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Our beautiful baby girl! It's time for breakfast but she's not ready to wake up.

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Baby Cassandra Jane arrived at 7:35pm! She weighs 8lbs 3oz and is 20in tall.

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Ana got glasses!

Ana has glasses, although she is reluctant to wear them. I'm sure she'll get used to them soon.

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Catching up...

It's been awhile since I posted much about what's been going on, so here goes...

In the last nine months or so, we:
- fenced our yard (back yard still a work in progress)
- found out we are having another baby girl
- connected to public water lines (we were on a well)
- had a sump pump installed in the basement to keep it dry
- went to Disney World in Orlando, FL
- demolished the old carport
- got layed off (just me)
- went to Paris (me, with my sisters)
- had our big redwood tree limbed up
- started building a new room to move the computers into
- had several bushes and small trees removed from our property
- built a small swingset and setup some outdoor toys
- had the entire roof replaced on our house
- potty-trained Ana during the day (still not ready overnights)
... and probably a few other things I'm not thinking of at the moment.

It's been a busy time!! We're now nearly finished with the new room and getting ready to bring home our new baby, Cassandra, who is due to arrive any day.

Bart is busy every day with finishing the new room, or at least whenever he's not working. I've been trying to clean the house and keep up on the housework - and just when I think I'm starting to get a schedule together, I'm suddenly feeling very pregnant and can't get off the couch to do anything. Hopefully I'll get my motivation back again soon.

I've also been trying to post pictures more often of everything going on, so you may have seen some of those. There will be more new ones posted tonight as well.

There's one set of pictures I'm strangely excited about - newspapers from 1953, found inside one of the walls of our house a couple days ago. They were apparently used as insulation when the kitchen was last remodeled. The papers were old and gross, but fascinating and I took pictures for as long as I could stand to keep the dirty pages in my hands (and kept a bottle of Purel handy!). While the last wall was being built tonight, I slipped in the free Columbian I get every week so the next person to tear into this place can find an old paper too - I'm curious when that will be, who it will be, and if they will be as interested in finding it as I was.

So anyway, if you're in the area and see our cars in the driveway, feel free to stop in and check out everything we've been doing or just say hello. Friends and family are always welcome to drop by, and soon we'll have a new baby to show off too!

Hope you are all having a good summer!!

~Jen~