It's A Girl

Introducing...

Lauren Ashlee Wass

Born May 27, 2008 at 3:28 am

6 Pounds 2 Ounces, 18 Inches

Isn't she beautiful?

Big brother Jack holding baby sister Lauren

He thinks she's pretty wonderful :)

Just Because...

:) Pictures Just For Fun :)

Brad and Alyssa on an island in Seattle last summer.

Joy set the playpen up for Jack... Brad and Alyssa thought it would be fun for them and the dogs to lounge in. Silly kids!

Alyssa was baptized this Easter. Unfortunatly I was unable to come home for the occasion.

Isn't he the cuttest! He's going to be a great big brother :)

Brad is one smart kid! He got a cool award from the Air Force at the big science fair in Billings. He's going to be in Jr. High next year! Yikes! I remember at my 8th grade graduation he was walking around calling Aunt Traci. He was so little then and now he'll be graduating from Jr. High next year. I'm getting so old.

This is Jack at the Zoo in Seattle. I LOVED the gorillas and could have spent hours watching them. They are intersting creatures!

This is Nicole and I at the Blue Star coffee shop in Roundup. I miss her! I'm pretty sure she is the one the introduced me to the sweet nectar of coffee.

My sweet cat Tike... He lives with my parents.

Me and my sweet friends... Ericka (she lives in stupid Moscow, Jan, and Irene)

Last summer I got silly. Ericka has a whole album of beautiful straw pictures of me.

So tired...

I am so tired... I didn't get to sleep until after 12 am for some reason... it's annoying... hopefully I can get a small nap in this morning after the girls get off to school. It's day's like this I wish they all departed at the same time! As for a baby update... Last time I talked to home Dawn was in labor but not labor labor. Like she's not admitted to the hospital yet. If she was I wouldn't be right here typing this :0 I'm hoping I'm rested enough to drive 8 hours straight through. I'll be fine I'm sure. The adrenaline will keep me going.

Speaking of babies

... there is not a new baby in my family yet. I'm still hoping for a couple of weeks as I'm not really ready to drive 8 hours yet. I still need to pack my bag, get my oil changed, fill up with gas, and have enough money in the bank to make this trip with the stupid expensive gas! I'm so looking forward to going home for a few days though. I really love and miss my family.

I officially...

Get to go see one of my greatest friends and her husband and family in July. I will be traveling to Omaha again this summer but on a professional trip. I've never taken one of those before. I must really be growing up! I'm going to a conference at Boys Town on Teaching Social Skills. I'm really looking forward to the information. But mostly I'm looking forward to the extra days I get to spend with one of my favorite people... one of my favorite pregnant people at that! I should probably call them and let them know I am coming for sure. Yea for friends... Yea for work... Yea for traveling... Yea for babies.

It's 2 am... I should be asleep

But I'm not... So I'll write a bit about my weekend. I may have had the most boring weekend ever. Seriously! I spent 2 whole day's alone. Well except for the couple of hours on Friday night where I kicked some butt bowling... I beat 2 boys... I'm proud! And... I went to a movie Saturday night... It was nice to get out of the house to do those things with people. Anyway... you would think I would love some time to myself being that I am with people all of the time during my work week but no... Life is really boring when spent alone.

An enjoyment...

I have a selfish reason (just one though) for liking my job at Hutton. Because of my work here I have been able to take in some free entertainment. Just recently I was able to see Disney's High School Musicals Broadway production that came to Spokane. I was also able to see the Newsboys all for free. It's nice seeing shows and not paying the price of the ticket. Another show I saw recently was courtesy of my friend Jan's work at Ticket's West... we were able to see Mama Mia on Broadway. We had an excellent time and I might add that part of that was our front row center seats. It was excellent and I hope to see a few of the shows coming to Spokane next season. Annie is on the top of my list as well as Ain't Misbehavin' with American Idol Reben Studdard. We will see I suppose. Anyway... I have to do some stuff called work I guess!

An Update

Here is a life update... Someday I may add more details but I have been extremely busy as of late!

Well... I am working and that has been really busy. I have decided that I am here (at Hutton) for who knows how long. It could be forever! I'm planning on going to grad school next fall (2009) to get my Masters in Counseling. That means I need to take the GRE which I'm not to excited about. I'm waiting on a promotion that would take me out of the houseparent role which would than allow me some extra time to focus on school stuff. I think God may have me here for quite some time. We will see I guess. I firmly believe that He placed me here so He is going to have to take me away I guess.

I recently was able to direct at Youth Retreat at the camp I have been working at since college. It was really wonderful and I'm excited to direct again. It was one of my life dreams fulfilled and it got great reviews.

I'm going to be going to Omaha this summer to go to a workshop on teaching Social Skills in July. I'm going to be able to take some extra days and stay to visit with Danielle and Ryan (who are expecting by the way!!!!). I'm excited about that trip. It will be my first professional traveling. I feel like a grown up.

In the next month or so I'll be jetting (more like driving quickly) to Billings as my sister is about to have her baby. My boss is being extremely great and is letting me just leave as soon as I hear she is in labor. I've asked her to be in labor for 10 hours so I can get there. I'm selfish I guess and she wasn't to happy with that idea. I'm hoping the labor wing will at least not be closed like when Jack was born! I also was told by my sister that her in-laws bought another float house in Bayview and that makes me happy because that means Dawn and Marc and kids will be around more this summer! Yes... that makes me excited :)

For work I need to work on some trip options for service learning in Montana. One option will be going up north and the other will be going south west. I'm hoping for the south west option so hope I can get some pretty awesome ideas down.

Anyway... that's probably way more than enough for now. Hope you are all doing well :)