six months and counting for little Rozalia Anne or Robert Sigmund (Ziggy)

Well, well, well. Just look at these pictures of pregnant Amee. She is beautiful is she not! Pregancy fits well on Amee. Well let me tell you the story so far. It was a Thursday evening. I had just come home from church and was standing in the Kitchen. Amee had gotten home too and I was just standing there wondering what was for dinner. Little did I know what was on the menu. Amee loves sneak attacks. I am not kidding. She really loves sneak attacks. She loves to hide around a corner, wait till an unsuspecting victim walks by (usually me) and then scream and pounce. So unsuspecting me, wanting to know what was for dinner hers, "soooooo I took a pregnancy test this morning." It totally took me off guard. The way she said it I knew it wasn't some passing comment. How could that comment be passing anyway. "And" she continued, "It was positive." What! I couldn't believe it. "Don't get excited" she insisted, "I only took two tests." What?. "They were the tests that have a positive if you are pregnant and a negative if you are not and they were over 6 months old so they may not be accurate." She didn't want to get her hopes up, but I was sure after two positive plus's. Right there in the middle of the kitchen, I put my arms around my wife and cried I was soooo happy. Not one of those girlie cries, one of those manly cries. You know the ones where just a few tears came out. That's my story and I am sticking to it!
That was six months ago. We are three months away from the due date, May 18, and gearing up. I have read at least three large pregnancy books and have a few more on my shelf. To date, Amee has had a very good pregnancy with no complications. The baby is healthy and strong. In fact two nights ago when I put my ear to Amee's belly, that little bugger kicked me right in the head. I'm telling you that has to be my kid. We soon begin the baby classes and really gear up for baby's arrivial. We have decided to be totally clueless in regards to whether it is a boy or girl so your guess is as good as mine.
See ya'll again soon.

Ireland

So Facebook has deterred me for quite a while, but I realized that Amee's friends wantto know what we are up to as well so here we go. We had an awesome 2008. Our last post was all about our vacation to Prince Edward Island. Since last summer we have had two major events. This post is about our trip to Ireland. We are invited to join a group of clergy from our diocese to visit our companion diocese of Down and Dromore in Northern Ireland.
This really was a trip of a lifetime. We began our visit with good friends of ours Tom and Kathleen trees and left a few days before we were supposed to be at our first engagemnet and went to Dublin for two days. really one afternoon and one whole day. So the first evening we went to a local pub for dinner and guiness. The next day we bought tickets for a hop on hop off bus that did guded tours around the city center. We saw such sights as the guiness brewerey, the Jameson distillery, the Claremont hotel (Owned and operated by U2), a couple castles, Trinity college, the he'pennery bridge, O'Connell street, and a very touristy dinner with music and Irish Dancing.
Then we meet with our group and began our tour of the diocese. Amee and I stayed with a clergy family in a little suberb of Belfast called Carrowdore. We visited the Palace at Armagh (the traditional home of the Arch Bishop of Ireland.) we visited the church at Saul where St. Patrick started his first church in Ireland and then went on to the cathedral of Downpatrick where it is believed that St. patrick buried along with St. Brigid and St. Columba.
We finished the trip with a four day conference in the northwest beach town of Donegal. Donegal is famous for its wool and tweed. Amee bought a skeen of Donegal wool to make a baby blanket. We had an awesmoe 12 day trip, just look at the photos.