Easter Among the Bridgman Tribe

Young folk and the seniors, (more of us now!!) gathered at the Smith's for good food, games, egg hunt and a video made by George Anderson, (Donnas dad), the CRAZY videographer. A recapture of the summer 2007 highlights. Some events included the Mike B. birthday at Bayview State Park, Bob B. birthday party, with Bob solos of Johnny Cash and Louie Armstrong, WOW. Saw pregnant Amber and Tyler. All ate TOOOOOOOOOO much.

Pictureless in Tres Piedras

Ok, I'll get this started just like I do most everything else, one step at a time. The good news: The snow is melting. The bad news: Water is bubbling up between the house and the shed. We thought we had a water leak, but the report is just the meltdown via some gopher holes. Doesn't sound right to me, but we still have water at the sink and the meter isn't running so...... The water gurus dug a trench through our new flagstone and that water is "moving on". My assistant is sleeping in the big chair. I'll show him this post and maybe he'll put his new camera to work soon. We were invited to Easter Service and dinner at a little Baptist Church in Questa. It was a beautiful drive across the Taos mesa and up to the the little mountain town. We saw herds of elk and antelope. My sugar cookies, baked in the Bridgman tradition of rabbits and chickens iced yellow, white and pink with coconut and sprinkles, turned out good, but my deviled eggs were a failure. We'll be having potato salad tomorrow, hopefully without the eggshells. I have a guy next door helping me with the work that still needs to be done on the cabin. I have the upstairs flooring, a closet, inside/outside painting, some tiling and some trim work left to do. I've got a guy lined up to do the harder stuff. We'll put the 4-sale up this summer and see what happens. We'll get more intense/realtor as time goes on. I'm thinking about a Washington trip soon and a trip to Greece in the fall , otherwise I'll be right here in Tres Piedras working on my projects.

Hola Mi Familia

I have just returned from my study abroad from Costa Rica! So i wasn't sure how to do this, but I did manage to make a blog under my name under contributors but its not the first Jessi B its the second! i have no clue what i did! but Check it out its a start! love ya all Jessi B.

Tyler and I are expecting to have our first child in September. I just thought that the family should know if they haven't already found out. We don't know the sex of the child yet, but plan to find out at the end of April.

Nicholaos Comes Home!

Hurray! See the 2/29 news on grecomara link.

Great news!

AN UPDATE FROM GREECE

This is a photo taken a few hours after his birth, we still haven't been able to take any current photos.
Posted by mara at 7:39 PM 7 comments

UPDATE
The doctors have confirmed that it is Hirschsprungs Disease. We are going to go see him on Thursday and then on Friday he is going in for the Colostomy Surgery. Rhonda will be in the air flying back home and Arthur and I will stay in Thessaloniki untill after the operation. We are still unsure of when he will be coming home but put in your prayers that it will be soon.My dad found an easy to read website that talks about Hirschsprungs Disease .
Posted by mara at 7:19 PM 0 comments

Fashion Statement
I did the Greek Fashionable thing, I had a C-section. Anyone who knows me would know that I am not at all into being in fashion, but it was a quick minute decision. The doctors said I was in the stages of pre-eclampsia and it was getting very dangerous for me and the baby, although I wasn't in any labor pain I did have pain in my upper back and the baby was showing signs of being stressed. So the team was called in ( I had both maternity doctors with me) and a little after midnight in the early morning of January 29, 2008 Nik was delivered while I was out cold. The reason I said it was the fashionable thing to do was that everyone Arthur knows has done it. In fact in my room we had 6 women come through, 2 regular labors and 4 C-Sections, out of 6 women 2 of us had our babies taken to bigger hospitals. A C-Section in Greece is almost like fake boobs in California 2 out of every 3 women has it done.

Bayview Snow in WA

We are anxiously awaiting news from Arthur and Mara about how baby Nicolas is doing. Hopefully he will soon be at his best and home with his new parents and extended family. It snowed here last week so I had to post the snowman because I have a rule that when it snows, which is rarely more than once a year, we have to do three things: sled, cross country ski, and make a snowman. We had to do all three of these quickly as the snow only lasted a few hours.

Seems odd that just a few months ago this was the same back yard where Leah and Terry's wedding was held.