Friday, November 30, 2007
Will's Entry: Survey
Welcome to the 2007 Holiday Edition of Getting to Know Your Friends and Family!
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot chocolate, though the 1st sip of egg nog is Really good.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wrapped
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? I'd have to say colored
4. Do you hang mistletoe? Never have
5. When do you put up your decorations? I have no idea
6. What is your favorite holiday dish? Holiday dishes have never been a tradition
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: Peeking into my parents bedroom and watching them wrap gifts
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I doubt I ever believed in Santa
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? I think we usually do, we're a pretty impatient bunch
10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? Well, the plan is to do a different tree every year for a couple years, then we'll let the kids pick the color scheme. I hope they pick weird combinations.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Can I disc golf in it? Well then I dread it.
12. Can you ice skate?? I can ice skate though stopping is an issue.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? The TV a few years back was pretty cool
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Being with family
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? I don't think I have a favorite
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Getting presents from my pets
17. What tops your tree? We'll have to see
18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? GIVING.....no competition
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? O Holy Night, though I like the electric guitar Ukrainian Bells
20. Candy Canes? I don't think I get this question
21. Do you feel Christmas is too commercialized? Yes, but people who rant about its over-commercialization bug me more. No, no one has "ranted" about it.
Bed
Busy Day
Jason really likes to share his toys with Sierra. She doesn't like it some times. I just over heard him telling her that what he put on her lap was a ball. Goofball.
Will made a race track for Jason to play with. It was a huge hit. He has been playing with it for a good hour this morning.
Will was doing push-ups and Jason decided that he needed to do them too. Don't worry Will has better form then Jason does.
Last but not least we are putting Jason in his bunk beds now. It took me holding him down for 45 min at nap time to get him to finally sleep in it. It got really tiring and I almost cried a few times, but that set the ground work.
We then put him in the bed at night time and he stayed laying down. As soon as we put the gate up he started to cry and got out of bed, but with in 20 min he crawled back in the bed and put the covers on. He fell asleep finally. I am hoping that tonight will go a little smoother.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Taylor Swift
Doctors
She also has grown length wise. She was 17 inches when she was born, and now she is 19 1/4". Man she is growing fast!!
This is when we hung out with the Wu's during thanksgiving. Yes it is weird to be holding 2 kids.
Will likes to call Sierra "Little bundle" he has interesting nick names for our kids. When Jason was younger he called him "Boy boy." You have to love the quirkiness of Will.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Blessing
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Will's SPECTACULAR Entry: Yaaaayyyyyyy!!!!!
The Utah Department of Health has lifted their ban. All individuals are now allowed in the pool regardless of whether they wear diapers.
http://www.lehicity.com/legacycenter/aquaticscenter.php#rules
I tried to post a picture, but couldn't. Not that it matters . . . I'm so excited, when are we going???
Will's Unexpected Entry: OOOOooohhhhhh!!!!
Jason vs Sierra
I have been asked by a few people to show a picture of Sierra and Jason when they were the same age. Well here it is.
I want to say that they look pretty similar. Sierra has a wider nose and lips. I think her tongue is way huge, because she never keeps it in her mouth. Yeah her tongue is sticking out.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Notable Thanksgiving Moments
- Seeing Baylee now that she is 3 months old. What a huge difference 3 months makes in a baby.
- I was told that Will played an awesome game of football with the family.
- My dad and Jason put together the new bunk beds. Jason was more of a hinder then a help. My poor dad got whacked in the head a few times with the boards.
- Of course eating dinner (1:00) with a ton of my family. Although if you ask Suzanne "Pie is not dinner." We ate pie at 5:00. Haha
- Eric complimented me on my pies. I think they all turned out pretty well. Ok my mom's pie was interesting. It was peach, but she didn't have enough peaches, so she put some pears in it as well. She said that it got some compliments and Will responded that "Asking what kind of pie it was did not count as a compliment." You have to love his one liners.
- We went bowling and had to chase down Jason the whole time. It got pretty tiring, but I think he had a good time.
- Ok Will and I need to really get out more. We saw Enchanted and we thought it was so funny. Everyone else suffered through it.
- My mom racing. Typing it out won't do it justice. As we were driving home my mom looked into the car next to us. She then pretty much challenged the guy to a race. We took off and he won of course. Then we caught up at another red light. She whipped out her running gloves and started to put them on. The chick in the passenger seat was dying of laughter. I have a crazy mom.
Friday
- Shopping with my dad on black Friday. I bought some "Cars" for Jason at half off. Wahoo.
- Hanging out and playing the Wii. That Baseball game got me sore. I was really getting into it. Too bad I don't have very good timing.
- The boys having a marshmallow fight in the backyard. Art and Eric really were getting into it. It is a fun excuse to pelt your boys with marshmallows. (Sorry Ray and Linda)
- Optimus Prime getting Jason to eat his pizza. Will and I could not get him to eat. What a great Uncle Matt he has.
Saturday
- We blessed Sierra on Saturday morning. Sorry to those we did not invite. We wanted to keep it low key and small.
- Will during the blessing could not remember Sierra's middle name. He had to ask me what it was. Grandpa Coombs leaned over after and said that that kind of stuff should not happen to a young guy like him.
- I was stressing out in the middle of everything because I lost the BYU Utah football tickets. No I still have not found them.
- Will and I snuk into the game with the help of Matt and Mickie. We were deceptive, but we have tickets some where. If you are wondering how, here is the story. To get back into the game you have to have your hand stamped. Matt got his hand stamped. He then went back to some one else and asked for another stamp because it was coming off. He then took a rubber football they had given him and put it on the hand stamp. The wet ink transferred quite nicely to Will's hand and then he did the same thing for me. We were able to walk in without any problems.
- The game was so good and keep us all on the edge of our seats till the very end. BYU came out victorious in the end, but Utah really gave them a run for their money.
- We hung out with Will's family for a bit before we had to head back home.
- My family hanging out watching the BYU basketball game. Yes my dad is ironing his traveling shirt.
- Britany and I went shopping with the gift cards she received. We had a great time picking out new winter outfits for Baylee. I think she is going to be nice and toasty warm this winter.
Sunday
- I was ganged up on by the Relief Society Women. Everyone wanted to see Sierra. They even lined up to see her. It was so bizarre. It was interesting that I got quite a bit of people asking me if she was early. I replied that she was just 2 days early and they were surprised.
- Oh and my favorite memory of the weekend. Sister Bradford (old primary president) came up to Will and asked him if he was having fun with Sierra. Will's response was "Fun? I don't think that your memory of a newborn is the same as what I am going through." He cracks me up.
- Then it was off to hang out with Will's family again. We are looking forward to spending more time with them during Christmas.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Will's Entry: Calm before the storm
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Tough Night
My mom took Sierra for us last night and I guess she was a pill. So far she is on a trend one good night, one bad night, one good night, one bad night. Well I am grateful for the extra sleep I got last night.
The sleep mothering is back. Last night I "needed" to feed Sierra, so I got up holding her, put my robe on, and walked downstairs. As I was walking to the fridge for a bottle when I realized that I was cradling my breasts instead of her. I searched for her and then it finally clicked in my head that my mom had her. I then went to the bathroom to make it seam like that is what I was up to do. Well I guess I just blew my cover :)
We also were able to buy a bunk bed for Jason. We are still working on buying mattresses, but I am sure the bed will be up in no time. Small detour, but we went out to lunch with Suzanne after buying the beds. She works with HUGE blue prints and was so excited that she just got clamps to hold it on her desk.
Well I guess I will spread the news, but Colton and a bunch of his friends got $100 tickets for playing wall ball in a public parking garage. There were no signs saying they couldn't be there, there were no cars on the floor, and the kids were only playing wall ball. After the cop gave them tickets he started swearing and joking around with all the kids. These kids were really offended. Any ways they are going to try and fight the tickets. I hope they get a good judge. What a stupid thing to get a ticket for.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Random Events of the Weekend
Will's Weekend Wentry
Friday, November 16, 2007
Fun Pics!
Other then that my milk has come in and boy is that painful (we are bottle feeding). Any time Jason knocks me, oh boy. I was able to take some benadrill to help dry me up last night and my mom took Sierra. It sure was nice because I was in so much pain. I sure hope I dry up real fast.
Will thought it was funny the way I was putting on Jason's shoes. He had to take a picture.
She sure looks cute in her outfit, but she was not having any of it.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Code Blue
I'm back!!
- I only went through the contractions for 3 days. I had enough by Monday. I realized that Britany is a lot stronger then people give her credit for. Going through contractions for 4 weeks would have killed me!
- I thought it was so funny that one of the nurses came in and told us that "she was trying to convince me that I was in labor." All of the nurses were amazed that I was dilated to a 7 and still was joking around and smiling. After that they got a lot harder and I became a lot more quite, but I handled everything very well.
- I hate needles and when I was getting my IV it didn't go so well. The blood pressure cuff was not working on me and would cut off my blood circulation. Then the nurse decided to put the IV in right after. That did not work so well. She burst my vain and no i have a nice bruise. A new nurse tried and well the first time she did it she hit a valve and now I have 2 bruises on my arm. The third one finally took. The bruises are pretty much the only thing I am still healing from.
- It was interesting when I was not aloud to push her out. The nurse keep telling me "say Pu Pu Pu" Let me tell you that it is not easy. The doctor had just enough time to get in there and put gloves on by the time she was coming out. It was crazy.
So those are pretty much what I remember at the moment. I will have to write later more, but we are heading to the store. I picked the worst time to have a kid. The house was a wreck, we had no food, and we had plans on Tuesday to buy our Christmas present. Oh well what can you do, she decided to come a little early.
I am truly thankful for Mickie and Matt and how they came over at 4 am and helped out. I am so glad that I have such a great sister that lives here. (Suzanne would have totally been down too, if she was not watching our cousin). Plus Will enjoyed the hospital breaks by going disc golfing.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Will's Entry: She's Heeee-re!
Friday, November 09, 2007
Will's Entry: Forgotten Items
Rachel - should we be worried if he licks it then rubs his eyes with it?
The other night we were having canned peaches for dinner. Kristin cut Jason's up into bite-size pieces, but it was still to slippery for him to catch with a fork. I came up with a good idea - I took out a toothpick for him. You could tell he really enjoyed stabbing his pieces. He was on a rapid stab, put in mouth, swallow, stab again-cycle.
Lastly, Suzanne and I have to comment on the way Kristin's brain works. It really is odd how her imagination runs away from her.
We were in the nosebleed seats at the football game last nite. Before halftime, the band started practicing underneath us. All you could really hear was the thumping and crashing of the percussion. Kristin's first thought was "Is someone doing something bad to the stadium??"
Here's my favorite part:
Her next thought was, "Is there not anybody who's going to do something about it?" I love my wife and just smile when she lets thoughts like these enter her pretty little mind . . .
Will's Entry: Busy Day
Afterwards Kristin and Jason picked me up and we headed to Quiznos for dinner before the BYU game. We dropped Jason off with Art and Steph for the rest of the night.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Will's Log: Supplemental
So first things first - here's my latest thing that I've been wondering about.
How do certain places stay in business? For example, how does Wienerschnitzel keep its doors open? On that note, Sconecutters too . . . I haven't gone to Kmart as a 1st choice in a decade and I want to know how those perfume places stay open in malls. How many people actually enjoy eating a candy called "Nut Roll"? How come the world isn't addicted to disc golf??? OK, that last one is just me.
- Jason did some interesting things yesterday. I was eating a spinach salad for dinner. He came over to me and said "Bite??". I thought, "Sure, but you probably won't like it". Well let's just say he wouldn't leave my side until my salad was finished. Huh, he didn't mind spinach . . .
- We were at the store and he was making a mess (pushing things off shelves, taking things off hooks) faster than I could clean them. I told him he'd have to be held if he kept acting that way. Eventually he threw some socks on the ground and I told him to pick them up. He wouldn't so I picked him up and he screamed and threw a fit. I told him to say Sorry and he actually did it. Pretty good one at that.
- He also like watching America's Funniest Home Videos. Sadly, he likes the ones with people falling or crashing the best. He actually laughs when we're watching them.
Lastly, I tried finding my favorite cartoon so I could attach it, but I couldn't. Basically, it's a Mom scolding her little boy at the dinner table. Obviously looking flustered, she's yelling, "That's fine! You can mix your peas and your corn, but you CAN'T call it porn!!!"
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Clean Clothes
Will did say to me this morning, "Just think of all the fun we are going to be having this time next week." Humm pain...
We really are not very nervous about her coming. I think we are more anticipating the sleepless nights and how Jason will handle the big change. I am sure it will go just fine.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Take that Mickie
She is going to drown in everything though. It is all 8-12 lbs and well the doc said that she might get up to 6 lbs when she is born. Yeah I am not buying smaller for her to wear it for only a month or so. Is that terrible? (Naahhhh).
We got Chinese food last night and we got fried rice. Jason usually eats it right up, but that is because we normally get ham. This time Will got pork and Jason would spit out ever piece of pork he got. What a picky kid!!
Yummm Krispy Kreams!!
Monday, November 05, 2007
Fun and games
Saturday was the BYU football game, which we won. Hurray!! And then the guys went disc golfing as usual. We did get an interesting call from Matt and Mickie last night. Matt was trying to convince me to take an hour nap while I was in labor... So that they could go disc golfing. Humm I think I will be in to much pain to take a nap. Good try Matt.
After the football game, we played ticket to ride and that was pretty much our weekend. Sunday was incredibly long because of the extra hour, so we talked to a lot of family on the phone. I swear that when we do nothing on Sundays it lasts so long, but when we visit family they seam so short.
Here Jason has been enjoying all the Halloween candy he collected.