More pictures of Grace

Here's a link to some pictures that where taken while we were in the hospital.

Our365.com Hospital Pictures

Grace Elizabeth Robinson

Baby Grace Elizabeth was born into this world at 1:28pm today, August 19, 2009. She was 8lbs 2oz and 21.25" long.
Both Leah and Grace are doing great.

Here's a couple of quick pictures, one before we left the house for the hospital and one of Daddy and his new baby girl. We'll put up more pictures later after she takes a bath and gets on a new pink outfit (of course).

Surfing

Well with baby Grace almost here, we decided to take the boat out one last time and enjoy it before we're too busy changing diapers. So we went out to Lake Ray Hubbard (close to Dallas) with Jeff, Dana, and their daughter Hannah.

So here are a couple of pictures of us wakesurfing behind the boat.

(and for those not familiar with wakesurfing...) It's not as dangerous as it looks, but you can only do it behind full inboard boats since the prop is up underneath the boat and not sticking out behind. Otherwise it's similar to wakeboarding, but you're only going 10mph as opposed to 20mph. You get pulled up with a similar rope, but once you get comfortable you can toss the rope back in the boat and SURF the 4' tall wake. And once you get really comfortable, you can have someone toss you a beer and enjoy a frosty beverage while you surf.

Revenge again

...this time it was our revenge.

So it's been a little while since I posted about my youth getting revenge on me...and since then, there have been some new developments.

We ultimately found out from my best friend Jeff that his wife Dana along with our good friends Kevin & Stacy were the ones that wrapped our house.

Naturally I wanted revenge, mainly against Kevin. So after some deliberation and Leah telling me that I wasn't allowed to do anything illegal, we came up with the idea to wrap the INSIDE of the Bowen's house while they were gone for 10 days in China.

We wrapped pretty much everything in sight and even several things out of sight that we knew they wouldn't find for days, months, and even years later. Kevin has said that every couple of weeks he finds more toilet paper in the strangest places (suit pocket, sleeve of a shirt, inside his boots, inside the door bell...and the list goes on.)

Here are the pictures of the process and aftermath. A good time was had by all, including Jeff & Dana's kids (Michael and Hannah).

Revenge on the Bowen's

The Bowen's have vowed to get us back, especially Jeff and Dana since they're the ones who told us, but Kevin has said this, "the only thing that made me mad about coming home after traveling for 14 hours from China, while being sick, is that I didn't think of doing this to you first!"

3D sonogram

Here is a picture from the 3D sonogram we had back at the beginning of March. Sorry we're so late getting these posted. It's a little difficult to see, but I added a few notes to help orient the view. The photo show's a profile of her from the left. She's sitting down with her back to the right and her left arm and leg in view. Enjoy.

Youth's revenge

Well I think my mischief as an adolescent has already begun to come back and get it's revenge!
Saturday night we had a fun evening with our friends Shonna and Andy Craigo. We had dinner at the most expensive Sushi and Chinese food Buffet I've ever been to. It cost almost as much as the amazing buffet at the Bellagio hotel in Vegas. Although I do have to note, we received a free meal courtesy of an old colleague who I worked with on a hospital project in Lewisville a few years ago...so I can't complain about the price of the buffet ($27each). After dinner we met up with Courtney & Fred at 300, the home of a bowling alley, laser tag, game arcade, bar, billiards, and a private club which you can rent out for $100/hour for a private bowling party.
Anyway, enough of the first half of the story and back to the revenge part...
So we leave the bowling alley just after midnight, which by the way is the latest Leah has stayed awake since New Year's, and we arrive home to see that our house has been WRAPPED or TP'ed (Toilet-Papered). We don't know who and we don't know why, but Leah thinks it was a random act of some kids because we have a perfect tree for wrapping. I disagree and I also feel that it wasn't nearly as good of a job as myself and my cohorts had done in the past! I believe our best achievement was for Sabrina's 17th birthday when we bought almost 100 rolls of toilet paper and wrapped her house while her parents watched us from inside...of course we didn't know it at the time. They later confessed to Sabrina that they didn't want to interrupt artists at work.
So I guess those one or two times when I snuck out of the house and went 'wrapping' have finally caught up with me. I really thought my mischief would take a lot longer to enact its revenge.
-Ryan

Video from 2nd sono

Here's a couple of video clips from the 2nd sonogram.

This first one shows the measuring of the heartbeat at 176 bpm.

This one show's him really arching his back and moving around.