Time for a Change

I decided it was time to change the look of the blog. Did you notice?

I have to admit. I'm having second thoughts about liking 9:00 church better than 1:00 church. I guess I still prefer it, it's just that the babies haven't been liking it as much as they did at the beginning. We have started letting them take little catnaps during church, but then sometimes they'll come home and not want to take their real nap. But, if we skip the catnaps, church is a nightmare. Any ideas from the more experienced folks out there? I keep telling myself...only 2 more months until nursery, only 2 more months until nursery...

I got some exciting news late this past week. I have been waiting for some time to see if my health insurance was going to approve coverage for a continuous glucose monitor. Out of the blue, the insulin pump company called me and said it was approved and they were ready to ship it to me.

It's a pretty slick system and I'm looking forward to the increased control it will give me over my diabetes. It will give me a blood sugar reading once every five minutes and has alarms to notify me when it goes out of my preset range. I'll have another thing stuck to me all the time, but I'm not expecting it to be a problem since I don't even notice the pump itself.

I wish...

I'm always trying to be creative, but unfortunately I don't really have a creative bone in my body.

I've tried oil painting, but my mountain scene ended up looking like a brown blob hanging from the ocean at the bottom of the earth.

I enjoy music, and played the alto sax all through high school and the first couple of years in college. That's easy though when you're just following the notes on the page. When I was first chair in jazz band, I was miserable at improvisation. Too much creativity required for that.

I've tried knitting and cross-stitching. The cross-stitching works out because you're just following a pattern. I suppose knitting is the same way, but I still couldn't manage it. Shhh, don't tell anyone about this last paragraph. Or, just don't ever mention it to me. :)

I've tried photography a lot. I bought a really nice SLR camera when I was college. I took a lot of pictures out in the mountains of New Mexico with that camera, and they were decent. I ended up selling the camera at some point to make a little money. Our camera now is just a normal digital, not a digital SLR. It has some neat features and can take nice pictures though. Here's my latest attempt at some artistic photography.

I've attached just one picture here. If you click on it, you can see the others that I took.

Growing up fast

It's been a busy few weeks. Work is kicking my rear end, but I think once I can get my feet under me things will be much better. I traveled to Atlanta this past week for a business trip. I was there Wednesday evening through Friday afternoon. Yep, you read that right, I was gone for Valentine's Day. Luckily I have a very understanding wife. I only had to promise to make it up with a trip somewhere. :)

Hannah and Noah are growing up so fast. They can both use their silverware intelligently now.


Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of Noah using his fork. This is all I could get!


Hannah has also started to pretend. She like to put little bags on her shoulder like a purse, say "bye-bye," and then head for the door. Probably the cutest is when she wraps her little baby doll up in a "blanket" and snuggles with it.


And finally, it's time to fess up. We have been so good about not letting the babies watch TV. We have been no-TV zealots in our quest to abide by the rule of no TV before 2. We are terrified of the suggestions that TV watching may be linked to autism. Unfortunately, we've given in. Not too bad, though. I bet they still haven't watched more a few hours total. But you know, sometimes after there's been a few hours of screaming, and you can turn on Sesame Street and this is the result...priceless!

Where did January go?!

Hi all. Not a lot has happened since my last post, but I figured I'd better get something on here before I start getting in trouble.

I can't believe that January is over already! I started my new job on January 2, and I feel like I haven't even really started it yet. It went by in a blur. It's scary to think there are only 11 months left to accomplish all of my objectives for the year. I'd better get busy!

We had a non-family babysitter come over last night so that we could go to a Bishopric dinner at our Bishop's house. This is only the second time we've had such a babysitter. Everything worked out fine, but it still felt weird.

We've got the vacation itch. I have a cousin who is getting married on a Carribean cruise this summer and we were seriously considering going. The only problem is that it was a seven-night cruise. That is too long to be inaccesible even if we could have found a babysitter or babysitters for that period of time. We considered taking them too, but then I don't think any of us would have a good time. Maybe we'll try to find sometime we can sneak away for a long weekend on our own. We would love to go back to Jamaica; I feel more relaxed just sitting here thinking about it!

Not much else to say tonight. Sorry things have been boring lately! We'll try harder to get some more pictures of the kids up...we know that's the only reason anybody comes and puts up with my ramblings anyway.

Later!

PS I can't wait for spring. I've got the winter blahs!!