More snow!

Saturday night some friends came over and we played in the new snow! They have some younger kids and we had fun building a snow family on my car, having a huge long snowball fight, eating snow, and the youngest even built us a snow man.

Thankful for Snow!

I'm so thankful for a lot of things this year.

1. Dad is healthy and home and not recovering from triple bypass surgery like he was last year. 2. Lots of family came and we also had a guest from South Africa.
3. It SNOWED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had a blast having a snowball fight too.
Here are the pictures of the fun.

Mercedes (my 5 year old cousin) and my Aunt Kim

Mercedes and David and I'm in the background.

Mom and Mercedes

Kim taking pictures

When it stops falling on it's own we can make it continue!

Big gloves keep little hands warm too!

Earlier in the day. This is about half or less of all that we got.

Catching snow! This was also earlier in the day.

Granny Ann

David, Dad, Grandpa (3 generation picture)

Lloyd the South African guest.

Too bad you can't hear his accent in the picture.

Haircut and baby pics.

Here are pics of my hair cut and some from visiting Alicia and some from a recent birth I went to. Yep, life's been busy.

The birth pics are mostly ones that I took. I took some other great ones but you guys wouldn't want to see them. Also, the placenta was awesome! It was huge for one thing and for another the cord was really long. Normally a umbilical cord is about 17-18 inches long. This one was 35 1/2! I have pics of the cord and placenta for those who don't mind some blood. Just e-mail me or leave me a comment saying you want to see them and I'll send them to you!

As far as the Alicia visit goes we had a blast and it was great to have a weekend away.

Alicia and I at the football game
All three of us!


Alicia, Esh, Me.

Esh and I trying on hats.
The whole crew with hats on. Back row: Becca, me, Alica Front Row: Kayla, Rachel, Esh.
The world's largest chimes with wonderful tones!
Esh feeding the ducks on the river.
Esh and Alicia at the football game.

Me, Alicia, Esh
The hair!
Back of the Hair
Front view again.



He's less than a minute old here so he's still kinda blue
Looking at his mommy!
Midwife # weighing him. He was, oy, I forgot, just over 9 or 10 lbs.
Me and midwife #1 doing the foot prints. The dad took about 10 pics of the process. LOL!
Trimming the cord. Look at all that hair!!!



Isn't he adoreable!

Recent pictures

Due to Amy's prodding I'm updating my blog. I've been waiting for people to send me Sukkot pics and it hasn't happened.

Well, I've highlighted my hair and so you can see pics of that, and there are a few of Esh and I joking around.

Sukkot!

Hag Sameach! Sukkot is now beginning! I don't have any pics yet but I plan on posting some in a couple weeks

Also, Esh has arrived here safely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The airline was cruel and had her plane delayed for 20 minutes (about the longets 20 minutes of my life).

Mason has arrived!

I was awakened at 5 this morning with a call for a birth. It was going to be a quick one and one of the midwives was going to come pick me up in 5 minutes. I quickly got ready and we rushed outside of town to witness the miracle of birth. Mason made is grand entrance about 5 minutes after two of us got there (one midwife had gone ahead while we got the birth kit. . .) He was born after only 44 minutes of labor and was 10lbs 4 ounces! He's so cute! His mommy did a magnificent job and is definately a professional. Mason Bryant was happy to meet all 6 of his siblings, his parents, and of course his midwives.

I don't have any pics from today with me in them. :( Enjoy these though!

A UJ picture

While unloading groceries a couple weeks ago I noticed a perfect photo op of UJ proportions! So, in honor of you Joe, I took this pic. No, I didn't set it up, yes peoples, it did just "happen" to lay this way.

Finisimo!

Finally! After all this time I've been spending with this textbook I paid two dollars for I'm actually finished with it! Goodbyes don't normally come easy for me but this one sure did! Whew, I can breathe a sigh of relief. Time to celebrate and throw a party. Too bad everyones asleep and Starbucks is closed. I guess I'll have to wait to really celebrate until tomorrow.

Here She Comes!

Yes, it's finally true. Esh is coming to America! I'll admit I thought it would never really happen but I hear the tickets have even been purchased. In case you couldn't tell I'm thrilled. I have a few things I'd like to get done before her arrival.

1. Vaccum out my car!

2. Buy some real ice cream.

3. Finish the unit of midwifery stuff I'm working on.

4. Makesure I can find Pride and Prejudice and that we have some popcorn.

I've been told that I need to update my blog more often. The truth is that right now my life is pretty boring. I can tell you all about Preterm babies, Babies of drug addicted mothers, Large babies. . . but I don't think that would catch everyone's interest. Other than that I've been sleeping and volunteering and going to prenatals. No worries though, when Esh gets here I'll once again have a social life and something to talk about.