Failing with Style

Hey Liz... No, really we've all moved on to Facebook, as geeky as that is. It was Garnet's idea. And Marc's. They're the geeky ones. I check the blog accidentally occasionally when I click the wrong bookmark.

Nope I don't have anything to do with that little fireworks display a couple of weeks ago. Bummer for everyone involved, but it'll all work out. We're only looking at like $250 million. Compared to what the government has been spending lately, that's a drop in the bucket.

NASA

I'm not sure if anyone still checks this - sad to say, but true - I just had to post and see whether Dave has anything to say about NASA today. I know you work on shuttles, but do you have anything to do with the carbon dioxide monitoring equipment? If not, based on today's events, you should. A tragic day for NASA and the global warming concerned population. So, will it be another eight years and more millions of dollars? I'm assuming, the current satellite will not be going up again.

Halloween We Can Believe In

My little brother makes a tradition of carving a couple of pumpkins related to current pop culture events. Here's this year's completed products:

A search....

Oh where oh where has our EMJBT gone? Oh where oh where can she be? With her Husband Dave, and her beautiful girls? Oh where is she in the world?

Anyone heard from her lately? Anyone know what is up with her? Anyone know how to get in touch with her? Anyone? Anyone? She is non responsive to my emails.....help!

Happy Birthday!

Ok so its a couple days late....but Happy Birthday Garnet and Em BT! Hope you girls had a fabulous day. I love you!

New Arrivals

Check out Dahnelle's blog for the latest...

And Garnet's is here too if you didn't know already. Her blog covers that one.

Shiela

On Sunday we drove 40 miles to Conifer for my cousin's baby's blessing. Someone bore their testimony about a Bishop Madsen, so I started looking around, and lo and behold, Shiela's cute little parents were sitting a few rows over. I introduced myself and got an update on Sheila and Dave. For all I know, Garnet already knew all of this, but maybe not. They are living in Ohio, in a little farm town, and Shiela started her own cookie company. It started out as her baking cookies for friends, and over the last couple years it has gone huge. She is having a hard time keeping up with orders from businesses all over their county. Fun, huh? I guess the good old days of Dave barging in on Sunday nights yelling, "Shiela...make me some cookies" and her quickly donning her apron are paying off. They're having baby #4 any day.

Dave's Life

Ok, so an update on Dahnelle... She just hit 32 weeks which is the big milestone for avoiding all of the major complications. It was a little freaky there for a while but now it seems like more of an inconvenience than anything. The goal now is to get the guy chubby enough to avoid the ICU when he decides it's time to come. Dahnelle's doctor eased up on the restrictions, so she's keeping Conner home with her while Chris is in school. She's still pretty immobile but at least she's not stuck in one spot all day long.

Chris going to school, by the way, officially makes me old.

So at 36 weeks she'll go off the medication then the betting pool can open. I keep saying we're going to have to induce at 42 weeks, but she's less confident. Maybe that's because she can't open a can of Sprite without going into false labor.

Speaking of me being old, I was eating corn on the cob with Chris the other day and I was showing him how to eat it like a typewriter. This is what I got:

"Daddy... what's a typewriter?"

When the hell did that happen?

Garnet

Yes I did see TJ when I was in Boston. My friends flew out Sunday morning and I saved myself 100 bucks and stayed til Monday morning. So I spent all day on Sunday with her. It was so fun! She is the same ol' Teejaro! And we had a great time. And she is dating someone, seriously enough to take him on the family vacation to Lake Tahoe for their parents reunion.....but I didn't tell you that! And while I was there we got Heather on the webcam and over the internet I got to meet her little girl who is so cute and precocious! Totally the minature H! Good times good times.....

Mamma Mia!

Okay, so I saw Mamma Mia with my mom this week. And it made me miss you guys oh so much! It was so much fun. And it reminded me of how I think our friendships would be if we were reunited in 20 years. Hilarious. And of course there was DANCING QUEEN which I silently dedicated to Marc. It was great to go see with my mom, but I just kept thinking that I needed to be there with all of my freshmen friends :) So I think you all need to go see it too!