Handprint

"Every day I am exploring, touching everything I have found.

I leave behind my little marks and handprints all around.

You clean up those handprints, but someday when I'm grown

you will wish you had just one handprint to keep for your own.

I made this handprint for you so that one day when I am tall

you'll remember what my hand looked like long ago when I was small."

Noah made this at daycare and he gave it to us for Christmas this year.  While reading this poem I was completely reduced to puddles.  I love that chubby little hand print so much. I tried to dry my tears as best I could because I had to run to Walgreens to pick up some pictures.  While driving there I thought again of his handprint and tears welled up in my eyes.  The lady at the Walgreens photo center noticed my tear stained face and asked me if everything was ok . I replied with a smile, "Yes everything is ok.  I just got a really special "hand"made Christmas present from my son." 

Thankfulness

For the second year in a row Reid and I flew solo for Thanksgiving.  Last year we went to our local grocery store on Thanksgiving Eve to get our prize bird.  So this year in "fly by the seat of our pants" fashion we ventured back to the same grocery store the day before Thanksgiving in hopes of getting the fixings for a feast.  The saying "early bird gets the worm" usually holds true with most life situations, but in the case of finding a turkey the night before Thanksgiving the "late bird gets a $30 turkey for $3".  The only mistake that we made was that we bought the smallest bird we could find.  When it comes to our waist smaller is better, but that theory does not hold true when you want a juicy turkey.

This is our 11 lb golden Turkey

This is our 12 lb 2 oz Turkey!

Two Months

This is a sampling of the "faces of Noah" that were captured

by Diane Peabody



The first face of the photo shoot. 
It went south very fast



This was Noah's face for most of the photo shoot



Diane was so amazing.  She started taking pictures on Saturday,

but with all the crying and arm flailing

(not to mention that Noah was upset too!)

she wonderfully came back on Sunday to finish the shoot.   

  



Still not impressed with the idea of being photographed

Closest we could come to a smile

Rockin the converse allstars!

First Halloween

Noah is dressed up as a very angry peapod! 

His puppy Maggie is a pumpkin princess and even though she is not as vocal as Noah,

she also does not like her costume.  It is also Maggie's 3rd birthday today :)

Happy Halloween!

Definitions

If the commandment says "Love your neighbor as yourself" then why do people get so hung up on the sex of the person that is loved?  We are called to love one another...bottom line.  We are called to be witnesses to each others lives. 

We feel the need to have definitions that people need to fit into. If you don't fit into whatever the definition is then you are "bad", "a sinner", or "those people".   God can not be confined by a definition and I don't believe that he wants us to be confined either.  If He could fit into a definition then He would not be God, but instead a moldable idol.

When I leave this world I do not want to be remembered as a heterosexual middle class caucasion woman.  Those words limit me. 

I will not be limited.

Month 1

So here we are...one month old! Weighing 10 lbs 4 oz

I guess we are screaming it from the rooftop!

Hopefully we will be happier during the 2 month picture!

Three Years

This last year's highlights in our marriage:

October 2010:
Two Years!

November:
Reid and I were not able to travel for Thanksgiving due to weather so we put on our big boy pants and made a feast for hundreds for ourselves.

Reid can't hide his excitement about his first turkey!

December:

I started my new job at Kendall County CASA

January:

The test read "pregnant"!  Reid was in Flordia for work so I text him a picture of the test...true story.

February:

Saw our gummy bear on the screen and saw his heart flicker.

Baby Hamann's first picture

April:

At my 20 week ultrasound we found out we were having a boy!  Reid was in complete shock :)

July:

Reid celebrated his 30th birthday and I celebrated my 28th

September:

Reid and I became parents! Noah Charles Hamann was born on September 20th at 8:50 pm.  He peed all over the doctor as he made his entrance into the world.

Noah is wrapped in his blanket made by his Great Grandma Esther

October:

Three Years 2011!