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!

My first view of Boston was from the back seat of a State Trooper's Car

So there I was arriving for the first time in Boston. I was there for a conference and then also to see what there was to see in Boston. My friend's friends picked us up at the airport at 11:30pm. Now if you've been to Boston, you know that it is surrounded by water and there are ALOT of tunnels. So we leave the airport and enter our first tunnel. 2 minutes into the tunnel, we realize we have a flat tire. There are NO emergency lanes in a tunnel....I repeat, ABSOLUTELY NO emergency lanes in the tunnel. So we sit there wondering what to do and a Mass Pike guy pulls up. He says he will sit behind us with his lights on until a tow truck comes, and then the tow truck will pull us out and change the tire. The tow truck comes and it occurs to us there are 5 of us, and two spots in the tow truck. The tow truck driver then calls a state trooper to come and help transport us out of the tunnel to safety. This state trooper was the most unfriendly guy I have ever met...no sense of humor whatsoever. My roommate and I immediately 'call the spots in the back seat of the trooper's car' after all who has not wanted to ride in the back seat of a state trooper's car (or maybe that's a twisted guilty pleasure of mine).
So we hop in the back seat, or rather squeeze ourselves in (the only person who could have sat there comfortably was an Oompa Loompa. And the unfriendly-lack-of-humor-super-annoyed state trooper drives us out of the tunnel to safety. And I see my first ever view of Boston! He immediately drops us off in the parking lot where we were to change the tire and speeds off....poor guy, give us a break! we are funny people.....anyway....Next question? How many mass pike tow truck drivers does it take to change a flat tire on a Honda Odyssey?
Yep! The answer is 3. What an adventure it was! Boston was great. I immediately fell in love with the city and am ready to go back.

That's all for my life these days......Just thought I would give in to Dave's request and post something. Enjoy!

So... is this my blog or what?

I know some of all y'all have your own blogs, but I know some of all y'all don't. So why don't the don't-ers post something?