News from Irving

So, this past weekend, Bryon and I created this poem for our parents:

Get ready to giggle.
Get ready to laugh.
Because next June,
there’ll be a baby Pfaff!

Boy or Girl?
We still don’t know.
The news will be out
when Monica shows!

Will she have Monica’s eyes?
Will he be blond like Bryon?
No doubt about it,
There'll be some cryin’!

So postpone your summer
plans next year.
When the weather turns hot,
Your grandkid will be here!


So, we aren't the next Robert Frost, but I think we got our point across! June 11th is the official due date. We are really excited, although I feel nausea about 75% of the day right now. I would post our sonogram, but really, they all look the same. (only ours is MUCH cuter than anyone else's EVER!)

"Fight Night"

I thought I would share this article with everyone - we were presented with the check from "Fight Night" and the grand total was $130,000. They just handed us a handwritten check like it was no big deal - crazy!

http://www.tulsaworld.com/lifestyle/article.aspx?articleID=070728_4_D11_Fight11346

How to Post a Link

When you are typing your post, there is a little button on the tool bar that has a green globe with a chain link above it (to the right of the Text Colors button). Just click that button and paste the address into the URL field. Also, make sure that the type matches the first letters of your link (usually either http or https). Enjoy!

Great day for the Pfaff Family!!

In Denver today, OSHA released their report on the zoo concerning Ashlee's death (Bryon's sister). The zoo was cited with 1 "serious" violation, and several other violations. Basically, OSHA found the zoo to be at fault, verifying what we knew all along. I spoke to Bryon's mom today, and she sounded better than she had since that horrible day in February. Healing can now begin as we all can move on.

Check out some of the local Denver news at http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=74732 if you get a chance. (Meredith--will you teach me how to do link within a post?)

Hey, everyone! I wanted to post just to let you know that our plumbing was finally fixed. They dug up some of our pipe and it was crushed. After it was replaced, everything worked. So if you ever come visit, you can flush with confidence. Here are some pictures of the kids on the 4th. I could not get Conrad to smile. Then he ran off and got into the pet carrier...and what do you know? Big Smiles!

Hey everybody! Greetings from Robert and Wendy and Genevieve. We sure enjoyed the reunion at Monica and Bryon's house and we hope that it's a yearly tradition! We also learned that traveling with a baby is a new experience...

So, here's what we are doing now. Robert is an engineer at Amarillo Gear Company, and he's been there for 4 1/2 years now. He works with right-angle gear drives mostly for cooling tower applications. Wendy was teaching at Amarillo College full time until this May, when she went to part time to stay home with Genevieve. For the foreseeable future, her classes will be online, which just offers a little more flexibility.

We will be married for 9 years next January. And this October, Genevieve will be 1 year old! Can't believe she is growing so fast.

Right now we are doing some work on our house. We had siding put on, and we are painting the doors and stuff. I put in 2 new flower beds in the back yard, which is just one of my favorite things to do!

We are also trying desperately (still) to get Genevieve to crawl. She wants to walk--big people walk, why shouldn't she??--but not crawl. Any ideas out there?

Using the Poling Family Blog

Meredith has figured out that from this blog, anyone can contribute without using the "poling family blog" username so that we can all tell who has written an entry. If you are already set up on blogger (or is it blogspot??) and want to use your current account, just shoot me an email at monicathedove@yahoo.com and let me know your username. I can then add you to the members of this blog. Good luck!