7/9/10 - Weekend Time!

It’s the weekend, and I couldn’t be happier! This has been a long week…I think every week until baby gets here will be a long week though! Work has been going really well though. Working at home part time has really been helping. I feel like I get some good, solid “rest” time, even though I still get my work done. It’s been nice getting away from the chaos of my work environment! Our plans for this weekend are slowly fading away, which is actually really great. I’m hoping that means we can get some baby stuff done, get a few things done around the house and get some quality family time in. We’ll see what happens! My goal is to make a dent in the baby stuff…get the car seat base installed, get the bassinet and swing out of “storage” and up where they need to go, and oh, I don’t know…pick a name!! We could probably take bets on if this will actually get done…and by the way things are going, it’s a pretty safe bet that not much, if anything, will actually get done! Only time will tell…

Tonight I did escape the house for a little while. Today was Aleena’s birthday. Aleena is the reason we started doing the Relay for Life…today would have been her 14th birthday. Every year on her birthday her family and family friends get together to launch purple balloons (her favorite color) and sing happy birthday to her. It’s a very touching thing, and I’m so happy to be a part of it every year. Olivia on the other hand was completely rude and refused to let go of her balloon…but I did kind of expect that. Maybe next year she’ll grasp the concept a little better! Here are a couple pics from the event…