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This week began with me back at work after having had all of last week off. I wouldn’t have minded taking more time, but I only have a few PTO days left and really wanted to use them around Christmas so that I can couple those with holidays and get almost two weeks off. My dad is coming ...
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I uploaded more photos to Facebook this week and wanted to pass on the links in case some of you aren’t on Facebook and thus aren’t notified (something you should correct!).
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Oh yeah, you may not because they are my dogs, but I love these up-close ...
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Whew…just about 13 hours ago marked Lyla’s first week in existence. It’s Sunday morning, Lyla is sleeping, Jina is enjoying a phone call with her cousin in California and I’m writing a blog while playing on Facebook, posting pictures and watching football.
Not just ...
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It seems to me from all the questions and phone calls we’ve gotten, that people really want to know about how the water broke, how we ended up at the hospital and everything that happened from there.
So I figured I’d give a play-by-play of the good stuff and thus you can transport ...
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As I sit here writing at 6:22am on Thanksgiving morning, the family having left about thirty minutes ago, Jina back in bed trying to catch a few more winks and me trying to keep Lyla sleeping for another hour until it’s time to eat…I thought about a lot of things I’m thankful ...
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I’ve uploaded some more photos to Facebook of the few days Lyla has been at home which you can visit by clicking here .
I really love this one below.
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…Scott Williamson!
As you guys may all know, I held a little “predict the birthday” contest awhile back and since Lyla is finally here, it’s time to announce the winner.
Scott guessed fairly close: November 23rd at 11:46pm
That’s just about 24 hours off, ...
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Here are a few pictures of Lyla…we’re trying to take more, but it’s really been nothing but feeding and sleeping the last 48 hours.
As before, you can see all of them over on Facebook by clicking here .
Read more to see the pictures…
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At 11:29 pm on November 22nd, 2008…weighing in at a rock solid 7 lbs, 8 ounces and measuring 20 inches long…Lyla Grace finally arrived after making her mother push for almost 3 hours.
I’ll post all about the delivery and the events that led up to it, but right now I’ve ...
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I just found this little video today and for some reason, it was really moving to me. Not sure what you’ll think about it, but here it is for your enjoyment.
Matt has been making these for a few years now and has sponsors that help him get it done. For 2008 though, he added the idea of ...
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No, I’m not talking about turning a junk room into a baby’s room just so our forthcoming baby girl will have a place to live once she’s part of the rest of us breathing real air.
Although that was all important and a very long process.
What I am talking about is the ...
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With only two weeks to go, the waiting is starting to get dreary. Almost feels like it’s never going to happen. In fact, when I try to imagine scenarios such as Jina walking into the room saying she’s in labor, it seems so far away.
Maybe it’s because this has never happened ...
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Okay, so I may have built this up too much, but I’m proud of it. You’ll still get a good laugh at how small of a project this was (especially when you see it finished), but it does add a nice touch and it sure let me put in a bit of my own creativity into Lyla’s room.
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This past week we finally came to within a hair’s breadth of being done with Lyla’s room. Jina finished hanging the art where she wanted it, organized the shelves a bit for now and hung the new sign on the door.
The only thing that really is left is to finish off the sign. ...
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I’ve been battling the flu or something this week, so I haven’t posted too much, but I wanted to pass on a quick Lyla update from Jina’s trip to the O.B. on Tuesday.
Remember last Thursday she was a centimeter dilated and 50% efaced and the doc said “a few weeks” ...
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Just an update…on the first day of 50,000 Shoes in 50 Days , there were 2700+ shoes donated!
If you haven’t done it yet, click on the banner below and spend a just a few dollars to make a huge difference for someone that has so little, even shoes are impossible to come by.
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This may be one of the best ads ever with an NBA player, and definitely the best with Steve Nash. He’s so humble in real life, rare to take praise and not give credit to his teammates…and this commercial is the exact opposite.
Enjoy, and thanks to Nicky for the heads up!
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This is an awesome little blogging charity project put on by Souls4Shoes.com , the organization that tries to get shoes to the 300 million people worldwide who don’t have any. Thanks to Anne for the heads up.
Can you believe that? 300 million people on this planet don’t have ...
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Tuesday marks Week 37, meaning we’re technically only around three weeks away from the due date. But since my last post kind of pointed out the fact that Jina feels it’s coming much sooner, we’re expecting Lyla much sooner.
This weekend was an incredibly busy one for me as ...
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Okay, so Jina has been having this pain in her lower back which has really been bothering her more and more the past week. She was again up until 2:30am last night because of it and was really tired today.
But she went to visit her OB again because they told her to come in after hearing about ...
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