Ethan James Sapp

Our friends Heather and Brent, delivered Ethan James today, at 10:05am, January 24th. Although Heather was induced, she had a total of 4 hours of hard labor and with 2 pushes, delivered their son! What an amazing women!

Ethan has strawberry blonde hair, like his daddy, and has steel blue eyes. He looks much like his older brother :)

We are blessed to have this precious boy in our lives, even if he's a world away!!

A New "Sapp"ling

Most of you, if not all of you, haven't met our friends Brent and Heather Sapp. They were our dear friends when we lived in Blacksburg, VA. We met them at church and had a wonderful bond with them. We spent many game weekends and movie nights with them, as well as Heather was the one who taught me to make jam and can it! She and I bonded over baking and cooking. What a blessing they were when we were living close. Well, after we moved to WA in Jan 2005, they had their first son in Feb 2005. And although we've never met Garrett, he is the sweetest little boy and remembers us and is excited to hear from us.

Earlier this year, Brent and Heather had been told that they couldn't have any more children and obviously they were devistated. She has lupus and other health ailments that concerned them with her pregnancy with Garrett, so they weren't really suprised, but were saddened that they couldn't have more children without serious medical intervention or adoption (although those methods weren't ruled out). Well, about a year later, they are preparing to deliver their second son, Ethan James in a hosptial in NC. They've had a rough year, lost homes, and living with parents, and Garrett's health. So they are just exstatic about this new baby. They were admitted into the hosptial this evening for her induction. Please keep them in your prayers this evening as an induction isn't always the most pleasent way of birthing a baby :) Brent and Heather are just the sweetest "southern" couple that you'd ever meet. And they are so special to us, even through the distance... And Ken and I will also be Ethan's godparents, which builds another special bond between us. :)

25 Random Things about me. :)

1. I married my high school sweetheart....we have been together for 13 years!
2. I could eat Chocolate Chip cookies every day of the week with no guilt :)
3. I LOVE the Food Network!
4. I am addicted to "What not to Wear" on the TLC network!
5. I don't like to drive. If I didn't get stir crazy with a toddler at home, I'd stay home for days.
6. I have a new hobby of working out. I work out every day, 5 days a week, and then twice on one of those days.... crazy!
7. I lost 27lb during 2008.
8. I used to not like going to Disney World with my family. It got old after a while... Then I found the magic again! And LOVE it!
9. I want to go to Hawaii with my husband for our 30th birthdays next year... but don't know if that's gonna happen!
10. Loved every moment of going to Cornerstone University.
11. I still take naps when Finnegan does. :) He's 16 months old! :)
12. I pray that my next child is a girl.
13. I never wanted to be a stay at home mom.
14. I love to cook, and bake.
15. I love to host parties at my house.
16. I love clean counters (no paper, toys, mail etc) , but they don't always get that way... perhaps once a month. :)
17. Its a small hobby of mine to send little things to my nieces and nephews. :)
18. My husband is in his second Master's Program, and is almost done (Praise the Lord!!)
19. I lived in the same house my entire childhood.
20. I hate to vaccum and do the dishes.
21. I love to play the crosswords in People Magazine! :)
22. God gave me wonderful Christian friends in a public place!
23. I love Mexican food!
24. I don't like falling asleep alone in my bed.
25. I love looking at other peoples wedding photos.

Husband Quotes

Here are some quotes from my husband today...

"Obama is a punk!" My husband is a man of little words, so this one just caught me of guard! :)



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Today's tasks, taken off the "to do" list

Don't you love it when your day is productive?? Today was certianly a productive one for me. Here's a list of stuff that I got done in 2 hours during nap time - with still another hour to spare. :)

• Medical Bills Paid
• Ordered a new Drivers Liscense
• Ordered new Dog Tags for the Pups from the County
  
• Boxes prepared for Nieces and Nephews and sisters (4 boxes total)
• Baby Gifts ordered
• Birthday Gifts ordered for 2 children
• Birthday gifts wrapped (other items)
  
• Baby Gifts wrapped (other items)
• All mail prepared - enveloped, stamped, addressed - ready for the mailman
• Sliding door window cleaned
• Front window cleaned
• Carpet Vacuumed
• Dishes done
• Four CD's burned of photo files

Boy! I wish every day was like today!!

More Disney Photos

Here are a few more photos from our trip. I just received these ones today and wanted to share them with you!! Each trip, we do a nice dinner as a family. Everyone dresses up and we have a nice Christmas dinner. This year it was a dessert, but we still had the same photos we take each year. These are all taken at the Grand Floridian Resort at Disney World. This is also the same night that Ken got sick. You'll be able to tell in the photos that he just isn't smiling very much and in the one of all of us, Finnegan wasn't being supported very well... This was just moments before he got really sick. Regardless of that, we had a nice family time and I love how these photos turned out!

The worst of the damage...

If you didn't catch my last post, Finnegan spilled coffee (with sugar and cream, none the less) on my laptop on Friday morning! Oh, I was in for a bad day! I cleaned it up as best I could and called Ken. He told me to let it dry out before turning it back on... So I did. I let it dry, and turned it on about 6 hours later... Not thinking much of it. Well, it wasn't real dry. The fan kept blowing and that didn't settle with me. So ken suggested taking it apart and cleaning the inside. Since he didn't trust me to do it and to do it properly, he led the way, and I stood by with supplies and helped as best I could. There was coffee in the fan, and in the keys. We cleaned it as best as we could, and then took it out to the air compressor to blow any other liquid out of it. And even more came out. I let the computer sit again for another 24 hours and have just opened it again for todays use. The only problem that it has now, is sticky keys. Particularly from f9-the backspace. The backspace button is the worst. Last night we attempted to take off several keys and found them almost impossible to put them back on. So I may attempted to pull of this one key and clean under it, hopefully making it better.

Did I mention that this is a brand new computer. About 6 weeks old? Oh, I still can't believe it!!