Thanksgiving

For those of you who don't know, my mom's birthday was on Thanksgiving this year. She turned the big 5-0. To surprise her my dad took her to Mexico. We were invited to go with Tim and Kristen and my Aunt Virginia to relax for the week, but with a third trimester wife we declined. The last thing I needed was to watch Chrystal go into labor in Mexico and completely forfeit the chance of Spencer becoming President some day. So with that all said I had to cook Thanksgiving dinner for the first time. Aunt Stacy came over, we ate and watched terrible football.

My first turkey. It was delicious.

The whole spread.

Just a quick note, the next doctors appointment is on December 9th so you may not hear much more from us until then. Have a good one.

Baby shower, the prequel

Back in late September Chrystal and I headed out to Kentucky for her 10 year high school reunion and to see family. Ethel, the soon to be mimi, got the family together to throw us a surprise baby shower. Needless to say Spencer is ready to be decked out in UK Wildcats gear for a little while. We want to send a huge thank you to Ethel for the planning and Johnny and Paula for hosting the party and us for the weekend. Also thanks to everyone who was able to make it.

Chrystal's favorite cake, ice cream.

Spencer's first Wildcat Tee.

The baby bouncer which is being mailed back to us due to the airlines new multiple bag charges.

This is the best picture we have of Alex including all the ones from the wedding.

Here is the only picture taken at the reunion. Its Chrystal and her friend Sarah.

Chrystal was able to take me to Churchill Downs as I had never been. For you nonhorseracing fans this is the home of the Kentucky Derby. Here are the famous Twin Spires.

This is the infield of Churchill Downs.

And this is the neighborhood Churchill Downs is in. Unfortunately we had to get down to London and missed the contest.

It seems to be the cool thing to do...

Well we finally took the time to set up a blog to keep all the family and friends updated on the happenings of this soon to be family of three. We just had a baby shower thrown by my mom and Aunt Stacy. They did a heck of a job with the decorations and getting the word out. Thank you very much ladies. Also thank you to all who came as Chrystal loved it. I was out watching a family movie with Tim as this wasn't a manly thing to attend. For those who don't know, we are having a boy, Spencer William Townsend. He is due Feb 15th and will be here before we know it. Here are a few of the pictures from the shower and even a few scans of the little guy!

The cake before the crew was unleashed on it.

Shawna, A.J., Kim and some of Chrystal's co workers.

Oh the excitement of waiting for Chrystal to open a present.

You can never have enough baseball themed clothes.

This is part of the 49ers apparel from Great Grandma and Grandpa Cirica. It also included a great 49er running suit. I am currently trying to find it in my size.

This is from Spencer's 19 week ultrasound. This is where we learned it was in fact Spencer and not the girl's name we had chosen.

He's a good lookin' kid.

I am still learning this whole blog thing so I promise in the near future it will be exciting. For now its main purpose is to keep the grandmas, grandpa, aunts, uncles, god fathers, god mothers, in Daren's case god girl friends or god hook ups, and other friends updated with news as we get it.