Light Reading

Our nightly schedule consists of (5pm) Ashley coming home, making dinner, and cleaning; (6:15pm) Bryan coming home, eating the yummy food, and watching Family Guy; (7pm) catching season finales such as Grey's Anatomy or Lost; (8pm) cleaning up the kitchen; (9pm) reading in bed.

Bryan's current book: Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems (by dog enthusiast Cesar Milan). Cesar takes his pack of 40 dogs on a 4 hour walk each morning! Bryan and Shadow walked this morning around the block...for 30 minutes.

Ashley's current book:
Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs (by Christian writer and speaker Emerson Eggerichs)

Once we finish these books, we'll switch them with each other.

Darryl's Wedding

My brother got married in Boston over Memorial Day weekend. My mother, uncle Phil, aunt Kay and myself flew out for the wedding. Ashley was grounded due to the baby. We all had a great time at the wedding and in Boston seeing some sites.

Darryl and Nicole had an outside wedding. The backdrop was the skyline of Boston. I would imagine the photos turned out great as their photographer (Wayne) seemed to be top of the line. He even broke out some dance moves to Thriller. You can check out Wayne's website and see for yourself.

Rummage Sale

This weekend we had a neighborhood rummage sale or garage sale. Friday Ashley did a great job of selling. Today we finally broke even after our garage sale finds. Check out our spoils.



Here is another of our spoils. One of our neighbors
gave us two bags of baby clothes. Her girls didn't need them, and she just wanted them gone.

A little scare leads to elevators and more orange juice

I love Anne and Patti (my OB and her nurse). In fact, I got to see them yesterday.

Yesterday morning, I did my normal routine of eating breakfast in bed, listening with Bryan to our morning radio, showering, and driving 8 minutes to work.

The stairs did it to me...after climbing 3 flights of stairs (as usual), I got really REALLY hot and had to sit down. I felt dizzy--like I was going to pass out--so I put my head down on my desk. After a few minutes I felt better, but not 100%; I called the OB office, and Patti advised me to come in that day for my bi-monthly appt.

Blood pressure was low: 100/60. And this was after I felt better!
Baby's heartbeat is fine.

Anne contributed the drop in blood pressure due to the weather shift (change in barometric pressure), climbing 3 flights of stairs, and not getting enough sugary-liquid. She thinks we're fine...no need for concern.

33 Weeks

Here is Ashley on Wednesday...33 weeks along. As of tomorrow (Sunday), she will hit the 34 week mark. We hit some yard sales this morning. Ashley bought a pair of maternity shorts and a tank top. Bryan bought a yellow sleep sack for our angel. Shadow stayed by dad and watched the birds.

6am Activity

Where were you at 6am?

Bryan and I are usually sleeping...but the chirping birds and sunlight lured us to get out of bed and take a lovely walk in our neighborhood. The baby loved it! (Shadow enjoyed herself, too).

Out with the old

and in with the new. Yes, I finally purchased a new cell phone. My trusty steed of 6 years has officially been retired. Ashley's trusty phone of three years has also been replaced.


We now have two snazzy new phones to try and figure out how to turn on and use.



Todd will be so proud to see I have made another step into the digital age. Now only if I could figure out what a text is?...

Cornflake Cookies

Unlike many cafeterias, my high school cafeteria had the most delicious food! Besides the infamous hot buttered rolls, the cooks made this wonderful recepie on a number of occasions. (My brother Jimmy loves this recepie, too).

Cornflake Cookies
1 cup sugar
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup white karo syrup
5-6 cups cornflakes.

*Bring sugar, peanut butter and syrup to a boil, stirring frequently.
*Remove from heat. Add cornflakes while stirring.

Either drop cornflake batter by the spoonful onto wax paper or dump the batter in a 9x13 glass pan. Let cool. Eat and enjoy!

Bryan, Our Cookie Monster

Bryan is such a hottie. He makes me want to drool.

He makes Shadow drool, too (or is that the cookie?).

Thank you to Nicky and Darryl for the bib and little Red Sox's jersey. Our baby will love it!