Downtown, darling!

So we just got back from doing a little birthday celebrating in downtown Greenville! I got to pick the restaurant, as I am the birthday girl (June 9!), and so we went to my favorite downtown eatery, Trio. It's a great little brick oven Italian cafe. If you ever get a chance to go: go! They have the most AMAZING tomato basil soup, and even their house salads are delish (that word was for you, Hil.) Also, their bruschetta is amazing. And trust me because I'm basically an expert when it comes to bruschetta. But seriously, anything we've ever gotten at Trio is great, so go out right now and eat there. :)

On a separate note, I am currently typing on my new birthday present: a Dell Studio 17 laptop! It came in today via the FedEx man, and Brent and I are super excited, as we thought it wouldn't be here until next week! We were hoping we'd have it before I went into labor, as we can take it to the hospital and post updates from there, use it to play videos/cds during labor, look up information, etc. I still don't know how to work everything on the computer. Well, really I don't know how to work much of anything except Word and Internet Explorer, but I'm getting the hang of it. It has a built-in webcam though, which will be a neat feature for us to use to talk with grandparents and other faraway relatives. If I figure it out, I can even post videos of Anne-Kelly on here. Don't worry, I'm working on it.

Tomorrow we're attending Simpsonville First Baptist for the second time. We met another couple in our neighborhood who invited us to come last week, and since we haven't really found anywhere that feels like a church home since moving from Anderson, we are very excited about SFB. It felt like a good fit last week, so keep praying that God will show us if this is the right place for our family.

Also, my mom is here this week visiting me. She's hoping I'll go into labor while she's here, so I know that I'm pretty much guaranteed not to go into labor while she's here. God has a sense of humor like that, I think! I keep saying that if Anne-Kelly is like me, she'll most definitely be late for her own birth. She's due June 24th, so she'll probably debut no earlier than July 1. I apologize in advance to the entire McDaris family if I add another July birthday to the bunch :) For those of you who don't know, the McDaris' have nearly every birthday in July: Trey, Gary, Dale, Donald, and a bunch of other people that I can't even begin to remember (preggo brain, forgive me!) were July babies. So I guess one more in the bunch won't make a difference :)

Now it is definitely time for bed. Stay tuned in the days to come for some interesting stories from this weekend's events. With my dad, the closet comedian, around, there's always something entertaining to tell about.