Posted by Mark:
At the ripe old age of 28 I've started to notice something alarming. I'm getting old. Some of you (Those older then 28) might laugh and say "Wait till you get my age!" And that is probably true, but I just wanted to point out that I'm starting to see the signs. Let me run through a few of my more recent old man traits.
1. For the first time in my life I added to the grocery list "TUMS" ......TUMS??!! that's something my grandpa puts on HIS grocery list. What happened to the days that I could eat anything and everything with little to no effect. This thing called heartburn sucks.
2. More and more people address me as Sir......
3. Now when I get injured it takes me a lot longer to recover. A few weeks back, while playing Basket Ball, I took a really hard knee to the thigh. Not only did I limp for 3-4 days afterwards but the thing didn't stop hurting for at least 2 weeks!
4. 10pm is now late. In my college days I never went to bed before midnight. In fact. 2am was my usual time to be in bed.
5. On the same token, I can't sleep in as late as I used to. Now I'm lucky (after pretty much forcing myself) to sleep in till 9am. I remember when I could sleep in till 1pm. Those were good times.
6. I'm starting to get really annoyed with the high school kids who drive past my house going 100mph with their loud cars. (I used to BE that annoying kid) Particularly there is this one gray Dodge Magnum who is my current arch nemesis. Every day, with out fail, he flies past with engine roaring. I am quite tempted to throw a rock through his front windshield but then I change my mind cause I'd rather not get arrested.
7. You know all those sitcoms and movie characters that seemed so old when you watched them when you were young? Well in watching them now I realize that all of them are portraying 25, 26, 27 year olds. For example: I'm older then Ross Geller in season one of Friends!
8. I find that I have to get up in the middle of the night to use the little boys room more often.
9. Remember when I used to have blonde hair? My hair is getting darker and darker every year.
Anyway, I'm predicting that it's only a matter of time that I'll be sitting on my front porch to spray punk kids with my hose who even think about walking on my lawn.
In closing I'd like to quote my late grandfather, George Dibb when he expressed his feelings about aging to my dad after a long day of helping my dad move. "Roger, getting old is Hell." My grandpa was a very wise man.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Cabellas and Sleeping
Posted by Mark:
It's a fact of life that once you have children the predominant topic you write about is ones child. Here yet again is a post about Spencer. Never fear though. I'm finishing up a project that I'll be sure to blog about in the coming weeks.
Anyway, Last week was the Bountiful High School Homecoming. The good part about living across the street from a high school on homecoming week is that on the Thursday there is a parade that travels past our house where lots of candy gets thrown in our direction as we watch on the front lawn. The bad part about living across the street from a high school on home coming week is the Football game, where hundreds of people park up and down your street. Not wanting to be around for the madness we decided to make a trip down south and visit Ikea to buy some chairs, and visit Cabellas to look at guns! (Ken recently got a job in the gun department at Cabellas for his retirement dream job) So we thought it would be fun to check out his new gig. Anyway while at Cabellas we of course had to check out the aquarium and see if Spencer would enjoy it.
Well of course he did! He's an easy boy to please.
I like this picture cause it shows how old Spencer is looking.
Lastly, before Kimmi and I head to bed we always just go check on Spencer to make sure he's not dead. Sunday I was laying in bed when Kimmi walks in our room and tells me that I HAVE to come see Spencer. Here's what we found:
How this is comfortable I'll never know. I almost started laughing so hard I quickly ran out of the room so I wouldn't wake him up. We just HAD to take a photo.
It's a fact of life that once you have children the predominant topic you write about is ones child. Here yet again is a post about Spencer. Never fear though. I'm finishing up a project that I'll be sure to blog about in the coming weeks.
Anyway, Last week was the Bountiful High School Homecoming. The good part about living across the street from a high school on homecoming week is that on the Thursday there is a parade that travels past our house where lots of candy gets thrown in our direction as we watch on the front lawn. The bad part about living across the street from a high school on home coming week is the Football game, where hundreds of people park up and down your street. Not wanting to be around for the madness we decided to make a trip down south and visit Ikea to buy some chairs, and visit Cabellas to look at guns! (Ken recently got a job in the gun department at Cabellas for his retirement dream job) So we thought it would be fun to check out his new gig. Anyway while at Cabellas we of course had to check out the aquarium and see if Spencer would enjoy it.
Well of course he did! He's an easy boy to please.
Lastly, before Kimmi and I head to bed we always just go check on Spencer to make sure he's not dead. Sunday I was laying in bed when Kimmi walks in our room and tells me that I HAVE to come see Spencer. Here's what we found:
Monday, September 19, 2011
Rugby
Posted by Mark:
I became a fan of rugby later in life. In fact it wasn't till my mission that I knew anything about the sport. I flew into Melbourne on June 10th 2002, after getting my first companion and doing a little grocery shopping, we headed to the chapel where a group of elders were getting together to watch that weeks rugby game. (We were allowed to watch sports on our P-Day) Maybe it was the fact that I had just got off a 15 hour flight, or that I knew nothing of the sport, but either way I quickly fell asleep in the corner quite bored with my first day in Australia. Quickly though I learned to love the sport through weekly game watching and by playing touch rugby with the elders for a little exercise. Since a lot of the elders who served in my mission were from New Zealand we ALWAYS watched the All Blacks. They soon became my favorite team but I still held a place in my heart for the Wallabys since they were the national team of Australia. Anyway, after the mission I lost touch with Rugby. I of course went to a few of the U of U rugby games but never got to see anything to the level I got used to on the mission. Lately however, things have changed.
Currently the 2011 Rugby world cup is being played and I couldn't be happier to watch a few games on my TV at home. Kimmi and Spencer of course could care less but for my sake, to help with the spirit of the whole thing I pulled out my souvenir ruby ball and made Spencer wear the coolest little Wallaby's jersey ever that we recently got sent to us by some good friends in Australia. I always say that if Spencer ever wants to play football he's going to have to be the kicker cause I'd rather he not get hurt.... However, Contrary to what I just said, if he wants to play rugby I have absolutely no problem with that... Kimmi of course does not concur with my thinking. Either way he's pretty dang cute.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Something to read about...
Posted By Kimmi:
We have decided we are pretty boring as of late, and really don't have much going on. Work, play, sleep...repeat. We went through our camera though and thought we might as well post about what we have been doing. Even if it is boring. So, here we go, enjoy!
As most of you know, we came to the hard decision back in June to give up our dog, little Miss Beatrice. While we loved having her in our home, she wasn't getting the attention she deserved once Spencer came along. We were lucky enough to find a wonderful women to adopt Beatrice into her home. Mona was a past co-worker of mine in Idaho. She was living alone in a newly bought country house. Perfect for Beatrice who loves to run and be outside, who can bark to her hearts content, and best of all someone to love her and get love back. So Mark and I made the weekend trip to Idaho to take Beatrice to her new home, visit old friends, and of course check out the Twin falls. As for a Beatrice update, the last I have heard, things are going wonderfully.
Saying our last good byes to Beatrice
Beatrice's new mom
Family at the waterfall. Spencer was transfixed.
At the end of June I had the priviledge to attend an educational meeting in Seattle for work. It was a great experience to go and learn about new things progressing in my field. I also had the opportunity (I am still making myself look at it that way) to present a case study from our lab! In front of 100+ people! Who have all been in the field YEARS compared to me! Talk about nerve racking! But I did it, and I did well according to the two people I knew there. The rest of the time was spent going to classes, checking out new instrumentation and test kits, walking through the streets of Seattle, checking out Pike's Place, and eating delicious fish at the restuarant at the top of the Space Needle. All in all it was a good experience.
Riding the Monorail with my friend from work Lori
Outside Pike's Place
Whale carved out of driftwood!
Next we headed to Roosevelt for a family reunion with my grandpa Billy's side. Its a chance to sit on a ranch with good company and good food. Mark, of course, had to go off to shoot things with guns, while I stayed around and chatted. Spencer was a hit with the grandma's (as always).
The boys out shooting stuff
Spencer and me hanging out with the fam.
July finished out with the Day's of 47 Rodeo and Parade. We went to the rodeo with Mark's parents, his sister, Sarah, and her kiddos. Since Sarah's kids live on the East Coast and since New England doesn't believe in rodeos, the three kids had never seen one! They seemed to really enjoy it of course. Spencer did not. He spent the first ten minutes crying and clinging to me until he got used to the noise and chaos that exsists at the rodeo. At that point, he just sat around as the content boy he usually is. Mark of course dressed up in is customary Rodeo attire since this really is the only chance he gets to wear his cowboy boots and hat.
Wild cow milking. Always a favorite.
The Clan
Spencer and Mark
We took our awesome friends Ashley and Tim and their little Emery to the parade. The parade was only seen by the adults because Spencer and Emmy were to busy making out. Kids these days.....
Romantically slides his hand behind her head....
Then he goes in for the kill!!
We have decided we are pretty boring as of late, and really don't have much going on. Work, play, sleep...repeat. We went through our camera though and thought we might as well post about what we have been doing. Even if it is boring. So, here we go, enjoy!
As most of you know, we came to the hard decision back in June to give up our dog, little Miss Beatrice. While we loved having her in our home, she wasn't getting the attention she deserved once Spencer came along. We were lucky enough to find a wonderful women to adopt Beatrice into her home. Mona was a past co-worker of mine in Idaho. She was living alone in a newly bought country house. Perfect for Beatrice who loves to run and be outside, who can bark to her hearts content, and best of all someone to love her and get love back. So Mark and I made the weekend trip to Idaho to take Beatrice to her new home, visit old friends, and of course check out the Twin falls. As for a Beatrice update, the last I have heard, things are going wonderfully.
Saying our last good byes to Beatrice
Beatrice's new mom
Family at the waterfall. Spencer was transfixed.
At the end of June I had the priviledge to attend an educational meeting in Seattle for work. It was a great experience to go and learn about new things progressing in my field. I also had the opportunity (I am still making myself look at it that way) to present a case study from our lab! In front of 100+ people! Who have all been in the field YEARS compared to me! Talk about nerve racking! But I did it, and I did well according to the two people I knew there. The rest of the time was spent going to classes, checking out new instrumentation and test kits, walking through the streets of Seattle, checking out Pike's Place, and eating delicious fish at the restuarant at the top of the Space Needle. All in all it was a good experience.
Riding the Monorail with my friend from work Lori
Outside Pike's Place
Whale carved out of driftwood!
Next we headed to Roosevelt for a family reunion with my grandpa Billy's side. Its a chance to sit on a ranch with good company and good food. Mark, of course, had to go off to shoot things with guns, while I stayed around and chatted. Spencer was a hit with the grandma's (as always).
The boys out shooting stuff
Spencer and me hanging out with the fam.
July finished out with the Day's of 47 Rodeo and Parade. We went to the rodeo with Mark's parents, his sister, Sarah, and her kiddos. Since Sarah's kids live on the East Coast and since New England doesn't believe in rodeos, the three kids had never seen one! They seemed to really enjoy it of course. Spencer did not. He spent the first ten minutes crying and clinging to me until he got used to the noise and chaos that exsists at the rodeo. At that point, he just sat around as the content boy he usually is. Mark of course dressed up in is customary Rodeo attire since this really is the only chance he gets to wear his cowboy boots and hat.
Wild cow milking. Always a favorite.
The Clan
Spencer and Mark
We took our awesome friends Ashley and Tim and their little Emery to the parade. The parade was only seen by the adults because Spencer and Emmy were to busy making out. Kids these days.....
Romantically slides his hand behind her head....
Then he goes in for the kill!!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
I Heart Glasses
I know some of you reading this will be confused by this statement. I recently switched to contacts because of my adorable little boy's grabby hands. Even at three months old he was able to grab my glass right off my face and into his mouth they went. This got old fast. So I took the plunge and attempted contacts. Amazingly enough, I can put contacts in and my eyeballs don't fall out! I have really enjoyed contacts these past couple months and now Mark and Spencer can look deeply into my eyes all they want.
However, I still need those trusty glasses from time to time. Plus, I feel like they have become part of my indentity. So my quest for a new exciting pair of glasses began. Luckily, I came across a company named Warby Parker through a blog I read. This company is wonderful and I hope you will take some time and read up on them.
Here are some quick facts:
A. This company was started by four friends who got tired of the high price of glasses (usually 300.00+!). They began producing high quality, vintage inspired glasses that are both stylish and affordable.
B. You can order and try on 5 pairs of frames for 5 days, free of charge! You get on their website, pick your favorite 5, then they send you a box with the frames in a matter of days with a paid shipping label to ship them back when you are done.
C. All of the glasses are $95 for frames AND prescription lenses and again, free shipping!
D. Now for the best part. For every pair of glasses you purchase, a pair is donated to someone who does not have access to glasses. To date the company has distributed over 50,000 pairs around the world.
Pretty awesome if you ask me. So here is my final choice! What do you think?! (please excuse my inability to take a good picture)
However, I still need those trusty glasses from time to time. Plus, I feel like they have become part of my indentity. So my quest for a new exciting pair of glasses began. Luckily, I came across a company named Warby Parker through a blog I read. This company is wonderful and I hope you will take some time and read up on them.
Here are some quick facts:
A. This company was started by four friends who got tired of the high price of glasses (usually 300.00+!). They began producing high quality, vintage inspired glasses that are both stylish and affordable.
B. You can order and try on 5 pairs of frames for 5 days, free of charge! You get on their website, pick your favorite 5, then they send you a box with the frames in a matter of days with a paid shipping label to ship them back when you are done.
C. All of the glasses are $95 for frames AND prescription lenses and again, free shipping!
D. Now for the best part. For every pair of glasses you purchase, a pair is donated to someone who does not have access to glasses. To date the company has distributed over 50,000 pairs around the world.
Pretty awesome if you ask me. So here is my final choice! What do you think?! (please excuse my inability to take a good picture)
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
The changes nine months can bring...
And I mean that two ways. Nine months to incubate something that will change your life forever for the better (i.e Spencer) and a nine month old little man who is growing and changing too fast for my liking.
Spencer just had his nine month appointment and here are his stats:
height 27 3/4 inches 90%
weight 19.2 lbs 30%
head circ 18 inches 60%
Spencer is now a crawling machine. While he can crawl on his knees and does so often, he prefers the army crawl if he wants to get somewhere fast. My favorite thing is to be in another room and hear Spencer trying to find me. Sounds are amplified on our wood floors, so you hear a 'boom, boom, slide' for the two forarms and then pulling the rest of his body. Then I hear his heavy breathing because he is so excited to be getting somewhere. He is so proud of himself! He loves to follow us from room to room.
Spencer is also a eating machine. He loves his milk and oatmeal. We have added fruit, veggies and rice puffs to the menu as well. I think he will eat pretty much anything. He really seems to like watermelon, applesauce, carrots, green beans and sweet potatoes. He can successfully use sign language for 'eat' and 'more.'
He has figured out how to pull himself up on things, and he is really good at it. He can pull up on anything from chairs, tables, pant legs, church pews, etc. As long as he can get a good grip, he's up. He also love to just stand there for 10 minutes at a time or longer. His favorite excersize at night while we are watching our favorite show is to stand up to the coffee table, sit back down, then crawl to the entertainment center, stand up, sit down, and back to the coffee table to repeat it again.
He mimics Mark and I with sounds, facial expressions, clapping, etc. Its so funny to watch him!
I am starting to notice his favorite things. He regularly sleeps with his bear. His favorite book is "In My Tree." Favorite toys is anything he can get in his mouth. And he finally likes taking baths! Finally!
I like I said he is growing to fast! Our next check up appointment is for his one year old birthday! Has it really come that soon!?
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