Big news! @Google acquiring Nest to help fulfill our goal of reinventing unloved home products. Nest will stay Nest. http://t.co/0L8hNBhmYc

— Nest (@nest) January 13, 2014

This is horrible news!…at least to me. I have steadily been removing myself from all things Google for years now, and now they’ve found out another way to track me! Sure, I have a Google+ account, but who in the hell really uses that. Sure, I’ve got a GMail account, but it’s my throw away account. Seriously – this sucks. I really may have to look at another option now. I really love my Nest, but come on. Really?! This pretty much sucks…

Rant over for now…

She also got to go to the Texas State Fair for the first time. She wasn’t the only first timer, though. My parents and sister Katrina had their first fair experience too. I think that everybody should go to the fair at least once. Geez, it’s expensive, though. Here’s Sara and Mommy at the fair.

Since it is October, we had to take Sara for the obligatory pumpkin patch.   Of course, I’ve got a ton of pictures, but I won’t bore you with them all.  If you want to see them I’ll put them up somewhere for you to view – just let me know.

Finally, we had Sara baptized on the 19th. We hosted a crowd of eleven family, and we got to use the new flagstone patio for the first time. I had finished it earlier in the week, and we put the furniture back on it just for this occasion.
I think that the weekend really took it out of Sara. Since then, she’s been sleeping between 10-12 hours every night ever since. I’ve got to admit, that’s great for Aimee, but it means that she’s not napping as much during the day. She is almost three months now, and we’ve learned that is about the age when their sleep habits change again. Anyway, here are some photos from the weekend.

OH!  Sara played dress up last Friday for my office Halloween party.  I really think that it’s just an excuse for everybody to bring their kids up for show and tell – not to mention we all left early for the day.  Anyway, Aimee and I won!  We had the cutest baby IMHO    It was so beautiful outside this weekend so we took advantage of it and spent a couple of hours walking around downtown and had dinner on a patio.

So – that’s all for now. I hope that everybody has a great day. There will be more to come sometime in the near future. Sara started laughing this week so I’ll try to get some pictures of that.

Overall, Sara is a very happy baby…she doesn’t cry very much and she even knows night from day (for those of you that are parents you know that is great)!  As of her one month checkup she was up to 9lb 11oz…that’s really good considering she lost over a pound within a couple of days of her birth.

I’ve also been working on another project here at the house. A buddy and I ripped out my enormous deck in the back yard last January. Well, I’m finally getting around to replacing it. In its place we’re putting in a flagstone patio. It’s coming along nicely, but geez it’s a ton of work!

More to come on this project later…

Since all of the doors are now done and the clock is ticking rapidly towards this whole life changing event thing I decided that I’d better start going through some of the gear that we’ve been blessed to receive thus far.  Tonight, after we took the dogs on a walk (because for some reason it was really nice outside) we installed both car seat bases, put together the stroller frame, assembled the glider (it’s really a swing – why would they call it a glider?), and then tested everything out.  So far so good!  I guess that this is the easy part.

Soon I may think about starting to dig out the back yard in preparation for installing a new patio since we had to rip the old deck out.  It was a shame that we couldn’t use the back yard this Spring so maybe I can have it ready for the Fall.  Only time will tell.

That is all – thank you

That means that there are six weeks left to finish organizing the nursery; six more weeks to finish painting the doors; six more weeks to find (or build) a medicine cabinet for the bathroom; six more weeks to maybe build a new patio; six more weeks to find a pediatrician.  Where did the time go?

Luckily, we won’t be going out of town anymore.  Aimee got the “no more travel” from her doctor.  So, although we’ll miss some things we definitely need our weekends here to finish our to-do lists and prepare for our upcoming attention hog.  We’ll get it all done and, hey, if we don’t – Oh Well.  It will all get tone eventually.

All in all the whole process is about zero fun.  One door takes about 3- 4 hours to complete.  I’ve done three including the trim work.  Those that I have completed look immensely better, but wish my luck as I try to complete the remaining nine while Aimee is out of town this weekend.

¡Yeay Stimulation!