Mercer County Community College had a fund raising for their flight team last weekend. I took the opportunity for Kailtyn and Ellie to have a flight in a Cessna 172. The river out of Kaitlyn's window is the Delaware River. We crossed it and went into Pennsylvania and then headed back.
Yes, we're excited!!!! We are going to have a third child. The baby will be born around October 20th. When there's more news to post, I'll be sure to post it, but for now, here is a video of us telling Kaitlyn (our oldest)...
We started going to church a couple months ago and we decided to baptize the kids. We joined St. James Catholic Church in Pennington, New Jersey. It was over 15 years since I've been to a mass. We sought permission to have Kaitlyn and Ellie baptized in Florida while we were down there visiting my family. They were baptized at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in West Palm Beach, Florida at the evening Mass on Sunday, December, 30th.
The next step in my journey is to have our marriage Convalidated. My wife and I were married outside the church during my absence from the church. It's interesting how easy it is to drift away from something important. Below are a few pictures of the girls in their baptism dresses:
Ellie
Kaitlyn
Kaitlyn and Ellie
This past weekend we went to the Howell Living History Farm for the annual Potato Harvest. We saw horses pull a plow like tool through the dirt that lifted the potatoes to the surface and then we went out and put them in buckets. We filled two buckets full of potatoes and then enjoyed some cookies and lemon aid. We also packed a picnic lunch and enjoyed it by the farmhouse. After lunch, which included fresh potato chips cooked outside the farmhouse, we visited the farm animals. The potato picking is on the first video and the animals are on the second video.
Here is Kaitlyn at the first Mercer County, New Jersey, Supporters of Ron Paul Meetup.com event. Our next event will be at the Freedom Fest in the Mercer County Park. My brother Matt Bireta took this photo for us.
Mercer County Supporters of Ron Paul
I dusted off the camera and took a few photos. It took all of ten minutes until Ellie was all over me and the camera! I always want to take more photos, but it's so easy to say "next time."
June 30th, 2006 Podcast (about 1.2mb, over 10 minutes of Kaitlyn!)
Yesterday, the Supreme Court put Bush in his place (he still needs more of that, he's a President of a country that still has a congress, not a dictator). They ruled, as I'll think they'll rule in other cases in the future, that he overstepped his authority by starting Military Tribunals. You can read more at Aljazeera's website (linking to that site just for fun, the NSA is data mining blogs).
In the podcast today, Kaitlyn's molars aren't bothering her as much and she is sleeping through the night, Ellie is doing well after getting her state required immunizations, Kaitlyn has new shoes, and we read Dora's Rainbow Egg Hunt by Kristen Larsen.
