Bring It On!

The Swamp!

OH YES! It is that time of year again, College Football Season! Living in a state surronded by obnoxious fans (OSU fans...seriously you play Youngstown State) Ok I will back off, UF plays the Citadel later in the season. Still, I am out of my element not being surronded by my beloved Gator fans, so in order to tune out the other teams, my car and wardrobe are Gator crazy! The Gators start their season Saturday at 1230pm in the Swamp where they will take on Hawaii. The team who played UGA in a bowl game last year. Predictions are for a Gator victory 49-21 but its not over till 00:00 is on the clock. Unfortunately, the game is not televised all the way up here is Ohio, so I will be checking web updates and looking for ESPN halftime coverage to see how UF is doing in their home opener.

Adam and I were planning to go down to FL for the opener and a couple other games this year, but our work schedules changed... which reminds me this is Adam's kick-off weekend for WSU volleyball. They have their first road trip this weekend, a tourney in Cincy, and next week they are off to Albany. So I am a single woman on the weekends for the next couple months...jk haha! I think baby furniture will be the next project to tackle while Adam is on the road, protecting and saving the lives of the WSU volleyball team... it cant be that bad watching 20 year olds run around in spandex... I played vball... I know why my HS team had a great turnout for games :-) haha! Alright thats my cue, the phone ringing, back to work.

Have a great Friday and Labor Day weekend!

Go Gators!

25 weeks and going strong

This morning I had my doctor's appointment for 25 weeks prego! I will go back in four more weeks to do the glucose screening test to check for gestational diabetes and my 29 week checkup. The doctor said everything looks perfect, my blood pressure, measurements, heart rate, my weight (omg lets not go there hehe) etc. Adam went with me, and we got to hear the heartbeat. It was 144bpm, which is right smack in the middle of the "safe zone" for babies in the womb. We are so excited that baby Horseman is only 15 weeks away!

Fun Fact: at this point in pregnancy my uterus is the size of a volleyball or soccerball and measures 25cm in diameter! Cool! No wonder my stomach feels squished, haha :-)

Plumbing... How hard can it be?

Oh yes another adventure for the Horseman's. Adam decided it would be a great idea to hook up our ice maker to the house water supply from the crawl space, really how hard could it be? He did some research (asked the guy at Lowes) and was ready to go. So Monday evening he drilled a hole through the floor into the crawl space and pulled the water line through to hook up to the house supply down below. Off to the crawl space, the had all of his materials (we thought) and successfully punctured a hole in the pipe and presto, water connected right? WRONG! My darling hubby in the heat of the momment forgot the washer that seals the contraption onto the existing pipe so there is no leaking and a tight enough seal to pressurize the water hose enough to bring water into the ice maker. OOPS! well back to the crawl space (this time with the water off) he tried to put the washer on and puncture the SAME hole, oops, now there are 2 holes in the pipe.

At this point I have now called my Dad in FL, whos advice was priceless "you know it costs like $50 bucks to have someone do this for you" and the refrigerator manufacturer who also advised professional assistance. By now, Adam's Dad was over to watch the entertainment. Now Adam and I go into the crawl space (yes nearly 6mos prego and in the crawl space haha) we managed to cover both holes with the fitting and left it overnight with a small trickle leak and the ice maker started to work. AWESOME.

Tuesday evening:
The ice maker has made about 6 ice cubes at this point. Adam and Jason F. venture to the crawl space to fix the leak with "Hard as Steel" Plumbers Putty. 1.5 hrs later they realized this isnt working. Adam and I hit up Lowes, where the Plumbing dept guy, Justin, tells us exactly what we need and how to fix it (yes after 10 min of loitering in the aisle, he came over and gave us a live demonstration) The big thing here is we had to CUT pipe! oh uh, thats permanent! So we cover ourselves by buying 30$ worth of equipment just in case... We end up cutting a 1-2 in section of pipe out, use a nifty coupler (no sodering) and presto!

We get home about 8 oclock and not 10 minutes later we are completely fixed, good as new and on the way back to Lowes to return all the unused supplies. What an adventure! PS the ice maker is history until we make friends with a plumber :)

I must praise Adam for having the do it yourself homeowner initiative to do this project and for not giving up until the problem was fixed. :)

Dinner a Movie and a groundhog

This weekend Adam and I grabbed some dinner at El Toro (the new one in Beavercreek) it was really good, I totally recommend it. Then we went to see Tropic Thunder, the new movie with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. and a surprise Tom Cruise roll. Before the movie, I bought one of the kids pack popcorn deals. You get a small drink, kid pack candy and a handfull of popcorn, it was just enough. However, the only straws they had were the one for the $7 super XXL drinks, sooo I had a 3 ft straw for my small kids meal 10oz diet coke...OMG it was the funniest sight ever! I thought I was going to poke my eye out. I didnt even have to move the cup when i was thirsty, the straw was already BAM in my face. Ok this may not seem too funny, but I was rolling, almost in tears, for some reason I thought the straw to cup ratio was hilarious.

As far as Tropic Thunder goes, it was awesome! The movie was hilarious and just that hilarious, no weird sentimental twist just funny! I loved it, Tom Cruise was almost unrecognizable, he definetly got to let loose and just have fun! I recommend for anyone who wants a good belly laugh :)

Now the groundhog. So on Saturday, as Adam was down in the crawl space, checking things out, the dogs started going NUTS at the door, I walked over to tell them to hush. I opened the door and they were off to the races. I look into the yard and see a 15lb groundhog watching me about 15 yards off the patio. OMG, the thing doesnt even move when the dogs barrell towards it, the groundhog was ready to fight! Sidebar, ok so what a ground hog, well they have sharp teeth and long claws and can really tear up a dogs snout. So I start yelling "Mellow, Mongo, no , come here , Adam " Mellow grabs the animal in her mouth, meanwhile it manages to get a scratch towards one of the dogs, mellow drops it and it scurries off about 10 ft and then faces the dogs ready for more!! By now I am freaking out, Adam is fighting to get out of the crawl space and the dogs have cornered behind the shed. Finally the world champion fighter groundhog decides to run off and dogs come galluping over to us like "what, we were just protecting the yard" luckily, I couldnt find any scratches on the dogs, but Adam did scrap up his knees running out of the crawl space as I yelled for help. Just another adventure in the Horseman house I guess.

Phew I need a nap!

What a weekend. First of all, last night the Beavercreek Ohio area finally got some needed rain, Yay! Since I have been here, I dont think its been more than a week that Ohio hasnt had some rain, but this time around, we were definetly going on 2 or 3 weeks. Hopefully, the grass, not just the weeds, will be green now. As a matter of fact, one of our weekend projects was to fix the sub pump drainage system from the crawl space. Saturday, Adam decided it was time to fix the drainage system, this was also because next spring we plan to do some landscaping around the patio in the backyard. Before the pipe led right out of the crawl space and dumped water about 10 ft off the house. For many reasons, including the fact that Mongo likes to eat PVC pipe, we went to lowes to get our supplies and extended the pipe underground, barried it and angled to run down the natural slope of our yard. Yesterday evening was a true test with the rain we had, the new system was perfect...Way to go Adam!

Before the home improvement project, we took the dogs to the highly anticipated "Dash N Splash" at the Greene Cnty Fairgrounds. This is an event just for dogs, at the end of the swimming season, the park holds a day where dogs are invited to come and go swimming for the whole day, no humans, just dogs in the pool. We went last year with Mellow and had a blast! I was so pumped to bring both the dogs this year.
Adam thought is was too cute how Mongo was just taking it all in and really enjoying the wind in his ears on the way to the Dash N Splash. Every car ride, Mongo just finds the window and hangs his head out, he loves it. The pups were so excited to go swimming, they were a bit wild on the way to the pool.

A close up of Mongo enjoying the 45mph speeds against his face.

Finally, we made it! There must have been 200 cars in the parking lot! Luckily, it didnt seem too crowded at the pool! Because it was a hot 92 degrees Sat afternoon, we went right to the pool, Mellow was in heaven, she wouldnt be stopped from jumping in and chasing down the tennis ball in the water (can you say one track mind... "ball throw, chase, jump, swim, ball, throw") However, Mongo would jump in, ok slither into the water, go all the way under, pop up and slowly paddle his way to the edge and then just stand there like he was at a swim up pool bar ready to order a drink! Mongo loved it though he made about 20 dog friends, and about 100 human friends. One lady was in the pool to help the dogs, Mongo swam to her, when she went to pat his head, Mongo rolled over on his back, in the water, and acted like "No, pet my belly, thats much better!" Hello, dog you are in the water, when you roll over, you cant breathe...Oh Mongo! Thats why we love him, he is very "in the momment"

Mongo at the swim up pool bar ordering a peanut butter mudslide

Here is the star of the show! Mellow! She was so content just swimming after the tennis balls in the water

After the pool and our home improvement project, everyone was tuckered out, especially Mongo. Mongo loves his Kong toy, no matter what he 95% of the time has it with him in his mouth. Here he is sound asleep with his "pacifier" Kong lodged in his mouth, dreaming of the days adventures.

A close up of sleeping beauty and his beloved toy (security blanket)

Like I said, everyone was pretty tired after all that, here is Adam, about 5 mins after he sat down, sleeping

Who doesnt love a good nap. Happy Monday!

Success

WooHoo! the infamous surfboard is complete! This wraps up the room painting saga for Miss Camden Grace. I managed to free hand the letters and used some neat stamps to give it that final touch of flare. There is a lizard stamp at the bottom and a sun stamp at the two points to balance it out. Now, lets just hope she likes it, hehe.

Here is a brighter view, just me playing with the camera flash

Before the final touches, but after my straight line fiasco. I cheated here and used painters tape to guide the middle white stripe.

The onezy set that Adam bought me for the babe, it reads "My mommy makes me smile"
(thank you Jason Franklin for the guidance)

Back to that thing called work, have a super day!

Painters Block

How hard can it be to paint a surfbaord? Piece of cake, from any angle you see it. Its just a stretched out oval with a pointy end, Right! Oh no my friend, I may be able to paint a darn 9 foot palm tree, but heaven forbid I paint a 24 inch surfboard. So I am on round 4 of the painting, I have finally got the base shape and outer white line edging completed. The inside color matches the pink fabric we are using for the crib bedding detail. Before I move on, let me share this, it took me 2.5 hours to paint the original mural in the baby's room, but I have spent at least 3 hrs on the darn surfboard. I had no idea painting a clean line was so difficult, but finally I have the outer edge done, now I am just trying not to screw it up, haha. I just have to quickly paint over the center so it is a solid pink and then a center white line opening at the top and bottom of the board with "Camden" or "Camden's Ride" painted down the center of the line.

The plan of attack: I am going to use painters tape to mark the center stripe, giving myself the best chance of a clean edge line. Then free hand the letters and cover up any goofs with stamps of beachy creatures that I have left from when I painted our adorondak chairs. Phew I feel better, Ok tonight is the night, to get started at least.. done by the weekend, look for pics!

Schools Out!

Yesterday was my last class at WSU for my masters degree. I graduated in June, but still had an intership to wrap up, last night was the final intership 'class'. Earlier in the day Adam had texted me asking if I liked High School Musical or if there are any new cds I was interested in, I said no and completely forgot about the conversation.

On the way to my class, I had to stop and get gas, I was literally running on fumes. I headed for speedway, who is currently closed for remodeling..."shi*" so running on faith I make it to BP a couple miles down the street, and they who never are cheap are 8 cents cheaper than anyone in town and bam, I am now waiting in a line 2 deep for gas. I now have 10 min to be in class; there goes my diet coke and tootsie pop before class. Finally, I get some gas, walk in with seconds to spare. After class, I made it back home and Adam was waiting in the garage for me, I thought because some baseball players were on there way to pick up our hand me down couches. Little did I know he had a surprise waiting for me. SO I dive into the details of my day while in the garage and Adam patiently waits for me to wrap it up. I walk in and bam! I have presents. Adam, such a sweetie, got me 2 wonderful cards, that I will keep forever, a baby outfit for our little munchkin on the way, a book on what to expect the first year of baby and most of all a framed picture from our wedding, one of only a few I have managed to get framed! Lastly, Adam also put together 3 boquets of tootsie pops and crystal light individual packets. I got my tootsie pop after all ! This may seem cheesy, but I am the hardest person to buy for, so for adam to make the effort and come out with an A+ is awesome.
Note: the boquets were special because on our first dinner date he formed three roses out of paper towels and used the art as the centerpiece for the meal, I kept these silly papertowel flowers up until our move into the house in May.

So to my hubby I say thank you for making me feel so special and I love you!

ps. never forget Your A Keeper!

$$$ Island for Sale $$$

As I cruising the town the past couple of days I kept wondering what it may be like to live on a private island. So I did some investigating. First of all, after thinking up my clever idea I realized there is always added cost for grocery's, running water, cable, phone all of the needs for development, I figure we can live on the main land in S. FL and then jump on our speed boat (150K) with grocerys in tow and in a couple hours be at the private island, just off the bahamas. The technology with satellite communication would allow work to be done from the island, wireless. Now with all the logistics worked out, I found a great island off the Bahamas, it already has several homes on the property with docks and furnishings. This saves a chunck of change for building and plumbing, etc. The island below is Bone Fish Cay selling for a negotiable 14.5million $$$. Now this may seem pricey but seriously some homes cost 14.5 million!

Bone Fish Cay - A charming $14.5 mill Bone Fish Cay - Dock for boats etc

Now because I am planning on racking in some major bucks, i have already prepared by story for the tv show on VH1 The Fab Life of... Where they showcase super rich people or clubs etc.

No I dont plan on making millions, but I thought this would be an lighter way of approaching the next subject. How in the world does someone buy an island? My thinking is that when you have that much fun money, money has less value, meaning $100 becomes more like $5 bucks and 100,000 is more like 500$. Oh to be the super rich, i think it may be more trouble than its worth, money goes a lot faster for instance I get pleasure out of mowing the lawn, but super rich just have people mow, clean, move, landscape, buy grocerys, cook, babysit, etc. So after this detailed and super researched evaluation I am happy where I am, surronded by my family and friends that love me and are happy to do the simple things in life, and really interviewing that many people to work for me could really stifle my plans of scouting out the perfect private island. To keep the dream alive, i will keep an eye on the job market in the FL Keys. Plus in the keys they already are developed, grocery stores and all. This is awesome because I now dont have to waste the money on a 150k$ speed boat to get grocery's to the island, yes! See honey I know how to save money! haha.

So to the super rich, I will watch you on VH1 Fabulous life of ... while I am mowing my lawn and cooking for my family ... haha.

Early weekend anyone?

Happy TGIF!

Side Bar-
In the last 20 minutes I have recieved four phone calls from my boss from her house asking me to write a grant proposal, a grant, a flyer for the super intedent of schools and run summer camp, by the way all done by 1ish would be great. So, yea

On a lighter note, Adam and I have a rehearsal dinner this afternoon for Paul and Lindsey's Wedding and tomorrow Adam is in the wedding so more fun pics coming.

I am trying to escape to hang out with my hubby and our dogs before the busy evening, here goes nothing!

What did I ever do 5 months ago...

Ok so I exercised more and definetly enjoyed a glass of wine or two, but for the record, growing a baby (or as Adam and I say a "Bee-Bee!") has to burn some calories. Anyways, my life is consumed with the little thing and I still have like 16-17 weeks to go. Let me explain... Yesterday, my awesome (a-w-e-s-o-m-e, awesome, awesome, totally- this is for Molly) mom in law took me to Joann Fabrics to pick out some fabric for the baby's crib set. Anna Maria is a genius seamstress so she offered to make the crib gear. Well 2.5 hours later and Adams expert opinion finally led us to a solution. It was a bit of a challenge because we found the perfect fabric online but it is an upholstery (spelling) fabric, so not too soft against the skin.

We found two fabrics, one almost a toile with palm tees all pink and the second an island postcard with more muted colors to compliment the walls and crib. We went with the second choice and picked out a darker pink patern and sand to compliment the decor. I must say Adam stopped by on his way home from WSU and we were done in 15 minutes, sometimes it takes a guy to pick out fabric. haha.

As a recap of the painting, I am going to do a dark pink surfboard against the palm tree, add a little girlish flare!

Island "Chic"

Hello from paradise! Last night, Wednesday, I put on my painting gear and finished up the artwork in the nursery. I painted a palm tree beachy island scene to go with our island girl beach themed nursery. I am now 23 weeks pregnant, I hope I didnt paint to early, but I have a feeling towards the end of the pregnancy the last thing I will want to do is get down and dirty painting. So the early bird gets the worm...right? Haha. I was able to use paint from the house interior, previous projects and some stuff the old home owners left in the garage, yea free artwork! Check out some pics below. I am still cotemplating leaning a surfboard against the palm tree, but it may look to cluttered and as Adam said we are going to have a glider chair in this corner anyway. I had originally drawn out a rough sketch before painting, but I actually ended up painting over the sketches and going for a completely free hand attempt. If you have any ideas for fun girl decor or where we can find island girl decorations let us know. Being in Ohio sometimes the beach is not the best decorating theme during the fall months...whats wrong with the weird Ohioians... first salt on watermelon, then calling coke pop and now no beach theme fall foliage... haha!

Here is a picture of the wall before the painting extravaganza
Ta- Da!! I present to you the painting. The camera flash whited out the center a bit but it looks pretty good in the pic.

The beach sign has some cute directional panels, here is a close up, on the top one it says paradise with three surfboards, A, K and C these stand for Adam, Katie and Camden, yes I am a lush! and the arrows point all around to say everywhere is paradise when you are with family. (tear...sigh) The other panels say Camden Cove, Key West and Beach. The Key West one has actual mileage.

Here is a close up of the palm, with a sun and cloud of course

A look at the trunk detail, sand and directional sign thingy

One more last pic, just a full scene shot.

I hope you enjoy the masterpiece, this is your art/culture lesson for the week. Haha :-)

As always more fun to come!

Mark Your Calendar

The Baby Shower for Camden Grace Horseman is set. Mark your calendars for October 18,2008. Thats a Saturday! I am so excited, by doing it this weekend my mom and sister are both able to make it from Florida! I havent seen them since June so this is so awesome.
Now I need to do this whole registering thing

Look for the invite in the mail!

Paint Fumes

Its baby time! This weekend I tackled the nursery while Adam had two-a-days practices with the WSU volleyball team. Since he is now working 1000hrs/week till mid November I thought I so something productive. On Saturday evening I tore down the wallpaper border in the room, which was a weird Noah's Ark themed muted nastiness. Then on Sunday I got spunky and decided to paint the room. Even though it is a girl we went with a blue room and one green accent wall. This was to compliment the nice wood work we have in the house and also to compliment the beach, key west/ island hula girl theme we are going for. Once its all put together I think it will be a great little girls room. Another reason we went with the blue and green is that these colors are exceptionally soothing for babies. Blue is a calming color, great for sleeping and green is said to promote self confidence.

After several hours of painting and not much lunch I will say the paint fumes were getting to me, I cleaned up the room and took care of all the paint, finally took a few minutes to rest and BAM it hit me I was high on paint fumes, hopefully the baby didnt get that much. Wow, I had no idea I was so sensitive to fumes and smells, apparantly pregnancy does make your body completely different.
Here is a look at the room, with the blue and green wall, I like the contrast against the woodwork.
This is the wall the mural (color by numbers attempt ) will be on, I am going to paint a palm tree coming up towards the closet doors and then a small beachwood sign under the tree with directions "beach 1 mi" and "Key West 1298mi" etc. So it should be cute and add a little originality to the room. Pics of my masterpiece...haha...will be up as soon as I get over my first dose of paint fumes. Maybe this evening, buy surely by this weekend.

The mural paint supplies...Got Paint?! Luckily I have a lot of Key West colors left from when I painted our adorondak chairs. But the canvas and materials are ready and waiting so that will make me do it sooner than later.

Well keep checking for more updates on our newest arrival and all our decorating faux pauxs...HaHa!

Happy Monday! Go USA Olympic Team

We all scream for ice cream

Woo Hoo! It is Friday, that means Ritter's walk day at work. Every Friday we take the summer camp kids on 4 mile walk (round trip) to Ritters, an ice cream place that is super rich, but super yummy. The kids all think it is the coolest thing. This week we have three cuties who are the sons of some WSU athletics coaches, so they are a barrell of laughs and energy to begin with. The three boys brought their razor scooters in for the trek to ice cream heaven. All went well, meaning no one was hit by a car and not too many bumps and bruises. :-) We safely made to Ritters where we ran into a field trip of 20 Kinder Care kids screaming for ice cream, woo thank goodness we only had crazy boys. They played on the playground to pass the time. The 3 ordered worms and dirt, crushed oreo and gummie worms, and I think more landed on their clothes than in their mouths. On the walk/scooter back they did great, only one piggy back ride was needed to get the crew back to YFA safely.

Jake showing off his wormy ice cream!

Did any make it into his mouth?

Saving some oreo crunch for lunchtime

We tell our parents to invest in some quality detergent for days like these, did I mention we also did a craft with Glitter Glue! a washing machine's best friend, hehe!

Tonight Adam and I were invited, short notice, to a WSU ortho and MD's cookout, so a little PR adventure this evening and then some rest before cleaning day on Saturday.

No creekin for me

Summer camp this week at the current internship/job is awesome, we have the WSU baseball and soccer coaches sons here this week. They are a barrel of energy, laughs and fun. Wednesday is our creek day, but I dont get to go this week. BUMMER! My boss has requested my presence at a meeting with American Heart Assoc for lunch, perfect creekin time. In order to make up some lost time with mother nature, I think I might take the dogs to the narrows this weekend. The narrows is a great park, it sits on the bank of the little Miami River and has numerous trails that climb and surrond the bank. Mellow loves this place becuase she gets to swim in the river!

Back to work, enjoy the sunny day!

Sales Orientation

As most of you know I have graduated with my Masters (MS) from WSU in June. I am finishing my internship in the business community this month. So I still have to do a bit of HW and check in with my advisor on a weekly basis to make sure my internship "experience" is going well. In the past weeks we had to take a personality profile to see what qualities we were high/ low and mediocre at, and from there we were to choose a topic to do a presentation about. topics like time management, stress management etc were floating around. However, brilliant me decides to volunteer for Sales Orientation! So the last two days I have given myself a crash course in Sales. Last night was the presentation and it went very well, luckily it was informal.

It is amazing sometimes the hurdles you come across near the finish line of anything. So take them with a smile and now I dont feel like Sales is a foreign language and I also have decided its probably not the best fit for my career choice... one more thing I dont want to do, now if I could find a salary job I wanted, then I just might hit the career jackpot. Hey a little experience goes a long way. Good luck to all those that are searching for that "fit"

A Wardrobe fit for a Lady

This is my first baby clothes purchase for our little girl! Oh yes I am surely starting this kid out on the right foot! haha.

Sunday adam and I went to Lowes and picked up the paint for baby's room, beachy key west theme, and we finally picked a color for the Gator office. I think we Adam starts traveling in the next month with Volleyball I will conquer the painting. After Lowes we enlisted Adam's mom to help with some weeding in the flowerbeds. Overall, a fun productive weekend.

Summer Fun!

On Saturday we took Mellow and Mongo to Rotary Park for a long walk. They loved going there because they get to run a muck around the numerous baseball and softball fields; Mellow of course acting as our fearless leader and occasionally ignoring our commands(or should I say suggestions). In the end, the dogs were sufficiently pooped out and ready for a relaxing day on our cold tile floor.

On Sunday we had a great time! Summer Fun to the max witht he dogs!
We went over to our friends The Burger's swimming pool (about a mile down the street). The Dogs loved it, swimming is mellow's absolutely favorite thing to do, being raised in Florida has that affect of people and dogs. The Burgers have two puppys, Maddy and Mason, both yellow labs one 6 mos and one 3 mos. They have the best time with mellow and Mongo. Yesterday, we discovered that Maddy and Mongo are boyfriend and girlfriend and that Mason had a thing for Mellow. However, Mellow had no interest and only wanted a toy in the pool to jump in after ... Mellow's brain...." water, toy jump , toy toy toy water, jump, throw toy now jump!" Below you see a picture of Maddy and Mellow waiting on the stairs for one of us to throw the toy in the pool. Dont be fooled... Mellow doesnt enter the water from the stairs, se only enters with a diving run and jump! (ESPN dog champion style)
Here is Cutie Mongo, He loves to swim. He is more of the lazy river type though. He goes in from the stairs 90% of the time and if in a hurry he submarines under the water for a second or two, finally realizing that keeping his head out of the water is the best for breathing :) Mongo also gets tired easily and he will just use his front legs to paddle or he will stop paddling until his head sinks a little and then he remembers, OH yea i have to paddle, hehe!

Little Mason taking it all in!

Adam playing with Maddy, she would try to eat the water drop out of the air when adam splashed them at her.

Here you can see the Mongo's submarine entry, Dive Mongo Dive

All Four dogs ready for swimming time, go doggies go! I think all the toys are in the pool.

Mongo doing the shake! Watchout water spray advisory 10 feet. look at his tail: so curly cue cute

Mongo and Adam posing for the camera. Mongo loves to be held in the water and just hang out, very much not like Mellow who is go go go

Mell and Mongo racing to the stairs for another go after the same toy, oh boy!

ITs A ....

The Horseman's are having a ... GIRL !

Please look at the pics on a 90 degree rotation: the blog poster was being weird

Below is her body shot (head low)

The crotch shot! the 3 parallel lines mean its a girl! She was very free with her gender, the Ultrasound Tech had no problems at all finding the gender. The minute the goop went on my belly, this little girl was spread eagle for the camera. Oh my I hope this isnt an omen, just kidding!

Here is her cute as a button giant foot, you can see all the toes, foot and lower leg. When we were looking at her we got to see her full hand, fingers spread and then she sucked her thumb for a second or two when she finally settled down. Yesterday was such an awesome experience.

Here is another head shot, just tilt your head to the right to see the picture. You can see her cute nose and facial features. We are so excited

Well this concludes the first of many baby pics for the Horseman Girl. We are just so excited and cant wait to get her room ready to go... Is it December yet!?