Looking large!

Here we are working on decorating Sprout's room late one night. We're getting excited!! I'll put photos up of the room when we get it mostly done!

June 5th-8th, 2008: FUN visitors!!!

so the next weekend, no we didn't go anywhere but even better---we had some great visitors. my mom drove up with my grandpa to Ohio. my grandpa hasn't ever seen where mike and i lived since we've been married b/c it was difficult for them to travel to STL and KC. so we were so fortunate to have them visit. i have so many stories that i need to post. the best thing was talking to my grandpa and hearing stories. i hope it was refreshing to be here since he has had the worst week ever after losing grandma. we wanted to make it relaxing for them. i will write more in a bit about what we did that weekend . . .

sad weekend trip . . .

so what i didn't mention was that on our day on Grant's Farm we found out that my wonderful little grandmother passed away. i'm glad i was with Yoda when we found out. i think it made it easier to be with family. isn't it interesting that she passed away on memorial day, May 26th, 2008? i won't ever have trouble remembering the day. those of you who know me well, know that i was very close to my grandma. it's been hard but we can rejoice that she's in heaven having REAL communion with the Lord. it was hard for her at the end of her life to not be able to attend mass and have communion. sometimes father brought things over to her house but i know that was the hardest part of her illness for her. but i'm sure the REAL communion with the big JC has to be pretty amazing =) i know she's watching out for us up there and will be smiling down when Sprout is born.

so i went home the next weekend for her funeral. we had the memorial service on thursday and the funeral friday. i went home the next day but was sooo thankful my precetor (i'm on peds rotation now) was understanding and told me to take as much time as i needed. my grandma was truly a wonderful person. the hardest part is knowing that my grandpa lost the love of his life. they were married almost 63 years and i can only hope and pray i'm that lucky someday. i think the best thing they had going for them was their faith and love for God and then their love of family.

anyway, just wanted you all to know about my little grandma =)

May 25th-26th, 2008: Memorial Day Weekend in the Lou!!

So moving on to the next weekend . . . we met up with Jodie and Andrew in the Lou (that's St. Louis folks) and Charlotte and Ethan. Mike and I went up after his work on Saturday and stayed til Monday. It was a quick trip but Mike hasn't seen them since Christmas and won't see them again unless we meet halfway again after the baby is born. So that's kind of sad. We had a lot of fun with them though and it definitely gets us excited for our boy! Sunday was spent at the zoo, probably my most favorite place in the world. I LOVE the STL zoo b/c it's huge, fun, and free! So we all had a good time even though it rained while we were there. Monday was spent at Grant's Farm which Mike and I had never been to. Basically it's an outdoor zoo owned by Anheuser-Busch (as is like everything in st louis) but used to be the former President Grant's property. It's where they have the Clydesdales an everything. That was pretty cool and of course, free b/c STL is very family friendly =) We had a blast!!

May 17th, 2008: First Baby Shower!

So I figure I better at least start writing on this thing so that when I post pictures, I won't have to do it all at once. Of course, you'll see in my posts why I haven't written in awhile. It's been a little nutty starting off as SOMA President. There's a lot to do upfront but now its getting better. Plus we were gone soo many weekends! It's been fun but this was my third weekend gone. We had a baby shower at my parents house in Kansas City. My sisters hosted it. Jodie had a cute little cake made for sprout and my mom made my favorite meal, Christmas brunch =) complete with these famous butterscotch monkeybread rolls that we could eat a million of! I had so many friends there who I hadn't seen in awhile. My Alpha Chi friends even went in together on my car seat and baby monitor-that was such a nice surprise!!

Steph and Ethan =)

Kristi Bruce, June Manion, Me, Mom, Steph, Jodie