So, yeah, I realize that this is coming a little late, but we weren’t expecting Arden to show up 12 days early. Anyway, we found a wonderful local photographer in Pleasanton to take some photos of Gilly and me a few weeks before Arden was born. We recently got the digital proofs from her, and I’m just now getting around to posting them. I think they came out really well.

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Arden Rae Brimberry was born on Tuesday, May 8th at 10:10 pm. She was 19.5 inches long and weighed 6 lbs. 7 oz.

Pretty cute, if I do say so myself. Go ahead and click on the image to see photos detailing her birth and trip home. There are lots of fun birth stories to share, but I’m honestly too tired to write about them now… I’ll post more when I get a chance.

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If you scroll down to the bottom of our site, you’ll notice a new little green icon that I added. Dreamhost is the company that hosts the brimberry.org domain and they are now officially carbon neutral. Go ahead and click on the icon for more info on their greenness.

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As it’s been more than a month since our last post, we thought we’d put something up here so everyone who checks this site regularly would know we’re still alive and well. Everything is progressing normally, so for now, we’re really just cruising and waiting for Gilly to go into labor. But, in an attempt to make this post actually worth reading, here’s a (hopefully) amusing story.

Gilly had a rather difficult craving to satisfy the other day. She wanted vanilla soft serve (not ice cream, mind you, but soft serve) in a sugar cone. Well, as all of you soft serve aficionados out there know, soft serve is almost never served in a sugar cone. Most places serve it in those rather flavorless, yellow cones. So what is a dedicated husband supposed to do in this case? Improvise, of course. I went to Safeway and bought a box of sugar cones. Then I drove to McDonald’s, which was the closest place to our house that sells soft serve (couldn’t have it melt on the way home) and asked them to put the vanilla soft serve in one of the sugar cones. Voila!

It’s amazing the weird things you can ask for at restaurants when your wife is pregnant. Gilly’s latest favorite at Quizno’s is the veggie sandwich, add turkey. I definitely get puzzled looks when I ask them to put meat on what is supposed to be a vegetarian sandwich. But if I quickly shrug and say, “my wife’s pregnant,” I usually get a “say no more” type of response.

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