I guess it's time!

First of all, the biggest news! My brother Stephen is an IRONMAN! 2.4 miles swimming, 112 biking, and 26.4 miles running. One word, three syllables- INSANE! Needless to say, he was fantastic the whole time- he actually finished well before his goal time- doing the whole thing in about 12 hours. The marathon itself (the 26.4 miles) he completed in under 4 hours...after doing the swimming and biking first.

In other news, many might be aware than my radiant wife is a bit pregnant at the moment. Others may also be aware that my father has just acquired a brand new Honda accord. The two came to odds last night, when Jen's water broke on the way home from Madison (after watching Stephen's ironman) all over the beautiful leather back seat. Ryan carefully made his way through the wisconsin traffic to United Hospital (please replace the word carefully with recklessly, and somewhere insert 90 mph). There was a mini-debate as to whether we would stop by Eau Claire hospital, but instead we made the 2 hour trek to St. Paul instead. Not a whole lot of progress on labor right now; we have been making alot of trips up stairs, down hallways, loops around the hospital corridors in search of contractions; yet none to be found. We're going to hang out a bit here at the hospital until this kiddo decides to get his act together. We're taking the bull by the horns and just started pitocin- going to hunker down and wait for ensuing action!