and this is how it ended. What did people ever do without television?!?!?
Yeah, we're sexy and we know it. Jenn kept saying the word "something erotic" and we couldn't stop laughing.
Thank goodness I only paid $1.25 to see it, probably won't be buying the movie and I WILL probably read Journey to the Center of the Earth now!
Now that we have Jonah, Aaron seems like such a big boy. He's pretty independent...loves to play with other kiddos and can't get enough of George the Monkey. Just a little commemorative layout about his likes right at three. Thanks to Kristy for the WRMK chipboard alphabet and the funky flower stamp from Unity. Oh, I also used up some of my "sticky stitches" I believe from Colorbok. Mini alpha stamps are from Hero Arts. White ink is Stampin' up Craft ink. And the ragged edge border stamp is from SeeD's. Stitched ribbon from Lil' Davis.
Jonah is now a month old. Crazy, huh? He's just so darn sweet to look at. I can't help posting about him. He still wakes me up about four, five, or six times a night...we'll work on that. I haven't even done one scrapbook page for him yet...I need to renew my Costco membership...they gave me 50 free prints. 
My solution for small punches...they fit four to a drawer and I also have my tags, brads and eyelets in this set of drawers. I just added a sample of each punch to the front of the drawer so I would know what's in there. My mom was going to get rid of this two tiered lazy susan but I snatched it and repurposed it for my beads and sequin collection. My extra ribbon ended up on the bottom...I think I'm ready for a third rod of ribbon...sheesh. I could probably paint it to make it prettier.
I use a stepped spice rack I found at the thrift store for my wood mounted rubber stamps. I love being able to see them all...I HATE dusting them! Again...maybe some paint to match it up.
Here I used those super cheap metal curtain rods to hang up my "whale of a punch" punches. So easy to access and keep organized. You can spray paint the rods any color you want...I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Heck, I haven't even painted my walls yet! Those are my kiddos hand prints done in flour dough. Aaron's was so tiny.
And here, yes here my lovelies is my ribbon, so yummy organized in ROYGBIV.
Clean, clean, clean! And I even made a card afterwards. I'll post that later because it came out caaaute. I am getting rid of a lot of stamps that were just collecting dust on my shelves. I know I should get rid of more but it's a hard thing to say goodbye to your babies. Did you know that I love Georgia O'keefe's work. Jenn, when are you going to come and help me sand and stain the two nativity sets I ordered...was that two years ago? Well they're in my project box right under my table so as not to be forgotten this year. Anywho, I'm off to the pumpkin patch the freezing October morning. Have a great day.
So we went out last night and had a great time. We had dinner at Zea's (their Mediterranean humus is the bomb) and Italian ices at Pop Pop's, so yummy. Alas, we were unable to convince Michelle to stay here in New Mexico, darn it. She's headed to the sunshine state and there's no stopping her. Oh well, I guess that gives us a great excuse to finally go to Disney World...they'll be only a hop, skip and a jump from Mickey and the gang.
I picked up a pack of these monogrammed notecards from Target the other day. They were originally 4 bucks, but I scored all 12 cards with coordinated envies for 98 cents!!! Aren't they just adorable? I added my own little touch with my labeler to make them into thank you cards. Presto chango, whalah! Hopefully I'm caught up on the thank you's now.
but not from me. Because I stink at time management at the moment I'll share one of the most wonderful crafty things I've received lately. My father in law built this beautiful cradle for our babe. 
He's so handy...that's where my wonderful husband gets it from. I've been thinking about painting a scene on it or something, but I'm not sure what. 
I would really like for it to be gender neautral so that my children will be able to use if for their children. I love the drawer on the bottom where I can store stuff. Amazing. And it glides so smoothly. Thanks Grampy for such a beautiful gift from the heart and the hands.
So here's the way it all went two weeks and two days ago. I hadn't had much luck with the stripping of the membranes thing. My midwife had done it three times without any results.
I'm finally moved into my laboring room after which seems like forever, but in all truth was only about forty five minutes. It was almost three in the morning. My midwife, Margot, said it was okay for me to get into the bathtub even though my water had broken...this was a first for me...laboring in water. I was grateful to get into the warm water and stayed there until a little after four in the morning when I felt the baby move down after a truly painful contraction. Yes, I really felt him twist and move down, it was crazy. I told Travis to help me out of the tub and the midwife came in to check on me. I was dilated to a nine or more. Almost ready to deliver, but wait, I'm still not 100% effaced, only 90%. Midwife asks me if during the next extremely excruciating contraction I can push down while she moves my cervix out of the way, umm, yeah, sure, okay. Never want to do that again. Now I can begin to push the babe out. Thank you! Two more extremely excruciating, mind numbingly, painful contractions during which I can clearly remember telling the all those within earshot that I couldn't possibly do this anymore and Jonah entered this world into his father's waiting hands. This is the first baby that Travis actually caught. Thank goodness for the extra midwife in training, Brenda, that was helping me get through the transition while Travis helped our little one come into this world on his end. Jonah Benjamin was born at 4:49am Wednesday morning.
Hugs.
I like to make faces with my children's lunches...just a li'l somethin' I've been doing since Jakob was a little guy. Aaron loves it...he just kept replacing the nose. Gotta run.
Heads up...it now takes me a whole day to finish a card. Hah! Between feedings and changings and comfortings I managed to finish this little jewel for a friend of mine. It was her birthday a week ago.
I managed to win a couple of ribbons at the state fair for my rubber stamping entries. I won a first place on my Christmas Card, a third on my framed owl family, a second on my birthday whale card and a second on my scrapbook page. Stamp: Natural Beauty
Ink: Cameo Coral, Black Staz-On, Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Apicot Appeal
Paper: Wild Asparagus
A card I made earlier in the week. I love this Halloween stamp set, Booglie Eyes. The plastic "crystals" were mounted over orange squares of paper. Nothin' fancy. Have a super Sabbath.
Jonah Benjamin is finally here! He entered the world at 4:59am on Wednesday morning. Weiging in at 8lbs. 7oz. and measuring 21 inches long. Here's a couple of pictures. He just looks too funny in that bottom one...a little like popeye with the fist action. We had to spend an extra day in the hospital because he had respiratory problems, but all is well now. I'm happy to be home and surrounded by the people I love. I'm exhausted and elated. Thank you all so much for your well wishes. I've finally got ankles again! Woo hoo! Better pics to come later.
