Brock James Fausett

Looks like the date change didn't matter in the end. August 27th @ 1:34 PM Amber gave birth to Brock. He weighed in at 7 lbs 6 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. Amber's water broker at 11:30 PM the night before and we began the labor process. She was dilated to a 10 by 9:30 AM but her contractions stopped. We finally started pushing at 10:30 AM and gave birth to baby Brock 2 hours later.

Date Change

I guess I spoke a little to soon. I just got of the phone with my doctor's office and they want to change the date that they induce me. We are now getting induced a day later. Aug 29 (fri). It is just a day later but I am still bummed, not only do we have to wait one more day to meet our little guy, I really liked the date 8-28-08. Oh well what can you do. Wish us luck.

THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

We went to the doctor today and have set a date to be induced if we don't go into labor before. August 28 we are going to be parents. Yikes! We are so excited. So I have one week to get the house in order and everything ready. Since I have stopped working I should have plenty of time to get everything done. We will let everyone know how it all goes and post pictures so you all can see our cute little baby boy.

Baby Brock at 36 weeks. He wouldn't move his arm from infront of his face. He was sucking on his arm the entire ultrasound. It was so cute. We are so excited to meet him.

Brad the World Traveler

Ok maybe not "world traveler" but close. Brad has been out of town 4 out of the last 5 weeks for one reason or another. I am glad he is done. I joined him on a couple of the trips and that was enough for me. I need my own bed to sleep in.
First he went to Las Vegas to transfer some business accounts for a client. He was only there for a couple days but he had fun playing the game Acquire with his parents. (he doesn't get to play that often when I'm around because I'm the biggest fan. Sorry!)
We then both went to California for his friend Patrick's wedding. It was nice to be there but it was so hot and humid. We went to the beach where Brad got to go body boarding, and lost his wedding ring. Luckily it was his and not mine. The wedding was beautiful and Stephanie had a gorgeous dress. However the hotel Brad and I stayed at was less than impressive. We had reservations at one hotel for the whole trip, but after one night I told Brad there is no way I could stay there another night. The bed was horribly uncomfortable, I got no sleep. So we checked out and moved to another hotel on the condition that we could get a refund on the first hotel. We were told we could, but it has yet to come. The second hotel however didn't have a queen bed it only had 2 full sized beds, so we ended up sleeping on separate beds, which ended working out ok because I didn't wake up Brad every time I had to get out of bed to go to the bathroom. Both the hotels were very old and not taken very good care of. After that experience I told Brad we will only be staying at chain hotels that we know are nice for now on.
The following weekend Brad's company had their summer regional conference in Steamboat Springs. I also went on this trip. The hotel was very nice, I was super excited! It was so beautiful there. If Brad and I can every afford a vacation home I think it might be there. The town is still a small ski town, so it has a lot of charm. We went down the alpine slide, walked around the downtown area and just caught up on our sleep. It was a very relaxing trip. It was very nice of Edward Jones to pay for this trip. They do a trip like this every year for their advisers and families. We are so lucky that Brad was able to get this job. He has been doing great and I am so proud of him.
Brad then had a week home before he had to go the St Louis for a couple of days for training. This trip was short, he was only gone for 2 nights. I hate being home alone so I was very happy it wasn't like his other training trips that are a week long. This was the last trip of the summer. We are now just going to be busy getting ready for the baby. We are both happy to have a couple months at home to spend together.

It's Official, We Have A Name.

We have finally decided on a name for our little guy. Drum roll please........... It is Brock James Fausett. We think it will fit him well and we are so excited to welcome him to the world. We had to buy a plane tickets to go to Vegas for Thanksgiving, so we had to give a name for the ticket. So there is no changing it now.

OH BOY IT'S O TOWN

Okay so this is hilarious and if I don't write it down now I will probably forget. So Amber and I were in California at my friends wedding (Patio) great wedding and reception by the way. Wade, my friend from Cali was sitting next to us and kept asking me where we knew the MC of the night from. I had no idea, I had never seen him before. While the MC was very good and entertaining Wade insisted that he went to school with us.

Finally Patrick and his lovely bride (Stephanie) came over and answered the Wades question. "How do I know this guy?"

Pat answered that this guy was in the boy band O Town which I guess was created from a show called Making the Band on MTV.

So I found two things very funny here:
1) Why is this guy Trevor MCing a wedding, I thought he was a big star. Who knows maybe we will see the boys of NSYNC doing high school graduations next.
In his defense....He was very good at what he does, very entertaining.

2) Here poses my second question, why did Wade recognize this guy? He told me he was "shamefully a fan of the show." I think it is something more. I went to the OTown website and it looks like the band was created somewhere around 2002. 6 years have gone by since the show. I think Wade was or still is a huge fan of the band and quite possibly could have posters of Trevor and his buddies plastered all over his room. How else would you recognize this guy?

I should be nicer because Wade will probably never read this post and therefor will not be able to defend himself but come on that's funny.