Samuel Stewart arrived at 11:07pm on July 16th
weighing in at 7lbs. 7ozs.
and measuring 19 inches long!
Samuel is a remarkably good baby, sleeping during the night for 5 hour shifts some times! He's pretty content throughout the day and it's really made adjusting to three little ones a piece of cake! The girls both absolutely adore him, even Sarah has been so sweet and gentle. It's a wonderful feeling to be a mom of three and it is such a joy to watch the children interact with one another.
And now for the winner of the baby guessing game:
~Kathy was the closest to the time of delivery guessing July 17th at 12am. She also had the inches right on and was the closest on weight. However, she guessed girl on the gender.
~My cousin-in-law Sarah was another contender guessing July 15th at 319am, right on with the inches, right on with gender and close on the weight.
~My Aunt Joan was the last contender guessing July 15
th at 515am, right on with gender, and inch off on length, and close on the weight. SO, what I did was write these three ladies names on
separate pieces of paper and randomly drew a winner, and the winner is my Aunt Joan. Congrats and good guessing!
Just wanted to let everyone know that I am set to be induced tomorrow at 730AM. SO, we should be welcoming a new member into our family, a SON!, by tomorrow evening! Hooray! Will post info and pictures as soon as we are back from the hospital.
Here are the people still in the running in the baby guessing game (although technically my cousin Rebekah voted girl for the gender):
Rebekah (my cousin) 8 lbs 7 ozs, 21 in, Jul 16, 5:08 am
Joan (my aunt) 8 lbs 2 ozs, 20 in, Jul 15, 5:15 am
Sarah (Stew's cousin)8 lbs 1 ozs, 19 in, Jul 15, 3:19 am
Also, we are all moved into our new home and will have pictures of that coming soon as well. Until then.....
Hi all. Just wanted to pop on to let you know that I'm going to take a summer blogging break. There is just TOO much going on right now and I really don't have any extra time to spare for this. I will however post some photos of the new house once we are moved in. We are set to close on June 23rd. And of course I will update when baby boy makes his arrival. Not sure yet if I'll be back after the summer or if I'll just decided to shut it down. I guess I'll have to see what it's like juggling three children before I can make that decision. So happy summer everyone!
I guess I won't be back this week. I need to cut out the computer for a while. Life is getting pretty overwhelming right now and I need to focus on basics.
Hello all. I didn't intend on taking a blogging break this past week, but amidst the chaos it just turned out that way. So I just popped in to say I'll be back at it next week. I've got a meal plan ready to post as well as a book review and some great photos of the kids. For now, I'm just going to post a link to a new blog that I found today via
The Stay at Home Missionary. It's
Divine Calling and she has a
great post taken from the book
A Woman's Mission that I really enjoyed. If you're looking for a new read, she's a mom of three little ones and shares on topics such as: child training, femininity, frugality, motherhood, being a keeper at home, etc. Anyway, that's about it, hope you all have a great Memorial Day weekend!
Last week we purchased the Cannon Rebel digital camera and oh oh oh how I love it. I just got it up and running yesterday and the clarity is amazing. I still love my little hand-held Kodak digital too, it's definitely better for on the go and capturing video. BUT since I don't scrap book, I really wanted a camera that would take some clear close ups and have the ability to zoom in from far away (I'm thinking kids' soccer/football/etc. games) and also have the ability to take multiple photos quickly. Anyway, so I'm finding so far that the Rebel is VERY easy to use and I just love the quality of the photos. I have a post set to go tomorrow that shows the clarity difference between the two cameras. For now, here's our first shots:
BreakfastsCereal and fruit
Eggs and toast
Oatmeal and raisins
Granola and yogurt
French toast w/strawberries
Lunches
Macaroni and cheese w/green pepper
Super Salad
Tuna sandwiches w/salad
PB+J w/apples
Spaghetti w/broccoli
Take-out
Dinners
Impossible cheeseburger pie w/corn
Hamburgers, potato wedges and veggies
Marinated pork ribs, carrots, homemade bread
Chicken on the grill, salad, rice
Pizza
Snacks
Humus and veggies/chips
Breakstone cottage cheese doubles
Pretzels
PB and apple slices
Popsicles
P.S. Last week we tried
Ranch Potato Wedges, a recipe from
Heavenly Homemaker, and it was unbelievably delicious! A great side dish for grilled meats or fish sticks or pretty much anything, just wanted to pass that recipe along.
For more yummy meal plans, visit
http://www.orgjunkie.com/.
~I'm thankful for being 30 weeks pregnant! 
I am so excited to meet our son. Along those lines, I have had no idea what to do for his room. The decor, etc. was just coming up blank in my mind, it was driving me crazy. Until now! The other day while out shopping I browsed through Home Goods and found this lamp (below). I left the store to finish my shopping but just could not get the lamp out of my head. SO, I decided to go back and pick it up and this is what I'll be basing my son's room off of. The colors will be brown, cream and red (that match the lamp) and we'll be doing a football theme (which is just perfect because my husband was captain of his football team in high school AND football pretty much rocks). Hooray!
~Notice the difference between the top photo of the lamp and the bottom one? Yup, that's the clarity difference between my old camera and my new Cannon Rebel! I am so thankful to finally own this camera in which we spent SO much time researching and pricing! Yay!
