Birthday Celebration

This weekend was Melinda and Aunt Marla's birthday. Unfortunately we were not able to celebrate with Melinda in MD but we did get to enjoy the day with Aunt Marla. Sat. morning we headed north to Georgetown and gathered at Aunt Marla's house for some bar-b-que and football. Fortunately for Kevin, Aunt Marla gave him the remote as soon as we walked in the house so he enjoyed watching most of the football. It was also a great time visiting with Aunt Linda and Uncle Lary and of course always fun to watch Klayton giggling.

Klayton also got to help put the candles on the cake and even blow out the candles. Hopefully it will be good practice for him.

And yes, Kevin survived the triple overtime A&M game. But barely, I will let him provide more details. Like I said, we survived.

Sun morning we received a phone call saying Laura's (Kevin's sister) water had broke. She is only 31 weeks pregnant so this was a little unnerving. So needless to say she was in the hospital and they were doing lots of things. The did an ultrasound and said the baby weighed 3 lbs and her amniotic fluid level were still safe. So then they started magnesium to stop the contractions which made her horribly sick and gave her steroids to help the baby's lungs develop. She came off the magnesium on Tues and did well. Yesterday (Wednesday) she started having contractions again and the doctor decided it was time to take the baby. So Laura went in for a caesarean and little Tyler John was born at 5:15 p.m. He weighs 3 lbs, 12 oz is 17 in long and Laura was able to hold him right away when he was born. Obviously he is still very small but breathing well and will not have to be incubated so congrats to Laura and John (her husband). Laura is doing OK but she is exhausted so we will keep all of them in our prayers. Hopefully this weekend I will get to see the new baby and will have pictures to share.