Vidalia Pearl

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Weight: 9 lbs 1 oz
Height: 21 inches
Time: 3:11 pm
Date: Tuesday December 28th

Pictures to come...once I figure it out.  (Or I'll just steal this one from my sister's facebook for now.)

Monday

I'm going to have a baby tomorrow...I'm pretty sure, pretty much positive.

Sunday

Sundays are fabulous!  I like them a lot.  Even when they're busy, which this Sunday is not particularly, they are still more peaceful than most days it seems.  Well, I successfully didn't have a Christmas baby.  I think she'll be born on Tuesday sometime.  Happy Sunday!

Saturday

Merry Christmas everyone!  Hope it was absolutely wonderful...and continues to be.  :)

Friday

Happy Christmas Eve!

Thursday

We went to the Madsen Family Christmas Party today...it was good.  No baby.  Maybe another day.  :)  Actually, I'm finding it funny how much more anxious everyone besides me seems to be (not that I don't want her to come because I definitely do).  Isn't it going to be exciting when I have something exciting to post on here though?

She Passed!!

Melissa passed the fundamentals of engineering exam!

Wednesday

No baby today, but I did get my results from the FE exam I took in October.  They won't load, so I don't know if I passed or failed.  Now I'm going to have to tell you if I did fail... oh well.

Tuesday

I'm feeling a little uncreative, hence yesterday the title was Monday and today it is Tuesday.  Today is my due date.  I think I'll play games and go shopping a little later.

Oh, good news, my doctor got my induction date changed to start next Monday night instead of next Tuesday night, this means 1) We have a maximum of a week to meet our little baby and 2) There's now actually a chance Papa (Ryan's dad) will get to meet her before he goes back to Boston!  Yay!!!

Monday

Today is Monday.  I'm due tomorrow.  I doubt she'll be born tomorrow, but I do wish she would be.  That would be nice.  :)

Christmas Surprise!

We had a most exciting Christmas surprise this year!  Papa (Ryan's dad) showed up yesterday from Boston.  They told us they couldn't afford to come.  We were VERY disappointed, but had come to terms with it.  It was very exciting.  I'm sure Ryan will tell you a story about how it all happened.  Anyhow, Papa has to leave again on the 28th, so I'm suddenly feeling more like this baby girl needs to come and come soon so that they can meet at least.  The 28th is the day the doctor will induce me if she doesn't come before then.  Oh and we moved out of our apartment and are now major moochers!  :)

Finals Week

For me it is officially ended.  Tomorrow we move out of our apartment.  I think I'll now take one day at a time and try to continue to get rid of my cold.  You know, even with a cold, it wasn't all so bad.  :)

School or Venting, I'm not sure which.

I'm currently finding the end of this semester to be one of the most ironic things in my life.  I know very well that come the end of this week school will be over....not just for the semester, but it will really really finally be over.  The ironic part is that I still see no 'light at the end of the tunnel'.  You know, the one they say you're supposed to start to see when you get close to graduating.  In other words, this is the absolute longest semester of my life and it is NEVER going to end...okay, it will end, but unfortunately, I was very done with school last April.  On a brighter note, I discovered that I miscalculated something for one of my classes, I was thinking I had to get 90% or higher on the final to pass the class and I only need 70%, so that relieves quite a bit of finals stress.  Maybe it's God's nice way of helping me cope with this random finals week sickness I have (okay, just a cold, but colds make me really kind of sick while I'm pregnant).  Anyhow, I'm trying to use what I've learned from attending Recovery and not expect so much from myself this week, seeing how as I really can't do as much as I'd like to.

On a more baby note, I'm due next week (on Tuesday).  I suspect baby will not be born this week.  I hope baby will be born next week.  If not, she will be born the next week (thanks to induction).  Oh, and remember how she was gonna be huge, well, she's still gonna be huge!  I had an ultrasound last week and her estimated weight was 8 lbs 1 oz.  I think it must come from the Armstrong side of the family because I was one of my mother's bigger babies, born 1 day before my due date at a whopping 6 lbs 3 oz.  Needless to say, I'm a little surprised by the hugeness of my baby, but pleased that (from what I've been told) the weight should help her be healthier, especially in the wonderful RSV and flu season she will be born.  I think I sound cynical, I'm sorry.  We're excited to meet our baby and be done with school.  Oh, and those of you we don't actually talk to on a regular basis, we're moving to Nebraska.  I guess we haven't mentioned that yet.

Blah blah blah...this means I'm using too many words.  :)  Merry Christmas!

I stole this from my brother-in-law...

‎1) Go to Google Translate
2) Set the translator to translate German to German
3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch
4) Click “listen”
5) Be amazed :)


I was amused.  


P.S.  I had my last day of classes today.  1 assignment, 2 papers, 2 tests, hopefully all done by the end of next Wednesday and then I'm free to not feel guilty while doing more fun things!  :)

Song for Melissa

This is the song I wrote for Melissa. WE like it a lot!
I sang this for my niece Amy yesterday in the car and her response was:
"That song is... funnnny!"

Enjoy


(1.5 hours later) Blogger spent the last hour and a half loading it but it never loaded. I did however successfully post it on Youtube.

Please follow that link!
I love my wife!!

Bonnie Noel Parks and Richard Armstrong

Yay!!
I'm so happy! Foremost and Firstly that I get to be alive; I love life!
This post is dedicated to two dear friends of mine who recently had birthdays! Yay!

One so recent that she is still having it!
Bonnie Parks has been good to me our entire life. And we're still really good friends; couldn't ask for better! (I had in mind this would be more poetic but it turned out not being such)

The guy next to me just asked the person he's on the phone with "Are you talking?" Haha! That's been an inside joke for the Armstrong family ever since me and Nate Cerny started mumbling.

Richard Armstrong has always been someone I can talk to and confide in. He has taught me many valuable lessons and always been a fan of mine. He has always shown me that he wants me to succeed. He has shown through his example what is really important and of eternal significance. I can never repay him for all the things he has done for me in my life.

Obrigadão meu pai! Te amo!

I am thankful for these fun friends.
Feliz Aniversario!! Happy Birthday!

Dr. Adams

This is the dialogue I had with Dr. Adams (my materials professor) today.

Me: "Dr. Adams, can I quit now and get a C?"

Dr. Adams: "I don't think you're a quitter."

He never answered my question.  I was severely disappointed.  Maybe he didn't answer it because the answer is yes...

Yay Certification!!

Check this out!

Yay!

And what Melissa posted is really cool too.

Seriously

This is cool.

On Second Thought

Very recently I proclaimed that Nita should have a girl and Bonnie a boy or visa versa, you know, to keep my niece to nephew ratio 1, but I have decided I would rather them all be girls because then my baby and the two of them would all be in the same grade.  That would just be fun.  While I'm at it, I should say that all Cernys having babies around these same times should have girls too.  That is all.  (Oh, Bonnie, your next two kids after this need to be boys though, unless people on my side of the family have some, just thought you would like to be informed.)