Week 25

Well tomorrow is the start of week 25. Chelsea and Kosmo are progressing quite good. It is getting more and more real every day now for me, I think for Chels it was real they day she found out. Kosmo is a very active little one, he moves around a lot and enjoys kicking and pushing up against mom's bladder!:) I have had the joy of feeling him kick, that is when it became very real for me. It is such and amazing thing to feel something that is part of you.

I know I said I would update more during the summer, but it really has been very busy for me and I haven't had the time I thought I would, so I'll update you on everything all at once. On July 1st I went to Minneapolis with Kevin and Brian to the Twins vs. Tigers game. We made a one day trip out of it. Kevin came up with the idea of getting the all you can eat tickets for the game.......What a great idea!! It only added $12 to you ticket price and we ate a ton of food...I ate over $50 worth of stadium food so it was worth it! Making it a one day trip may not have been our best idea as I got home around 4:30 AM and had to be up at 7 the next morning! Needless to say I ended up getting sick, whether it was from lack of rest or the fact that Brian needed the air on freezing the whole trip is still the true question.....Kevin and I decided it is best to blame it on Brian. I had symphony for the 4th which was fun as always. Both Aaron and Ashley played the concert to it was fun to play in an ensemble with them again, it had been around 8 years since we were at OU together in the Percussion Orchestra. Chels went to the concert with Danny and his family, she also got to see Olivia (Aaron and Ashley's daughter) which always puts a smile on her face, she is such a beautiful kid and is really growing up quick. On Saturday the 5th, Chels had a bachelorette party and I had Uken, Jensen and Danny over for grilling, beer and some wii golfing.......You know MANLY things!!!! It was fun having them over, but I ended up wussing out and not going out with them due to me being sick. Smart move on my part. I was running a horrible fever and when Chels got home she was a little worried about me. Of course being a man I didn't think it was that bad so I didn't go to the ER, I let it run it's course. I woke up around 4 AM with my side of the bed totally drenched with sweat, you could even see the outline of where my legs were in the bed. Looking back, maybe Chels was right.....but we won't ever agree to that!:) I can't ever recall having a fever that bad, I never took my temp so I don't know how bad it really was, just know I should have gone to a Dr. Anyhow, I am now feeling a lot better but still have some sinus issues.

Also over the holiday weekend we began the search for a new car. Timmy the mighty Taurus has seen better days. It had 157,000 miles on it and was beginning to cost us more money than we wanted to put into it. Also it didn't get great gas mileage and with driving it to Lennox everyday it made sense to get something that had better gas mileage and was more dependable. So after spending days on the computer looking at cars online, I went in yesterday to look at a nice Saturn Ion.....As I was looking around the lot I also found a better car........a 2007 Hyundai Sonata with only 4,500 (yes 4,500 not 45,000) miles on it! The problem for us though----IT IS A MANUAL and Chels doesn't know how to drive one! Kevin and Heidi have a Sonata and they love it, we have also ridden in it and loved it too so I knew this would be a car we would be very very happy with. So I decided to take it on a drive and I was right........Way better than the Saturn, but of course a bit more money. After looking at all the options we decided that the Hyundai would be the better route, so we are now the owners of White 2007 Hyundai Sonata. We love the car and I love the gas mileage. I'm going to save a lot on gas money....the Taurus got 20 mpg and the Sonata gets around 34 mpg.

Other news, the stroller did arrive last week......I will hopefully post some pictures this week, Chels is very excited about it. We have a trip to MSP planned for the 18-19th for the baby shower that is taking place up there that weekend. I am busy planning things for the fall marching band show, it is going to be a great show and should be a good season. I am anxious to get started with marching band again. The baby is growing nicely and Chels thinks he'll come early..........not a great thing when it runs right into the middle of marching band season, but family is always more important than marching band and the birth of my child is most important.

I'm sure there is more that I have forgotten so I will have to update that when it pops into my small mind! Later y'all!!!