Durbin Family: our new niece

Erika sleeping like our last baby didn't on Twitpic

Just got a call from Phil that his and Teresa's second daughter, Erika Josephine, was born. Phil described her as "cool".

With any luck, Erika's cousin will be here any day now.

101 Countdown

101 things to do in 1001 days

Day Zero
1 Make a worm tea bin or a composter
2 Do hot water bath canning
3 Publish a children's book
4 Do the Women's Art Institute
5 Go to the Natural Gait
6 Create an art chair sculpture
7 Put a website for Art Punks up
8 Start an Art Center 9 Make a new photography brochure
10 Fence in a play area
11 Repaint the bedroom
12 Get credit card debt paid off
13 Create a will or revocable trust
14 Start a Roth IRA
15 Have $5000 in kids savings
16 Learn about the stock market
17 Learn metrics
18 Get Lasik
19 Read ElKader book and write play
20 Make a album of all high school stuff
21 make an album of all college stuff
22 Dress up date at a speakeasy with costume hats
23 Get a dress pattern and sew my own dress
24 Take music lessons
25 Go to a Quaker meeting
26 Enter a project in the country fair
27 Do WWOF
28 Re-do Kitchen floor
29 Weigh below 200 lbs
30 Submit a t-shirt design to threadless
31 See a dermiologist and have my moles mapped
32 Build a fire by myself
33 Learn 2 oragami figures and commit them to memory
34 start an etsy shop
35 Submit photos to istock
36 Learn how to start our grill and cook on it
37 Take a cake decorating class
38 Visit the gallapogus islands
39 Go to Mississippi
40 Record my dreams every morning for a week
41 Boat on the Mississippi River
42 Learn a campfire song on the guitar
43 Go to South Carolina
44 See Thich Nhat Hanh speak
45 Record a song or short cd
46 Go to the Sundance Film Festival
47 Ride in a hot air balloon
48 Go to Alabama
49 Go to Georgia
50 Go to Alaska
51 Participate in a sweat lodge
52 Sit in a natural hot spring
53 Be a life model for an art class
54 Be a surrogate mother
55 Take a dance class
56 Get a new passport
57 Get a new tattoo
58 Go to the UNI fashion show
59 Take a jewelry making class
60 Get licensed in Kindermusik
61 Raise chickens
62 Take a painting class, portraits
63 Create a wood shop in my home
64 Experience weightlessness
65 Learn the constellations
66 Get my black belt in Tae Kwon Do
67 Relearn ASL to a conversational point
68 Create a photo tour in my town
69 Go to Continent that starts with an a
70 Go skydiving
71 Don't eat fast food for a month
72 Do a grape stomp
73 Do something big for our 10th anniversary
74 Go hunting with my dad
75 Find mushrooms on my own
76 Make photo albums of the last few years
77 Buy a bigger house 78

Durbin Family

Sunday, July 19, 2009

our new niece

No comments: