Are you ready to welcome a new member into the family?! An amazing gift in a precious bundle of pink, Lord willing, will be arriving home sometime in the next 5-7 weeks. I try not to succum to sheer terror as I think about all I am and will be responsible for. Of course, now I am responsible for things like drinking lots of rasberry tea, eating massive ammounts, preparing girlie's room, attending birthing classes, rolling out of bed sideways, and telling Lenny and Yeti they will soon be very low on the totum pole. Matt makes sure that I am responsible in taking those gigantic pre-natal pills everyday too. I like to think that I'm just as responsible to sleep long, long hours too, as it seems that will no longer be the "responsible" option when our baby arrives home.


If there is anyway that any of you would want to come be here during the first and tiniest days of your grandchild's/neice's life we want you to know that we would love to have you share this time with us! If you are not able to be here, know that there will be a void that could not be filled by anyone else. Hopefully, sometime very soon, I'll be able to introduce "her" to each of you.


Matt will soon be done with his training at "Sharpshooters" training squadrun and we will be transitioning to real military squadrun life after next Friday. Before reality sets in though, we'll be able to a little over a week of "leave" time and we're headed North to Montana (particularly Missoula)to explore at the possibility of becoming resident mountain people in there after military life.

Don't worry! All precautions are being taken; We'll be three hours from a good hospital at all times, I'll have my medical records with me, and I'll have plently of pillows along.We'll be making up for missed birthing classes on the way by reading the chapters covered and we're also reading a book by a Christian doctor called "Husband-Coached Childbirth, the Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth." and a book about breastfeeding and schedules called "Baby-Wise." Uff dah! We'll be busy. I have to be back here by the seventeenth of February for a baby shower that the ladies at the church are putting together, so I'll be flying back to CA early that morning!

I bought a little dresser recently that I thought has alot of potential. I got it off of craigslist for 15.00!! What a steal! I'm assuming it is an antique since the grandma I bought it from said it was her grandma's dresser. I think I'll strip it and paint it all one color, put new hardware on it, and then sand down ("distress") the grooves on the edges so that the cute little "boxes" stand out but not as much as they do now. I hope to paint the crib, the rocker, and the dresser we got to match one day when we actually have someplace to do that kind of stuff! ( I don't have the crib yet, thus, no picture)

Well, I better run, I have to make Chicken Pot Pie for another very pregnant lady at church. She's due the same time as I am but has had three other kids. They just moved, they've been sick, one boy just had a bad seizure...it seems to be alot for anyone to handle...

I love you all, and I miss you. Dad and Mom, I'll try to call home soon to talk...

Danielle