happy birthday kirsten!

On this day, roughly 29 years and some hours ago in Des Moines , a lovely little girl was born and thus unknowingly changing the very fabric of a certain two and a half year old male living far off in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a city most recently known as the home of the professional football team a certain hick from Mississippi is now trying to destroy through his own selfish and mind-changing ways. Yea, that's right. Suck it #4.

Sorry. Couldn't help it.

No really, get bent Brett.

Okay.

Yes, today is my lovely wife Kirsten's birthday. I bet when she turned 28 last year she never would have guessed that at 29 she would be not only with child but also under a doctor-mandated house arrest. Ah, what changes a year can bring! Happy Birthday my love!

I know Kirsten mentioned in a comment in a previous post that we're having a little girl, which we're both really excited about. That being said, I don't want the girl to come out looking like me. That's no good for anybody. However, our most recent ultrasound apparently has revealed that she has some of my features already, like my nose, prompting Kirsten to give the little fetus the name "Dereka" until such time comes that an appropriate name can be decided upon. I guess I can cross Brett off my list because a) it's a girl and b) he's a tool. Sorry, did it again.

Take a peek at the ultrasound pic (taken at 24 weeks) and see what you think. Even the doctor said she's looking like me. Poor, poor girl.

not about brett favre

Last week I once again stormed the Bastille running in the nighttime 5K race through the streets of downtown Milwaukee. It is really a great run and a great time. I ran it with a my friend and coworker Bob. The weather was really nice. We really lucked out since for a couple hours leading up the run, the skies had opened up and we had some pretty nasty storms moving through the area. One might say they could be classified as "squalls," my new favorite meteorological term.

Anyway, by the time the race was to be run, the weather was great; hot but nice. I have been trying to run more this summer in an effort to get healthier and hopefully lose a couple pounds and it seemed to pay off as I posted my best time for a 5K. I don't want to post the time here lest I make you all jealous.

This year I didn't run the Bastille Days run with Kirsten because as some of you know, she has been confined to the condo, and more specifically the couch, for the past couple weeks. It's been an exciting time, not in a good way, in the pregnancy progression including a couple emergency visits to the Labor & Delivery floor at the hospital due to some very early contractions. We hope that they under control now, but unfortunately for her she needs to stay home, off work, and rest which I assure you is a very tough thing to do all...summer...long.

Maybe you could drop her a comment (she reads this) and wish her well..thanks!

spring has sprung

I'm declaring it.

After a brutal, brutal winter Spring is here after a great weekend weather-wise and Brewers victory-wise. (As I write this though, the Crew is in the tenth inning as Gagne has blown another save. Nice work $10 million man! Jeez.

ANYWAY, if you happened to read the comments on the last post my buddy Derek J. let the cat out of the bag to you, the reading public, that I have been "working" on becoming a father. Well unlike most things I work on, this project has thus far been a success. Kirsten and I are 13 weeks along and very excited after spending a little over a year honing our baby-making skills. We have doctor appointment #2 coming up this Friday. A fairly uneventful appointment but more progress nonetheless. I believe it's about 8 more weeks until we can find out what it is, which we're going to do. We're pretty bad at waiting for things. :) Definitely more to come on that...

This past Friday we went to Brewers Opening Day which was awesome. It was so nice to not have to wear a winter coat. A big group of us tailgated which was a lot of fun. Some of us went into the game to witness the stomping of the San Francisco Giants but I bet the others that stayed out in the parking lot had just as much fun. How could you not? Apparently the Journal Sentinel was there taking random pictures of fans and caught a nice pic of a friend, and frequent reader, Derrick and his son Dawson. Check it out here. Nice pic big D!

Oh, and the Brewers just beat the Reds in the bottom of the tenth inning to move to 6-1...sweet.

A Big Congratulations

I big heartfelt congratulations to my main man Emmett (who still holds the title of "Best Man" to me until wedding #2 comes along) and his wife Julie who gave birth to their first child a couple days ago.

The Stats
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Name: Harper Mae
Weight: 6 lbs 1 oz
Height: 20 inches (looong)
Feet: Size 6, I'm not kidding.

Congrats folks! Kirsten and I, and I'm sure my loyal readers as well, are very happy for you.

And thanks for putting the pressure on me.