ything I have ever wanted and more. I wish everyone the happiness that I have in my life.

8/29/2009 6:15:24 PM: Little Connor was born Saturday at 7:10 PM after 10 hours of labor. He was 8 pounds, 2 ounces and 21 inches long. He has strawberry blonde hair and steel blue eyes which daddy and I are both betting will turn brown like his dad's. Only time will tell there. He came out beautiful and perfect. He is a sweet little baby and rarely cries except when he is overly tired or hungry or getting his diaper changed. He seems to hate that. Bob was amazing during the labor. He was supportive and wonderful as always. And seeing the tears in his eyes when his son was born was enough to make me cry. I love seeing him holding him in the rocking chair or changing his diaper. There is such a look of love that it chokes me up every time. Bob also proposed on Saturday. Of course I said yes! All in all, even with the pain of labor and the stay in the hospital it was an amazing weekend! 
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8/17/2009 1:01:00 PM: Quick update to the journal: Connor is due the 3rd of September, but it looks like he will be an August baby after all. The doctor has decided that if he has not arrived on his own by Saturday August 29th, he is going to induce labor that morning. I am definitely more than ok with that! Only 8 more days at most until I have the munchkin. And I get to make sure I make it to the hospital in time for an epidural. Win/win! We are almost ready for the little one. The only major things we still want/need are a pack and play for upstairs so he has a place to sleep and I would absolutely love a glider rocker. Not a necessity, but a definite desire! There are some little things we need like a pump so I can leave the little one at home with Bob if I need to go out for anything on my own. 
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7/25/2009 7:14:01 PM: Things have been very busy since I moved. I haven't spent as much time online as I used to, even though I am not working at the moment. I've been spending a lot more of my down time with Bob or the family. Things have been slowly but surely coming together with the house. I haven't been in a hurry, and I am sure no matter how much we buy there will always be something else I think we need or want to add. It's funny, but this feels so much more like home than my house in San Antonio felt. I think that is mainly because Bob is here too. I don't dread coming home. I don't dread him coming home. It is a very wonderful thing. We have about 5 more weeks until the baby is due. I am looking forward to being able to sleep normally again, even if it means waking up every few hours to feed the munchkin. I am definitely ready for the heartburn and aching hips and throwing up to go away. It isn't a constant or even every day thing, but I have kept the morning sickness throughout the entire pregnancy. Definitely not fun. 
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5/12/2009 8:32:10 PM: Talk about busy. Life has been very hectic the last couple of weeks. I am very happily in Pennsylvania now though. Bob flew into SA on the 6th. It was so amazing to see him again, but I was also stressing because I was nowhere near done with the packing. So I didn't get to spend nearly as much time with him as I wanted to. But it was heaven getting to sleep in his arms again. The trip itself was long and tiring. We left around noon on Friday the 8th after Bob and the boys loaded the truck. We drove til we got tired and spent that night in a hotel in Arkansas. The next night we drove straight through until my eyes started to lose focus. We ended up grabbing a few hours sleep at a rest area in Ohio and got to the house about 8 am on Sunday. Even though we were happy to get to the house on Sunday things were tough. We were all tired and there were extenuating circumstances that caused additional stress and worry. Thank goodness we worked through that though and slowly but surely we are getting things unpacked and getting settled in. There is so much to do, but at least we are not under the same time constraints as we were when we were packing. I will be very relieved though when I get to the bottom of that last box! At the rate I am going that may be a little while though. Bob has been amazing through it all. It is so incredibly wonderful to be able to wake up to his face every morning (usually as he is coming home from work). To feel his arms around me at night. To be able to walk downstairs and put my arms around him and kiss him just because I want to. To go grocery shopping together or to the club or to run errands. It is also so wonderful to know that this is only the beginning. We have so much to look forward to doing together. I love you darling. You mean more to me than you could ever know. 
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4/27/2009 4:08:49 PM: Wow, only 5 days til Bob flies into San Antonio and 7 days until we load the U-haul and head east. I got a bunch more boxes today. I am hoping they will finish the job. We are having a garage sale tomorrow with all the stuff we don't want to move that was too good to throw away. Unfortunately, I haven't finished the bedrooms yet, so I know there is stuff in them that should be in the garage sale, but it will just have to be dropped off at Goodwill or something. We finally got all the aluminum cans over to the recycle center and earned a whopping 24 dollars for them. Every little bit helps though. And that is one less thing cluttering my garage. I am so excited, but also feeling quite a bit of stress to get everything done before next Friday. My last day at work is Monday morning from 1 am to 6 am. It will give me a lot more time to focus on the packing once I don't have to stop and head into work anymore. I just hope it is enough time. I know that once I get off at 2 this morning I will be working on getting everything organized for the garage sale in the morning. It's a lot of work, but I know that when we are pulling into our driveway in Pennsylvania it will all have been worth it. And the unpacking will be so much more fun than the packing has been! And a lot less stressful since I won't have to rush quite so much!