We were invited to a co-ed baby shower for an old-coworker-now-friend of Scott. Davin and I worked for a few years at Geek Squad. Now we love to hang with him and his wife, Dora, and usually our other Geek Squad compadre Danny. When we first arrived we played a break the ice game where we had to guess what name was pinned to our backs. I think I was Barrack Obama. People were saying things like the worst and the best president. I couldn't figure it out, but now it makes so much sense. Meadow was a hit right away. We took a tour of the home with the owner. It's right on North Commons and the had the most amazing deco bathroom. The whole thing was tiled in black marble. There are some really awesome homes on our side of Minneapolis. We ate lots of good food. I loved the chicken tenders. People kept offering to take Meadow off our hands. How could we say no? She loves all the attention anyway. I could go for one of these right ...

It all started Friday morning at 5 a.m. I just turned 38 weeks pregnant. I got up to use the bathroom and then couldn't fall back asleep. I was starting to have contractions. I got up to use the bathroom again a few hours later and saw that my mucus plug had come out. I woke up Scott and said pack your bags we're having a baby this weekend.  This got my heat pumping. We didn't know how long it would be until she went into labor. I was pretty tired since we went to bed late the night before and took a little nap waking up at each contraction.  Scott had two photo shoots he needed to get done that day. I didn't want to be alone. So, I came with him. First I made sure we had everything we needed in case we weren't coming back. We went to the Mall of America where I had to keep walking every time another contraction hit.  I had been approached by a New York creative firm to shoot some key locales around Minneapolis. When I accepted it I hadn't ev...