Our little family the day of Kenzie's arrival. We are truly blessed with a little princess! Check out the hospital's website (www.sabethahospital.com) for another photo.

We've made it home and are adjusting. Thank you for all your thought, prayers, concerns and gifts. We are certainly blessed.

Kenzie Marie

Proud Daddy!
Kenzie Marie arrived Tuesday, August 17th at 4:35am via c-section. Kenzie weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long. She has a little black hair and is as cute as can be! We are glad she arrived safely and appears to be healthy. Jennifer is recovering from all the trauma, but is doing well.

Another visit at the doctor's office today certainly made things come into perspective. At 38 1/2 weeks the baby is growing (ahead of schedule) and all vitals sound good. I have another appointment next week so we'll see what that brings!
We are getting pretty excited, anxious and nervous all at the same time.

In the meantime, Heath has been keeping busy helping his cousin on his home, working in the garden and keeping up with the mowing.

I have been working in the house (it's cooler) on cleaning, baking and preserving produce from the garden. I worked up another 6 quarts of sweet corn this past weekend and filled my hunger for homemade chocolate chip cookies too!

This weekend is the annual town celebration so Heath is excited about playing softball. I think I'll find a shade tree for part of the tournament, but mainly in the house for the weekend. It'll be hard for me to stay away, but with the scorching temps, it's probably the best!

Just a few flowers from around our house! I love taking pictures of them, if you couldn't tell!

Fall.....????

Heath harvested the first pumpkin from our garden last night. He's having a growing contest with one of his cousins on who can raise the largest pumpkin from the same pack of seeds. Heath informed me that this wasn't the largest one in the garden! :)

We have been blessed with an abundance of fresh produce this year. I have canned 26 pints of peaches, froze 9 quarts of peaches, canned 9 pints of carrots, canned 10 pints of pasta/pizza sauce and froze numerous quarts of sweet corn. It is truly a blessing to have so much produce that we'll be able to enjoy all year long.