Family Chaos!!!

This past weekend, was full of good stuff. My (Mark's) dad, step-mom Kathey, and mom (aka: Nonna) were all in town and staying under our roof. No need to go back and read that again, yes I typed it correctly. Everyone had a great time visiting, seeing Nashville, and being excited about the future addition to the family.

Dad & I spent the day Saturday looking for the much fabled but never confirmed Bacigalupo cemetary in Nashville. After a little driving, we found the place...it's a cemetary of about 18, and has the grave of my great-great-great grandfather that came here from Italy. Some may think it a little weird, but we both thought it was pretty cool.


Kathey, Nonna, and Karen all did the girl thing, and shopped all day. Being a guy, I don't know how to elaborate on that one...they shopped, end of story.

Sunday, Dad & I did some male bonding (also known as sleeping while watching football) while the ladies went to the baby shower. From what I can see & what Karen says, there was a really good turn out, and we...I mean Bella...got some great gifts. Kenzie (Karen's sister), Beth and Rachel (Karen's sisters-in-law) did a great job with the shower. There's quite a bit of video on the shower...let me know if you'd like to see it.

On that note, we were given a digital camcorder/camera this weekend. We'll use it to take lots of video and stills of Bella when she gets here. Until she does get here, we're a little limited on pictures of her, but for now, here are the best one's I've got.


Now, we're both trying to get rested up and everything in the house ready for her to get here.

Quick update

Well, we're about 6 weeks away from the official due date. Karen had a check up today & the doctor said everything's looking pretty good. Baby is healthy, Karen's healthy.

Dr. Burch told her to wait at least one week before going into labor. If she (Bella) decides to come early, he'll just let her go ahead any time after next week. Makes things a little scarry to think that sometime between a week from now and a month after the due date (if Bella takes after her dad) we'll be parents. Of course, I realize that in this day & age they don't let a baby wait until a month after the due date...and Karen is very happy about that.

This weekend, all of the grandparents will be in Nashville for the shower at Karen's aunt's house. So, I'm sure that I'll have fun stories to share on here once everyone's gone back home. Don't worry, I won't share anything too embarassing on here about other people.

Tomorrow, is the shower for our friends Marc & Lorie. It's really crazy that Marc & I grew up together in Memphis, went to Lipscomb together, and are due to become dads within a week of each other. Granted, I'm only having 1...he gets to enjoy having a boy & a girl (I'm still trying to convince them to use the names Luke & Leia ,

but I don't see it happening).

First blog

Well, I figured it was time to catch up with the rest of the world on blogging. Just adding yet another one to the seemingly endless fad of the blog.

Karen & I will try to use this to keep family & friends updated on life with Bella. I doubt that either one of us will be able to post anything as deep as Adam Metz www.supermetz.blogspot.com, but occasionally one of us might try. I'm sure you'll read things about faith, Memphis sports, and the crazy life of raising our first kid-o.

Feel free to add comments as we continue to update everyone!