Moo

I know it will come as a great shock to you when I tell you Jordan had a volleyball game last night. And this one was waaaaayyyy out there. Like four zip codes away. In Small Town.

Small Town as in everybody was waving at the Captain in his police car.

Small Town as in there was a guy shooting his bow in his front yard.

Small Town as in cows and pony pastures and country things like that.

Small Town as in Connie heard somebody at a store use the words "pork rinds" and "Maw" in the same sentence.

Now, y'all I've got nothing against Small Towns. One day, the Captain wants to live way out in Ruralville like that and have goats in the front yard and all that stuff.

Not me.

I must be within 15 minutes of a Super Target or I will surely die.

I don't do "country". Or Small Town.

Anyway, volleyball calls, so we drove alllllll the way out there. OK, it was only about 25 minutes. Even though it seemed like it was 3 hours.

Then we watched the games.

Then we drove alllllll the way home.

And when we got home I remembered that the Captain had picked me up at work so we could ride out to Small Town together and we forgot to go back by my office and get my car.

Awesome.

So while our dutiful studious kids were doing math sheets and studying for a French II exam, we drove back to my office to get my car.

And thennnnn, we got to Skype with the Captain's sister and BIL and the new BABY GIRL!!!

Kennedy Ryan H.

7 lb. 14 oz

20"

Born at 12:23 pm

Everybody is sweet and little and tiny and precious. And the fact that we could do all that on the computer and see her in Houston, TX was just too much for me. So I cried.

And that sums up my lovely Tuesday night.

The end.

Welcome to our world Molly Kate!

In honor of the world's newest member, today's post will be in PINK!

After a very long day and tough labor, my friend Anne delivered the most precious baby. Molly Kate was born at 6:22 pm and weighed in at a most petite 5 lb, 14 oz. We got to meet her last night. She is beautiful and tiny and precious. Happy Birthday Molly! Welcome to our world!

Snippet of a conversation earlier in the evening while we were at home waiting, just knowing that at that exact minute Anne was working so hard to get Molly here:
Jordan: "I'm so nervous. I'm about to have a cow."
Cooper: "You mean CALF."

I was afraid for awhile yesterday that Cingular was going to cut my phone off because I received and/or sent no less than 200 messages yesterday. I'm sure they thought I was a member of the drug cartel or something. But technology is amazing, and it helped keep a lot of us informed with updates, sometimes exactly when they were happening. Anne's husband didn't want to leave the delivery room, so he would text me some info and I would call the other family members that were in the waiting room. The texting played a pretty key part in the day's events.

It was a long, amazing, and very emotional day.....

Today's Flashback Friday features the precious baby Bloggie Doggie just a day or so after we got him. I think he was about five pounds too!!

I wrapped up week 4 of the push up challenge. Looks like I have to retest this weekend before moving on. I took a peek at what's ahead for week 5. Be very afraid.

Enjoy your Friday. Give a little hip hip hooray for Molly today people!