Spring Cleaning...sort of

Sarah and I have been planning to clean the garage for a long time, a very, very long time, such a long time, it was close to when we first moved in. Garage = Nightmare. That is a pretty simple statement to give you a clue as to the current state of our garage. My Mom (Judy) has been reminding us to clean it ever since she nominated herself as our interior decorator. Thankfully, she has done an incredible job with decorating our house and motivating us to do more even while she isn't here cracking the whip! ;-) We will say more when we finally get some photos of the living room, dining room, kitchen and nursery together. On a side note, the photos are on hold since the Memory Stick for my little digital camera decided to die. Anyways, we spent our Memorial Day cleaning our garage the best we could with the ridiculous heat and amount of stuff we've collected over the years. Goodwill was the lucky recipient to a Suburbanful of things that are still useful to people other than us. Unfortunately, we had other things that had hit their end-of-life and were placed in the back of my truck to get shipped off to the local trash collection joint when they open at 7:30am tomorrow morning. One day, hopefully before our wonderful baby arrives, we will have it cleaned up and might even post some photos of our victory over the evil garage......bwahahahahahahaha!!!

Baby Update

We are now into our weekly doctor's visits for our baby. It is getting more and more exciting every week as Sarah's body keeps changing. Unfortunately, she is still sick daily which is definitely not a highlight of the pregnancy but we are really enjoying the bonding that has taken place between us and between us and her belly. ;-) It is exciting (and nauseating for Sarah) to feel the movement of the baby as it gets ready to make its entrance to the world! If you click on the title "Baby Update" above, it links to a .wav of our baby's heartbeat that I recorded with my iPod and iTalk during Tues' doctor's visit. Maybe in another post, I will tell you why the baby's hearbeat sounds different from ours....

BBQ at the ClubHouse

We had a wonderful BBQ at the Capri Clubhouse this afternoon. It started at 2:30pm and went up until our reservation ran out at 6:00pm. There was approximately 30 friends and coworkers that showed up for burger, hot dogs, baked beans, artichoke spinach dip, deviled eggs, soda, water, beer and tons of chips. Our idea was to invite a bunch of friends and coworkers, both past and present and maybe future, so everyone could see Sarah's wonderfully pregnant belly and give her a hug! She needs it since it has been such a rough, vomitous pregancy.

Someone at the party thought it would be fun to guess the baby's sex, due date, weight and length. It's kind of funny to have so many people guessing about the sex of our baby when we are whole plan is to be surprised when it "pops" out. :-) Everyone has a 50% chance on that one...

• Becky Hamilton - Boy - June 18 - 8lb 1oz - 29in
• Marshall Pierce - Boy - June 7 6am - 8lb 10oz - 28in
• Ben & Jeanne Beach - Boy - June 16 - 8lb 4oz - 22in
• Susan Christophy - Girl - June 10 - 7lb 8oz - 24in
• John Carmean - Boy - June 3 - 8lb - 23in
• Dan Christophy - Boy - May 27 - 7lb 1oz - 21in
• Jaime Wiens - Boy - June 14 - 9lb 2oz - 26in
• Carol & Curt Franklin - Girl - June 21 - 7lb 9oz - 23in
• Daniel Franklin - Boy - June 17 - 8lb 9oz - 21in
• Kathy Bergsma - Girl - June 19 - 7lb 14oz - 21.5in
• Amy Whitworth - Boy - June 21 - 7lb 12oz - 20.75in
  

Some funny guesses there...we will know soon!! It is a very exciting time for both, Sarah and I, plus our awesomely supportive families. Thanks to everyone who came to our BBQ. We look forward to having another one in 4-5 months where everyone can come see our new baby.

May 03, 2005 - Alachua County Public School's All-County Honors Chorus videos are available

This is a little content from a static page that I had setup first. The Honors Chorus was really cool and exciting to see so many kids singing together in the University of Florida Music Auditorium. It is a truly beautiful setting to have a concert where approximately 120 kids came together to sing songs together that they had only practiced in groups of 8-10. Take a look at the video, I hope you enjoy it. Sarah had 8 girls that participated from Littlewood and they were wonderful. Congratulations on a great job!!

There are three versions of the video available:
High Quality (meaning you need a fast internet connection) - 388 MB
Medium Quality (you still need a decently fast internet connection) - 98 MB
Low Quality (this would take a long time on a modem) - 30 MB

First Post

Blogger.com rocks! Movable Type was nice and all but the fact that they moved to a pricing model and there were only hacks available to stop SPAM, Blogger.com just won out as the best option for us. :-) So, here we are!