Hellllllooooo remember me? by Kelly

Oh hey, how are you doing? I may or may not have forgotten my wifely duties of writing blogs. Let's see, what is going on in married life? I'm still married. That's a plus. I wasn't sure we were going to survive the basement remodel but things are looking much better. The thing still isn't done. Maybe by the time we have grandkids it may be done (because of course we will still be in the basement. It looks amazing though. We got a 58 inch tv and a ps3. So shockingly sometimes Jake is distracted and plays video games instead of working. But that's ok with me. Sometimes I sleep instead of working. It evens out.

We had our second reception in Tacoma. It was so nice. I'm so happy we were able to have another reception for everyone who couldn't travel. I will post some pics when I get some pics. (The one posted is Jake's dad having a good time...)

I'm pretty sure we are going to go somewhere for our six month anniversary. I don't care at all about anniversarys but we just want to go on vacation. I want to go back to Mexico. I can't go anywhere until the end of the Cubs season though. Oh well. Kelly

Life is Fragile by Andrea

Sigh.... I'm often shielded from the harsh realities of working in a hospital because I'm in the marketing department and I rarely interact directly with patients. But today I got a reality check when I called a nurse to see how one of the pediatric patients was doing (he had a very serious heart condition and we were planning to feature his story in our magazine and the annual report for the kid's hospital). She told me "the patient expired" and I could feel my heart break. I can't imagine what the parents must be going through...

Dre and I have already discussed how many kids we want, picked our kids' names, and all that good stuff.... I love my kids already and they're not even here yet. I don't even want to think about the prospect of having a child who isn't healthy. All the surgeries, the testing, the medications, etc., It's all so scary. Or what if we have trouble getting pregnant?? That's a huge issue right now with a lot of couples I know, and I feel so bad not being able to help in any way. So just like that family who lost their son, and my friends who are waiting for their little ones to arrive, all we can do is pray....let go, and let God. Andrea