He has a name! Brody Charles George

On Monday morning at 3:00am I got a call from Ty who was on a flight in Pendelton Oregon, that Tori's water broke and she needed to get to the hospital. So I changed out of my PJ's and went over to their house and picked her up. We got to the hospital and they put monitors on Tori and realized that she was actually starting to have contractions and we already knew that the baby was breach, so they called the on-call doctor (Tori's regular doctor was on vacation) and she came in a confirmed that he was breach so she had them set up the surgery room and they took Tori in there to prep her. Tori let me come in as well, so I put on the scrubs that they gave me and sweet hair net, mask and booties and after they had done the anesthetic they let me come in. I took my camera (you can only take still shots in surgery) and took as many pictures as I could so that Ty would be able to see them later. Tori did great! The baby was a bit blue when he was born, but the respiratory therapist and the RN rubbed him down, sucked out his mouth and gave him some oxygen and he started little cries...then they got louder. He still a relatively quiet cryer, compared to Jude, but he peed on the RN and RT so they put a diaper on him and bundled him up and he calmed right down. I've never been in on a c-section before and it was really quite interesting. The doctors were very impressed that I wasn't even remotely bothered by the blood and incision and stuff. I wish Ty could have been there, but I am glad that they let me experience it and be there for Tori. Oh and he was 6 lbs 15.7 oz and 18 1/2 inches long, born on 7/28/08 at 5:44am.

Anyway, without any more blabbing here are a couple of pics:

Lunch at the park with cousins

Today at lunch we took all the local little kids to the park and let them play. They had a blast and I got a super cute picture of Kai and Jude in the baby swing. Kai thinks that Jude is just hilarious and most of the time Jude can distract him and make him laugh. Jude only lasted in the swing for a couple of minutes, I'm sure that the swing crotch bar was not all that comfortable, but it helped keep Kai from falling back.

Hooray we got to visit Hotel Maughan!

Last weekend Jude, Monica, Summer, Maile and Kai went to visit Aunt Tish, Uncle John and Peyton. On saturday we went to the Portland Zoo and the kids were fascinated by the animals. We got Jude, Maile and Peyton to sit on these trailer seats for a picture after we watched the black bear climb down the hill.

Jude gave me a kodak moment even though he really enjoyed watching the fruit bats, which is what you see above his head. Don't worry, he is separated by glass. He thought they were so awesome and when we got home and Gordon asked him what his favorite thing was, he said "Dad, they had fruit clipped on these strings and the bats would climb with their feet upside down along the strings and eat the fruit" they he would kind of give this little "can you believe it?" laugh and expression. Gordon thought it was hilarious.

I don't know what it is, but I always get the craziest faces from the kids. You might have to click on this one to really see their faces, but they are great! Jude wanted me to take a picture of him with "Cody" from Surf's Up. He has always liked Penguins, since watching "Pingu" on PBS.

I have tried my hand at another homemaker skill this past week and that was making jam. Fred Meyer had a great sale on raspberries and so I decided that I would make jam. I also wanted to make strawberry jam, since that's Gordon's favorite, but I had a really hard time finding berries. The weather this year has been pretty bad on produce, so the awesome little strawberry stands were not open, but I found semi-local strawberries at a little country store. They also had delicious looking raspberries and I bought a small container, since they were outrageously expensive, just to eat while I was making the jam.

I started actually getting things ready to can around 6:00pm and finished around 11:30pm after I had cleaned up, etc. Ty and Tori came over and helped. Tyson loved smashing the raspberries. So far I've had positive comments from family members....they could possibly just be being nice. But I think it tastes pretty good too. I wasn't sure how much the fruit would actually make, but it ended up making a bit more that I thought. We'll have jam for a while in storage.. hurrah! Summer and Monica will have to help pick some blackberries in a few weeks and we'll do some more jam and put aside some for the winter for cobblers!

Anyway, I have pics of my kitchen during the process and the final product!

If I can can, so can you!

For the 4th of July we went down to Shasta to hang out with all my bros and sis', except Dusty and his family (they spent the 4th with Em's family in Utah). We cut our stay short, but we had a good time while we were there! We pulled tubers like crazy and I would have to say that Little Monte is the pro tuber. That kid must have glue hands, because we could not shake him! He outlasted Mike and then John as well. John had an excellent wipe out which included a few barrel rolls!

We got this Jeep for Jude last year, but he has yet to ride on it behind our boat. The older boys love it, because they can have wars with the other tubes, and this actually rolls and the roll bars pop off on the bottom. But my cautious Jude still has some reservations. Hopefully we can get he and cousin Dallas or Maile to ride slowly together. These are pretty much all the pics I got, because I misplaced my camera, so I'll have to get pics from everyone else!

A few weeks ago, Ty and Tori went to the park with Jude and I. Ty and Jude raced down the slides and finally made it over to the spray park. Tori went in too, but I didn't get a picture with all three of them. Jude had a great time, Uncle Ty always entertains!