.

Busy Life

Sorry that we are soooo slow at updating this at times! Things have been really busy for the both of us. I have been spending many late nights at work (up to 3am one night) trying to get some bidding done, and Laura has been having meetings with companies that don't feel that they should be paying their share of the bills. My job is starting to pick up. We landed our first big job last Tuesday. The job is on Lodi, Ohio. Thats about an hour and 40 minutes north of Columbus, right off I-71. Me and Ken bid the job at $502,000.00 and some change. That makes it by far the biggest job that we have ever done. I'm the Project Manager for it, so everything that goes on there is my responsibility. No stress right?!? Some of the guys went up and started the demolition on Monday. They are going to be finishing it up on on Wednesday and then start the dirt work. I hope that our new tractor and pans arrive on time. They were supposed to get there on Wed. evening but shipping got postponed. Trying to scramble to get the crews up and running. Have to hire some more help. Pray that we can keep the big jobs rolling in and keep everyone working.

Everything with Laura and the baby is great. Laura had her gestational diabetes test today. Everything went well and we don't have to worry about that for right now. The baby is still healthy and heartbeat was 150. Laura is such a beautiful woman. I love looking at her knowing that she is carring our child. I can't wait to do this with her all over again.

The Ultrasound Pics from April 20th

Baby playing patty-cake in the womb.
The baby has found his/her thumb.

"you knit me together"

Time is flying and I am so blessed to be having what I would call a fun pregnancy compared to the majority of those I've spoken to so far. I would have to say the most fun experience would have to be the night that Charlie and I felt the baby move for the first time at the exact same moment. I was laying still and relaxed and Charlie put his warm hand on my stomach. We both waited a couple minutes and then all of a sudden the baby moved. We weren't sure if it was a hand or a foot, but whatever it was we both felt it. It was the neatest feeling!!

For those of you anxiously awaiting the latest ultrasound pictures, they will be up soon. The baby already weighs one pound and my due date has been bumped up one day - sorry Mrs. Cavie it's now Aug. 23rd.

Blessed News

Charlie and I were married a year and six months when we found out we were going to have an addition to our family. We were a little shocked, but very excited. We both had our ideas of how to share the news with our family, but in the end we decided to go with Charlie's idea. Charlie's family had already planned on coming to Columbus the first weekend in January so that Friday we invited my side of the family over so we could all have dinner together. We gathered around the table for prayer and right at the end Charlie said "and Lord please be with Laura as she carries our child". That definitely would have been a Kodak moment.

I am now 5 months and growing. What an amazing miracle!!!

This is where it all started

Charlie and I met at Reynoldsburg Baptist Church in February 2003. With the help of a good friend confirming what we had both been thinking, we had our first date May 30, 2003.

As time passed we both knew this was no ordinary friendship and found ourselves wanting to spend a lot more time together. After much prayer about how the Lord was leading, we were engaged on December 28, 2003.

We were so excited and of course I couldn't wait to start planning. The wedding was June 19, 2004 at the church where it all started. What an awesome day spent with family and friends and of course becoming Mrs. Laura Groff.

The Beginning

Well hello everyone and welcome to our blog. Sorry that I was so slow at getting one of these up and running! Everyone has been asking about when we were going to get a blog up? Well, its up. No promises on how well we are going to do with keeping it up to date for the first couple months. Its going to take some time getting into the swing of using a computer all the time again but me and Laura will do our best.