When It Rains It Pours

My family showered us with blessing this past weekend to help prepare and welcome Baby Libs. I was overwhelmed, so much so that I can't even recall the details...except that there were lemon bars, mini cheesecakes, and lots of presents. Here is a slide show with music to document the event. Enjoy!

We are blessed!

Dog Walkers

Last week the little girls came to our house for the first time. They were petrified of Gus at first (especially Allison). Here is the proof that they eventually did warm up to him, and him to them for that matter!

Allison and Gus. She was tired in this picture, not only are her eyes closed, but she already has on her night gown!

Oh she woke up

Sidney giving a command and Allison is hidding

The girls, the dog and Uncle Kev

Sweet gals

Sidney and her favorite Old English Sheepdog

Flippin' Baby!

Yippee, she turned! I went to see the in-charge doctor at the practice that I'm going to. He couldn't find my munch-kin just by feeling my belly so he did an ultra sound to see if she did the big flipperooni (flip-r-ou-nee) and there she was head down and all set to go!
Thanks to all of you for praying for us, I appreciate it so much. Now lets pray she stays that way!

Hiccups!

So our sweet little daughter is very stubborn, she is turned the wrong way.
To encourage her to turn, I'm suppose to do these crazy inversion exercises that require me to lay upside on an ironing board that is on an angle for 30 minutes a day...they don't feel good. I'm also suppose to envision her head down...really????? I don't think that they are working because she keeps getting hiccups and I can feel them up by my ribs and my midwife told me if I felt hiccups up top then that meant she was not facing the correct direction!!!! I guess I'm not envisioning the way that I should! So....if these exercises and envisionings don't work, I have to go have her turned. I have heard that this can be a painful procedure and has some risks. Pray that she cooperates and turns on her own. We have about 2 1/2 weeks to get her to go south on her own. I would be much obliged!

Mi Casa Su Casa

"In all the world our nest is best" -The Best Nest by Dr. Seuss


House pictures!!!! That show you more details then the ones I have taken! Kevin took these this weekend while I was away. You can get an idea of what the new home looks like! Enjoy!

This is Libby's room(I don't know why in that one post I wrote Libbie, we're going with L-i-b-b-y). The color is really a light aqua. Kev's mom thought it looked the same as the blue in our room, but it really is different in real life I promise! It's a work in progress! I'll keep you updated.

This is our room minus our bed spread. Kev was home by himself so I don't think details were the priority

These are the stairs that I avoid going up too much, they are very steep and remind of the stairs at FBA

Kitchen...any suggestions for what to hang on the wall by the table?

Kitchen angle #2

Kev's room/Gus's room/ office and the only room with boxes left! We need a book shelf.

Living/dinning room. If you'll direct your attention to the top right of this photo you'll notice funny, little, spots on the wall. These are holes that Kev patched up and painted over. It turns out that the yellow he used to patch up with was not the same yellow as the wall!

Living room and front door

Deck and back yard

Screen porch as they are referred to up here. Kev still calls it the lani sometimes.

Swanee Lane

There is also a cozy guest room, for those of you who our planning on coming to visit, I guess he didn't want to photograph that room yet, but it is nice!

And there you have it, our own little nook in this great big world!

The Naked Who????

Jamie Oliver is an English Chef who used who used to have a show called the Naked Chef. He also has several restaurants. One is called 15 Cornwall and we ate there a couple of years ago and it was so good! Now he has a show called Jamie at Home. I love it, it's very natural and earthy and I wish I had a garden like he does! Last Saturday he made rice pudding with home made strawberry jam. Ever since then Kevin has been asking me to make some. Here's how I did it, not exactly like Jamie, but kinda. I made it up based on a bunch of different rice pudding recipes.
1 cup of white rice
3 cups milk(I ran out of milk so I added vanilla cream, but still don't think I added enough)
1/4 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon

I cooked the rice normally in water with butter and salt. Then I boiled the other ingredients together and dumped in the rice, brought all of that to a slow boil and put it in an casserole dish. Then I baked it in the oven with tin foil over it for about 45 min. After about 30 minutes I stirred it then put it back in for the remaining time. It turned out dryer then we wanted but I think that was due to the missing milk. Here's the best part, I made Jaime's version of homemade strawberry jam....so delicious. After I took the rice pudding out of the oven I smeared it with the jam! Scrummy!
2 quarts of a strawberries cut into pieces
1/2 cup of sugar

Scrunch the berries in your hands with the sugar, then place in a small pot and boil for 20-30mins skimming the foam off of the top about every 5 mins.

Kev said this looks like boiling brains, sometimes he is such a boy!

Finished product!

Even though it was dryer then we wanted it was still tasty....it would be good in the winter, but then the strawberries wouldn't taste as good!

LOST

I just wanted to thank three people who came to my rescue today while I was running errands and getting lost.
#1 goes to the mister in my life. On my way to my third stop Short Pump Town Center, I realized that I was approaching the Virginia country side, and decided that I had probably gone to far. Via phone, he directed off the nearest exit and back 10 miles in which I had traveled out of my way.

#2 goes to my pregnancy mentor Teri Pence. Upon arriving at my for mentioned destination I realized that the store that I had journeyed to get to was not at that mall, it was at a completely different mall! So Teri got on Google maps or something and found a path for me to get from Short Pump to Stony Creek.

#3 goes to my best gal pal Laura. When Teri wasn't available as I was getting lost on my way to mall number 2, Laura backed her up and looked up the very same directions and guided me to the mall, right into my parking spot!

I left the house at 11:00 and didn't return home until 5:00, here are the places I went to
Ashland Veterinary Hospital
The Cracker Barrel Store
Short Pump Mall
Stony Creek Mall...to get to Anthropologie
Bed, Bath, and Beyond
UKrops
then finally, pj's central, Walmart

After a lot of public restroom stops, a couple gallons of gas, and about a million Braxton Hicks at Walmart I made it home!
Kevin fixed dinner, he just heated up left overs. I was tired.