My Patriotic Baby

Hello,

Well it has been a little while since I last wrote but I am excited to get caught up.

Above is a picture of a pregnant Laura on 9/11/11 in Grand Rapids at a memorial of the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. There were 3,000 flags on a snow skiing hill that had a flag to remember everyone who died in the September attacks along with a short biography. Laura sometimes has to drag me to things but I always appreciate the experience...everytime. She definitely exposes me to things that normally I wouldn't think I would care for and I appreciate her for that.

We got a great bit of news this week. We found some help with Laura's insurance through December and are so very grateful for it.

We have also had great news with friends that have just had thier third child. Brian (the best man in my wedding) and Mandy his wife, have been great friends and we are very excited for thier blessing. In true Brian fashion he told of driving his wife to the hospital and getting pulled over. After telling the cop "water broke...contractions 3 minutes apart" the cop told him to be safe. At this point in the story, a thought flashed through my mind...

How much further along than Laura was Mandy? A few weeks...OMG!!! It hit me that we are getting close. Seems like we have been so focused on trying to get a few things locked down like housing, insurance and other stuff that it never sunk in fully. Well Laura moves up at the end of the month, we have a bazillion things to still get done but its fun to know how much closer we are than I have even realized. I'm sure the next couple weeks will be crazy with work, finding housing and generally getting ready. Quite a journey. Have a great week!