Prayer needed

Please pray for me and my family. I was laid off my job of 8 1/2 years this past Thursday. Pray that I find something soon.

Thanks,

One Month Later...

For crying out loud (yes I am aware of the pun) Feed me!!!
(Registering his discontent!!)

Just a few minutes later...
WHAT THE...!?!

Hey cat...Just wait 'til I get mobile...

Bath time again? The water had better be warmer this time or I'll show you the meaning of "Squirt"!

Check me out in my "Gator" Towel!

Hanging with Dad and trying to get rid of that air bubble. Mommy says I look like a turtle.
Hanging with Dad and trying to get rid of that air bubble. Mommy says I look like a turtle.

Jacob is Here

Jacob Winston Vaughan officially made his arrival yesterday morning, 7/25 @ 10:08 AM at Medical City Dallas, weighing in at 7lbs. 12oz. and measuring 20" long. He's perfect and healthy. Even the Pediatrician had nothing negative or bad to say, which greatly enthused his mother and I.

Taylor's very enamored with him. She just can't seem to look at him enough. I think I'm pretty taken with him myself. Taylor's healthy and doing great, Jacob's healthy, so I'm a happy man.

We are now much more than a couple. We are truely a Family.

More later,

Michael, Taylor and Jacob

Official Due Date

At her last doctor appointment, we received an official due date. The calendar is now marked for July 25th. As we wearily trudge to the end of this tiring yet wonderful experience of pregnancy (though Taylor would have a lot more words to describe it and none of those words would be anything close to wonderful) we look forward to a new phase of life. For those closer to me, I ask for patience. There are so many emotions going on I feel myself getting a little wiggy and stressed out. Excitement, fear, anticipation, trepidation, responsibility, etc. I've noticed I've snapped around on a person or two without meaning to do so. For that I apologise. Hopefully it won't happen again, but it may, so just be prepared and tell me to chill out and take a breath. in the mean time, I'm keeping my fingernails a little longer to keep a better grip...

Oh, and Christina, have a safe trip and we'll see you in a week and a half.

62 Days and Counting

He'll be here before we know it. It seems like we're stuck in a time warp though. On one hand, it seems like we have such a long way to go. still 62 days to go. By the time Jacob gets here, She will have been pregnant for 1/2 our married life. Low on energy and sick a lot of the time. On the other hand it's gone by so fast. December seems like it was just last month. 218 days of the pregnancy are behind us. That's a lot of days already gone!!! Comparing that number to what's left, and Jacob will be here very soon and there's still so much to do!!!

Go Stars

In case you missed Game 6, which was a game for the books (4 overtimes, 61 saves on 62 shots faced for Marty Turco, 53 saves on 55 shots faced for Nabokov, 55 shifts for 50 minutes of ice time and 19 hits for the eventual game winner Brendan Morrow, who earlier took a puck, then later a stick in the face, 8th longest game in NHL playoff history, 3rd longest game in franchise playoff history, etc. etc. etc.) FSN SW channel 65 will be rebroadcasting a condensed 2 hour version on Thursday, May 8th@ 11:00 AM. If you missed it, set your DVR's.

Game 1 of the conference finals against Detroit will aire on VS channel 72 or 75 (can't remember which) at 6:30 that evening.

Go Stars!!!

Driving and Cell Phones

What is the deal with driving and cell phones? Since it seems that people can't be responsible enough to stay off their phone while driving (I have to point the finger at myself on this one as well), then why don't cell phone providers do something that will not allow their cell phone to work in a running vehicle unless it's attached to a hands free device? I mean really, even though a hands free device is puchased separately from the phones right now, most everyone has one. Why then do most people not use it?

It wouldn't be so bad if these people who just MUST talk on the phone could drive as they normally do when not on the phone. It seems though most people can't. Most of the time, when someone is driving slow enough to drive Miss Daisy, ignoring my signal that I want to get over (which is a gripe for another day) or cutting me off in traffic, I look over to see them yammering into a cell phone. These slow driving cell phone users drive just like the 80 year old man or woman, which I prefer to cell phone drivers as at least they have both hands on the wheel and are devoting all their attention on what they are doing. We are operating a piece of machinery that has the potential to take our life as well as others lives in the blink of an eye with just one moment of inattentiveness!! Cars can even be referred to as deadly weapons, or be the instrument in reckless endangerment. Let's treat it as such!!! It's like any other power tool. It's foolish to be afraid of it, but it's equally foolish to not respect what it can do.

The really irritating thing was watching a lady drive down HWY 66 from the second bridge crossing the lake to the light at Rowlett Road (local people may know this area...it is a straight shot, and goes for a couple of miles) with a cell phone held to her ear by her shoulder (this does not constitute a hands free device by the way), one hand holding her food container, her other hand stuffing her face, and her left knee stearing the SUV!!!

Come on people, either get a hands free device or get off the phone. We'll all get home faster and in one piece!!! And if you still can't drive better than the 80 year old man with the hands free device, just stay off the phone!

New Sonogram pictures

These sonogram pictures were taken last Friday, January 25th at about 12 weeks 3 days.

Proof Positive