Life's a beach...

...even at 48!! Happy Birthday Judi! We spent Sunday at the beach in Vero, FL and then had dinner out at the Greenhill's fave beach side restaurant. It was a beautiful day and nice to spend time with the family, except AJ he was home studying for finals :( Hope you had a good birthday Judi, we had a fun spending it with you!

Congratulations Alex!!!!

We finally made it to FL just in time for the BIG graduation ceremony!! Alex Greenhill graduated 8th in her class of 450/500 and was right in the front row, smarty pants. We are so glad we were able to watch her walk the stage and receive her diploma. Now off to University of Tampa, GO SPARTANS!!

Kicking and punching

I have been feeling little flutter movements over the past few days. I am sitting at work and the baby was just moving around, so I touched my stomach to see if I could feel anything and sure enough, it was kicking and punching hard enough to feel it. Jeremy was trying to feel something last night before we fell asleep, that's when it's been moving abound most, but no luck. He'll be excited to feel some movements now! I was just eating oreos, just a little treat for the baby, probably why it's moving around so much. Since it likes them so much, I'll just have to eat lots more!

A Memorable Memorial Day

Finally we got to see and hold the adorable and tiny Madison. She finally made it home and mom, dad and Madison are very happy to be in their own home! The first day and night at home seemed to be going well and I hope Madison continues to thrive at home. She's such a content little bitty thing and so sweet. We lucked out because when we got there she just finished eating and was "wide" awake, well as awake as a 1 week old can be. Videos to come...

Vacations

We're leaving this upcoming weekend for a little vacation to visit the Greenhill's in FL and then up to Atlanta and Cincinnati for a couple Cubs games. I am so looking forward to getting away and enjoying some R&R! This weekend I went home, again, and dropped Molly and Riley off for their vacation, 2 weeks at Norbert and Ella's house. It's really weird not having them around and a little lonely too! I'm sure they are having the time of their life and playing so hard they are going to be exhausted when we pick them back up! If anyone has any suggestions of places to visit on our way to our destinations or once we arrive, let us know we're still wide open in our down time!

Happy Birthday Madison Rose Fink!!

Madison Rose was born 4 weeks early and is a happy and healthy little girl!! She is in NICU for another day or two, so we were not able to hold her, but saw her through a window. The nurse graciously took this picture of the happy family. We're so glad everyone is doing so well. She is 5 lbs 11 oz and not sure how long. She was born at 9:50pm and Joleen went from 3 cm dilation to 6 cm in about 15 mintues and shortly after was pushing. The labor was smooth and easy and she only pushed about 45 minutes, this is from Joleen's mouth!! We can't wait to hold her in person and meet little Madison!

We had our ultrasound today and it's a....

SURPRISE!! We didn't find out the sex, but we know it's healthy! Everything looks good, the baby is big for being 20 1/2 weeks, the ultrasound tech actually said I'm reading about a week early, but fingers, toes, eyes, ears and mouth are all present and accounted for! Not the greatest pics the baby kept putting it's hands in front of it's face and the umbilical cord was in the way for most of them, but very cool all the same. My fave picture is the one where it's rubbing it's eyes, already so cute. The tech kept saying that it was moving around a lot and how cute the nose is, I think these are both good things!! The heart beat was a little higher than last time at 145, so it could be guessed as a girl this week, we'll see. And no, McLaughlin's, we're not telling anyone the names, those will also be surprises. You'll just have to wait until September before you know, that probably kills most of you, especially you Shari!!