THE BABY!!!!!!

We are so behind on baby news. Here are a few pics to satisfy until I can tell the whole story.

M's Little Rant

So, I don't care who you are. Being 9 months pregnant is no fun. It would be nice just to be able to breathe comfortably, or walk without waddling. I also don't appreciate when I go out somewhere and people's eyes pop out of their heads at how huge and low the baby is. And, no I am NOT having twins, and yes I'm sure. I had this guy the other day ask me if it was safe for me to be out by myself. ????? Seriously, who says stuff like that? I know in a few months I'll be able to say it wasn't so bad, and it is SO worth it. But right now I'm glad this is my last day. Tomorrow morning we go in, so wish me luck!!!

Wishin' and Hopin'

So,... I know we are about the have our third baby so you think I would know that contractions coming 30 minutes apart for a whole day doesn't mean the baby is coming. We have been thinking the baby was going to come since last weekend, but no luck. I even came home from work on Tuesday to 1) fix a GFCI outlet that blew up and 2) all I could think about was the baby coming so I wasn't getting much done at work. M and I went to the doctor's to get her checked, but there wasn't much progression since last Thursday. The bonus of that disappointing afternoon was holding our friend's month-old son. He fell asleep on me and that made me even more excited for our baby to come.

What else... I walked out to my car this morning to go to work and I heard a pounding on my car! It was parked under a large black walnut tree and there was a squirrel ripping the nuts open and dropping them down onto my car. Not cool...

(...I think I am becoming a huge fan of ellipses...)

We saw Batman Returns at the the IMAX a couple of weeks ago and it was awesome! The sound was one of the best parts. Also, part of the movie was shot with IMAX cameras so those scenes were VERY impressive. They also played The Watchmen trailer and I am pretty excited about that movie. (Check out the song from the trailer at the left under "featured songs".) It's from a graphic novel (that is a way of saying "comic book" when one is an adult) that I read last year. It really helped me get in touch with my "inner geek".

Speaking of "inner geek"... that is one thing I miss. When I was in college, I managed a computer lab so access to people with similar interests (ie: computers, graphic novels, video games, etc.) was fairly easy. When I needed people who understood obscure movie references, could identify indie music, or knew what a Kandinksy was, I had my art friends. You would think that being surrounded by engineers all day, I could find some people like that, but most of the people at work don't even know what a podcast is! (Not that I don't enjoy the people I work with...) I gotta say that I appreciate M for knowing what a Chocolate Rain is, sitting through Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and indulging me while I ran network cable throughout the house instead of just setting up a wireless network (but I did that too). Thanks, M!

Our new addition...haha

On Friday we finally broke down and bought a minivan. We have been talking about it for a while, but it was always something we were going to do...later. But, we ran out of "later" because our due date is SOON!!! Yikes. I swore I would never get a minivan, but I secretly love it. Maybe because it's still new and exciting, I don't know. I feel a lot more prepared for three kids than I did with our car. At least I won't be squishing them in the back, or homebound...right? I'm happy. Thanks, Ken :)

The Fence

It has been a busy month! We finally bought the materials for our fence and spent two weeks putting it up. It is not 100% done yet, but it should be done by the end of this week. It was a really tough job to put up, but luckily, I had a friend who took over as project manager and he helped a lot. It looks really good and we are very thankful that we have some private space in the backyard now. We also bought a BBQ and were given a pool for the kids. Here are some pics of the fence:












So, that's about how it turned out. Now we just have a bunch of junk to take to the dump and we need to try and resurrect our lawn. Slowly, but surely things will come together.

Today is the 9th anniversary of the day we met. It's easy to remember because of Canada Day, and I can't believe it's been that long! We met at a BBQ so to celebrate we are getting a BBQ to go in our new fenced yard :) Yippee!!
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