He's Here!!!

Our newest little addition made his appearance at 12:31 yesterday afternoon. He weighed in at 7 lbs 7oz and was 20.5 inches long. We named him Donevan Craig Zinser. I will be putting some pictures on soon. He is an angel and eats like a champ. So far those are his outstanding talents...eating and sleeping. Stay tuned for more.

The countdown begins...

I just got my bag ready for the hospital. It's really starting to sink in now. Evan made it home last night so our little one can come any time now. I am getting really excited. There's a few more things I need to do like rearrange our room a little to fit the bassinet and get the rocking chair out of Iris' room. But for the most part we are ready. Thanks again to all who have given us things to get ready for him. Especially Jim and Kelly with all those boy clothes. I guess it helps to have doubles of everything. I am just so anxious to meet him.

Halloween 2008/Home Means Nevada

Here are some photos of our costumes for this year. We decided to be an Amish family. I am pretty proud of the costumes I made for Iris and me. And Evan has an authentic straw hat from when he was in Amish country on his mission. I thought we looked pretty good. Iris was especially adorable. She loved the goodie basket that Grandma and Grandpa Zinser gave her, especially the suckers. She was so cute with the ViewMaster. She would look and the picture and point like it was right in front of her.







Just wanted to say Happy Nevada Day to all. And Happy Halloween. Hope it's all you expect it to be.

Random

I also wanted to post a picture of a few of the bigger carrots from my garden. A really cute one of Iris and her favorite friend, Tina. Tina is really warming up to her. I have a feeling they are going to be good pals as Iris gets older. And another cute one of Iris as we were getting ready for portraits.

A little taste of Thanksgiving...

So here are the photos of the great turkey slaughter of 2008. My dad came a couple days ago and helped me with the butchering. Evan insisted on taking pictures of the whole process. He said that they were for Enos. So here ya go. Those of you with weak stomachs might not want to view these. I didn't put some of the more graphic pictures on, but these give you an idea of the process.

We took some before photos.


The turkey had given up before it even got to this point. They are not the brightest birds.

A little bath in scalding water.

The most tedious part. Those feathers are stubborn!

Can you believe how much food is in that stomach!?! No wonder our chickens haven't been laying much. We'll be saving a lot on feed now that those piggies are gone.

The finished product. They had to weigh at least 20 or more pounds. Those were some fat birds. We almost didn't have enough room in our freezer. I hope they'll fit in my oven.

I love my OBGYN!!

I have the greatest OBGYN ever! I went in for my weekly appointment yesterday and he told me that I was dialated to about 3 cm and he could go ahead and schedule an induction for next week if I wanted. I wasn't going to say, "No, please let me carry this baby for another week longer." I was all for it. So they called the hospital and I am scheduled to go in on November 6th. WOW! That is soon. Evan flew out to Phoenix this morning so he is really nervous that I am going to go into labor while he gone. When I had Iris I was at 3 cm that morning. So really he could come anytime, but I'm pretty sure he won't come until we go in. So we're pretty excited.

Thank You!

I also wanted to thank those that had any part in throwing or attending my baby shower on Saturday. It was great and I got some very nice things. It made it a little bit more of a reality that we are going to have another baby very soon. I am very excited for our little boy to get here. Thank you again.