New hair

As you may have noticed in the picture of Caeli and me, I have curly hair now.

I'm looking forward to the ease this will bring to getting myself ready.

I have another neice!

Caeli Marie was born on Monday, 9lb 4 oz... Suzanne is doing great and it is so fun seeing Bobby as a dad. They are such a cute family. Bobby and Suzanne are such natural parents. I'll have to borrow some more pictures of them from my mom, but here is what I have now. I was surprised they let Joey and MJ into the hospital. But it was nice to not have to take turns with them outside of the room.

And here is a tired yet cute Joey with his Aunt Kathy.

Our ND trip

The first part of our ND trip started off great. Mario and I managed to rendezvous in Cleveland Friday night. I drove with the boys from VA and Mario flew from Connecticut where he was working. We got him about 8:30 and then finished the 4 hour drive to South Bend.

We were pleasantly surprised by the beautiful ND fall day. It was supposed to be rainy (I packed an entire bag of coats, panchos and other rain gear that we never used). I wish we had taken more pictures, but here is a start.

First, Mario, MJ, and I went to see the band warm up b/c we can hear them from where we tailgate and are close (Joey was taking his first nap in the car).

 

We got some good use out of the pack n play. I originally brought it to use in St. Louis, but it came in handy to keep crawling Joey out of trouble.

 

And here are some cute pictures of MJ, Joey, and my Dad.