USMC Mud Run

Here is a link to a few pictures I found of us at the mud run.
Gallery of aaipix -- Favorite
user name is craig, and email address is giarc35@hotmail.com to see the pictures

Trying out blogging from the phone

Karli and Kennedy Race

Karli & Kennedy's bike ride to Windjammer Park

It's been a while since I have done an update...

Karli is now crawling and does that quite well. She also likes to crawl over to anything she can climb up onto to stand. The week she really started to crawl (age 7 months) we also noticed that she got in her bottom two front teeth. We thought she was teething because of the excessive drool, and the pulling at her ear. Other than that I don't recall her being to fussy. She is the best little girl ever!

Allan has a nice 2 seater chariot to pull behind his bike so Friday morning we took a little bike ride out to Windjammer Park a few miles from his house.

Here Karli and Kennedy are ready to get going.

Once we got there it was time to relax, watch the boats go by, and enjoy some lunch

Play on the swings...

Walk on the beach...

And enjoy the ride home.

This was how they were when we pulled back up at Al's house. It almost looks like they are holding hands. Must have been a nice relaxing ride because they were both out.

Karli

I LOVE this picture!

Someday I will write something here, but for now the pictures will have to do.

Busy Weekend!!!

Friday we were at the town house painting and trying to get it ready to rent. This picture was taken close to 2am. Joanna was surprised how much energy she had. I think it was close to 2:30 when we finished for the night and planned to go back Saturday. (I guess at that time it was just later on that day)

Joanna fell asleep when we got home and I made it to bed about 3:30...

About 5:30am Joanna woke me up and said she thought her water might have broken. She was paranoid about it happening in bed, the car, or at work so there were plenty of towels around, and the towels she had in bed were a little wet. We called the Dr., and were told to come on in. So this next picture was just before 7am, with 3 hours of sleep, on the way out the door.
We got to the hospital at 7:30 and they checked and said she definatly was in labor.
They hooked her up to the monitors and we started the waiting game.

The birthing room was massive. It would have made for a much better room when people came to visit. The one we were moved into after the birth was tiny compared to this one.

Joanna's process was slow, so they put her on pitocin to speed things up. They checked her off and on, and around 4 the Dr. said she was at 5 cm, and should increase by 1 cm every 2 hours, that sometime between 12 and 2am she should be ready. I told Al and Ali that there was no need to rush back in so they could get some things done.

We both fell asleep...

I woke up at 6:15 to the Dr saying "Oh, you're ready! Get a table set up this baby is coming."

I called Allan and said I think it's happening now.

Well by 6:45, after about 20 pushes, Karli Jo was born.

The next few pictures need no explanation, She is the cutest baby ever!

I guess they had been pretty busy the week we had Karli, so it wasn't until early AM Sunday that we were moved into our new room. I said we were fine in the birthing room, but I guess they needed it... That's too bad, because we could have used the space when everyone came to visit.

It was mostly standing room only. Aaron kept telling Joanna that she was hogging the bed.