Jon's Fabulous Project

I am officially impressed with my husband. In just a few days he was able to take the heap of junk dresser that he pulled from the side of the road, literally, and turn it into this beautiful dresser for our nursery!

I wish we had a better picture of how horrible this dresser was before he started working on it. When we first moved into our apartment it was "rubbish day" where everyone leaves their household junk out in the street for the city to haul away. Jon found this dresser, which had a broken leg, an awful white veneer covering, a top which had been so badly water damaged that it was one huge bubble, in short.... it was a mess. Jon had to beg me to take it, his best justification being that it had dovetail joints, and that anything made with dovetailed joints was worth saving. How glad I am that we rescued it!

It was a fun project to work on together. I got to sand it down (because that didn't involve any toxic fumes that might give us a mutant baby) but then we realized that it might have had lead paint on it-- thus the gas mask.

Trip to Philadelphia

Jon and I just got back from a wonderful trip to Philadelphia. My work sent me out to a little college in Elizabethtown, PA (about two hours from Philly) to present a paper on peace education. The paper went really well, I felt good about it and I got alot of possitve feedback. I am glad though that I didn't know there were some pretty famous peace education people in the audience till after my presentation or I would have been alot more scared.

Jon and I had such a nice time together-- we realized that this was probably our last vacation EVER without having to worry about a babysitter or hauling a baby around.

We really loved Pennsylvannia-- we got to visit cousins, eat philly cheese steaks, go to a peace conference, see the Amish country and go to Hershey, PA. Here are some pictures...Of the Amish Country-- it was SO beautiful and it was funny to try to see Jon figure out how to pass a horse and buggy!

Jon and me in Hershey, PA-- Chocolate World!!!

In the town of Hershey some of the streetlights are shaped liked giant Hershey's Kisses! The town even smells like chocolate-- seriously!

We also got to visit cousins and that was really great! They treated us so wonderfully. (Ps. There are six people in this picture-- can't see them-- they are pretty small-- Reina is pregnant too! That means there will be three babies within a year of eachother!)