Settlers of Catan

This weekend we played Settlers of Catan with Jeff and Sara, and we liked it so much that we bought it on our way home. We actually played again that night too.

Tonight we had Shawn and Mia over and played again. It was, of course, really fun. I recommend it to everyone.

Sarah has been feeling better lately too, so we're enjoying that.

We have had some toolshed problem lately, and they came to a head today. The wind had blown the doors open/off of our two sheds. We had a roll of fiberglass insulation inside one of them, and Heidi got into it this morning while she was out there by herself. We don't know why, but she loves the stuff. So now it's all over the yard and Heidi probably has a very itchy mouth.

back in NM

I'm back home from CA now. Only about one hour of the 3 day class was directly applicable to me, but it was good background knowledge and it was a nice break from my routine at work.

Sarah is not feeling so great tonight, but we have had a wonderful weekend together. Last night we saw the movie Expelled in El Paso. We also started planting some new flowers in our front yard. It's pretty sad right now but it's getting better.

Heidi now weighs over 40 lbs and is 22" long and tall. The other dogs make fun of her for being square, but we're trying to build her self-confidence anyways. She's been really helpful lately, and last night tried to cook dinner for us.

I'm in California this week, and being away from Sarah is lonely, but I wanted to share this excellent picture that Sarah took a while ago of Heidi.


Isn't it great?

Who is Zeb?

You see, in Jordan's excitment of sharing Zeb with the world, he forgot to explain that Zeb is not in fact the name of our child. We don't even know if Zeb is a boy or girl yet! Could you imagine a girl named Zebulen Firth? Oh poor thing!.. we would never do that to our child. ;-) (Possibly Faith Firth but never never Zebulen Firth) So, to clarify, Zeb is our nickname for the life inside of me that insists on making me sick everyday for the last 2 months! (Thank you Zebulen!) Zeb comes from Zeb's, a resaurant in Colorado that Jordan and I were both very fond of. So there it is! the secret of Zeb reveiled! When we have a name, we'll let you know and then we can all call Zeb by his/her real name.

Zeb

Well, Heidi is still growing, but we haven't measured her or taken any pictures of her lately. But...we do have some pictures of Zeb.

We went to the doctor today and got an ultrasound. After 30 minutes of trying to get an unplugged scanner to work on Sarah's computer, I finally scanned them in. Ta-da!



For those of you who thought that we were having twins...don't be silly. Where would you get that idea?

Zeb is 2.42 centimeters long, so he's probably 3.5 centimeters tall or so. His heart was a nice little fuzzy spot (fuzzier than the rest of the fuzzy spots) and Sarah got to see his arms moving (I missed it).