3/4/11 – YAY for ROUND 2

Well, thanks to our amazing friends and family, Amelia has made it through to ROUND 2 (of 3) of the cutest baby contest!! We are so excited, and VERY appreciate of everybody’s votes in Round 1! Now, we REALLY need your help. She is one of 100 in the contest now, and we again need to get as many votes as possible. The top 25 will move on to the final round of voting. Vote today, tomorrow and Sunday. Remember, you can vote with every e-mail address you have, each day, so please do!If you haven’t voted yet, you will have to register. It’s annoying, but it keeps the cheating to a minimum. When registering, you don’t have to provide your address, you can use a fake phone number (I do) and you can select no to each marketing option. You will also have to verify your e-mail address(es), which is pretty simple. If you have voted, you shouldn’t have to do any of that again. So, super easy! CLICK HERE for the the direct link to Amelia’s picture. If I didn’t mention the first time, if she were to win the contest, she’d get $1,000 and a free photography session. We’d love to put this money in her account for the future! Thanks so much for all of your help.

In other news…it was a very busy evening for us. I left work a tad early, stopped at Target quick to buy a “welcome baby” gift, stopped home to get the girls dressed and loaded into the car, then was off to meet Christian at the hospital. Our friends Kelly & Nixon welcomed their little boy, Niko, today and we were all so excited to go meet him! Olivia didn’t really care too much…I think she was pretty bummed that Meeka wasn’t there! Amelia seemed quite jealous while I was holding the baby…but I think she was also just annoyed because she wanted to get down and move around. Christian had to leave shortly after we arrived because his work was hosting their “Holiday Dinner” tonight. I spent a little time catching up and cuddling baby Niko, then was on my way home as well. I picked up some dinner for Olivia and myself; we ate, fed Amelia, took our baths and were off to bed. It’s always a little stressful doing the whole routine myself, but we got it done. Once the girls were in bed, I crashed on the couch for a while. Christian ended up home much earlier than I expected…I was still awake and everything! Not for long though, I’m just no party animal these days!

Here is a [semi-creepy] night vision picture of what I get to wake up to every day. I’m beyond lucky!