Baby Gillis is here!....again!

What a wonderful blessing to be able to congratulate another couple of friends from our Sunday School class on their new (and 2nd) baby,
Luke Christian Gillis!

Here's what dad wrote:

"We have some great news. Luke has arrived and he is obviously very excited about being here and having a big brother. He was born at 11:31 am this morning weighing in at 8lbs 10 oz. Mom and son are doing great. Dad is not bad himself. Here are a few pics. We will send more later. Thanks for all the prayers during this exciting time in our lives. More to come. Brent Gillis"

We are so excited for them and their 2nd baby! Congratulations Brooke, Brent, and Cooper!

HARPER ANNE ROMANO

I am so excited to congratulate Ginny and B.C. Romano on the birth of baby Harper Anne Romano!

Harper Anne was yesterday evening by c-section at 5:21pm

She weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz.

She was 20.5 inches long

Her special birthday will be 07-08-09!

I went to high school with Ginny and B.C. and now we are all in the same Sunday School class.
They are absolutely precious people with sweet hearts for the Lord.
I know they are going to be fabulous and loving parents!

CONGRATULATIONS, Y'ALL!!!
(I'll post a picture if/when I can find one!)

Baby E.V. is here!

I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Elin Olsen Glenn and her hubby, David on welcoming their daughter Emmeline Violet Glenn this afternoon! She was 8.7 lbs and 21 inches, with a head full of beautiful dark hair! A wonderful blessing! Congratulations, y'all!

OBGYN update--THANK Y'ALL!

I cannot thank y'all ENOUGH for your incredible response to helping me in my quest to find an excellent OB-GYN! My plan is to make some selections from the list of the recommended doctors and then go meet them to see how well we mesh/how things are run at their practice.

It excites me that so many of you love your doctors so much, and I hope to find one that I will be as enthusiastic about and love!

So far, here is who y'all have recommended!:

1. Dr. Kennedy
2. Dr. Heidi Straughn
3. Dr. Lance Radbill
4. Dr. Damrich
5. Dr. Barron
6. Dr. Robinett
7. Dr. Huggins
8. Dr. Adcock
9. Dr. Dan Hudson
10. Dr. Ashley Tamucci
11. Dr. Greg Banks
12. Dr. Favor

PLUGS!

I'd like to take this opportunity to do a few plugs...

1st is JULIUS.
Julius will come to your house, pick up your car, wash/wax/detail it inside and out, and return it to your house... all for $45. You cannot beat that deal with a stick. On top of that, he is an absolute sweetheart! My parents gave "Julius" to me for an Easter present... I had it done yesterday and I SWEAR my car has not been this clean since the day that I drove it off of the lot! It looks incredible!!!
Let me know if you're interested and I'll be happy to give you his number!
(I'd post it, but I don't have my phone with me)

2nd is JOSH.
Incredible husband, yes... but also incredible personal trainer/fitness man! After previous plugs for his boot camps at Hoover Fitness (mostly on Twitter-follow me @taylorbgamble)... I decided to go check it out for myself. I went this morning and he did a great job! It is fast-paced, so you don't realize that the time is flying by, and it gets your heart rate up. He uses great background music to keep you motivated, and he's very sweet and patient with you (not just b/c I'm his wife haha... actually I gave him a little bit of a hard time).
The boot camps at Hoover Fitness are Monday and Friday @10AM and Wednesdays @9AM....
Remember-the first time is FREE!
(and they have child care!)

Have a great day and drink lots of water, Y'all!

OB-GYN??

Ok... I know this is kind of on the personal side, but I thought it was a good forum to ask about this... especially because I believe most (if not ALL) of my readers are women! After graduating from college, I started seeing Dr. Roxanne Travelute as my doctor, whom I absolutely adore! Because she is an Internist, she can meet all of my medical needs, with the exception of more serious issues that would require specialists (God forbid) and delivering babies (which is unfortunate, b/c she'd be amazing!)

Josh and I have been married for over 2 years now, and are looking forward to starting a family at some point. I'd really like to go ahead and find an OB-GYN now, so I can establish a relationship before we start trying for babies later. As of now, I do not have a preference about sex of the doctor, only that he or she have a great bed-side manner, personableness, and brilliance, of course ;o)

So... Ladies, I need your help! I'd really like to find a doctor at Brookwood Hospital because it is literally a few minutes from Josh and my house, and my daddy works there often, so it'd be nice later when babies are coming to have him so close, too.

• Who have you heard are good OB-GYNS at Brookwood?
• Who have you had as an OB-GYN at Brookwood that you adored? (whether you've had a baby or not)
• Who have you or a friend had that you/they did NOT like as an OB-GYN at Brookwood?

I'd really appreciate your help and advice! I'm open to any other advice/opinions you have to offer! If you feel funny posting that information for one reason or another, you're welcome to e-mail it to me at taylorbgamble@gmail.com.

Thanks, y'all!

Absolutely precious, almost finished, and MOJO Personal Fitness!

So, I was visiting some of the blogs over to right right, and went to Grethel Van Epps Photography blog... here is one of the pics that she recently took. I have no clue who the little girl is, but I just thought this picture was precious and timeless.

Speaking of photography...I recently made a rather large and exciting purchase--a Nikon D60 Digital SLR camera! (I had birthday money, otherwise, it would not have been in the budget at all haha) I cannot wait to learn how to use it well and take beautiful pictures! I decided to go with the D60 because, first of all, Nikon is a fantastic company, but also because it was 10.3 megapixels. Apparently that's all you really need...and I did not want to be buying another camera again soon. It's also better for people who edit/crop pictures, and I do like a good cropping from time to time. I'm most excited about taking pictures of Josh and my future babies with this camera... I'm thrilled by the photographic possibilities and probabilities of trips to the lake... family gatherings...birthdays... Josh's cycling races....trips to visit friends... and more. I got it at Wolf Camera, along with some filters and one other lens. With my purchase came free photography classes, so I'm thinking about taking one or two sometime. Anyways... that's new and exciting!

Hmm... I'm trying to think what has been up with us lately. This past weekend, Josh's mom came down from Friday evening to Saturday afternoon, which we really enjoyed, as always. We went to dinner with her at Cajun Steamer and saw The Proposal Friday night. We thoroughly enjoyed The Proposal! Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock are just gorgeous people, so easy on the eye to watch for 1+ hrs.... and both hilarious. Saturday morning, we grabbed Miley Jean and headed to Pepper Place Farmer's Market....which was short-lived. Miley hasn't been there before, so between the food smells, people smells, dogs smells and crowd, she was a bit overwhelmed. She can handle Josh's cycling races really well, but this was a bit much for her. It was also her first time out in a crowd in a while, so she was kinda jazzed up, making it difficult for me to hold her (she's very strong-pure muscle!), and my stubborn ass wouldn't let Josh take her from me... serves me right, huh? After the market, we dropped sweet Miley off to nap and headed to Patton Creek to finally get to go into Wrapsody. It is always closed when I'm up there because it's usually at dinner time, so I have been wanting to see all of their stuff for a while. It was very cute... great for little gifts, etc. We had lunch at Edgar's Bakery, stopped by Dick's to see if they had any good dry-fit shirts for Josh to train people in, and then headed home. Regenia packed and left... Josh and I rested for a little bit and then headed to our sweet friends', the Byingtons, house to grill out and swim! It was wonderful catching up and visiting with them, the Schaefers, and the Elams. Sunday AM, Josh dropped me off at Sunday school so he could go take care of my aunt and uncle's dogs. Then, that afternoon, we went to my parents' house to honor my daddy's father's day present request: manual labor. haha. As you all know, my sweet sister Grace is moving to Auburn, AL for vet school soon, and the house my parents bought down there (great deal) is almost ready for Gracie to move in and get settled! Because of this, my daddy wanted help bringing furniture up from the basement, which is where Joshy G and his bulging biceps come in...and my manual labor was wiping down all of the furniture so it wouldn't track spider webs and dust to the new house. We are calling the house The Hive (Beehive) because it's... A Brannon house... and Grace is a Brannon...and she'll live there with Bailey... get it? B's!


On another perky note, I'm glad to report that I'm about halfway through summer semester AND now that June is coming to an end, I will be finished with one of my classes... which will drop my load from 5 to 4 classes for the rest of the summer... haha... It's still a big load, but it'll be better than what I'm dealing with right now.

I've been doing:
Mon-3-5pm (usually observing at observation site 7:30-9:30am)
Tues 8-5pm non-stop
Weds (same as Monday)
Thursday 8am-9:40pm with 2hr break in the middle that I've been using to eat lunch and work out in for the past couple of weeks...it's been working out well
Fri I work at Bayliss Maching and Welding, my God-parents' family company, from 8am-12:30pm doing secretarial work. It's a wonderful way to get to see them more and earn some extra (well, not extra b/c we need it!) money to add to the Gamble pot!
{WHEW!}

Now, it'll be:
Mon-FREE
Tues 8am-2pm
Weds-FREE
Thurs 8am-12:25pm and 5:50-9:40pm
Friday work at Bayliss 8am-12:30pm....definitely better! :)
I'll still have 12 hrs of observations for one of my other classes on top of this...but I'll survive.


On another front, Josh's training business seems to slowly be growing, PRAISE THE LORD! What an answered prayer! He has been working on a website, we ordered him some business cards (pic!), and our wonderful friend Trey who owns Art Promotional Services has been working with us on designing a great logo for MoJo Personal Fitness, so Josh can really brand himself. We appreciate it more than Trey could ever know.

For those of you that don't already know, MoJo Personal Fitness offers a variety of training options.

• Josh will come to your house to "home train" you. For this you don't need a home gym or anything. He brings what little equipment you will use, and you do a lot of plyometrics and other activities that can simply be done around the house.
• He also offers "partner training" at home if you want a friend to join you.
• Josh has boot camps/group fitness classes going out at Liberty Park and in Crestline, and is always open to starting new ones in different parts of town to anyone who can get a group of 5 or more people together!
• Josh has recently signed on at Icon Performance Gym over in Cahaba Heights to have a facility for clients who would like to train in a gym setting.
• Last, but not least, Josh is also teaching a boot camp at Hoover Fitness in Bluff Park on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings! Monday and Friday are at 10am and Wednesdays are at 9am.

Any BTW, the first session/class is FREE! You have nothing to lose but pounds :)

I ask that you all please join us in praying for Josh to continue to get more business, and that you spread the word about his personal training. God is so good, and I know that he will provide...because like He tells us in Jeremiah 29:11 (Josh and my verse together)...He knows the plans He has for us! Plans to prosper us and not to harm us, plans to give us hope and a future! We just need to call upon His name, pray to Him, and He will listen! We will seek Him and find Him when we seek Him with all of our hearts! AMEN!

Hope y'all are having a wonderfully blessed week! Love, the Gambles!