Introducing...

Here is our handsome baby boy, Luke Newel Chambers:


The week started off like this:
Then after a blur of events, this happened:


*The nurses set him there to run a little test on him, so thats why he's there and not in my arms, but this picture cracks me up, like a little foreshadowing of the next chapter of my life!*

The kids instantly loved Luke, Adam loves him a distant kind of a way! But, Julia and Jack are very hands on!
Luke was a healthy 8 lb 14 oz and 20 1/2 inches long, even at two weeks early! He is doing great, however he is jaundice, so since we came home, we haven't really been able to stay home, which put a huge damper on my plans to stay in pajamas for at least a week! We've had to take him every day back to the doctor to get blood drawn to test his levels, which brings me to my love hate relationship with this contraption that he has to lay on all the time other than eating and diaper changes:
I'm glad it is helping get rid of the jaundice, but I am so sick of it! We are hoping that tomorrow his level will be down enough to say goodbye to this for good!
We've had a few different people ask about his middle name, Newel, it's my great grandpa's name---I will try to scan a cute picture I have of me and him when I was little. I am excited to have a child named after him, he was such a kind person and growing up I was always really intrigued with his life, I always wanted to know more.
Anyway, what a week! I am hoping to have that pajama week this week!

It Works!

So, I finally have fast enough internet to blog! Now it will just take me months to actually make this blog cute and personalized.
So, for all of you that I've kept in touch with, you know that this month has been totally crazy for us---Adam in the hospital for 10 days, moving into our house, panic of a lifetime when we couldn't find Julia after she got on the wrong bus after school and ended up almost 15 miles away (another long story that I don't wish to re-visit!) and the list goes on...
So, I am hoping for a mellow few weeks or even days would be nice. I think my kids are secretly preparing me for a new baby by alternating the times they each wake up throughout the night to equate to me waking up every two to three hours with a finale of Adam waking up for good at 5:00! They are so sweet to prepare me!
My goal for this week is to get back into some type of routine. For any of you that know me you know that I get really into politics. So, I seriously need to calm down after the debates last night (it's not good for my health!). I honestly lost sleep over it last night and I have to admit that it consumed a lot of my thoughts today. I'm totally for Mitt and I think he did really well at the debate, but I am so sad to say that I think he has made a few missteps and/or bad comments that may really hurt him--thus my frustration! He is the best candidate--I wish he would display what he has accomplished more.
I could go on and on, but I won't! However, here's my message for the day: I don't care who you vote for, but you must vote! It's soooo annoying to me to think that people don't vote.
So, next time I will just be normal and tell about some funny thing the kids did, but today--thats what on my mind!

New Year, New Blog...Finally!

So, I've been saying forever that I would get going on a blog, but we finally got settled in our house and got high speed internet, so this better work! So, this first post is just a test run, then I'll really fill you in on what's new with us!