Aunt Julie visits

And Jonny has a dimple!

so now we wait

well, I went this morning and did my duty. And for some reason, even though no one threatened me with past criminal convictions, or wrong address due to foreclosure, or told me that because the polls were so busy I should vote tomorrow... I still feel very disenfranchised.
No matter what Jesse Ventura says about a vote for a minor party not being a wasted vote, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Not that I honestly put a ton of thought into it in the first place, although, I did visit some of the third party websites to see what they were all about. One friend was all about Ralph Nader and I did think about him. Another friend introduced me to Bob Barr and I've discovered that I have some quite Libertarian leanings. Someone else urged me to vote for Chuck Baldwin, although I have to admit that I closed his website with disgust when he mentioned "anchor babies."

No, I voted for one of the two main parties. And I didn't want to. I don't like what either of them stand for. I tried and tried to figure out who was the least slimey, the lesser of two evils. Eventually I just closed my eyes and pushed a button.

Just kidding.

We don't have push button voting here. I had to actually look at the paper and fill in a little black bubble.

Here's what my fear is, if McCain and Palin win, all of this conservative fervor will die down and the churches and christians that have been fasting and praying for deliverance will go right back to their apathetic ways of being sure to preserve the purity of the church and forgetting about the great big wide world right outside its doors.
Being pro-family will continue to be a cover term for homophobia, and being pro-life will involve standing on the side of the road once a year on Sanctity of Life Sunday.

Honestly, I'm not sure we deserve to be delivered.
Maybe the scary prospect of a democrat presidency, especially THIS democrat, will get conservatives up off of our "blessed assurance" and actually DO something.

camera withdrawal

oh my goodness, i didn't know one could be addicted to one's camera. I've been camera-less for a week now... i thought my battery had finally charged it's last charge, what with it being the original battery and about 4.5 or 5 years old. So we ordered a new battery, and put it in. I noticed that it only indicated to be about half charged, but it did have a note that said it would reach full capacity after being charged and used 3x. then it died too. I then realized that the batteries weren't at fault, it was the part of the camera that recharges the batteries that wasn't working. So what I needed was a seperate battery charger. Ugh. I could get a charger here in town for $45. Or I could order a charger and spare battery online for $16, including shipping. So, I ordered it. And had to wait for it.

Anyway, it came yesterday morning so i charged the batteries and had my camera to take pictures of costumes.


However you aren't going to get costume pictures yet, cause I haven't downloaded and cropped them.

I was looking through my online photo archive (photobucket) to find pictures of an old yarn colorway for a customer, and found these.
A friend stopped me at church Wednesday night to look at Jonny and commented, " You just make them all the same, don't you?" I joked backed something anout not changing a winning recipe, but I do think she has a point.

Joey holding Jonny.

Joey holding Joy.

Jonny

Joy

more..

6 weeks

Jonny is learning how to get his grin on.

Jonny Jumbo

Jeff calls the baby "Little Jonny Jumbo"... apparently he's correct. We had Jonny's 1 month check up yesterday. On September 17th, he had a check up and was 9 lbs 9 oz (not quite back up to birth weight). Yesterday, October 8th, he was 10 lbs and 12 oz. And that was all Jonny. He had done a great job of filling a dipe right as we were leaving for the Dr. Every time I do the figures they come up slightly different (math, me, and new mommy brain, not a good mix), but it is something like 20 oz in 21 days. That's a lot.

This is of Jonny and Great-Papa. We took Jonny up to meet him the other weekend.

here is Jonny in an outfit our good friends brought to him. Check out the feet. If kids are like puppies and grow into their feet...we are in trouble.

fall fest at the pumpkin patch

Finally, pictures of the other kids, ie, a child not named Jonny ( but only because he was asleep in his sling the whole time). Traipsing through the sunflower fields.

"Driving" the tractor
Letting Daddy lead the way.

See if you can distinguish us from the scarecrow pirates... arghhh Jonny and I
the kids. I have given up on getting a picture with everyone actually looking.
you know I had to take a shot of this... I seriously think it's easier to get the bugs to stay still than it is the kids...
Joyana.. her first day in the Bob and Larry overalls. We got these when Joey was little and they've all worn them.

Ok, story behind the face painting.. we got there right after the "real" face painter went on break. only we didn't know this. I thought it was unusual that the face painter was a 11 year old kid.. but ok. Jessi's is alright... Joey, well he was *supposed to look like a carved pumpkin... thus the black "holes"... but then the kid surrounded it with orange. wow. a multi-colored ghoul. Then... he added green blobs that were leaves. at least that is what he said. Anyway, we let the paint stay on long enough to take a picture and then off it came. seriously... I'm not sure if that is funny or scary.
Daddy and Joyana
Story here... we thought it would be cute to get a picture of Joy smelling the bank of flowers, so we told her to smell them. It took a few tries so we had to have her smell them a couple times... this made Joey very curious and he decided to see what all the fuss was about.
Joey ended up rather confused because the flowers "didn't smell so great anyway."

Mary Ellen... I thought of you when I was trying to get a shot of Jessi... she has somehow learned about posing... you should have seen the poses I nixed before letting her go with this one. sigh.

excuse the happy faces.. we were pointed right into the sun. this is us loading up on the wagon to go out to the field. the misshapen lump is Jonny. believe it or not, he is quite comfy like this.

with their carefully chosen pumpkins

Joey with his prize

coming in the gate ok, this kid showing the goat... he is the one who was "filling in" at the face painting booth. he did do a great job with the livestock though.


another cute picture ruined by the sun