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Click here to check out my post of the same name with before 'n' after pics of Austin in her car seat the day we brought her home and pics of her in her car seat one month later. The difference is amazing! Cheers! -Carrie

Howdy, it's Carrie again! Just heard the good news- JR (my hubby) has passed all of his classes (B+ and above) and will graduate from his LPN program tomorrow! Yahoo!!!! Now he has only to pass his licensing test, the NCLEX, and then hopefully we'll finally be able to make a call as to whether I will have to return part-time to work at the end of my maternity leave (boo!!!!) or get to stay at home with lil' Austin (yay!!!!!) Keep your fingers crossed for us! Oh- and Aunt Susan, JR and I's anniversary is June 3rd if you wanna add us to your list (we were married in 2005, Happy 5th Anniversary Husband!)

Hello all, Ariel sent me a bunch of photos of his family, and asked that I share them with you all... here is a link to the photo album on my Facebook page. You should not need to have a Facebook membership to view these photos when you use this link. If anyone has a problem, please let me know and I will make sure you get the photos. Have a great day! Susan Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=184587&id=581387686&l=f4c3abf622

This report comes in from Rickey Lynn: We're in Denver! It's cloudy, rainy, with a high of 60 degrees. What a wonderful relief from some of the heat of Phoenix. Tom and Jan and Jonathan and June have been wonderul hosts and hostesses, spoiling Jennifer and myself almost hourly. Today we visited the Butterfly Pavilion and got some fantastic photos. Tomorrow is the real reason we drove 900 miles - it's June's birthday. We're trying to make sneaky plans for a nice cake for her. She would normally be at work tomorrow, but she's entitled to take the day off, so she's going to go in for just an hour to let them know it's her birthday and to let them know she's going home. Then it's into downtown Denver to see what there is to see. That's going to be followed by a dinner in June's honor to celebrate her last birthday in her 20's. Too bad - so sad - many of us have already visited that time in our lives and lived to see another yea...

Here's the lineup of birthdays and memorable days in the Clan: (If I missed someone, let me know and we can add it to the list straight away!) June 04 - Ariel and Efrat Whetstone, married 1996 (PS Efrat is pregnant!!) June 10 - Thomas Marion Tate 1918-2006 (think of you every day, Daddy) June 12 - Aubrey Tate born 1988 June 14 - June Tate born 1981 June 23 - Matt Walker born 1974 June 26 - Edith Casteel (Tate) Hern 1922-2008 (miss you all the time, Auntie) June 30 - Daveena (Martinez) Walker born 1987

Hello! This is Carrie (David's oldest daughter) here. As my first contribution to the blog, I figured I'd tell y'all who don't already know about it about JR and I's big news. We had our first baby on April 28th, a beautiful lil' girl who we named Austin Keelee (She gets her first name from the song "Austin" by Blake Shelton, and her middle name from her Grandma Powell) Austin was a premie at 8 weeks early (32 weeks gestastion) but for a premie, she has done fantastic! The nurses in the NICU nick-named her "mighty-mite" and "rockstar" because from day one she did great: by the time she was 9 hours old, she on nothing but room air, and breathing just fine on her own (which was a HUGE relief to her daddy and I) . She also started to successfully coordinate the suck-swallow-breathe reflex within a few days after her sudden arrival (something we were told not to expect her to be able to do that for until she was closer to 34-35 weeks ge...

Well, Carrie and Rickey Lynn have played the guilt card on me successfully... so I'll keep this blog going. But I do ask that others in the clan send me some info to post from time to time, okay? Let us know what is happening in your lives. Carrie volunteered to be a contributor. If anyone else wants to contribute, that's great. If you don't want to be a contributor but do have some news to tell, just send it to me in an email and I will post it for you. If we're gonna keep this up, let's do it up right. Hugs all around to all the family!!