Gift

Evangeline looks like she is trying to make herself into a package just for you!

Happy Birthday Mimi!

And Baby makes 4

What a blessed day! Evangeline Miranda Stauffer decided Mommy and Daddy's 13 wedding anniversary was the perfect day to be born and we all agree. She is 6lbs 1.4 oz and 18 inches born. She was born at 9:47 pm just 3.5 hours after mom's water broke durring dinner!!! All went well and looks good! More words and news to come, but right now she wants to eat. We love you all and miss you very much!

Stauffer kids 1,2 &3

Humming

Here is an amazing photo captured by Hans!

The family is enamored by the humming birds at the wonderful feeder that Hans bought for me. We saw them at least ten times today. It was rainy and overcast, maybe they like it that way. They brightened our day.

Another type of growing!

So here is a wonderful shot of my belly and my home improving. (Taken by Tim). I am painting the kitchen here. Goodbye Forest green! I Love how much brighter the kitchen is now! I totally outdid it that day and had a whole hour of consistent contractions that night. But they stopped and we are still waiting. The Dr. checked me yesterday and I am 3 cm and 50% effaced so I may or may not make it to induction day (Aug 23rd) but if I do it should be relatively easy!

Growing

I wanted to show you this fun picture that we have of Tim, Hans and Hans' Mom checking out their height. The ground was slopped in Hans' favor, I am not sure if the results would be the same one month later. Tim has been a great help lately. He is happy to have his bunnies back and really happy about how well Mom and Papa took care of them. Papa brought us a hutch that will make taking care of them much easier. We are glad they came all the way out to visit us. It is a longer drive now than Ames was. Bummer.

feeling domestic or what!? (or is this nesting?)

Last Friday the kids and I had a garage sale. Although it was not a complete failure because in the end the garage was quite clean, the poor hard working kids only sold 2 lemon aids and NO cookies all day! They made amazing signs for me and Tim moved lots of stuff around whenever I asked as well.



Overall we didn't do well at the sale, but while we waited for the customers that hardly came, we finished painting the side table I picked up at a garage sale a week earlier. I quite like the finished product!



This week I made both homemade yogurt and fermented bean paste! I got the recipes from a new friend named Glory who has a little farm here. (I seems that I find the company farm girls fascinating I guess.) I hadn't tried making yogurt since we lived in Ithaca. I even added jello and made Popsicle. (That was the one way I got the girls to try it.) I like it with honey and blueberries. Notice in the last picture the slow progress of painting the kitchen too. The bean paste goes amazingly well in tacos and is at least a fourth of the price of canned high sodium black beans.



I finally had the heart to go through the baby stuff and get it all organized and pack a diaperbag for Stauffer baby #4. It was hard to hold little Levi's outfits, but I am getting better. It looks like he will be moving to family members soon so we wouldn't have gotten to keep him anyway. He is laughing and rolling and scooting around now.


The Dr. has scheduled an induction for Aug 24th if baby doesn't come before that. I pray the baby decides to arrive before that. I would like a little less medical delivery, but God knows what is best for all of us. I bought two going home from the hospitol outfits (one for each gender) so now I am set except packing a hospitol bag. (about 4 weeks to go!!!) I'll keep you posted as best as I can.