A Little Break

You GUYS! I am just about wiped out completely. Not really from all of the planning, but just from Rally Day itself. We had over 1500 Rally attendees, over 15 awesome speakers and gorgeous weather. The Fort Worth City Police were amazing (as always!) and did a great job keeping in touch and keeping the peace. I came away with...a sunburn. A very bad sunburn. And exhaustion. We came back here last night and had pizza with friends and then I slept for 12 hours straight. I napped for two hours today and I'm STILL pooped! Whew!

So, the Rally is done. I am relieved, if you couldn't tell! Now it's time for BABIES!!!

What's ahead at Cooke House?

• Our French doors are being installed Tuesday - I can't even tell you how EXCITED we are about that! It was a long process to get them ordered and scheduled and ready, but it looks like Tuesday is the day. We're having a great weekend knowing that this is our last weekend EVER with this sliding door!
• Our SUV goes in this week for major repairs. I'm talking $1k. Gag. Andrew spent last summer without air conditioning (yeah, remember last summer???) and is long overdue for a nice, cool summer. And since we're going to have a good number of family and friends here this year for vacations and babies, we figure it's kind of wrong to give out the car that has no A/C and makes a weird knocking noise. The Escape is our baby and has been pretty trusty, so we're happy to put in the $$ and give her some new life. She's finally over 100k miles and we still have a little bit to pay on her (bad Cookes!) so we need to treat her like a member of the family, lest she betray us in our hour of need. 
• We have our next baby appointment on Thursday. We're really, really anxious to see them after 4 long weeks. The last time we saw them, they were just tiny blobs with little flickering heartbeats. This time we'll see heads, arms, legs, movement! Wahoo! 
• We have friends coming for dinner next Friday and are looking forward to that. I think it'll be a burgers and potato salad kind of dinner. 
• Vacation Bible School is next week and we're all atwitter about Vatican Express! This is Molly's first year and she's just a little more than jazzed.
• I am starting to make a few lists of things we need to buy for Mario and Luigi. We need cribs, which will actually be the next purchase, as we don't want to get too far along without having a place to put them. After that it's carseats, a stroller and some "twin things." 
• I'm getting started on some sewing to finish up the girls' room, and am hoping to be completely satisfied with that place in about a month. 
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