Well, Oregon is a nice place for kids to grow up. A half inch of show fell last night and school is postponed for two hours and kindergarten is canceled. It wasn't even icy, just slush. Wade is having fun, he misses school a little.

Today Sherwin is having a Chinese New Year celebration with his bear scouts, soooo, since I helped do all the research and I will have Darian and Wade to entertain, I will be doing tiger scout activites with them celebrating a chinese new year. We will balance buckets, make hats, and eat fortune cookies.

We had excitment last sunday morning. We woke to a tree fallen just outside our bedroom window. It fell away from the house or you would have heard from us in other ways before this. It was a lovely pine tree. Darian and I counted the rings, 38 years young. It was a large tree, but with no good reason to fall over. We didn't have that much rain. I hope our luck holds out with the ceders right out the back and if they do fall while they are here I hope they fall down hill and away from the house.

Wade says, well.... mama.. uhhhuuhgh...mama I didn't want to say that. I am not telling you anything unless you erase all of that. I made a pinewood derby car. And I raced it at the pinewood derby race. It was great because I liked it. And mama was there too and I liked her. My car went great, it was the best one but it didn't go off of the track. My pinewood derby car was blue with sparkles on it and I put a red firebird on it and it was number 98, but in the race it was 1. And that's all I want to say.

Girl Names

That last posting was maybe a little unclear as to the subject so... We are happily awaiting a girl!! For those of you further away and asking is I am "showing" yet... I'll let you judge the growing condition of my belly. Here's more me featuring 14 and 20 months.

... A GIRL!!!

Since I don't have any more pictures to share. Here's one of my new hair- a little more red than I would have liked but it is a fun change!

IT"S A ... !!

The moment you all have been waiting for has arrived! Well, I sure have been waiting for it! We are excited to present to you a little being. (yep, it progressed from bean to being!) It was so fun (I got all teary-eyed) as we watched it kick it's feet, put it's hand up to it's mouth to (maybe?) suck it's thumb (we didn't see actual sucking motion quite) and even caught a yawn that was precious (but a bit eeirie in the photo). So, can you tell the gender?

Love,

Elisabeth