Apparently Samuel decided he couldn't let Ellie upstage him. How fast was Frisco born?

Okay, so, the ball. StW picked me up and we drove out there. Please note that he bought his entire outfit yesterday, and with pretty much no coordination with me. I did tell him that I was wearing a 70's era floorlength dress, but that's it. You can't really tell in the picture, but his shirt is one of the tuxedo ruffled ones. LOVE. We got there right as the patron party ended and the ball began. Ball is overstating it a bit - more of a party, really. The theme was "It's Easy Being Green" and costumes included a fab dress made from grocery bags, the Green Giant and his pea sidekick, Paper or Plastic, etc. There were also people in Saints gear, and jeans, and one guy wearing a Sweetarts-branded shirt? IDEK. We got lots of compliments on our outfits.

It was pretty mellow at first, but more people arrived and the bands got better as the night went on. The last band was kind of 90s ska/punk and really high energy. The dance floor was full and the tables empty - I love this town. We ducked out just before it ended at midnight. So much fun! StW will dance, though he readily admits to not being a great dancer. That kind of thing used to bug me, but apparently not anymore.

In conclusion, the ball was AWESOME and StW continues to be AWESOME as well. Of course, now he has to work two weeks straight, so I probably won't see him for a while. Ah, well.

Wow, Stephanie! I guess all those contractions beforehand were worth something....

I was wondering if that was StW in the FB pix!! You guys look awesome!

Stephanie, that is awesome fast labor! Fantastic! Three of my girlfriends had miserable, 24+ labor; they would be so jealous.

Of course, one almost had her 2nd baby in the kitchen; barely made it to the hospital. BAM! Baby.

Good job, Sam! Quick and easy. May you be an example to all the pending Buffista babies.

but his shirt is one of the tuxedo ruffled ones.

Just like I wore to my prom.

My mother had 36 hours of labour with me, or so she'd like me to believe. Congrats on the swift addition to the family.

Smonster, you look great!

StW will dance, though he readily admits to not being a great dancer. That kind of thing used to bug me, but apparently not anymore.

What does that mean?

When I was younger, I actually had trouble even looking at people who couldn't dance trying to dance - I was embarrassed for them and just felt really awkward. Now, as long as you're shaking it and having fun, I'm loving it. StW doesn't have a great sense of rhythm, and his moves are kind of stereotypical white dude moves, but it doesn't bother me to dance with him.

Not proud of formerly oversensitive and snobby attitude, but it is what it is. My dad's offkey singing used to embarrass the shit out of me too, and now I say make a joyful noise, yo.

Yay, glad the ball was fun! I am trying to clean the house a little bit because it is GROSS. I"m all sweaty and my cat (Taz) is being a little furry freak because he apparently thinks that my sweaty stinkiness is the best smell EVER and is all over me. I need to eat something but I kind of don't want anything. I just want this house to be clean so that I can get some blog posts up about the past couple of days.

Both target and walmart have reasonably price meters that take reasonably priced strips. A target is close enough to me that I have not checked, but I suspect that at least one of them includes the strips in products that may be ordered on-line.

Congrats, Stephanie! My BFF's second kid fell out. I kid you not. She was in labor, was walking like they tell you to, paused for a second and BAM! Kid slid out and hit the floor.