So many pics, so little time

Well, these are a week late, but here are pics from Justin's first day of Pre-K. He started his second week today. He goes 3 days/week for 2-1/2 hours. This is his second year at the same school, which we love. He has a new teacher but many other familiar faces. He is always reluctant to go but always happy and excited when I go to pick him up. He just isn't much of a morning person, but mine as well get him used to it now because in a couple years he'll go all day and won't have the option of morning or afternoon.

Here he is showing an oft unseen "normal" smile.

Here he is being his usual picture taken self.

And yet again.

Well I promised them weeks ago and here they finally are...

Pics of our remodeled kitchen. It's pretty much done. There are still a few little tweaks (or tweeks ?) that need to be made. I finally got everything in the cabinets. As you can see, there are a lot of cabinets, but believe it or not, I filled them up. I must say that they are not filled tightly though. There is still tons of room in them and the drawers. The old cabinets that Dale very carefully removed are actually being put to good use out in the garage. The wall with all the tall cabinets you see in the first pic is put up pretty much just like you see along the back wall of the garage along with a row of the base cabinets that he is going to put a counter top on and use as a workbench. He is also going to hang one of the wall units up. It's nice to be able to reuse them. They were very well built custom cabinets, but just not our style.

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

I wanted to show this pic to show my Father in Law how I am now displaying some of the Lough Family china. Also, I'm displaying the crystal that Harold and Sharon gave us for our wedding along with the crystal wine glasses I bought in Prague Czechoslovakia about 13 years ago. The glasses and the crystal from the wedding actually are the same pattern, which I never realized since they hadn't been out much. It's nice to be able to display stuff like that.

And finally, over the weekend there was some excitement when I became an aunt yet again to a new baby....

BOY!

My sister, Marcie, wasn't actually due until Oct. 2nd/3rd but was going to be induced today because there have been problems with low amniotic fluid. We were all a bit nervous and ready for he/she to arrive. They ended up inducing her on Sat. due to really low fluid and the baby's heartrate dropping. Around 8:00 P.M. on 9/15, the contractions started to get pretty hard and at 9:00, she was getting ready for an epidural, but by 9:15 before she could even get the epidural, she had to push and couldn't hold it. Without a doctor and with the nurses not even ready, baby came flying out. Grandma Judi actually caught him. Collin Ace was born on 9/15 at 9:20 P.M. He was 6 lbs, 6 oz and 18-1/2 inches--just a tiny peanut but healthy and home now with mom, dad and big brother, Caden. I was there when he was born, and it was like deja vu because other than her actually being in a real birthing room, that was pretty much like my delivery with Owen. It's crazy and scary at the time, but once it's over, you realize that it was a pretty easy delivery (maybe she wouldn't agree with me on that just yet).

Proud big brother, Caden
And proud big cousins

Okay, that's all for today. Hope you all have a happy Monday and a good week.

TTFN--Ta Ta For Now