Our third girl, Cassidy Ann, was born this morning at 8:00 AM.


She weighs 8 lbs 6 oz (Our biggest girl yet!)

and is 22 in long (Our tallest yet!).

We had three midwives (including assistants):
Jeni


Terri


Vanessa


two of Amy's AP mom friends:
Renea (with her daughter Delilah)



Amanda

and my mother (with Amelie)

in attendance.

Of all of us, I made the closest guess to the weight.  I was 1 oz off.

Amy started feeling strong contractions about 2 am and woke me up about 3, then called the midwife about 3:15.  She was pretty steady at 3 minutes apart lasting 30-45 seconds until we stopped tracking them. 

Pics can bee seen in slideshow at: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v600/Krayzeedizz/Cassidy%20birth/?albumview=slideshow


I have to go to my ship and pick up my leave chit, finish emptying and sanitizing the birth tub, and a couple other things (uhhh sleep, anyone?), then I will update this with pics.

[Edited]

Well, you can see I added pics....

So a year and a half after the whole debacle in CA, I have finally found a church where I feel at home and I'm finally ready to progress in my desire to minister once again.  Of course, I'll have very little time to minister with my upcoming workups schedule for deployment, but I really feel at home. 

I had become so hollow spiritually after being ousted the way we were and as a person who was always taught to be independent and financially responsible, I HATED relying on others to get me through this past year.  Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful to J and Megan as well as my parents, in-laws and all the others who have helped us out over this difficult time.  However, I still feel like I owe them all something in return.  Strange, isn't it?  I have always tried to be a hospitable and generous to others when I can, yet I dislike relying on others hospitality.

Dovetailing nicely from that thought, the pastor's sermon today was about giving.  Now, I have for some time believed that tithing was not a New Testament commandment, nor was it ever used in context of monetary gain, but on livestock and such.  But, I have until today never heard a pastor affirm this belief.

However, the pastor of Tab Church said pretty much what I believed.  That no one should feel they have to give a certain amount or percentage to the church.  Sure, lots of people like to dig up Malachi 3:10, but that's a scripture spoken to a rebellious post-exile Israel.  And the context had little to do with routine giving.  On the contrary it addressed how hollow the people's giving had become.  The NT model speaks more to the heart of the giver and not the necessity to meet some requirement.  In fact II Cor. 9:5b-6 says exactly that.  Paul DOES warn that if you are stingy with your giving, you will not show much return, but he also points out that you should not feel pressured to give according to another's standard but according to what God has laid in your heart.

Okay, enough theology. 

I have posted more pics of:
 myself

Audrey

Amelie

Just got back from a 50 hour underway that was preceded by a duty day.  I think I got a total of 12 hours of sleep between 5am Wednesday to 1:00pm this afternoon (Saturday)...maybe.

Port and starboard duty sections really suck.  7 on, 7 off, 5 on, 5 off.  And you don't always get to sleep when you're off if we're running "all hands" drills or there's some brief you have to be at. 

And that's just a taste of Navy life onboard USS Nitze.

All they seem to care about is being #1.

I'm going to be home a total of 18 days between Feb 24-June 8th. 

And Amy is due on the 11th of June.  Fortunately I wont be too far away the first week of June if the girl comes early.

Oh yeah, we're having a girl.

Here's pictures:


 



Super Bowl is tomorrow and all I'm looking forward to is the commercials...

I hope the earth opens up and swallows Tom Brady whole.