The Two-Hour Star Wars Holiday Special in only Five Minutes!

I never knew this existed. Starring Jefferson Starship and Chewy's family along with all your favorite Star Wars Originals!

Christmas Tree OH! Christmas Tree

The Amazing Hamishina

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!

The Most Amazing Dog!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIZABETH AND SOPHIA

Top Gear: Smallest Production Car Ever

Apple Cider Doughnuts PLUS Doughnut Holes!

Jess and I made some kick-butt delicious apple cider doughnuts. For a full description of this pastery adventure, more pics, and THE RECIPE, click here

Thanks for the pic and the wonderful entry Jess!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NONA!

Exactly One Year Ago

Tom and Sarah's

Susan Ellen Ethington Nebeker

You can read Susan's obituary here:

http://obits.oregonlive.com/Oregon/DeathNotices.asp?Page=Notice&PersonID=93501700

Please feel free to contact us with any questions or to have us email you a copy of Susan's life sketch and remarks given at the funeral.
Hamish - hmgreenaway@gmail.com
Ellen - ellen.greenaway@gmail.com

Rowan's Ears

In staring at Rowan for hours and hours, we've come to look at his ears and wonder where those peculiar folds of flesh came from. Does he inherit his father's teeny ears? Are they still traumatized from being squozen (not a real word, I know) during birth? Does he inherit his great uncle Lynn's funny looking pointy bit on the top of his ear through some sort of genetic surprise? Who knows. We do know that they are pretty cute. He has earlobes, unlike his mother, whose ears fuse directly to the side of her head. Thats a good thing. All we really know is that they are pretty damn cute.

More pics

Hello. My name is:

ROWAN!!
Little Niblet is now officially Rowan Campbell Greenaway. After much discussion, deliberation and agonizing, we picked a name. I know that for those of you who were following the decision closely, this name may come as a surprise. We weren't trying to fool anyone, it just came to us a few weeks ago as even a possibility. For those of you not familiar with its origin, it is indeed a Scottish name, reflecting our family roots (at least some of those roots). It means "little red one" which he can certainly be sometimes, even if he is a little blondie. Rowan is also the name of a tree that we call the Mountain Ash here in America. In England and Scotland they call it the Rowan and plant them around churches. Apparently they keep the evil spirits away. Hopefully Rowan can keep the evil away from our new little family.

As far as Campbell goes, its a family name on Ellen's side. Ellen's maternal grandmother's maternal grandmother (so what's that, great-great grandmother) was Florence Ruby Campbell. We wanted to have some history in little Rowan's name. I always liked having my grandfather's name as my middle name. So that's where Campbell came from. The combo of the two is pretty good I think. A nice strong name.

Now Ellen, Rowan, and I are living back in the yurt. Rowan is sleeping in the same crib that his uncle Lane slept in as a baby. It's fitting because everyone says that little Rowan looks like him. We have had several people comment that "He looks just like Lane!" We'll see what he ends up looking like as he grows up. Its really strange how he seems to change everyday. It's fun to check him out every morning and see how he's changed overnight.

Rowan and Ellen are both doing well today. Everyone is recovering from the whole birth ordeal. Today was his due date, and both Ellen and I are glad that he decided to arrive a few days early. Had he decided to wait a few days, he surely would have been a nine pounder. I don't think Ellen would have appreciated him being any bigger.

Little Niblet at 2 Days

We have been snapping lots of pictures in the hospital the last few days and I thought that we should share some of them. Little Niblet has been going through a lot of changes as time has slowly passed. He is starting to lose his massive cone head and forming a head that is slightly more normal. Well, normal maybe isn't the right word. He still has a pretty big noggin on top of his neck. I think that he might get that from his grandpa Michael. Well, hopefully its big because it is chock full of brains. I already know he's pretty smart because he's figured out that it's really nice to hang out nestled in Mama's bosom. Smart guy.

He's been a relaxed kid so far, but every once and a while he airs out his lungs with a lusty cry. I think Ellen has a better touch with getting him to calm down than I do. Maybe that has something to do with that equipment that she is carrying. I get to walk around with him quite a bit, but the hospital doesn't let us walk around in the halls holding him. I guess they are a little paranoid about someone falling and squishing a baby. That would be bad, so I understand. We mostly just hang around in the room. It's pretty cozy in here with our private room and Wi-Fi. The nurses have been great and leave us alone for the most part except when we ask for something. I was a little afraid that they would barge in more than they do. We have been really happy with the whole experience.

So we are going home today to live in the yurt (circular building, no center support, mongolian, made of yak skin)at the Nebeker compound for a while. It will be a little bit more work not having the nursery to pass Niblet off to when we really need to sleep, but we have lots of family and friends around to help us out if we need it. I think that Ellen knows what she's doing, though. And I'll learn as I go.

As far as the pictures go, that brunette with Ellen, Niblet, and me is Alisha, the midwife. She did a great job getting Ellen through the whole labor with gentle prodding and much needed encouragement at some really intense moments. It was perfect.

NIBLET ARRIVES!!

Finally he is here. Little Baby Greenaway was born yesterday morning at 8:17 am. He was 8lbs. 14oz. and 21 inches long. A big baby, especially for a little woman like Ellen. She did great and got him out into the world pretty quickly. We arrived at the hospital a little after midnight and he was born eight hours later. Needless to say, we were both pretty tired by the end of it all, but Ellen did all the hard work herself. Niblet (for those of you who don't know, thats what we have been calling him in utero) was born and put straight into my (Hamish's) arms. I held him for quite a while and then cut the cord.

We don't have a name quite yet and are still calling him Niblet and Nibby out of habit, but we are getting to know him and his ways before we settle on a name. So far he has been quite a chill little guy. He likes to suck on his hands and has been pretty content this whole time. He's been good and allowed us to get our rest since he was born. Niblet is an easygoing little (or big) guy.

We had the whole Nebeker family in to visit yesterday and everyone got to hold him. Grandma Ellen really didn't want to give him back. That's sort of how we all feel, though. We're so glad to finally have him here with us.

Bountiful Harvest

We are heavy into the harvest of the garden here in Oregon. we have squash and zuchinni everywhere and beets and carrots ready to pick. Peas are on and the tomatoes are about to arrive any day. They sit there slowly ripening, taunting us with their deliciousness. We have plums falling off the trees and there were enough ripe apples today to make two pies. We are loving the fresh garden goodness. It is so nice to be able to walk out and pick what we need for the nights dinner. Mmmmm.....

Waiting...

Ellen has been given two due dates for her baby: July 26 is what the ultrasound said and August 4 is what the dates said. So here we are now in between the two dates, waiting for little niblet to arrive. When will it be?

So to pass the time, we took some clay and painted up Ellen's protuberant belly. It looked pretty good.

Nebeker Day at the Beach

So a few days ago, the whole Nebeker family took a trip to the Oregon coast. We went over near Tillamook and had a day of it. Hamish caught a crab in the surf and promptly fell asleep on the sand, probably his favorite pastime. Meanwhile, Ellen and the rest of the family played. Kirk and Tara and their kids ran around and built a sandcastle with Lane and his girlfriend Ashley, who was here to visit. Pam and Avery were there enjoying the salt water, too. Holly ran around after the kids while Theron and Susan sat back and watched the chaos. Afterwards, the whole family took a trip to the Tillamook cheese factories for a feast of ice cream and cheese curds (for those of you who don't know, they squeek when you eat them).

A Summer Veggie Garden

Blue Berries Too!

Most of the berries were SWEET.



A few of the berries were SOUR.



We all had a great time picking and taste testing the afternoon away at Miriam and Nick's blueberry field......YUM! Thanks Taggarts!

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (colour)

TIS' THE SEASON FOR OREGON STRAWBERRIES

We picked and picked.....and picked some more until we had twenty pounds of tasty strawberries. Ellen made 3 batches of freezer jam and Hamish froze several quarts of berries for smoothies. YUM! Avery volunteered to be the family mascot and danced around on her tiptoes. The rest of us sang Strawberry Fields Forever and stuffed our faces till our lips were stained red. The fruits of our labor provided us with several dessert options. We kicked off the dessert marathon with shortcake (biscuit style) and ended with thick strawberry shakes. Move over California - Oregon berries have arrived!

WHICH NAME DO YOU THINK WE'LL GIVE THE BABY?

25 WEEKS, 6 DAYS