I am sad to say that I will be missing my 20^th year high school reunion next weekend as I will be in the hospital. Grrrr. All my high school friends are flying in and I will miss seeing everyone.

I think we have settled on the name Samantha Giada and will call her Giada, Gia or GiGi – take your pick. They are inducing labor on Thursday night and expect to have our first child by Friday late. We have spent the week saying Our LAST Saturday Night Live without a baby, our LAST Sunday morning to sleep late. I guess we are ready – but I figure no one really is.

From my Mom: We went over to Amy’s yesterday and Michael saw the nursery for the first time.  Kate really did a lot to help out as Amy has so much more done than when I was over last.  They have also gotten the plumbing straitened out in the upstairs bathroom and the guest bedroom all set up.  They have new doors in their office/den which really look great.  You can see to the back yard from the front door which really gives a spacious feeling to the house.  They are going to baptism class at St. Rita tomorrow and hope to get the baby baptized at Thanksgiving.  It has rained and rained here and is much cooler than it was, but not as cold as some of the places baseball is being played.