Say hello to the latest member of the family...

It's a GIRL! Here's her first close up at 19 weeks.

Too Cool...

I'm in Miami for work and on the way to the hotel from the airport, I noticed a slew of banners advertising a Food Network Wine and Food event going on in Miami. I was bummed because with everything we had to do, I figured there wouldn't be any time to check it out.

Well, wouldn't you know it, it's at the same hotel that the conference I'm working on is located. I walk in the lobby and spot Guy Fieri, of Diners, Drive-In's and Dives fame and on my way to the beach, I run into Paula Deen and I HAD to take a picture with her. She is just the cutest person and her personality on air is the same as off the air. I was too excited! Here I was bummed because I thought I wouldn't get to enjoy any of that event, but I got an even better experience than going to the actual event.

2008...

1936-2007



It was a rocky start to the new year with the unexpected passing of Chris' dad around the new year. He was an amazing person and he is definitely missed by all of us.

For those of you who don't know, we have something big coming in the summer of 2008............A BABY! I'm currently 4 months along and so far everything has been going well and God-willing will continue to go well. On March 10th we will find out what we are having (assuming the baby decides to cooperate), so if we find out I'll make sure to post it.

Chris and I want to thank all of you who had us in their prayers during that tough time and thank you for being there for us.

I'm going to try to keep this site updated regularly with upcoming baby news.

Thanksgiving...family style.

Needless to say, we had a GREAT Thanksgiving. It was full house - Mom, Dad, Sean, Tio Jose, Richard, and Yaya (aka Grandma) - all under one roof. Mom and Yaya did a fabulous job decorating the table, while Chris and I cooked up a storm and Dad, Tio and Richard yelled at the TV downstairs. This year Chris wanted to forgo the standard Turkey and make a Turducken. For those of you who are scratching your heads asking yourselves "what the heck is that" - the explanation is as strange as the name. It's a partially deboned turkey, that's been stuffed with a partially deboned duck, which has been stuffed with a whole chicken that has been stuffed with stuffing. Whew, that was chore just explaining it.

We had a little competition that whoever had the pumpkin sticker on the inside of their place card would get the wishbone...well, there wasn't one, so Richard and Yaya got creative and our decorations suffered a casualty. Richard won...he won the JINGLE PIG. It was hilarious, if you pull on it's tail it squeals and it also snorts jingle bells. Quite the prize!

We just loved having everybody here, hopefully we can have even more family join in the fun next time.

Too long...

Russell with his FAVORITE toy.


It's been too long since I've posted anything. Chris and I have been working a lot and for me that means A LOT of travel. Luckily next week is my last trip until January '08.

Fall is finally here and we are so excited that we are having Thanksgiving at our house this year!! We can't wait to have a full house of family...it's going to be a blast.

Our Garden

I am sooo proud of our garden. It's actually doing pretty well, considering it's over 100 degrees outside. We've even managed to grow tomatoes...too cool. Here are some pics of it...

Congratulations to Chris!!!

Chris was promoted today to Captain on the fire department. I couldn't be happier for him, he is living his dream and that's awesome!