Maternity Pictures

Over Labor Day weekend, we had our good friends Dan and Carrie Bischoff take some maternity photos for us. We just got the CD back and I am excited to share their amazing photography skills with you! I am 35 weeks along in the pictures.








I think these pictures are pretty much amazing! We had photo session number two last night, so I can wait to see the results. Soon to come will be a newborn session as well! Under four weeks to go at this point!

Thanks again Dan and Carrie!

If you want to check out more of Dan and Carrie's photography, please take a look at their website at www.photographybydc.com

Liar!

Posted by Mark:

I was looking through my phone and found a few photos I had been meaning to write about. So yeah enjoy the following three quick posts corresponding to these pictures.

So does anyone REALLY know where these little white spots on your finger nails come from?


My wife has a theory..... She tells me as a kid her mom would inspect their finger nails and that the white spots represented the number of lies that they had told that week..... and the SIZE of a lie corresponded to how large the spot was.

That may sound like something fun to do to impressionable children but Kimmi still continues on with this tradition today! Typically while we sit in church she will take my hand and count the number of spots on my nails. She will then shake her head if she finds a particularly large spot and begin questioning me as to what the lie might have been.

We have a good laugh through all this but I fully anticipate continuing this tradition with our own kids no matter how flawed this theory might be.

I can only make out the fat players!

Posted by Mark:

This was my view last Saturday at the Utah vs. UNLV game.


There are 63 rows in Rice Eccles Stadium..... Our seats? Row 60!

Really, I'm not complaining. I enjoyed sitting here. My good friend Davis and his brother-in-law Nate got us these tickets from the U of U employee day and really going to Utah Football with the Davis family is about as normal for me as breathing. It was a great day......We won, I didn't get sunburned, and I got to eat my customary half time cup of Dippin Dots.

Thankfully, this won't be my last home game that I'll be attending this year. If you didn't hear the news (my joy caused me to yell it from the roof tops), I got a set of season tickets from a guy at my work for only $75! I was pretty excited to say the least. Not only were the seats pretty dang good (row 24), but after the sadness I went through in not getting season tickets a few months back I'm pretty happy with any season set that didn't set me back $400.

Anyway Go Utes!

What the What!

posted by Mark:

So I walked out of my front door on Saturday to do a few odds and ends around the house and this sucker was sitting on the side of my house! It was huge to say the least and it sat there most of the morning.


This dragonfly did reminded me of a memory from my youth. As I've mentioned a few times before my grandparents have a home up in Midway and it has a rather large yard. As a kid growing up we'd go up to Midway often during the summer. This large yard led me to have many fun adventures. Night games, riding around on the mini 50cc four wheeler that my dad bought us and we drove for YEARS until it finally gave up the ghost, catching lots of gardener snakes, playing in the creek, ect.

I must have been bored one day, but I noticed that there were a lot of blue dragonflies flying around the yard and decided I was in charge of doing something about it. I grabbed one of those large red plastic baseball bats and went on a summer long rampage chasing down and killing violently any dragonfly that crossed my path..... As a kid you don't really perceive the impact activities of this nature have on an ecosystem but I am quite positive I DECIMATED the dragonfly population for many years to come. I say that because I recall noticing a steep decline of dragonfly sightings. Whether or not since the days of the Midway Massacre the dragonfly population ever did regain a foothold in the area I can't really say. But I can say that over the years I have gained a greater appreciation for these freaky looking bugs.

Anyway I guess I'm not only sharing this experience for your humor and enjoyment but it leaves just one more warning to prepare my good wife for the future and inevitable hellion that will be our sons early youth. Sorry wife...love love

36 Weeks...

Sorry for the horribleness of this picture, but people have been asking me to update. So, for your viewing pleasure, here is my 36 week preggo picture. Only 4 more weeks to go!