OK, just to make it official, we had to blogg-bragg a bit about this new little generation of Roaches we have been working on in our brief 3 years of marriage. On Wednesday, Sofia and I had our 2nd Roach kid of the (4th?) generation. As you all know, so far, these two, pictured left, are the only Roaches of their generation. Baby Elena was a trooper; born 6-14 and 19 inches, she was about 3 weeks early and needed a little jump start. But by the 48th hour, she was running like clockwork. We are now at home, where the baby is breast feeding nicely (thanks to our refusal to allow the nurses to formula feed her-- we stayed patient and worried for a while), and she and her brother are getting along just fabulously. (yea, right. I've never seen this little personality Patricio's got going on lately...but he's doing pretty well under the circumstances.) We opened a little bottle of Dom Perignon last night with the Thornhill's and Joe Bo's household to commemorate the event. Too bad for Sofia! (she took a little taste). Needless to say, we are really excited, and hope to be seeing you all very soon. bpr

Getting Excited for Christmas

All, just thought I'd start a new blogg strand letting you all know how excited we are for the Christmas Holiday. As many of you may have known, Sofia went into the hospital last thursday as she was in premature labor. She is officially 4 weeks from having little Elena, and they did an amniocentisis (sp) to check to see if they could deliver due to Sofia's accelerated contractions. Turns out little Elena's lungs were not fully developed, so they built a few medicinal concoctions for Sofia to reverse the labor. (we were in the hospital for 3 days...) It worked, and we are home, although Sofia is constantly having contractions and in a lot of pain. She is also on bedrest, extreme bedrest, so life is great for all (yea, right!). Anyhow, the baby of course is oblivious to all of this, and chilling out in utero, although apparently longing to exit said utero as soon as medically possible. Long and the short: we are expecting a baby any single day now. Please keep little Elena and Sofia in your prayers lately. Our doctors say that even if we deliver tomorrow, things ought to be OK, but every day in the womb predicts a better and healthier baby. That's the word for now. THanks for all your calls and prayers, vistits, etc. We have a wonderful extended family, and we greatly appreciate it.

Congratulations!

I just wanted to extend my congratulations to Jack and his team on a state championship. We are all so happy for you Jack!
Love,
Nick, and I am sure everyone else