More pictures for everyone...

Here are some pictures of the great one....
the woman with the big smile is her great grandma that she has been named after.... Elly...I think it made her pretty happy...
I'll write more later, but i wanted to get pictures up

The REAL ride home

Here is actually the ride home. you can only post so many pictures at once..........

The Ride home... finally....

We got to come home today around... 4 in the afternoon...
so excited to come home.. more pictures... will come...

The Arrival of Elly Märta

So, I go in with 3 minute apart contractions and i am dialated to a FIVE... A 5. Yipee... i thought to myself....half way there. In Sweden they have a big huge bathtub that i can soak in while i have contractions.. that relieved some pain, but the mid-wife was changing shifts at 9:30 and I wanted to know how far I had come...a SIX. only one flippin' centimeter. so the mid-wife decided that the water needed re-broke. Now the pain starts... i mean the pain starts. eek.... I got some laughing gas, entered into a euphoria for a moment or two... but I went from 6 centimeters to 9 centimeters in about an hour. whew E. that was intense... then i was in so much pain, i want an epidural.. a little late for that they said, but epidurals here in natural world are not the american epidurals... let's just say.. it didn't numb a darn thing. then I said can i push around 11ish.. i don't really know the time... it was intense.. but Rocky's birthday was coming to an end..... 11:58, little girl.... a little girl that everyone except for kim henderson thought was going to be a boy.... Elly Märta... named after Jonthan's mormor... Elly here in Sweden.... so here she is... so beautiful and great... she is an eater.. i mean a real eater... i can't wait to talk to everyone... i might not have a lot of time , but i will try.....she weighed about 8 pounds 6 oz. and was 19 inches long.... and lots of hair.. the cutest hair in the whole world.. she came out looking like a rock star...i'll post more later.. i am a little tired now....

Before little wee schmit arrives

My water broke friday stinkin' night only to go the hospital to find out that you will stay at home until you have contractions about 3 minutes apart. I ask, how long will this take... tonight sometime? the response in swedish was "well we wait three days before we induce the labor, so go home and wait... WHAT????? wait.. holy banoliesssss... wait.. what no pregnant woman wants to hear... so we wait all night friday... all day saturday... and sunday at midnight... i begin to have contractions. i read the book... what do i do.. i go in sunday morning with contractions 5 minutes apart... no sorry they say, they aren't close enough together... exactly what i didn't want to hear. depression sets in pretty deep... i mean.... so we go home and around 4ish my contractions are pretty strong and jonathan counts three minutes apart... this is 4 o'clock sunday... Rocky's birthday... oh Lord is there a way for me to have this baby on Rocky's birthday still.... i have 8 hours to go.

Cherry Pickin'

Jonathan, Uncle Tomas, and I went to a place called Kungslena yesterday. We picked cherries, got a belly ache and then went to eat ice cream. The cherries in Sweden are free and good.... mmmm... so good.... I have also posted a picture for you Joan of my profile view where my belly is showing. Jonathan took that just for you.

new pictures for everyone to view

Okay, so it is official.. I now have a reason to take pictures. It took moving across the ocean to a different country and soon having a child before i could ever take pictures. One picture of just jonathan and i, we are on an island outside of stockholm surrounded by beautiful lakes. The other one is jonathan and i and his dad, Rocky in the background.... he shoes horses sometimes, so we are in a barn while he is shoeing horses.... Kimberly hogslagavarn or whatever means horseshoer's child...... it is a very sad song..

Finally figured out how to post pictures

Okay, we are finally going to send out this address to everyone. i have finally figured out how to add some pictures to the website. I haven't figured it all out, but slowly but surely i will get more and more in tune with this stuff. For all of you checking this for the first time, we have two weeks to go until the Due date of the WEE Schmit. We have been in Sweden for almost 2 months and things are going quite well. I will post some pictures of our apt. and random things that we have done as soon as i buy some batteries for the camera and get it loaded. So now that I can put pictures on here, I will write much more often.... I PROMISE!!!!!

This is very nice. Much nicer than the other "smörigt" ugly picture above. Thank you very much! J.