Meet Genevieve Kata Woolstenhulme

Just a quick update. More to come.

Genevieve is here.

She is beautiful, wonderful, healthy and all you could hope for. She weighed in at

6lbs. 4.9 ounces

19.8 inches long.

Labor was good and all is well!

we will post more after I get some sleep ......

moving...

We were able to move up to a four bedroom house this week since with the new baby coming that is what we qualify for. I was happy to get into a bigger home, and in many ways happy to leave some of our neighbors. I just wonder if we were not crazy to move, again! We have been on the waiting list for a while, and finally we were able to get into a house that I am very happy with so far. It is not remodeled like our other one is but to me it is fine! The only thing I don't really like is that my washer and dryer are now in my kitchen. Oh well. That and I hate moving! We have moved so often lately. Then cleaning our house to pass inspection ( do you clean your dishwasher with a Q-Tip I had to!) anyway, we are in our new house and I am so glad! To bad all this moving didn't send me into labor, I tried really hard to.

The girls were happy to help us pack.

Why is it always so messy to move???? I hate the chaos, but I love the chance to clean out. I decided we have lots of books... but I am always thinking we need more.

Since I have heard from several people that I have not shown my pregnant belly, here it us, not so cute to me. YUCKY. I am packing up the girls clothes here, Fun fun.

The girls were really good sports through it all. I know it is hard to be little and have to sit alot while things are loaded and shuffled and no toys are available because its all a mess. They were great!

Here is my great husband that basically did it all himself.

He was a little tired after he moved the whole house! Do you like our new couch? If you look at the door you can see the park thats basically our back yard. HOW FUN!

I don't know if you know but Harley is a girl scout. And guess what, its now cookie season! Girl Scout Cookies anyone? HAHA I wish we had some family close by to go hit up to buy the cookies. Jeb says he can't believe his daughter is going to be one of those girls that go around with their cute little voice "Will you buy some girl scout cookies pleeease??? " then he says you have to because its a little girl scout and then you walk away cursing the cute little girl with the big eyes because she just cost you twenty bucks in calories you don't need. I thought it was funny, he is such a tough guy. :)

Well I am hoping my next blog I will be saying here is our new baby!

December....

So December has now come and gone. It was a very busy month, between church activities, work things, and just the Holidays it seemed to go by quickly. It was different being so far away from family but in truth we had a great Christmas. In many ways we loved just being us. After so much time apart who can blame us? NO exciting trips out in Japan to report. We were to busy and I am feeling to big and pregnant!

So in getting ready for Christmas, I had to convince Jeb that we really did need a Christmas tree. Since we didn't bring our nice fake one that left us the option of buying a fake one for a couple hundred dollars or a real one for twenty something. I choose real. So I went to pick it up and when I brought it home this is what I unwrapped.....

I don't know if you can see it clearly but it was several inches of pine needles. The tree was so dead. Every time we touched it a whole shower of needles would fall to the ground. The tag on it said it came from California. So we figure they cut it down in around Sept. or Oct. To ship it over here because they went on sale the day after Thanksgiving. Poor tree.

Once it was decorated it wasn't so bad.

(looks yummy huh?)

This year to give out to friends I made rum cake and sugar cookies. The rum cake was great and only raised a few eyebrows in the branch. I think that's the whole reason Jeb wanted me to make rum cake actually.... always a rebel. The cookies were because we had a primary activity and I made about a hundred cookies for it. For some reason almost half of mine were not used. So I gave them away with the rum cake. I didn't need more goodies around the house!

Christmas came and it was great. We do our best to keep our Christmas's simple. Still it was fun to find things for the girls. All Harley wanted was a Kimono. Niyah wanted the same as Harley, then later added a drum but we could not find one. So they received their own CD player/karaoke (since they love to turn on their music on our computer now they have their own music in their room) They love it! They love turning on their music and singing all the time now. Then of course lots of books, art supplies, the kimono's and a school computer game each. Then they were spoiled by the grandparents too. So they seemed to find lots to keep them happy. Oh and Christmas eve was spent with some friends (the Wilsons) over for Christmas eve dinner. It was really fun. Then they invited us over for a Feliz Navidad party on Christmas day. Which was always great with INCREDIBLE food! Allison Wilson is an amazing cook. It was a no kidding progressive six course dinner. I forgot to take pictures at both dinners but trust me I was to busy enjoying to remember to take pictures.

So here are some pictures of Christmas morning anyway.

They loved their Kimonos!

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Isn't she stylish?

Her new dress up, she was not willing to wear it since it showed her belly!

This is what Jeb received from parents. Its exactly what he wanted and he loved it.

The first thing they did after all was opened and they were waiting for breakfast, paint. They love painting and drawing.

That's pretty much all we have to share for now. On a side note for those who asked if Japanese celebrate Christmas. They do, its kind of funny. They enjoy celebrating it and having parties but it has no other meaning to them. Someone compared it to how we celebrate Halloween. Truthfully to the pagans it is a very important religious holiday, to us it is no more then a celebration with candy and games. It is the same with most of Japan towards Christmas. There are a few Christians who think of it a bit differently. Still it is not as big as in the US.

oh and for an update. I am sooo ready to have this baby. Only a couple more weeks till she is due, but I have been having lots of contractions. Pretty steadily, but not strong enough to do anything yet. Just enough to wear me out! So everyone think positive and maybe she will be here sooner, not two weeks late like my other two. :)