back from NM

So I've been back from the rainbow gathering in NM for one week now, and I think I might finally be getting back into the swing of things. Our trip was really amazing. The sights where breathtaking and we met some extraordinary people. We where at 9,000 feet altitude and that was defiantly hard to get used to! It was hard to breathe at first and the first day we where there I hiked about 5 miles after being in the car for 28 hours. It was all worth it in the end though. Our first successful family vacation that I will remember forever. Now the tricky part will be making it to Rainbow next year with 2 babies! A 10 month old and a 2 year old! I had to take the dreads out... I already have a really dry scalp and the dreads made my scalp even more itchy than it already is! When I would use my scalp treatments it would condition my hair too much and the dreads would come out. So I was spending way to much time and energy on my hair. The point f the dreads was supposed to be the opposite, low maintenance. So until I can figure out a better solution for my scalp... I'm back to my old wavy haired self. It's hard to believe that this little babe in my belly is already due next month! I'm getting VERY uncomfortable at night and my belly is feeling heavy. Even though I'm nervous about taking care of two little ones.. I've never been so exited! I know that God wouldn't give me anything I couldn't handle .. so things will work out. I'm so pumped about having another home birth. Having Sunny at home in the water was the most amazing thing that's ever happened to me. I might not be posting very much because I have a TON of things to do between now and when this baby comes. I will try to give little updates here and there and I will defiantly be posting a birth announcement along with a birth story!

pics

  helping mama hang the diapers to dry
and throwing some wipes on the ground while she's at it!
dyeing hand made napkins for Sunny's birthday party

 they came out lovely!
glass beads in yellow and blue
 side shot.. this pic won't rotate for some reason... I don't have any makeup on so you probably shouldn't look at it strait on anyway..ahahahah

My head feels like a sheep

    So I was feeling a bit spontaneous yesterday and asked Jeff to put my hair into dread locks.

I have been pondering the idea for years but have never had the guts to do it. I recently asked a few of my close friends that I knew would be honest with me if they thought it was a good idea and they all gave it a thumbs up. I feel rude talking about this without posting pics , but my camera's batteries ran out today. When Jeff put my hair into locks last night they didn't exactly look like dread locks, it takes about 6 months to a year for them to actually start locking up. Although when he got home from work today we put some dread beads on half of the locks to make sure they stay separated and he went through them again and now my hair actually feels like wool! It also shrunk up about 2-3 inches. I'm going to wear my hair up for a while and keep it wrapped in a scarf until i feel comfortable wearing them down. Now when my hair is up it looks like a bee hive and when it's down it looks like a cave woman afro puff. I thought I would regret doing this right away because no matter how self conscious I think I'm not, I AM! It was weird, right after Jeff finished putting them in.. which took about 5 hours, I actually felt relieved. I've been wanting to do it for so long, I'm glad I'm just doing it so that I don't regret not doing it when I'm 50. I was also self conscious about adding one more thing to the list of "michelle" that spells out H-i-p-p-i-e, but I've just got to get over that! Sorry about such a long post about hair, but it's  kind of been consuming my thoughts for the last 24 hours. I promise once I re charge my batteries I will post some pics! Not to get all hippy on you again, but Jeff,Sunny and I are headed to the  Rainbow Gathering at the end of this month in New Mexico! We're taking the new veggie mobile, along with my friend Andrea and her 5 month old baby boy. On the fourth of July there will be thousands of nomads, hippies, gutter punks, babies,kids, people from all over the world standing in one big circle holding hands and praying for world peace. I went to the gathering in colorado in 2006 and it changed my life! You probably won't meet one person there that doesn't dumpster dive, share all they have and radiate positive energy! You go to one of these and think.. wow these people must come out of the wood work! I'll talk more about the gathering later.. I need to give this big belly a good nights rest!!

random pics

square foot garden. tomatoes,peas,squash,broccoli ,lettuce,spinach 
potted herbs and a rose bush. 
sunny in my moms backyard
Sunny sitting by my mom
Her first watermelon! She destroyed that thing!
the belly about 2 weeks ago
Helping dad in the kitchen
Big Girl

this was from a few weeks ago right before we left for the zoo

I've got more pics but when I went to post them I realized they need to be rotated ..so more to come!!

Emotional

 I've got many many pictures to share from the past couple weeks, I'm on my moms laptop so they are not handy at the moment. Belly pics... Sunny pics.. random family shots... I'll try and post them tonight when I get home! I've been thinking about next month a whole lot lately. Next month Sunny will be one year old!! I should also add in a question mark, because I don't know how thats even possible! I want all of her decorations to be hand made and reusable so that I can use them for next year and the year after and also use them for the next baby. The decorations that I didn't have time to make I purchased from a couple crafty stay at home mama's. It just kind of hit me today that I'm not as much emotional for Sunny being a year old , but who I have been for one year. On June 20 I was transformed. I am a totally different women than I was even on June 19th. Being a mother has been the most fulfilling, beautiful, backbreaking,mostly indescribable experience that I could have never even imagined. The night I gave birth to Sunny was the first time I ever really spoke to god.. in a way that I could hear him speaking words to me and see amazing images of his love for me. It was also my first real near death experiance when I lost a ton of blood after she was born. The first and only time I could feel my life slipping out of my body. The next babe will be born only 2 months after Sunny's birthday and I wonder how one mama can take all this extreme emotion. I can'teven imagine my heart growing any bigger than it already is... but I know it will, and just thinking of that brings me to tears. Miss Sunny just woke up from her nap so I've gotta go before she crawls off the bed. I'll be back!

FULLY LOADED....with bumper stickers

So Jeff and I dropped the little one off at grandmas yesterday morning and headed off to Cleveland to pick up the veggie car. On our way there I asked Jeff if he would be cool with me putting a bumpersticker on the back that said Powered by veggie oil.. or somthing like that. He started laughing and I said ,come on, one bumper sticker can't be that tacky! He said.. oh don't worry, you'll get your bumper sticker alright.. and then some! Just wait and see! Needless to say we will be removing most of these hilarious.. Ridiculous stickers..aahahahah!! If you can click on the pic to make it bigger so that you can read each sticker.. it will be worth it! Anyway.. the old boy runs like a gem and I'm glad we got it because now I get to drive myself,Sunny, my friend Andrea and her 4 month old to whole foods for lunch today! Woohoo!! Following Jeff on the way home I thought that if this car was a person he would be a 70 some year old man with a pony tail and an old tie dye shirt.. possibly a joint in his hand and a peace sign in the other. I'd love him none the less.

Happy Mothers Day!

 Somehow I got everything done on time. I'm not sure how this happened! Now that everything is done I can actually sit back and relax, but I can't relax because I'm so exited! Why am I so exited??? Because Jeff and I are driving to cleveland on tuesday to buy a car!! It's a mercedes diesel wagon that's been converted to run on Veggie oil!!! I'm so pumped! I feel like I will be able to get twice as much done now that I have a car while Jeff is at work. Also I'm not stuck at home while he's out at the land. My girlfriends will be seeing alot more of me!!! I've been feeling so guilty, because if someone wants to hang out they have to come get me or just come hang out at my place. here are some pics of what I've been busy with the past day or so... Happy Mothers Day to all!!!