Watching Football...(Well sort of)

Truett and I tried to take in some of the Oklahoma-Texas game yesterday, looks like he prefers the pro game...

Dr Again

This morning we went to the Dr. for the second day in a row. They have
been concerned with Truett's jaundice so he had to go back and get
more blood drawn.

The good news is thathe weighed in at 6lbs 6ozs yesterday, and was
back up yo 6lbs 8ozs today.

Last night was better, but still pretty rough, I am napping when Reese
does today!

Have a great weekend everyone

Superpower

Truett has already shown us his superpower, urination thru osmosis.

He has done it three times, and every time he gets hardly anything in his diaper, but manages to soak thru 4 layers underneath himself, it is amazing.

Night #2 at home was pretty rough, I am estimating at about 16 hours sleep since Sunday, and Bon is not much further ahead.

Reese is doing great with her little brother.

Grandma Kathy comes in to see Tru-dawg today!

We are home

Truett took his time yesterday to prove to them that all of his
"plumbing" worked, but all is good now, we got home last night at
about 6:30 and night 1 was pretty good. Will post more pics later
today.

Truett is born!

Our beatiful son was born at 1:41pm. Truett Adam was 6lbs 13oz and
20.5 inches long.

Mom was amazing, and pushed for 10 minutes!

What an amazing blessing, to quote George Strait, "I saw God today..."

Water Just Broke!

Moving along, perfect timing on epidural

Epidural is in

Contractions are getting pretty intense, epidural is in place, Bon is a warrior!

Progress

Bon is moving right along, nurses are predicting a late afternoon,
early evening arrival, stay tuned!

Sleeping

Bon is asleep now, baby is doing great

Good news

Bon has actually made some progress on her own! She is dilated about
2cm on her own, so they are going to go ahead and go with Pitocin
(spelling?)

Stay tuned...

Point of Destination

We are in the birthing suite, getting ready to get the party started,
I am a little anxious, not going to lie...

It Begins

We are up and at 'em getting ready to head to the hospital.

Is it a coincidence that the Bears had a blowout win yesterday in
honor of our new baby? I don't think so...

Rock on Sarah

Sarah Baracuda started shaky, but finished out pretty strong. My beefs are that she seemed really nervous early, and missed a couple of huge opportunities in my opinion to bury some serious schmak!

She could have referred to the legislation that created predatory lending, but absolutely loved the personal responsibility comment, preach that over and over! The Biden rhetoric after that is simply not true when you reference non-partisan fact checking websites.



Big shout out to my man Jon Andrews, who now has his blog linked here to the left of Heat Stadium! There are just certain people you click with, and there is no doubt in my mind that if Jon and I lived in the same city we would be hanging out a TON!

Oh yeah, we are heading to the hospital on Monday morning at 5am to be induced! The laptop will be in tow, so Heat Stadium will have all of the latest updates and pics of the birth. Thanks for the idea Jon and Alison!

We will be a family of 4 in a few days...

Oh, and the video below that was pulled off Youtube, has been replaced, hmm, wonder why it was pulled, check this out:

Still waiting

No baby, lots of stories and pics to share about Ike damage, been a crazy couple of weeks. This political mess is consuming me right now, check out this great video T-Bone sent me:

Never Forget

I was sitting in the Bengals ticket office when Kevin walked in and told us that something had hit the twin towers, and they thought it was two planes. We proceeded to the lounge and watched as the horror unfolded.

Bon was teaching at Lebanon and had to manage the process of delivering this information to 8th graders...

I left work really early and met Bon back at the apartment in Landen. We stayed up the entire night watching coverage, and kept wondering, what is next? How has our world changed?

Mixed emotional bag today, Jum has a deployment ceremony today for his second tour. Would he be in the Army right now if this event doesn't occur?

Thank you to all who make this the most amazing country in the world.

Watching this video takes on a little more meaning after having an opportunity to visit the site in July.

New Pics

I finally downloaded a couple of months worth of pics from the camera last night.

Here are some of my favorites:


Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books


Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books


Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books


Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books


Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books


Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books

McCain

OK, his speech didn't move me.

As fired up as I was about Sarah's speech, he brought me back to the same old, blah, blah, blah...

He is a hero, I get it, but some of the ideas he threw out last night still have me scratching my head. (I still have a big issue with his stance on immigration)

The comment about paying people the difference in what they used to make to what they make while getting new job training at a community college? Huh?

So if I get whacked at the Enquirer, decide to go to community college, and take a job at Walmart as a greeter, John McCain wants to pay me the difference!!! Hmmm, sounds like some kind of expanded welfare program.

No thanks John, I think most Americans have the capacity to pick themselves up and turn themselves around without sapping more money from the national debt.

(This is the clip)

I am in political "love"...

Bon and I had the pleasure of watching Sarah's speech last night together, wow.

(In this clip you will see her youngest daughter lick her hand and fix the babies hair, absolutely awesome)

She is not immersed in Washington crap, and spits truth, welcome to the new leader of the Republican party

In case you missed it...

4 Horsemen

Check out this pic from when Jum was home, one of my favorite of all time...

4 Day Weekend

As I wrap up a great 4 day weekend with my girls, I have had some time to really dive into the race again. Sarah Palin has me completely rejuvenated!

I have found my policy clone in Palin. As I continue to research, I can honestly tell you that I agree 100% with all of her stances on issues. I love how she has rebelled against other Republicans, and has truly lived out the McCain "maverick" matra.

While I am Republican by default, I disagree with most of the Democratic platform, I also do not believe in blindly following a party when they are wrong.

Bush's tax cuts were great, but tax cuts only work when you cut spending too! Revolutionary I know. Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, and a Democrat, actually followed that formula and his state is thriving! My girl Sarah has done that as well in Alaska. She has fought big oil, turned money away from Congress when it made no sense, and has completely revitalized ethic reform in her state.

This is fair warning, you are going to see mass Palin love on Heat Stadium and in my day to day.

And while I disagree with all of Obama's policies, I must also give props when it is due. I had already planned to post his "I don't want them punished with a baby" piece when talking about his daughters and the possibility of teen pregnancy. Then I logged on to politico.com, which is a great non-partisan site for news on government matters., and found the following reaction from Obama when news of Sarah Palin's 17 year old daughter's pregnancy broke:

Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown reports: At a press avail in Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama on Palin: "Back off these kinds of stories."

"I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits," Obama said. "And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics."

Well done Barrack.

I just applauded two "lefties" in one post, what the heck is going on...