Been a while???

It's been a LONG while since I posted anything to the blog - but... here's the most recent of updates!

Still no internet access at the house, and it's not easy for me to get pictures loaded from the library. Just know that the kids are still cute, Andrew is still handsome, and I've grown a basketball on my front.

Life is good in the Stahr home - Andrew is currently building me a canning kitchen on the cement pad that used to hold our hot tub (we never used the hot tub anyway, I'm sure I'll use the kitchen a lot more!), and it's incredible. I am increasingly more grateful for a talented husband! He has also taken the time to tear a wall out of one of our upstairs bedrooms (it wasn't being used, and walls are overrated anyway...). Having a house built in 1922 does get one's curiosity up on occasion, and Andrew wanted to know if we had insulation. We don't. But then - anyone who visited us this winter probably would have be money on that one and done fairly well... We have found some really interesting things - such as massive ancient beehives (or wasps nests, we don't know) and some old letters stuffed around the windows with such fun dates as July 7, 1932... we haven't read the letters yet, and are still hoping to find the sheets of uncut $100 bills that may have been used to line the walls... of course, the money is purely fictious, but we can always dream, can't we???

Savannah is loving school. Her reading skills have improved immensely - she loves to find new things that she can read, and is rapidly gaining confidence. With the change in the weather, her new favorite thing to do is to play outside... a blessing for MOM!!! She is a good sister to help Margaret on the swings (Margaret's favorite thing to do...), and loves to dig in the dirt. Last Saturday we had some incredible weather (the view from the house was awesome...), and I made a deal with Savannah that if she would play outside ALL day, she wouldn't have to clean her room. She took me up on the offer, and as hard as it was for ME to be inside cleaning, I cleaned her room.

Margaret just had her first haircut. Her response was, "NANA!!! I SEE YOU!!!!". Should have been a clue to me that the bangs were bothering her. At any rate, she can see now. We miss the cute hair that she had, and she looks a lot more grown up than I was really ready for, but at least she likes it! And, she's still cute. Her favorite things to do are to swing (she seems to think that she can swing on the swings no matter the weather - or how she's dressed...), eat grapes and cheerios (she's figured out how to open the refrigerator), and play with the toys. She's in massive denial about a new baby in the house, but will get used to the idea once baby comes.

As for me... Life is exciting. Baby is due on 7 July, and we're waiting to be surprised on gender. I've been feeling great (except when I stand with my hands over my head... low blood pressure - I have a tendency to pass out if I do that too frequently. The Dr. did tell me that if I pass out, at least it's a self correcting problem!). The other big news is that I was invited to hang some of my photography in a doctor's office in downtown portland (118 N Killingsworth), so I've been trying to get just the right pictures. It's been an adventure!

At any rate, I have three minutes before the computer kicks me off again... so, until next time...

TTFN!