I'm at Mom and Dad's tonight... they're inducing labor for Rachael bright and early tomorrow morning, and I'm very ready and excited to meet my first niece!! =) Pray for a smooth labor and delivery for Rach!
In a totally random subject change, I found these old pictures of our backyard at 9121 (the house where Rach and I grew up - 1993 to 2007), then I used my phone to take a picture of the pictures. They turned out a little grainy, but I like that it gives it a back-in-the-day feel. lol
It really was a great place to grow up - looking at these pics, I realized I have so many fun memories specifically in the backyard:
The whole fam writing our initials and the date in the wet cement behind the fence where we kept the rafts and other pool toys... Cookouts / swim parties with dad's fam... swim races and rollerblading with the Wallaces - Clint and I were a team vs. Rach and Ty... practicing basketball and volleyball with the fam... End of Year swim parties with our classmates... making up synchronized swimming routines with Rach, Ashley, and Amber (that had to be entertaining for our parents to watch)... playing "divastics" (doing some random gynmastics moves off the diving board) with Rach, Allie, Casey, and Kara... swimming and laying out with JoBug, Blake, and Emily... our dog, Kelsey, running herself ragged chasing us around the pool... "studying" with Josh at the table with the yellow umbrella... taking a mini-break from swimming to eat the fruity pebble rice krispie treats Mom made for us...
The time the storm blew the table and chairs into our pool... doing "funoodle flips" off the diving board, which was my favorite thing... Heather testing out the diving board to see if there was still a wasp nest under it (that happened a couple times)... Rach and I nearly drowning ourselves whenever a wasp would fly over our head... playing the movie titles/quotes game (where whoever guessed had to swim to you first, then it was their turn to give out a clue)... Jordan S. pushing me into the pool... Mark pushing Holly in fully dressed :)... painting the back driveway with Mom and Josh... playing "Superkids" in the fort with Blake, Rach, and Emma... diving for Havno's money... swinging and singing "Down by the Bay" with JB on the 4th of July... building the "world's largest snowman" with Mark and Rach (and giving up after creating one gigantic snowball)... etc. I'm sure there are more, but that's plenty for now. :)
Last random thought - I got to see Dirty Dancing on the big screen on Sunday (and took all these pics with my iphone, as if anyone could tell the difference)! The final dance is so fantastic and spinny, and Patrick Swayze is just sexy all around - like a grown up version of Jess who can dance. lol I have been a fan of that movie for a while, and seriously tried to learn the last dance by rewinding it 1,000 times when I was in high school. And since everything is better on the big screen, that was pretty fun for me. =)
Anyway, it's late, and I'm getting up at 6:00 to go to the hospital...
I'm sure I'll be posting plenty of pictures of little Kyndal Faith soon! Get excited!!
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