Baby Sister

the Carseat

I know this isn't as exciting as pictures of the baby, but here's the carseat mom made. Cute, huh?

Jane Ashely Dance

So our little angel was born last night at 9:59pm. She was 6 lbs 7 oz and 19 1/2 inches. I can't wait for you all to see her. Pictures don't ever do justice. She is so sweet!

less than 24 hours...

So as you all know, tomorrow is the big day. I'm really excited/nervous/anxious. My doctor perscribed me some ambien to sleep. I went in on Friday and basically broke down and balled to the nurse and then to him. I was SO tired b/c every day this week I've woken up between 4:30-5:00am and can't get back to sleep...must be anxiety or something. Plus the worrying that she's moving, etc. I'm fine now, just tired (but that won't change, right!). Mom is here and we've been making me a new car seat cover. I'll post a picture later when we are done. When I'm done with it, I'm sending it to anyone who has a baby girl in need of an infant car seat cover! It's too much work to not be used again! Mom even re-created the canopy!
Pictures will be coming soon (of the baby that is!)!!!!

Post some news people.

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

Lincoln & Makenna's preschool went to a pumpkin patch. After a 1/2 mile hike we got to the south end of the pumpkin patch. All we could find were little yellow pumpkins, or bigger green pumpkins (they looked like zucchini)! Finally someone made it to the North end of the patch and found a bunch of good sized orange pumpkins. So we all walked to the complete other end of the patch and got our big pumpkins! Smart thinking! Now we had a bad pumpkin to adult ratio. At one point Whitney was carrying two big pumpkins, Bond and Marlyn were both carrying theirs, and Makenna and Lincoln were trading off carrying one in a backpack, while I was also carrying two. So I was carrying Reagan on my back and a pumpkin in each arm ( I am sure that I looked like a complete lunatic) and sure enough I tell Lincoln to hurry and catch up, and he trips and gashes his head open, and was bleeding like a blood donor! It was a mess. Reagan was having much sympathy for her brother and started crying as well. It was memorable to say the least! Thanks for your help Whitney! I probably would have started crying too if you hadn't been there to help.

P.S. Thanks to Rachelle, McKinley was hanging out at her house instead of crying on my hip too!

Spiderman Saves Baby!

Lincoln is so good about always wanted to hold McKinley. He is so curious to see how much she has grown every single day!

Hanging In There!

McKinley was a good little girl. She was pretty entertained with my keys most of the time.

Climbers!

Even when they seemed a little freaked out at the height, they kept climbing. Reagan would pass Lincoln, then Lincoln would climb a little higher, then Reagan would climb a little higher, and on and on! Since I had McKinley in my sling, Megan had to be the kid chaser up the rocks.

Funny Kids!

Something Strange In The Dirt.

I just thought this was a cute picture.

Red Rock Canyon

The kids had a great time hiking around Red Rock Canyon. They were real troopers.

3 Amigos

Having a good time together! 15 pictures, not one has them all smiling together.

Friends At Last!

They get into a lot of trouble together, but they also have a lot of fun!

For Kate...

So Katie wanted me to post a "belly shot" and since i don't ever take any of those, I thought she was out of luck. Then, my friend lizzy threw me a shower and took this one. You can see the belly...getting HUGE now. But besides that, check out that cute dress. The picture doesn't do justice. It is so cute...a size 2T and I know she'll not ever want to take it off! I had about 8 girls come to my shower...small but nice. My friend Lizzy made dinner and we had a great time. I got some darling pink stuff...most of which I exchanged for bigger sizes since I'm okay in the 0-12 month department. But now I feel like I have a few cute things for her when she's one!

From Carmel to Chalk

Seconds after rescuing my pretzel stuff.... I see McKinley crawling around with a piece of chalk in her mouth. She dropped it before I could take the picture, but you can see it in her hand. I decided it was probably non-toxic so I didn't have to call poison control.

What is that?

Anyone have a guess? Yep, your right. It is a 1.2 lbs of Carmel. I had it on the counter with the half pound of white chocolate ready to make yummy pretzels. I went to change McKinley's diaper and came outside to check on my oh so quiet 2year old and found her sitting on Lincoln's skateboard like this. As soon as she saw me she said "Yummy Mommy" and offered me some. At first it didn't sink in, I didn't know what she was eating. I thought it was a loaf of bread, but then I realized I didn't HAVE a loaf of bread. Once I saw the white chocolate I realized she had heisted my ingredients. She is so crazy! By the time I got the camera she must have known that I was going to take both of her treats away, so she was desperately tearing at the white chocolate trying to open the package to get a chunk. But she wasn't fast enough!

Vanilla Sugar

I bought a new sugar canister and I'm making the vanilla sugar. I guess it takes a couple of weeks, so I'll let you know how it turns out!

Our Adoption Profile

Finally, we got this done! The original file was huge--80 megs. So we shrunk it, and you can't read everything. Probably better that way :)

Sloppy Joes

So, I have a fantastic new recipe I got from my neighbor for sloppy joes. First time I have ever made a successful home-made sloppy joe. I'm too tired to post it right now but look for it in the near future.