What I love about Idaho

Hadley and Huge old fashioned twist cones from the Hungry Onion which still does carside service and has been around since my dad was a kid!


Beautiful sprawling fields of wildflowers like these sunflowers

Reggies Veggies roadside stand chock full of local fruits and vegetables!

Favorite Things

I went swimming!!!!
One of my favorite things in the whole world is swimming. And it's been a long time sice i've had a chance to just swim and it felt so very good! I LOVE it. I would swim every single day if I could.

My sister Heather and I decided to be very brave (or stupid) and accompany our dad to Oregon WITH our kids! While an infant, toddler and high maintenance 6 year old don't make travelling quite like I am used to-- It's all good...part of the initiation into motherhood-- it makes travelling different but its still great. Anyway the drive through the pacific northwest was absolutley beautiful and Papa J has been incredibly helpful AND very patient with all our stuff and our kids (Much more patient than I remember him as a kid--way to go dad :)) . We spent last night in Portland then headed out to the coast where we will be for a few days. We are staying in a quaint little town called Yachats. We have already enjoyed clam chowder and fish and chips (mmm...my favorite). I am so excited to be here-- I have always felt that the pacific northwest is home in my heart and I am really enjoying showing my son around.

This is a great little campground where we stopped for lunch and a kid break on our drive down

(photos include Heather, Hadley(in the background), Amelia, Papa J and Ezra Jubal)

I took the test

INFJ

The Protector You live your life with integrity, originality, vision, and creativity. Independent and stubborn, you rarely stray from your vision - no matter what it is. You are an excellent listener, with almost infinite patience. You have complex, deep feelings, and you take great care to express them. In love, you truly see relationships as an opportunity to connect and grow. You enjoy relationships as long as they are improving and changing. You can't stand stagnation. At work, you stay motivated and happy... as long as you are working toward a dream you support. You would make a great photographer, alternative medicine guru, or teacher. How you see yourself: Hardworking, ethical, and helpful When other people don't get you, they see you as: Manipulative, weak, and unstable

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I am an INFJ

Yes Again...

Are you kidding me? How is it possible to be that stinkin' cute? Don't you just want to eat them all?
Thanks for the warm welcome cousins!
Ezra and I are back in Idaho...Murv is still in Texas. We will be here for...awhile...don't knowhow long...but at least until he doesn't get heatstroke from being outside or inside at our house in Texas...Since the cabin is not done and there is still no running water and bathroom and it's 110 plus super high humidity and there is no air conditioning-- I decided the baby and I could use a little refuge from the extreme living conditions!

Lindsay's Post

My sister Lindsay did a really good post about our time in Austin, It is on July 7th, 2008 and is titled "Welcoming Ezra"--click here

Unhooked

Ezra got to leave the NICU! He was able to be slowly weaned from the oxygen, his lungs are miraculously clear and he finished all his antibiotics and passed all his tests and screens-- and they finally cut him loose. We spent one night with him at the hospital in a parents "room in" so that we could have back up support through his first night unhooked. He did great! It felt so good to have him close and not have anybody (except murv) telling me what I could and couldn't do with him. I finally took a deep breath and was able to relax. We are now at my aunt Tina's house in Houston with my mom and Ezra is adjusting very well to life on the outside. He is changing everyday! Yesterday we gave him his first bath and he and I are just working away at the feeding/eating thing and I am very grateful for my mom and my aunt's expertise-- this whole feeding thing is not as easy as it looks. Thankfully Ez is a sleeper-- he sleeps about 4 hours at a time so I get to rest a little too--at least for now... :)
Thanks Dad and Lindsay and Eli for coming to help-- we could not have made it through that first week without you!

Hold You

Ezra "Jube" (as murv calls him) is doing much much better! He is down to 22% oxygen, eating from a bottle, pooping plenty, burping loud and has a nice loud cry. I finally got to hold him! And I got to start trying to nurse him this afternoon. (Notice Murv's reading material :) They scalped one side of his head! My little indian brave...
He is so perfect :)