THE GREENMONSTERS

Friday, March 5, 2010

Our Little Bundle of Joy

It has been a very very long time since I last blogged, but life keeps our family busy and I barely have time to download pictures to the computer! And of course it's time consuming posting pictures on facebook and on the blog. But so much has happened since I last wrote and many friends that read our blog have been wanting to see pictures of little Sophia, so here goes!!

I was induced on my due date the 10th of February and Sophia finally graced us with her presence at 4:16pm. We all had a really early start to the day considering we had to be at the hospital by 6am. All attempts to keep the kids in bed until their regular time to get up failed so by the time they came to the hospital that evening to meet their sister, they were exhausted.
Chloe had been waiting 9 months for this day, so she was over the moon to finally hold her baby sister. she kept saying "She likes me, she likes me."

Grandma and Daddy were there to welcome her!
The only way I will ever be able to tell this picture of Sophia and a very similar shot of Chloe at birth apart is that Chloe's hospital hat got tied in a bow at the front, other than that they look identical, but only in this picture.

Her full name is Sophia Mary and she weighed 8lbs and 3oz and was 20 inches long. The biggest of her two siblings! Not only is she the biggest but she has a thick mop of dark hair with the most perfect blonde highlights. Unfortunately the photos don't show how fun her hair colour looks!

You can kinda see the highlights here!
Here she is two weeks old and of course is getting lots of loves from Chloe!
Sophia at one week old.
She loves to sleep on her boppy!

Friday, October 23, 2009

What was this country thinking during elections???

Obama White House Tries to Freeze Out Fox

In the span of just a couple of weeks, the Obama administration has gone from merely accusing Fox News of bias, to meeting and strategizing with more pliable members of the media, to actively trying to freeze Fox News out of covering administration officials. On Thursday, the Obama White House made "Pay Czar" Ken Feinberg available to the White House press pool, of which Fox has been a member since 1997 (along with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN). The White House told four members of the pool that they were welcome to interview Feinberg, but Fox was not invited. In fact, Fox was told it could not come to the interview. The other members of the press pool stood with Fox, and the network was eventually allowed in.

The White House does not get to choose who is and is not a member of the press pool. But it tried bullying Fox directly, and the other pool members indirectly, in a move that was indefensible, to say the least. And make no mistake here - the White House's actions Thursday were not merely childish or petulant reactions to unfavorable news reporting. They directly threatened the First Amendment.

The threat from this administration to our basic freedoms grows by the day. This time, the Obama administration attempted to crush dissent out in the open by trying to isolate and disable a news networks ability to cover the executive branch of our government. It does this while its agencies are bullying the US Chamber of Commerce over health care, negating previously existing compensation contracts with corporate executives, and demonizing insurers and Wall Street. This is what they're doing out in the open. What are President Obama and his many radical czars and appointees attempting to do behind closed doors?
(article found on texasgop.org)