Our new baby

We morphed our pictures on some celebrity baby predictor gadget. Here's the balding little guy...




I say it's a boy, Nate thinks it looks like a girl. I understand it has pierced ears, but it still looks like a boy.

please help

All i have been doing is sleeping or being VERY tired. I'm only in the beginning, does it get worse? How can I fight off this extreme fatigue?

Got a job

Anyone remember when I worked at Henry's Market in Solana Beach and I could fly your produce past my scanner without mistaking your chard for collard greens or confusing your hot house cucumbers for zucchini? I will be back at it again at the exact same store and corporation, only it's called Sprouts here in AZ. I'm really happy I got a job, and I'm even happier that I will be back at such a fine establishment. If anyone wants to come in for produce deals, just a little FYI, on Wednesdays you can redeem last week's ad special AND the upcoming week's ad specials. It's pretty great. I am blessed.

babies everywhere

There are babies and kids everywhere when this circle of life stuff happens. It makes me feel like this lady sometimes...




These are my babies everywhere right now:

Nate and I were very proud of our B-day gifts for Sadie: A Superman costume and collection of trolls. She loved her superhero outfit and was really intrigued by the trolls.


This is Julianna. She has the best eyebrow expressions and a hilarious shoulder shrug that looks like she's dancing.

Good movie, Bad movie

Good Movie



I know this has been out on DVD for some time now, but it is the only funny movie I have seen in a really long time. I was panting a little bit because I had laughed so hard. Great message by the aetheist Ricky Gervais: Be a good person. Not crude, not vulgar, just really really funny with a feel good message. I love it.


Bad Movie



I was definitely more offended by this movie though than I was annoyed with having to endure it's cheesiness. (Does over referencing The Smiths and casting Zooey Deschanel define a good movie now?) I'm not a movie critic so I won't embarrass myself and explain my reasoning for why I thought this movie was cheesy, overkill on the "indie," crude, vulgar, and mixed in it's messages. But I will explain why I was offended by how they portrayed Tom Hansen's pre-teen sister. The 12 yr old pre-pubescent sister is portrayed as more romantically and sexually experienced than her 20 something yr old brother. Her lack of naivity is portrayed as cool and her unconventionality seems to be a lesson to the viewer that this is the new headway of pre-teens: premature promiscuity. My problem with condoning the portrayal of 12 yr old girls as romantically and sexually experienced is that under the law, they are still seen as children incapable of making their own judgment. So while we are being educated by these ridiculous movies on how pre-teens are just more sexually advanced these days, we are still imprisoning adult men for pursuing these children. And did I say it was cheesy?

There are two lines there

There's a little zygote inside of me:)

My first sewing project with a pattern

These little baby Kimonos are officially the first things I've ever sewn with a pattern. My friend Stephani was having a baby boy so I got an early start knowing it these would take me forever. Luckily Alison, my sewing coach and motivator, was there to force me to finish them before we left Philly. I was so frustrated by such a difficult time I was having that I wanted to put them off for "later." Good thing I had a friend to buckle me down to finish them early because the little baby boy was born over a month earlier than expected. Congratulations on getting here so early little Benjamin!

We moved back to the West

But first we went to DC on the hottest humid east coast day of August..












I was uncomfortably hot



And before we left we took some Pinnacle family portraits...






We went through Nauvoo, Illinois...



Thanks Andrea!



It was raining..











The Mississippi River in the background..



We towed this 1972 Shasta camper trailer full of our belongings all the way from Philly to Utah, then from Utah to Arizona.




I made Nate stop on the shoulder so I could pick some flowers. I did not realize I was also wearing bell bottom jeans and a tie-dyed t-shirt.



We also slept in our camper trailer on two nights of our cross country trip. One of the nights we just parked it in front of Kohl's department store as seen below. One night we got to stay in the lap of luxury in a real home. Nate's aunt Lynette treated us to a hospitable night's stay and some of her famous treats-hedgehogs. Thanks Lynette!



Parking the trailer at Kohl's left us a stone's throw away from a Jack in the Box which meant easy access to a public restroom when we woke up the next morning. (See Jack in the Box in background below.)



We are now moved into our new apartment in Mesa, AZ and we are ecstatic to be back in the Western United States. Nate is going to school and I'm on the job hunt. We just got back from a relaxing and wonderful trip to San Diego this weekend also. We weren't so good at taking pictures there though, we only took one. Enjoy.