the weekly update

this last week has been pretty busy last saturday we had our friends, the wrights over for an 'oscar night.' we had dinner together, played games and watched the movie oscar because we are all fans of that movie. (if you haven't seen it i would highly recommend it!) and for desert we made sugar cookies in the shape of an oscar award. it was dan's idea and i gladly let him take on that part of the party. (as you can see dan is concentrating pretty hard......and it looks very similar to the real thing don't ya think?)

monday my mom came to visit and helped me quilt a baby quilt that i have been working on for a while. thanks to my sister amanda (sister-in-law if you want to be technical--but i consider her a sister....) has helped me so much on the quilt. she is the one who convinced me that i could do a baby quilt. you see, i don't hate sewing, sewing hates me. i have never made a quilt and i have never had a 'good time' while trying to make something myself. just a fact. but alas, she insisted that it was easy and i actually have had a lot of fun doing it and i have impressed my husband in the process. so my mom helped me quilt it and came with me to get some items to decorate nova's room seeing that dan isn't really into decorating. it was so fun having her here and i was so grateful for her help. she stayed until wednesday.

thursday i ventured again to the doctor. no change. still at a 1 and still 90% effaced. dan and i have been walking twice a day to see if we can get things moving along, but so far nova just seems content to stay where she is at. which is ok with us........at least for now anyway.....


friday we celebrated the 4th and we had so much fun. we didn't go far because as dan puts it 'suzanne is ready to pop.' so i planned a day full of activities and decorated our house like a good american should! (or someone who has too much time on their hands does.) dan thinks i'm a little nuts in things that i do most of the time, but i think secretly he likes the weird things that i make him participate in.

for breakfast we had blue waffles (that looked green......but that's a minor detail) and whipped cream and strawberries so we could feel patriotic from the get go.

we also went to kung-fu panda which was really quite entertaining. (i learned a trick or two from my friend po the panda. my new nick name is now kung-fu sue. clearly i have skills!)

then we came home and had a picnic in our backyard. i made star shaped captain crunch treats for desert and then we played lacrosse with some cheap-o sticks i found at wal-mart for 5 bucks. not to brag, but dan and i were pretty good except for the time that dan forgot that nova was playing and threw the ball right at her. (that didn't even get labor going........she really must be content to staying in---but no wonder, she probably thinks we are going to beat her if she comes out now! j/k)

we also made patriotic cookies. we still had left over cookie dough from oscar night so we made some cookies and frosted them. (yes, the flour on my face means i am a true cook---call me rachel ray if you want.....oh wait, i already told you to call me kung-fu-sue..... oh well! also you can't really tell in the picture but i made a purple mountain majesty, and a star and dan made a blue plane.)

last and certainly not least we watched the fireworks from our yard. we had a "pleasant view!" (ironic eh?)

i also wanted to put in a little plug to thank those who have served or who are serving in Iraq right now. i also want to say thank you to their families. it is a huge sacrifice that they are making for our country and our benefit and i am so grateful to them all. we live in a great country with so many freedoms and i think that too often we take it for granted and we take those for granted who have given of their time, lives and family members for us to have it.