Photography Keepsakes

It looks like the big event is upon us. At her weekly appointment with the doctor today, Julie found out that she’s progressing along nicely. Dr Sawyer said that he’s going to be in Tucson this weekend for his son’s soccer tournament and that he’d like to deliver the baby before he leaves. He’s afraid that one of his colleagues might see Julie and just decide to do a C-section, which no one wants.

So we’ll be calling the hospital every hour on the hour tomorrow, starting at 11am. We’ll see if they have any room available. If so, we’ll go in, Dr Sawyer will break Julie’s water, and off we go.

I must have seen about 8 or 9 near-term women at the office today. It might be a busy week. Maybe there’s something to that full moon thing. More later, I’m sure.

Well we finally got some rain. After 143 days of dryness, it was more than welcome. It wasn’t just a bit of rain, it was a good soaking. It rained pretty steadily for probably close to 24 hours. A very welcome event.

Check these pictures out. I got them from the AZ Republic, so I can’t take credit. It snowed up in Carefree/North Scottsdale. Apparently they got nearly 4 inches.

Still no baby. Probably soon. More later, no doubt.

Here are a few pictures of some tulips that have come up out in the yard. Tulips in Phoenix — there’s an interesting combination. And at the end of February at that. I wonder how many tulips are up around North America at this point? Probably not many.

Yeah, I’ll take the heat anytime. Of course, some rain would be nice as well. It’s been something close to 132 days since rain. It’s being forecast for tomorrow night. I’m not holding my breath.

Officially, Julie’s not due until March 24, about 4 weeks away. We’re all getting pretty excited for the big event. Abigail and Grace are coming up with all kinds of ideas for names and what not. Julie just told me that Abby’s latest suggestion was Giselle. I’ve also heard Alice, Sabrina, Rosa (in honor of Rosa Parks), and others come up. She’s got quite the imagination and justification for each. We’ll see what it ends up being.

Life has been pretty good. We’ve been pretty low key as we’ve all taken turns getting sick and feeling sorry for ourselves. Pathetic, really. But we’re over it now. Julie ended up hating her sewing/embroidery machine, so we took it back. I got a new digital camera (another Canon). Hopefully I can keep track of this one. Now I just need to get a video machine before the baby comes.

We spent this weekend out at Michael and Alison’s house in Queen Creek (or was it Tucson?). They showed us their new house. It looks pretty sweet. Michael’s tryinig to get me to move out there. There’s one model that’s pretty incredible. But it’s a bit far and a bit much. Who knows what will end up happening. I’ll keep all of my loyal readers updated.

Speaking of updated, here are some new pictures:

Isn’t she lovely? 🙂

All of them. 1 more to add in a few weeks. Amazing.

And, finally, Lucy swatting anything and anyone with the fly swatter. What a nut.

As before, here’s the flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/midder/