Happy Birthday to:

Lacey (27th)
&
Katie (31st)

Brilliant

Congrates Kate!

When you get feeling better give me a call I want to scoop. How long was the labor? Did you get Pitosin? Hopefully I will be following suit soon! :)

Fred ?? LaRiviere

Fred was born at 6:30 pm on August 15th. He weighed 8 lbs 1 oz. He is doing well, but the doctors were concerned about his grunting and lack of crying, so he is in a special nursery for 48 hours. He is healthy, but they wanted to keep a close eye on him to make sure he stays that way. He should be ready to come home on Saturday. Katie did a great job making it through another fun filled delivery, and she is recovering well. The girls are thrilled to have a new baby brother, but we will have to quickly set some ground rules to make sure he doesn't get dressed up in princess cloths.

August Book..?

I guess we're a little behind because we just finished discussing The Alchemist, but if anyone is interested we could read "My Sisters Keeper" for August. This book is about 300 pages, but it is a pretty easy and quick read. For me it was very compelling, I think everyone could have it read by Labor Day or so and then we could discuss.

This book gave me SO much to think about and the more I thought about it the more I realized I didn't have any answers. This book tells a fascinating story of a family that has a terminally ill daughter. The parents have one child to save another who then sues for medical emancipation. It will be a great discussion on what you would do if it were your child.

Warning: the book alludes to one brief sex scene that you could skip entirely and not miss any info on the book and does have language sprinkled throughout the book (including the F word).

If you readers are not interested in the book or if you've already read it, feel free to make a suggestion of another book and we can read that instead. Or if you think that Labor Day isn't enough time to read the book, then we can push it back. Everyone just comment and let us all know what you think.

Study: Food in McDonald's wrapper tastes better to kids

i think this is funny.
my kids don't watch t.v. but they love mcdonalds. so its my fault--not advertising.
btw, thanks for the free meal in cedar a few months ago. we never stop there because its so close to st. g but we were going to vegas that time. i was surprised to see wellz there. i had forgotten.
fill us in on your france plans heat.

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These are my pregnancy glamor shots taken by my sister at 37 weeks.

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