Pregnancy Photo

Well, my baby boy is kicking and flipping all over the place. He is getting bigger and stronger and Sarah is just getting bigger. Yesterday we decided to have a photo shoot featuring her belly. Here is one of the better pictures.

Goin to the Zoo...How bout you (October 06)

Well, since we found out that our baby will indeed be a boy, we (as in Sarah) have decided on our baby bedding and will decorate the rest of the room accordingly. The bedding is kind of a sage green with white elephants and chocolate brown accents (viewable on our registry at target.com). So we decided to go to the Nashville Zoo and get pictures of various animals and hang black and white photos of them in matted frames around the room. The highlight of the wall decorations will be a framed footprint of an elephant. With this mission, Sarah and I headed to Nashville the only day we had available. Unfortunately, the weather was not very cooperative as it continued to rain throughout our time in Nashville. Only on our way back to Troy did the clouds break up. Like the good husband I am, I gave my raincoat to Sarah and got quite wet while taking pictures. Fortunately, rain seems to make the animals pretty frisky, especially the big cats. We got some great pictures, but several of them blurred due to the necessary slow shutter speed. So, I want to go back when there is some sun so that I can better, unblurred photos of the elephants and giraffes. We are now members of the zoo, so we get to go for free from now on.

Road Trip (October 06)

Well, we are finally back. I took on an insanely long road trip to show 5 of our High School students my two favorite colleges, Pepperdine and ACU. I was the only adult and therefore the only driver. 4280 miles later I am wondering what possessed me to do such a thing. We have a lot to be thankful for; there were no car troubles in our 25 psgr bus (Moby Dick), no injuries, no sickness, and most of all Taco Bueno. Though I didn't give much thought to what mexican food would mean with teenagers locked in a vehicle all day. I am thankful that the first day was the most stressful (being called at 4:30 am, intending on leaving at 6:30, not getting on the road until 8:00 and not finding a hotel in Albequerque. Compared to that, the rest of the journey was smooth sailing.

IT'S A BOY (September 06)

Well, the suspense is over. We went in for our ultrasound and the imaging tech so tactfully declared, "It's a turtle". It took me a little while to understand what she meant by that, but finally came to the conclusion that our baby is indeed a boy. Now we can start decorating the nursery.

Just for Kicks (August 06)

Just a few months ago we learned that we going to have a baby. It seems so unreal that in a few short months we will have another member of our little family. This news was recently made a little more realistic when Sarah and I took a trip to the Smoky Mountains. It was an exciting trip, with a bear climbing in the bed of my truck, spotting wildlife and fishing in the streams, made much more exciting by the discovery of our baby's kicking. We were checking into the park when we felt the first few kicks. I always knew our baby would love the mountains.