Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Rebirth

Tim has just run home to accomplish the following things before picking me up from work in an hour and fifteen minutes:
clean the bathroom
tidy the living room
tidy the bedroom
wash the dishes
clean the kitchen
and
sweep every floor in our house.

Not to mention take out the garbage, recycling, and hide all pregnancy paraphernalia.

Apparently, when a loved one travels across multiple states and would like to get together, it's polite to invite them over to your house. The house that your pregnant wife hasn't cleaned, well, since she found out she was pregnant.

Bless Tim's heart. He is chalking up some major karma for his next life.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

stl

i'll be honest. i don't really like st. louis. the hotel where we stayed didn't have a continental breakfast or wifi. don't those came with every hotel. from now on we are only staying in cheap hotels that may bnt have king sized beds, but will have what we value: food and netflix. it is also in a sprawling, desolate part of down town. i also feel pretty tired and nauseated. bad hotel plus bad gut probably shouldn't equate a bad city. to be fair, we went to an excellent zoo yesterday (on the opposite side of town). it is free and very beautifully maintained. most of the walkways were lined with  festive bails of hay and pumpkins.

today is a little better. i came to st. louis university, also known as slu, with tim this morning because i didn't now what else to do.. stl is not a city full of life. and i wasn't going to drive the rental car all over town looking for some. i'm petrified by tail collisions.

now i'm camped out in the library. i found a couch (that's not as comfortable as it looked.. no wonder all of these med students are sitting at the desks) by an outlet that's conveniently proximal to the women's restroom. this library is very nice. it is one of the highlights of st. louis. here, i will spend a nice quiet day. netflix will fire up momentarily until tim has finished. unless the guest internet limits streaming. typical stl style.

i suggested tim not bomb his interview, but zero pressure.


Friday, September 28, 2012

laissez faire

We went on a trip to seattle but I'm too tired to write about it. I should also pack for St. Louis and Chicago tomorrow but I'm too tired to do that too. So I watch Timmy go about his packing and call out reminders from the couch. Today, I wanted a jamba juice for dinner but was too tired (read lazy) to go in, order, pay, wait. So I called in a to-go order. To jamba juice. and prepaid over the telephone. (Tim incredulously mocking the whole while) The nice lady asked when they should have it ready? Five minutes. We were already in the car. I still can't believe they accepted my demand. Isn't every jamba juice, ever, a to-go order to be ready in five minutes? It was like calling in an order to a fast food joint while queued in the drive thru. Sweet Timmy even walked in to pick up my smoothie. All I had to move were my fingers and my mouth. My kind of service.

This is just the pregnancy typing, promise. We're real hopeful for the second trimester.

Monday, September 17, 2012

PS, so the time i crashed the car

was pregnant brain. And i have a doctor's note to excuse it. And the broken window.

Sesame Seed

Happy FHE with the Horrockses.
We love this pup.
He  loves us.. too much?
How do you like my outfit? The shirt looks like a maternity shirt.. but it's okay, because I'll fill it out.
End of May makes us a party of four. Right now, we're three + a sesame seed.
Hooah!

Sunday, September 9, 2012





This week was a week. I missed Timmy so much. And at the airport i hit a car. I just wanted to get that off my chest.


Well, let me explain. Tim had an interview this week in Nebraska. Also, Tim spilled juice all over the keyboard, and now it is really crunchy. So, I really missed  him and when he got back, I went to pick him up from the airport, and I was really excited. So excited that I wasn't paying attention where I was driving and I barely nicked a car as I pulled out. Damage was minimal, but the lady was very angry and unpleasant. It was the first accident in my driving career which was sad. I cried a lot, and the policeman laughed at me everytime he came over. The first time he snuck up on me so I tried to quickly wipe my eyes. He started laughing and told me not to worry about it. He seemed to be getting a kick out of it, but in the end he still gave me a citation for improper lookout. In the morning, I finally looked at it and proceeded to wipe the majority of the damage off with my sleeve. Tim says there was even less damage on the lady's car. It probably wasn't worth it to make such a fuss over damage you can scrape off with a sleeve. She could've saved an hour of her life. Also while tim was gone, Louie became a little cuddly. Thats been nice. He's not cuddlly all the time, or even the majority of the time, but he does cuddle. He's also getting very tall and continues to be mischievous. It causes problems. He may be getting cuter though. Timmy got a haircut and looks so handsome. When the guy finished cutting it, everyone else in the place ooed and awed and said he was the master of fade.




Tim here. The interview was fine. An asian american medical student picked me up from the airport. He was nice. I slept on a futon. I think I woke up after every hour or so, but I was just happy I got some sleep in. People at Creighton are really nice. The facilities don't seem as nice as other places, but the people are very nice, which I think i care about more. I didn't get to see the town, but it seems very suburby. I'd be curious to see the rest of the place. I didn't feel great when I got back. Then we got in an accident. So I called in sick. or I tried. and failed. We'll see how that goes when I get back to work on Tuesday. While there, I bought our plane tickets to go to St. Louis/Chicago, so we'll be doing plenty of traveling in the next month. Last week, we ate dinner with my parents and grandparents and grandpa's cousins. It was slightly boring, but here are the highlights. We had a good dinner. At dinner, my grandma gave us $50 dollars because we had sent her 3 or 4 4x6's of our wedding/graduation. She's funny and very generous. We laughed to ourselves lots and Noelle made funny jokes. Grandpa gave us a melon, which we knew we wouldn't eat and didn't. But Louie ate some and licked lots. It was good to see family. We went to an old pretty church in Brigham City where my great great grandpa had been the first stake president. It was cool. I guess it was shown in the february ensign. Last night we went to a stake conference meeting. During the closing prayer, the guy said he was thankful for all the words we were just subjected to. We fed off each other and laughed a lot during the prayer, but no one else thought it was funny. The beautiful girl with down syndrome that Noelle visit teaches was sitting next to us, and she asked why we were laughing. Noelle immediately blamed me, and when she asked why I was laughing, I didn't have the heart to say that it was due to the guy's funny prayer.




Noelle here. We got the coolest table/desk. A woman in our ward is letting go of a lot of her stuff because she's moving. We decided we'd be willing to pay about 50 or 60 dollars for a used table. When we asked her how much, she said $5! We'll need to do some re-modeling now, but we already have a chair picked out at DI. A taller table might be nice so Louie can't eat our food. On Saturday, Grandpa Eric gave him his first human food, some yummy waffles from Brugges. While downtown, he seemed to really have fun interacting with all the dogs and people at the farmer's market. He also liked Petunia the Pig. He gets amazingly excited almost any time he sees a new dog or person. That tail can really wag. He doesn't seem  to like a few people, but they're usually people that we don't trust anyways.

Monday, August 20, 2012

Family Home Evening

"I can tell. The way you do the things you do. No biting. Hahaha. Ha. Yeah. Oh good boy. good boy. Yeah. Good boy. Those back teeth are humongous. haha. hahaha. He looks so funny. hahaha. Ahhh. Whoa. Ha. heeeeey. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyggggggggghhhhhhhhchchchchchchhchchchhzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaa.  No biting. Good boy. Timmy. This is not a fun post. Our first one's gotta be good. That's what she said. Haha. Snort. haha. Mmmmmhhhmmmhh. Look louie's singin. Mmmmmm. mmmmmmmm. mmmmmmmmmmmmm. ooooooooooooo. oooooooooooo. ooo ooo ooo. Come and talk to me. Lalalala Lovely one. Like one. Ohhhhh ohhhhh oohhhhhhhhh. oooohhhhhhh. hahaha. Go louie go louie. ohhhhhhhhh. No biting! No biting! That hurts. mmmmmmmmmmhmmmmmhmmmmmhmmmmmhmmmmmmmmmmmhmmmmm. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. ohhhhhhhhh. Oh louie oh oh oh. Oh louie oh oh oh. No! No biting! you're a babyyy, no biting. you are getting very sleepy. Very sleepy louie. haha. Tic tock tic toe tic tock. ha! Round and round and clockwise. Round and round and clockwise. Yeah you play with your little paws Good baby good baby. Simba! Ahhh. We need to video that. Shake shake. Hey Hey. Ohhhhh. No biting! Did it open my nose? You're bleeding. haha. I know. Wow. I applied pressure. Well good work. Louie. Look what you did to momma."

Family Home Evening with Tim, Noelle and Louie.