Breaking the News

We took a quick trip home on Wednesday to celebrate Father's Day with Larry and Big Rog and to break the good news to our unsuspecting parents.

Since it's been a while for Rog's parents and Larry and since Mom's a rookie grandma, we decided to get them all grandparent books to break the news. Larry's was more of a "how to" guide to share with Mom while the other ones were more story books.

At first, I think they were a little confused until Larry read the title of his book out loud ...and then the light bulbs all went off at the same time. Needless to say they were pretty excited. And starngely enough, after we established the due date and shared ultrasound pictures, they all read their books.

Everyone but me then downed a bottle of wine before dinner to celebrate, then we had to invite the aunts over and call Grandpa to share the news.

Five million questions and equally as many horrendous name suggestions later, everyone was amazed that I hadn't been sick once... Especially considering that the baby was with us during our tequila-soaked week in Mexico, the Memphis trip, a visit to The Pub and a Jimmy Buffett concert!

For those truly keeping track at home, we're 12 weeks and due Jan. 11. Keep your fingers crossed that this January isn't as snowy as last year!

Still a little perplexed at this point...

Excitement, and a few tears from all four

Reading their new books

For Those of You Keeping Score at Home...

It seems that many posts on the blogs I follow have been surrounding various people at all stages of "babydom" of late. And since I'm not good with numbers, as in the number of weeks, I had to break it all down by the parents' names, baby name(s) and the month the new arrivals are expected.
Makes things much easier...

Becky and Cort - Knuckles - July
Lori and Paul - Liam - August
Sarah and Mike - Isabella - August
Erica and Jon - TBA and TBA - August
Jackie and Snahel - TBA - September
Val and Rich - Isabelle - October
Heather and Rog - TBA - January
Heather M. and Jim - TBA - January

Race for the Cure

Saturday marked the 10th anniversary of Race for the Cure in St. Louis. Erica is the director of PR for the local Komen affiliate, and had doctor's permission to be at the big event - which had to be an awesome feeling. This year's race set the record for participants with around 69,000 and raised the highest total yet, $3.3 million for breast cancer research!

A few friends and I registered but couldn't make it yesterday morning, but showed our support in other ways. At the risk of sounding like a Cubs fan, wait until next year! Even though our group was abscent, looks like most of the others made it. Here's a pretty cool shot from the P-D of the 08 race.

Father's Day (Greyhound) Festival

Trying to get the schedules of the "dads" in our lives to coordinate with ours is never simple. So it was no surprise that we stayed home for Father's Day on the calendar. We are planning to go home on Wednesday for a BBQ with both sets of parents, which is always nice.

Dream's rescue group was stuck holding their largest fundraiser fo the year, the annual festival, on Father's Day. The park was overbooked for our usual weekend and the calendar was already pretty full.

Lots of hounds and families just hanging out enjoying a brutal St. Louis summer day. This year's auction and silent auction items weren't anything spectacular, so we took a portion of the money we'd alotted for those items and put it towards 50/50 ... and we won!!!!

In the true spirit of the day being a fundriaser, we donated our winnings back to the hounds. A portion of which went to an authentic racing silk, like the one Dream wore back in the day. She was not too happy to say the least when we put it on for a picture!

And if anyone has been watching the news, no need to panic since we live on the Missoui River side of St. Charles County - not the Mississippi side so we're in the clear.

What a Slacker!

Two posts in 20 days ... now that's impressive. I've just been partially lazy and the other part busy. And leaving the camera downstairs in the kitchen doesn't help either!

Hope to have lots to post this week when I get it in gear!

My cousin is getting married Aug. 2 in Arlington Heights. Who'll be around that weekend? We're thinking of making it a long one...

Two Times the Shower

Let the games begin ... baby shower numero uno, and dos if we go strictly by the number of babies involved, done.

This weekend's field trip took me across the river into Illinois for Erica's twin shower. It's unbelievalbe how many diapers, wipes and clothes she already has from another shower ... and that those thousands of diapers and wipes will only last about 2 months!!

Erica has been on what I consider to be a glorified house arrest for the last 3-4 weeks since the boy is not growing quite as quickly as the girl. She can work from home, but has been advised to keep outside trips to a minimum. All I can say is - if I ever have 2 kids in me, I hope I look as good as she does for 7 months!

Since we hadn't seen her for a while, Jackie B. and Erica's co-worker Carla and I went to have a slumber party at her house on Friday. Rather than renting the movie, we decided she was definitely well enough to head out to see Sex and the City with us and grab some Mexican on our way. And by the way, the movie was awesome!

After getting back to her house that night, around 11, she broke out the Wii and kept us up until 1:45! And she woke up early the next morning. I think I'm the one needing bed rest now.

Dog Days of Summer

Naturally, for one of the first greyhound events of the summer, the "Dog Days of Summer," we hit the 90 degree mark for the first time last weeekend.

Initially, Dream and I were going to staff the Rescued Racers booth for a few hours mid-day and have Rog meet us for lunch. A lot of the restaurants in the old town area of St. Charles were opening their patios to the dogs that day so it was kinda cool.

Since it was soooo hot, Dream stayed home with Rog for a while and came out around 2. Our group was geting a bunch of dogs from K.C. later that afternoon, but the details were a little sketchy. Long story short, I (along with Dream) got roped into hanging out at the booth until 5. She's a wierdo sometimes and refuses to lay down or drink water in public so Rog ended up taking her home at 4 so she wouldn't get too overheated.

While I was fielding questions and raking in the cash for the hounds, I got talked in

to taking one of our fosters who was staying in a house that's AC got hit by lightening the night before. Far be it from me to say no ... so we had Jake for "a day or two." Which actually ran until Thursday.

He was a wonderful guy, he's 10 and didn't do the stairs so just hung out on the lower level the whole time. Besides being old, he's MASSIVE - 92 pounds! Needless to say, Dream didn't try to bully him. The only issue we had with him was quite gross. Sparing the horrific details, we went to dinner and came home to find projectile (fill in the blank) in our foyer. From a huge dog....

Roger at that point said no more four-legged guests.