WELCOME BABY!

It has been an eventful few days around the Lee household. We were supposed to have a baby on July 27. Well, the Lord had other plans. Our little bundle of joy decided to come on Friday, July 25 instead. After going to the Dr. on Friday morning she had us go to the hospital for some monitoring. My blood pressure was a little high so she wanted to watch me. Long story short, after about 2 hours she came over and told us we were going to have a baby that day!!!!

As Mark and I had made plans to run errands, go to a movie and finish baby stuff (install car seat, get crib ready, do laundry, etc) this news took us quite by surprise. We are very spur of the moment kind of folks and this even tripped us out. A little TOO spur if you ask me!!! I really wasn't expecting to have a baby that day. Oh, well. here we go.....

At 3:44 with the help of an AMAZING surgeon and even better drugs our bundle of joy was delivered via ziplock method (c-section) Have i ever mentioned how glad I am the Lord gave these Dr.'s the brains to figure out these kind of things. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my sections. Crazy huh- anyway...

I now present our darling
Katherine Marlow Lee
9 lbs. 7 oz.

she is named for some very special folks in our lives. My grandmother Katherine Turner was my hero, and a woman that loved the Lord with all of her person, she was strong, independent, loving and the most special person I have ever known. It makes me so happy to pass this namesake on to our little one. Marlow is Mark's mom's mothers maiden name- confused. Let's just say that Marlow is a grandmother name on his mom's side. What will we call her. Not sure. Maybe Kitty, Kat, Katy or Marlow. Who knows. Right now I just know that we have a very GOOD baby,

a very PROUD big sister and a family of 4!!! It is great.

As a side note Third Day released an album on the 29th, played on Jay Leno on the 29th and have "street week" stuff going on until Sunday. So please pray for Mark as he left on Monday night for about 8 days. I know he misses all of his girls! I know his "girls" miss him too.

HIATUS

As some of you may or may not know I am having a baby in about 2 weeks. Therefore, with the excitement and such I am going to take a bit of a blogging hiatus. I may post or not, but please keep me in your thoughts and prayers. Come back in August. We should be ready to go by then. Until next post.....

Thursday 13

13 Random Facts about me. Post yours as comments or link to your blog!!!
thanks Hollie
1. I don't really like my middle name
2. I have really small feet
3. Birds really freak me out- can't stand them
4. I don't really stress that much- mom & brother do, don't understand it
5. When I was little I thought I would marry someone famous- I guess I kinda did!!!
6. I took piano as a child- hated teacher/hated piano
7. I was a cheerleader
8. I can Clog- look it up if you're not from the South
9. I don't like seafood
10. Nor do I like eggs
11. When I was little every Saturday night we had steaks, baked potato, salad & watched HeeHaw (again, look up if not from the South or just too stinkin' young)
12. I have 2 "REAL" adoption dolls (again with the look up for you younguns)
13. I still love to drink Kool-Aid

Enjoy!

Third Day on the 3rd Day

Supportive wife- check
Crazy husband- check
Blog post- check

Mark has begun this great little adventure over at the Third Day Blog called "Third Day on the Third Day". Catchy title!!!
Each month on the 3rd he will have a time for fans to write what they want about the band and link back to the Third Day blog. Being the afore mentioned supportive wife I am I thought- why not???

Really, he didn't MAKE me do it!!!

So, what to say, well I plan on posting some great fun times we as a family have had- where to begin.....

Cleveland, TN- sometime before the earth was cooling in 1994

Picture it, a bunch of stinky men and some really cute ladies pile into a van. A van that smells like old food, dirty socks and well...stinky boys- YUCK. We have the trailer hooked up, someone driving and off we head to Cleveland, TN (just a couple hours away from home).

This was a rare time in our life when the girls got to go "on the road" with the guys b/c they were doing this show and then coming right back home. During this time they were so busy that this NEVER happened. It was a small miracle.

So we go without problem to the show. It is being held at Lee College- when we got there we couldn't find where they were supposed to play. They drive around, ask folks where to go, everyone seems frazzled that we talk to mind you, but we still don't know where to go. So finally we get our bearings, Tai is driving and this van/trailer is NOT easy to maneuver. As we approach the building a guard stops the van.... what this is the ROCK STARS!!!

Cop-"You can't come in here"
Third Day- "We are here to do a show tonight this is where we are supposed to set up and play"
Cop- "I don't think so, one of the dorms burnt down and this is what we are using to house the students affected"
ALL OF US- WHAT!!!!

long story short, we DID NOT do that show and NO ONE had told us it was cancelled- NICE.

Being the young, hungry guys they were they decided (after the frustration of driving a few hours for NOTHING subsided) we would just go eat. We are leaving town and just making the best of things and all of a sudden the van is what I would call riding on 2 wheels!!! Somehow we had missed the big curb divider in the road and we ran over it at speeds no less than about 45. It was CRAZY. I just remember we all freaked, noone had seen it and then we all laughed like crazy. I can still think back to that time and laugh.

The last memory I have of that day is we drive by a store called "TAPE CITY", I told you it was a LONG time ago- and Mark declared that if he ever had a store if would be named "SOMETHING CITY" b/c that was the coolest name EVER. WEIRDO!!!!

My tale of early Third Day may not be fun to you but buddy you should see my smile! It is good to remember all the fun, hard, exciting, frustrating, hysterical times I have had with this amazing group of boys that are now some of the finest men I know. One thing I can assure you- Mark, Mac, David & Tai are still the same boys they were back then, a little more mature, a lot more grown up, wiser, funnier, not as STINKY, but still the goofy guys I met some 17 years ago.