Nursery Surprise

Melissa was out of town for the weekend for a wedding shower, thus I decided to surprise her by painting the nursery. I could not have done it without helpo, though...so I entrusted my co-worker Lisa to 'help' me. Help as in tell me what the heck to do, because I have not painted in a few decades - I was clueless.

Lisa the Leader

We knew what Melissa wanted - pink and brown, separated by a chair rail. However, it was a bit tricky. Lisa came over around 2 and we went to work...buying paint and supplies, prepping the room and finally beginning to paint.

Things went great and we knocked out the nursery in a day!

Melissa was happy and very surprised!

Gender Day 2007

Yes! It is daddy's little girl!!!

On March 12th we had our 2nd ultrasound. We decided we wanted to know if it was a boy or a girl. We also decided that we wanted to celebrate when we found out.

'We' decide that we would have the ultrasound tech write down the gender and put it in an envelope without revealing it to us. 'We' then decided to go to dinner where we would privately and quietly find out whether we were having a boy or a girl.

Little did Melissa know that my wheels were turning. I decided to surprise her with a Gender Party!! When we arrived at the restaurant there was about a dozen friends and family waiting for us. We ate, fellow shipped and opened THE ENVELOPE!!

It was a great night. We took votes before we opened the envelope. The final wotes were 12 voted girl, 10 votes boy - majority rules!-)

We are very excited as we await the arrival of Addison Grace Canney in July or August

Track

I have officially begun my career as a track official. I went through training over the winter and I am now working area high school meets. I enjoy it, and get paid, so it is fun.
Today was my third meet. The other two were good learning experiences, as I was paired with another official. Today the Starter said "you got the high jump." I have never worked the high jump, and I have never had more than a passing glance of a high jump competition. I do not think it took long for the girls to realize I was a newbie. After some warm ups, I got the girls ready and glanced down at the roster of jumpers. My last two were named Mildred and Bertha. Ah...the joys of working with high school kids. I got a good laugh out of it.