Jenee' has arrived!!

Jenee' was born Christmas at 5am! We had the perfect christmas! Later on that morning Nick went to pick up Benjamin from our friends' house and he brought all our presents to the hospital. So, we all opened our presents and out our window it started snowing. What a unique Christmas we had! I felt a bit like Mary on Christmas Eve when we were headed to the hospital and all the labor and delivery stuff involved. I did have it much cushier than she ever did! I had a sweet room, an epidural, and medical people. Plus, I had blankets and pillows. Anyway, here are some pictures of our angel. She is soo cute! She was 7 lbs 9 oz and 21" long. The pictures make her look fairly big, but she is a tiny little thing. Super long and skinny skinny. She has the tiniest little head too!

doodling

I've been scrapbooking lately, and I'm taking this doodling class that's awesome! I've never been very confident with my artistic abilities, but this class has totally made me feel pretty good about what I can do. Anyway, the class is a blast, and I wanted to post my latest layouts.

zerberts

I love zerberts (for those of you who don't know what they are, I believe you call them raspberries - you blow on someone's skin, that makes a farting sound)! Benjamin loves them too! He has been giving me zerberts daily for a long long time. He wakes up Nick (remember he works graveyards so he sleeps during the day) everyday with a zerbert on any part of skin he can find. He's even given him one on his forehead. Too funny! Well, recently he walks up to me and pulls my shirt up to reveal my big preggo belly and gives me tons of zerberts. Well I'm not sure how Jenee is taking it. She goes balistic after he gives me one. She pushes back at where he gave me one or she starts kicking all over. It's hilarious! I don't know if she likes it and gets excited, or she wants some peace and gets angry. He hasn't noticed yet though (thank goodness - I think it might traumatize him), he usually pulls my shirt back down in between each zerbert. He likes modest girls best!

Anyway, thought I'd share the funnyness of Benji. Someday I'll make a list of all the hilarious things he does on a daily basis. If we took video of him doing all the things he does and then sent it in to america's funniest videos we'd totally take the huge grand prize - and I'm being modest. I'll try to share them with you in the future.

dessert.. yumm

You Are Cheesecake

Rich, sweet, and simply perfect. You're not boring - you're just the best!

What Dessert Are You Most Like?

pictures at last!

These are from our trip to Houston - we had been playing at a water park, and then decided to dry off on the playground. Isn't he adorable!!

been to tejas

Well, Benji and I just got back from a trip to Houston, where we saw almost everyone on my side of the family! What a blast it was! We got back and are finally caught up on all our missed sleep. I don't have any pictures from the trip: so many people were taking pictures I never pulled my camera out. Shameful! Hopefully pictures will start rolling in and then I can get them up. Who wants to look at a blog without pictures? I surely don't. Sometime soon I'll drown this blog in so many posts and pictures it'll take weeks to look at all of it. Promises promises. Well, we'll see how many posts and pictures I'll get up. I just thought I'd let everyone know we are alive and happy. Jenee' is growing in my belly quite nicely. She is a whippersnapper! Constantly moving, unless someone else wants to feel her move and then she pretends to be sleeping. Attitude at such a young age! What *am* I going to do? Pray, a lot.

See ya!

busy busy busy

I have completely slacked off in the blog department. I'm sure many have given up on me; I apologize. I've been super busy getting the house in order: organizing, decluttering, revamping, etc. I get those "nesting" urges throughout my whole pregnancy, not just at the end and I figure I'd better do something now while I still can move around pretty easily. I make myself extremely exhausted though. I worked worked worked and then this past week I've been busy rotting my brain by not doing a thing! It's been nice, but still I feel restless. Benjamin has been having a good time through it all. I'm trying to think of something new and exciting he's done, but I just can't make my brain function at this point. His favorite thing to do is go up and down stairs, go out on the balcony opening and closing the screen door, and showing off how cool he is by coming back inside! Impressive, I know! Ha ha. He is so cute. He does it alllll day! He *loves* doors and loves being outside. He watches the cars go by and hollers at them. He presses his face against the sliding doors at me making faces and laughing. It is too funny.

I know the blog has been lacking in regards of pictures. Lame, I know. The computer with the pictures isn't hooked up to the internet: our wireless card broke. Soo, I've got to copy them on to a device and then put them on this computer, and it just doesn't sound like fun when I'm exhausted after chasing Benji around and cleaning the house and all the other general nonsense. Well, before september is up, there'll be pictures on the blog.