Cassady Family: My ankles have disappeared

So I figured we should update since it's been a good month. My morning sickness has died down -finally! The heartburn has kicked in though. As the title says - my ankles are swelling almost every night now...it is the weirdest thing. It goes away after I get off my feet, my I do miss seeing my ankles when it does happen.

Anyhoo, Lenny, baby girl Cassady, and I are doing well. We are getting ready for the next few weeks of traveling. We just got back from Florida on Sunday for my Space Flight Awareness Award. That trip was awesome. We got to see and incredible launch and I got to feel really honored - it was a great experience and it certainly reinvigorated me. I think everyone needs to be inspired every once in awhile to keep up with face pace jobs. I really do have the coolest job in the world and it's nice to be reminded that people care. The nomination means so much more to me after experiencing last week. We stayed in a resort in Universal Studios, Orlando. We had a huge reception/dinner Wednesday night (700 people or so) where we got to hang out with astronauts and hear the upper management at NASA thank us for our hard work - it meant a lot to me. We got our awards at a smaller breakfast awards ceremony the next day - Milt Heflin (JSC deputy center director) and Charles "Scourch" Hobaugh (an astronaut who has flown on STS-104 and STS-118). We had the rest of Thursday off and went to Universal Studios - where I couldn't ride all rides, but was still fun. We happened to run into the Mendeck (Gavin got an award too!) and hung out with them at the park. Lenny got to ride all the rides with them, so that was nice. Friday we got tours of KSC all day and on Saturday we went to launch. The launch was beautiful! We could see it for about 4 minutes...much longer than STS-123. I love launches!!!!

We are headed to east coast for a wedding June 13 - 16 - our friends Robb and Sara are getting hitched! And finally to Michigan for a baby shower and family visits June 17-24. It's going to be a busy time!

Anyhoo, I am finally posting some long overdue pics!

Wow look at that belly - that's me really showing at 22 weeks.

Lenny sold his trusty old car - thank you ford probe!

We had a hail storm at our house May 11 - marble to golf ball size - it was crazy. Still waiting to hear from the insurance company as to whether they will pay for a new roof!