19

We were married on January 19th. We find out the gender of our baby on October 19th. And as of Friday I'm 19 weeks pregnant. (no prego pic this week, stay tuned for week 20. I tried to take a good picture but complete failure, I wasn't happy with any of them.)

Back to number 19..

My Great Grandfather on my Dad's side, Papa Joe, and his wife, Mrs. Toby were married on 9/9/1919 at 9 A.M.. He built our lake house that we still have in the family and named it "Paradise XIX" (19). Papa Joe put XIX on everything. He had a shop behind their house and was always tinkering with stuff and making random things like play guns, little cars and who knows what else. Those are the two things I remember my Dad having that Papa Joe made. This man is still mentioned at every family Christmas and talked about so much that I feel like I know him. Dad use to tell us stories before we'd go to bed and it was always either about when he was growing up or a story about Papa Joe. Dad refers to him as "the coolest".

I think it's kinda funny that 19 is engraved in my mind because of a man I never even met. When we chose our wedding date my dad said "Grandma Betty is gonna love that y'all are getting married on the 19th!" Maybe our baby will be born on February 19th? HA! I hope not, that's a little early, but it would be another cool thing to add on to the famous number XIX.



Also, my Grandma Betty just wrote a book titled "Karnack and the Adventures of Paradise XIX". She had it published and is in the process of setting up a book signing at a book store in Marshall, Texas. I started reading it yesterday and it's pretty interesting so far.