But unfortunately we've gotten rained out. The Fireworks displays have been postponed until tomorrow and S. has to work tomorrow evening. We have so much to be thankful for though, our July 4th washout is nothing even though I was really, really looking forward to it. 

We got the greatest news which we were hoping for, the Baby doesn't have Trisomy 18 and her chromosomes are all in perfect order. She is definitively XX. I've also officially transferred to my new Doctors office so will have Baby XX in the hospital that I prefer. We stayed positive throughout our wait that she would be fine but of course nothing is guaranteed in life so when the geneticist called with our amnio results I spent about 5 minutes crying in relief. I now feel like I can truly enjoy this pregnancy and focus on a future with our new baby, a girl - surreal.

Although we won't get real fireworks for the 4th of July this year, mother nature gave us quite a show last night. S. managed to get one shot of the lightening which was going on over our heads last night. The boys and I went to pick S. up from work and as we drove home we drove right into the eye of the storm. The thunder and lightening were spectacular, loud and very frightening. And the torrential rain almost forced us off the Road right before we made it to the turn off to our street. We couldn't see anything in front of us which was awful. And the road we live on is eclipsed by trees so we were afraid that one was going to be hit and fall on top of the car, not to mention all the debris that was already on the road from the wind and rain. 

We made it to the house in one piece and an old friendly dog, sopping wet and scared out of it's mind was sitting on our step. We got her in the house and dried her off and found her number on her collar. She was only from next-door (country next door so not city close) but was so old and disoriented by the storm she lost her way. We felt pretty happy that we were able to help out a lost animal and make it home safe ourselves. Of course I left all the windows open, oops, so we had to mop up each room and then we snuggled all in bed and watched the fireworks outside our window. I guess we got our country 4th of July. Oh and the power went out. But came back up again in the early morning. The end.

UPDATE: The power keeps going on and off...

* All pictures by S.