Ready or Not!

This is guest blogger - Holly!

I am going to be keeping you up-to-date on the birthing of little boy Badour!

Carrie had a doctors appointment today ~ she is 4cm and having contractions - her doctor told her to go home, pack her bags and meet her at the hospital!

Here she is moments before leaving for the hospital:




Happy laboring Carrie - we can't wait to meet your little guy, shortly!

Here comes the bride!

We are pleased to announce that our family is increasing yet again. No, I'm not having twins!!

Elizabeth and Ray are engaged!


Congratulations to the happy couple!

I'm a Soccer Mom!

Tonight we took Natalie to her very first soccer practice. They handed out the uniforms which happen to be purple so they've named themselves the Ravens. Pretty cool.

The team intro, and yes, she's the only girl on the team


Huddled up


she looks like she might just get the hang of this


our future Mia Hamm


Stay tuned for more pictures. We just practice in August, the games start in September.

At the Dog Wash

Have I been living under a rock? Does everyone know that most local pet stores have a dog washing station? I was so excited to see that in our local pet store was a coin operated dog wash. Basically you bring your dog, a towel and some $$$, and away you go. No muss, no fuss.






The trusty assistant:


Everything was going great and we were so excited. That is, until Daisy pooped in the parking lot as we were walking her back out to the car. Nice. But I guess it could have been worse, she could have pooped in the store. Luckily I had some grocery bags in the car and we got everything cleaned up in no time. Can't take her anywhere.

On our "List of things to do before baby arrives" list, is wash dog. Well we can proudly check that off now.

Best wishes to Jess and Phil

My good friend from work, Jess, got married this week in a small ceremony. Here are just a few pictures of their special day.





Congratulations on starting your new life together!

Busy Weekend

We had a very busy weekend. Friday we had dinner at Willow's with her family. We all got a chance to practice holding a baby. Here we are with Baby Matthew.







Then on Saturday, we had a playdate with Ash and Lil at Ash's Mom's house where they surprised me with a little cake and some gifts for our new arrival. We got a kick out of the cake though ... gotta love the Klein's in Bel Air.









Then Mimi and Papa came up Saturday night and brought us dinner (no pictures). Thank you to everyone who is being so generous and helping us through these last few weeks.

33 weeks

Karen took these pictures of me on Friday at our work picnic.





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