Happy New Year!!!

To our family and friends, Martha and I would like to wish all of you a Happy New Year. We hope 2008 brings you joy, peace, and much happiness!!!
~Love You All~

NY on my mind . . .

Martha and I took a "baby-moon" trip to NYC. It also happened that Milly (maid-of-honor from our wedding who is from Spain) was going there too. Well, Robbie went a bit crazy with the pictures (took 200) so here is an abbreviated scrapbook from the trip.

DAY 1

Our day began with making a trip to ATL. They recently began selling maternity clothes in select stores. There happens to be two stores in NYC selling maternity clothes. Well, ATL was our first stop.

This is me while Martha was trying on all of these:

After all that shopping, Martha took a little nap and I went out and explored. I made it to Central Park and took this shot.

Around 4 Milly (from Spain) made it to our hotel. We took her out to a traditional NYC eatery . . .

Later on that night, we met another friend of Milly's who flew from California to see her. We ate dinner at Mesa Grill, one of Bobby Flay's restaurants. Here is us after a wonderful meal.

This is us returning to our hotel in Times Square.

DAY 2

So we woke up to this view from our hotel.

Our first stop was to the Today Show where we took these pictures.

No trip to Rockefeller Center would be complete without a picture by the tree.

Later on that day we made it down to the WTC. Words cannot explain what it was like to be there. I can not imagine what it would have been like to be there that day.

After the most frustrating part of the NYC trip, we finally made it to the Statue of Liberty. Robbie navigated NYC like he lived there all of his life, except for this leg of the trip, one hour, four trains going in all different directions, we finally made it there.
After getting there, and seeing the line to get back on the subway, we decided to take a cab back uptown.

Later that night we ran into a super hero in a phone booth while we on the way to the Hershey's Store. Here is Robbie enjoying a little late night snack.

Then Milly, Martha and I went to see a Broadway Play. We saw Legally Blonde. Here is curtain from the stage.

DAY 3

What a sad day . . . we have to go home. Well on the way to our first destination, Wall St., I stopped and snapped this picture of Martha. When I had the idea for the picture, there were 3 rows of taxis, but when we got ready to take the picture, it was only 1 van. Oh well . . . you get the idea.

Well, we made it to Wall Street and we even found the Trinity Church, which was featured in the movie, National Treasure.

The next picture made Robbie's day. All morning, he kept talking about finding the "bull." Well we found it and he rode it. That's my husband for you!!!

I guess after climbing the bull, he decided that he must climb everything. This is Robbie in a tree in Central Park.

We did pick up one gift for Campbell . . . she loves NY too!

Finally . . . here is Martha on the plane on the way back to Charlotte.

What a trip we had. Besides the pictures above, we took many more pictures of some cool locations, including: Carnegie Hall, Empire State Building, Grand Central Station, Chrysler Building, Macy's, Pennsylvania Station, NY Times Building, Radio City Music Hall, and a 3-Story Toys R Us with a ferris wheel inside!

Pregnancy Ornament

Merry Christmas everyone . . . While Martha is still sleeping this Christmas morning, I wanted to show you all a Christmas Ornament that I've put on the tree. A week ago, she announced to everyone that the only gift she wants is some sort of pregnancy ornament. I ordered it on Friday and it was delivered on Monday.
=)

Merry Christmas

To our family and friends, Martha and I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Oh Christmas Bulbs . . . Oh Christmas Bulbs . . .

So today it was cold and raining, so we left the dogs indoors while we ran some errands. Well, when we came back home we found broken Christmas bulbs all over the floor. Nope, no one broke in . . . it was from our dogs. I guess they got hungry and ate the bulbs right off the tree.

The Pictures

Here's Campbell . . . her face, her tidbits, more tidbits, and her foot. As most of you know, Robbie wears a size 17, so I'm a bit worried about the size of her foot. Don't worry though, the doctor says that it looks like a "normal" size.

2 HOURS & 35 MINUTES

I ran my FIRST half marathon this weekend in Kiawah Island, SC. Prior to yesterday, the farthest I've run has been an 8K at about 50 minutes, which usually includes a few "walking breaks." In preparation for the big run, I did run 3 miles earlier last week, so I was really ready for 13.2miles. Anyway, I ran the half marathon with Sara's friend, Christy, and we did it without stopping. I know the time, 2:35, is not impressive, but you know what . . . I ran it, without having to walk , I enjoyed it (see first picture, 10.5 miles into it - we carried those oranges for about a mile knowing that they'd made a great picture), I felt great, and I finished it!!!
The other pictures: my "Rock Star" band playing Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive." The people who stayed in the house who ran. Don't be too impressed with their medals . . . we all got one for finishing. Finally, that's me, Cool Daddy-To-Be Compton!!! =)

Campbell Ann Compton

Hopefully from the picture you get the idea that we're having a girl. We went today and had our 20 week, "gender," ultrasound (we're only 19 weeks though). So to the 64% of you who voted "girl," congratulations!!! Check back tomorrow and we'll post some of the ultrasound pictures.

It's Christmas Time

We put up our tree last week and today we have our first present under it . . . . It's Folly!!! She's found her hiding spot for the next month.

The Crib

We've had a productive day. Robbie just about finished the floors in the nursery. (on a side note, after this room is complete, then we will have put hardwood floors in the complete house). Also, Nana purchased Cletus his/her crib so Robbie and Martha put it together this evening.

Week 17 . . . and counting

We had another monthly appointment and all is good! We heard another strong heartbeat so the doctor thinks that Cletus is doing great. He's having us come back in two weeks (Dec 5) for the 20 week gender ultrasound. Is Cletus a boy or a girl . . . . maybe we'll tell or maybe we won't . . .