Sadie Anne Photo Montage

Here it is! The quality here on the blog isn't anywhere near as good as it really is but I don't have a website to put it on so this is it for now. Mae did a wonderful job on the photography and I have my marvelous husband to thank for the slideshow. Thank you both for all your time and effort. Thank you, J. Lowe, for the inspiration to do this. (Ok, I feel like I'm giving an award acceptance speech or something.)

Sadie and Me

I asked my sister Mae to do a photo montage of Sadie's birth. I'm going to post it here as soon as it gets done. Here is one of the pictures she took right after Sadie was born.

Coming home

Sadie and I came home from the hospital this past Thursday. When we got home this is what we found - I'm so glad to be back home with the boys and my Steve-o. Thanks for keeping the house together and for the signs and flowers, hon! Mae got me the beautiful hydrangeas. I hope I can transplant them in the yard, they are gorgeous.

This is Sadie's girly car seat. Thank you Wendy for lending us the cutest cover to transform the blue boy car seat into girly dream come true! She loves sleeping in the car seat too. I love how when you pick up your baby from the car seat they stay all curled up for a minute before they stretch their legs again. Its so cute.

I just couldn't resist getting a close up of Sade in her car seat. I love this hair bow on her, so far its the only one that fits! She's so adorable.

A good friend of mine made these cute and delicious treats and sent them to me at the hospital. I was pretty popular handing these tasty morsels out to everyone that came to care for Sade and I. Sorry the picture is blurry, it basically gives Sadie's statistics. Thank you Monique!

My mom had this delivered to our house. We get to keep the little star and the moon gets picked up in a few days, cute huh? Thanks Mom!!

Ethan and Luke play soccer

Here are a couple of quick vids of Ethan and Luke at their first soccer game. Ethan brings hope that the US Soccer team may one day win the World Cup. Luke didn't score but he got the girl anyway.

Sadie Anne

Here is a quick video of Sadie.

She's Here....For Reals

This is Steve.... Camilla did really well and gave birth to Baby Rasmussen yesterday at 4:22 p.m. She is 8lb 15oz, 21 inches long and has a bit of black hair. More details and pictures to follow....

She's Here....Almost

I thought I'd let all my anxious readers (self-indulgently thinking I have some) that tomorrow is the big day. My ob/gyn called me this morning and told me that he scheduled me for tomorrow morning, 7am. I think he thought I would have gone into labor on my own by now since he stripped my membranes twice. I thought so too! I'm so very glad he isn't making me wait another week though. I can handle one more day. I'm excited and the adrenaline has kicked in so I'm getting my last minute details done. When I was induced with Luke he was born about an hour, no more than two, after my doctor broke my water. I'm hoping things will go the same tomorrow and we'll have our baby girl by lunch time!

Tagged by Sherrie

This is for you, Sher! 8 TV Shows I love to Watch: Heroes NCIS Biggest Loser ANTM Grey's Anatomy Jon & Kate plus 8 Oprah 8 Favorite Restaurants: May Garden (Chinese) Macaroni Grill Cafe Brasil Corner Bakery Cafe Rio In n Out Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes Any good pizza joint 8 Things that happened yesterday: went on field trip with Ethan and Luke went on tractor ride picked organic vegetables went to petting zoo walked through corn maze went to dr. and got membranes stripped again went to hospital for fetal monitoring went to Enrichment night 8 Things I am Looking Forward to: This baby being born This baby being born This baby being born Sacrament program being over Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas New Years and hopefully a visit from the Vegas Rasmussens 8 Things on my wishlist: Monetary Finish our master bed and bath re-do our backyard finish our kitchen finish our windows a picket fence in the front yard beautiful landscaping front and back a new wardrobe a personal trainer Non-monetary my family be together forever my children be able to realize and fulfill their aspirations my husband be happy in his career to have my baby today to have my baby today to have my baby today to have my baby today to have my baby today

Gone

Caution: This is a selfish and whining post. My patience is gone. I've had it with being pregnant. I am done. But apparently, my baby is not. I thought I would have had this baby by now. I thought that since this was my third time my body would kick into high gear but it doesn't look that way. At this point it looks like I'm going to go beyond my due date. That kind of irks me. Ok, it REALLY irks me. My maternity clothes don't fit anymore. I'm breaking out in some weird (and gross) acne on my back which I've never had before. My shoes don't fit. I wake up with fingers the size of sausages. My belly stings when the baby moves. There is just no more room. I'm fantasizing about my last doctor who induced me a week early. Why did she have to retire? I've been googling topics like "how to self induce." My poor hubby is putting up with my craziness. Ugh.

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Tangled Web

What's that saying about lying? Something like what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive? Its getting hairy here with all this Prop. 8 stuff. The no on 8 campaign has released this commercial that is full of lies but its ironic because they accuse the arguments that the yes on 8 campaign has as lies (if you want to see the no on 8 commercial I'm talking about go here)!!! I am so furious! There are actual instances that are or have happened and still the no campaign says that its all lies. For example: "In the same week that the No on 8 campaign launched an ad that labeled as 'lies' claims that same-sex marriage would be taught in schools to young children, a first grade class took a school-sponsored trip to a gay wedding. Eighteen first graders traveled to San Francisco City Hall Friday for the wedding of their teacher and her lesbian partner, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The school sponsored the trip for the students, ages 5 and 6, taking them away from their studies for the same-sex wedding. The wedding was officiated by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who arrogantly welcomed the arrival of same-sex marriage by saying 'The door's wide open now. It's gonna happen, whether you like it or not.'" Sounds like teaching homosexual marriage in school to me (see the actual article here). There are already reported cases of doctors being sued because they refuse to artifically inseminate lesbian couples. Sounds like a loss of religious freedom to me (see the newspaper article here). So we're lying because? I wish I were better at putting together arguments and having a good "comeback" to what these people say. Its all a bunch of filth spewing forth from their mouths.

Miramar Air Show

Yesterday I loaded the boys up in the car (Steve was sick so we left him behind to get better) and we drove down to San Diego to catch some of the air show at the Miramar Marine base. Ethan and Luke loved it! As we were getting out of the car a bike taxi pulled up and the man riding it asked if we wanted a ride. I'm so glad I decided to do it because it was such a looooong walk from our car to the entrance gate! The poor guy though, he got a good workout hauling my pregnant body and my two boys! We got there right before the Blue Angels began their show, they are awesome fliers. I don't know all the real names of the air crafts we toured. Luke decided he didn't want to sit in any pilot seats. Ethan was all over it though. He even got lowered down into a tank to check it out. Ethan told me he wanted to be a soldier and have a heavy gun (he got to hold some guns and they were heavy!) and fly in the aviaos (airplanes) to fight the bad guys.

Draw me a Picture

One of my favorite parts of having my boys in preschool are the pictures they come home with. Ethan's picture he brought home on Friday is my top pick for the week. Ethan drew our family portrait and this is the first time he has drawn my likeness as a pregnant woman. I guess the name Mia is sticking with him right now. When Ethan was showing his dad the picture he explained to him that he drew him touching the ceiling because he's so tall. I just love seeing us through his eyes. Make me a stick figure any day....haha.....