Working the day after Thanksgiving

This is the Breakfast of Champions the day after Thanksgiving: Bacon, egg, and cheese pizza.

Happy Birthday Erin

Happy Birthday to You

Have a Great Day

Happy Birthday to you...

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday Sister Paula
Happy Birthday to you

Hope you have a wonderful birthday - we'll celebrate over Thanksgiving :-)

TECWAE

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A simple but good laugh
                       
                        GOD
                        LOVES DRUNK PEOPLE TOO

A man and his wife were awakened at 3:00 am by a loud
                        pounding on the door. The man gets up and goes
to the
                        door where a drunken stranger, standing in the
pouring
                        rain, is asking for a push.

"Not a chance," says the husband, "it is 3:00 in the morning!"

He slams the door and returns to bed.

"Who was that?" asked his wife.

"Just some drunk guy asking for a push," he answers.

"Did you help him?" she asks.

"No, I did not, it is 3:00 in the morning and it is pouring rain out
there!"

"Well, you have a short memory," says his wife. "Can't you 
                        remember about three months
                        Ago when we broke
                        down, and those two guys helped
                        us? I think you should help him, and you should
be ashamed of
                        yourself! "God loves drunk people too."

The man does as he is told, gets dressed, and goes out into the
pounding rain.

He calls out into the dark, "Hello, are you still there?"

"Yes," comes back the answer.

"Do you still need a push?" calls out the husband.

"Yes, please!" comes the reply from the dark.

"Where are you?" asks the husband.

"Over here on the swing set," replies the drunk.
                       

Long overdue...and 14 week update

Guess I have been slack about updating the blog - I'm not going to lie, I have been getting to bed very early lately! I don't feel tired during the day but after coming home and getting dinner ready and then getting Claire bathed and to bed, I pass out about 5 seconds after I find the couch. Wonder where those awesome genes come from?!?

While Dan was on a 3 day Phish tour (and since he can't stand the inside of pumpkins) we headed to Andreas to carve pumpkins - or maybe from the look of it we ate them....

But we eventually did get to carving them. Claire enjoyed popping the pieces out much more than she enjoyed sticking her hands in the pumpkin.

And here's Claire and I's final product. Do you see the kitty we cut around? Claire loved seeing the pumpkins lit up outside Andreas. We had to go back and keep looking over and over and over.
All Claire wanted to be for Halloween was a yellow princess. We showed her tons of costumes and this was the one she wanted. At least she will be able to play dress up with it now. She really wanted nothing to do with the crown, but she loved the costume.
I was going to upload another picture from Halloween but blogger is giving me trouble so this is all you get....

On another note, I had another doctors appointment today and everything looks good, heartrate was strong at 155 bpm. Today I am 14 weeks and 3 days along with the peanut and have gained a total of 5 lbs. The first trimester screening came back good and we scheduled our gender ultrasound! They let me schedule it a little early so we can find out before Christmas :-)

Ultrasound pictures

Yesterday I had my first trimester screening which includes an ultrasound. While it is kind of hard to see what is going on in the pictures, it is crazy to see the difference between the last ultrasound we had at 7 weeks and this one. We are still on for a May 14th due date.

This pictures shows the profile view with the baby's hand over his/her nose. The entire time we had the ultrasound the baby was rubbing his/her nose.
Just the plain old profile shot
And a 3D picture for you - you can see the baby's right arm on his/her head and the feet curled up.
Saturday marks the start of the second trimester :-)

Paul's Epic Halloween Costume

This weekend, we ventured up to Boston College to see Clemson lay an egg, but we had a good time nonetheless (I live compound words.) As it was Halloween Eve, people all over the place were dressed up. The only one in our party to do so was Paul. He chose to dress up as Kenny Powers from HBO's Eastbound and Down. He pulled it off pretttttty good. See for yourself.