Deucie Roo

Rachel here. We went in today for our 30 week appointment (even though I'm 31 tomorrow), and everything checked out wonderfully. I'm up 21 lbs... that's up 5 lbs since my last appt (2 weeks ago)... oh bliss. :) We were able to get a couple more good pictures of Deuce through 3D/4D:

That's all the excitement on the baby front I suppose.

Yesterday we had some fun filled exciting information though. I was shopping in Roanoke getting some things for our pending trip to Fl. (more on that in a bit), when I get a call from Bryan asking where I was and basically if our house was on fire. Interesting. My brother came over to check everything out, and all was well. Turns out there was a downed power line feet from the bottom of our street here in The Burg. This then caused a brush fire to erupt, which resulted in 5 acres of land being burned. One of our neighbors said there were 3 large explosion sounds... the 3rd resulted in sparks flying out of her outlets. Yikes! Besides large billows of smoke and some flames, we were also out of power from about 330 yesterday to 10 last night, which was actually kind of nice. No TV or computer... makes you talk to people... what a concept! :) It could have been much worse... no one's homes were harmed thank goodness.

On another note... Florida. So Bryan has a training next week (Wednesday and Thursday) in Orlando. We're packing up the good ol' Subaru and making our grand finale of voyages before Deuce is here. That is unless of course they shut Disney World down because of this Pig virus shenanigans! I have spent the last 3 days compiling the perfect "Family Vacation Packing List", so I swear on all that is holy if we don't get down there... someone will pay. Until then we'll be very busy cleaning and packing for our trip and attending our good friends Angie and Tommy's wedding (Mommy's in it... lord help us all... she looks like a giant black jelly bean in her dress). Don't be surprised if you don't hear much from us until we arrive in "sunny pig virus infested Florida!"