January 12, 2009
We Love the Snow!!
Saturday we head out before dawn to hit Flagstaff. Elena is looking into NAU and so we took a little day trip to check out the campus and have a tour. Freezing was what we were hit with. Snow and ice all over the place had us walking carefully and laughing as we each took a turn to slip and squeal as we tried to catch ourselves. After the tour, we hit a local diner and had yummy burgers and fries. I got a much deserved and craved after "Red Cow" (Dr. Pepper float) and it was so yummy. We headed out to find a great place to play in the snow and have a snowball fight. It was tons of fun! We had some great runs with out makeshift sleigh. Check out the videos and pics!!
January 6, 2009
Childhood Reflections
Being pregnant, of course, has brought so many things right to the surface in ways that I hope to raise our kids to be decent, respectful, productive members of this world. I just hope that the answers come when they are needed and that I am brave enough to share them. Here are few thoughts by Paul Harvey that I got in an email from my grandpa today. It reminded me of some things from my own childhood and I just wanted to share.
"I'd really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meatloaf sandwiches.
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.
I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.
And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.
It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.
When you want to see a movie and your little sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let her.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask to be dropped two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.
When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.
I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
If a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma and go fishing with your Uncle.
May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.”
"I'd really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meatloaf sandwiches.
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.
I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.
And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.
It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.
When you want to see a movie and your little sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let her.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask to be dropped two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.
When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.
I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
If a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma and go fishing with your Uncle.
May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.”
January 4, 2009
I have officially crossed over
Well, I have never been a girlie girl and will admit that the idea of a daughter kind of freaks me out. I don’t get the frill and lace. The pinks and pastels all sort of make me nauseous. But I think it is starting to grow on me. This has been hanging in the closet in the baby’s room for just over a month now. I grabbed it shopping on Black Friday. It was on clearance and she wont be able to wear it for probably a year but when I saw it I just couldn’t help but imagine my little brown eyed babe (I am assuming since the philippino genes are pretty strong), twirling in the tutu and posing for some of the cutest pics ever. So check back, at least some time next year, and see those shots. I just can’t wait. I guess I needed to talk about her a little bit tonight since Lyneal felt her moving for the first time tonight. I have had him put his hand on my little belly several times but this is the first time that she has kept on kicking. I think it sort of freaked him out but it was really exciting as well. It crazy how much more real she becomes every day as we get closer and closer to due date. Here are pics a few other things that we have picked up and are too excited to have her squeeze into. Seriously, can I really be about to become a MOM??
Happy New Year!
Well, the new year has started out with a bang! We had a Beach party out at our house. The boys went shooting and all us girls oohed and ahhed over the Twilight movie guide that I got for Christmas and watched a premier on Twilight that had been waiting patiently on the DVR. When everyone had arrived, BBQ began and the so did the noise! Rock Bank and Guitar Hero were both received for Christmas and it became the focus of the evening. We all rocked out! Good times were had and the new year started out with lots of laughs.
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