When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When the wife takes you shopping . . .

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

I know a lot of guys that HATE going shopping with the wife. Men think it's going to be three hours of "does this look good on me?", "what color do you like best?", and the dreaded "does this make me look fat?". We usually go on autopilot and say "it looks fine", "whatever color you like", and "no you do not look fat" (but we hesitated before we said the last one so we're screwed either way).

So when I went shopping with Gretta today, I was determined to make this time funner for me. So I took her to Hot Topic and found this gem

Fashion Show! Fashion Show! Fashion Show at Lunch!

Monday, January 12, 2009

I am the first one to admit that it is so odd that they are bringing back the 80's style clothing. There is very good reason why they went out of style and for all of us to burn our pictures from that time frame. I was talking with one of my friends the other day about skinny jeans and how they only look good on 1% of the population and they should have never been made again. Then when I was at Target I tried some on just for kicks and I was surprised how good they looked. I think the key was wearing a long shirt that covered my butt (making your butt look huge is the biggest problem with skinny jeans) and now I am eating my own words because I am now a proud owner of skinny jeans. Never say never

Health Update

Friday, January 9, 2009

I have been pretty sick for about 6 months. I've had a seizure like movement disorder and some on and off I couldn't use my arms and legs for a while but luckily I think we found a medication that is helping so so much I feel so good and I haven't had any convolutions all day and I only had about 5 yesterday (that's really good I've had up to 200 before.) I think my Dr.'s are narrowing down what I have but there all big medical words that no one has heard of so I'll spare you until I know which big word it is for sure. I wanted to thank everyone for your prayers and encouraging words of comfort thank you

magical pee

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Nate was trying to explain to Eva that when we dink enough water our pee gets clear and if we don't its yellow and Eva said wow daddy that's magical

What we've been up to

Thursday, December 25, 2008

We went to Utah as a family for Thanksgiving then I decided to stay while Nate went back home to New Mexico to finish the semester. I stayed at Nate's parent's house for about 2 weeks and then at my Mom's house for a little over a week. Thank you everyone who helped us while we were in Utah. I made it home to Albuquerque and my mom made it back to Utah before a big storm hit. Then we had a quiet Christmas with our small little family. We will be headed back to Utah in a few more days for Kayli's baptism and more lame doctor appointments.

I rememberd to bring home my carmera but not my charger so I have pics of my trip to Utah but not of Christmas in New Mexico. I just bought a cheap clicker camera and have to use up all of the pics before I can develop them. (remember when you had to develop you pictures; how lame is that)

This is a pic of Nate's mom's tree that she got at festivel of trees. I wasn't feeling well enough to go so they brought a tree home to cheer me up. (that and they really liked the tree)
We enjoyed the playing with snow. Yesterday Eva was crying because there was no snow in New Mexico and Christmas is supposed to have snow.
Grandpa Woolf got Eva a gingerbread house kit. It was so easy; that is the way to go. All the fun with half the work. Eva enjoyed it a lot.

Eva and Emmie love playing in the crib together but Emmie just learned how to climb out so we are taking it down today and will be putting in a toddler bed. No more monkeys jumbing on the bed. :(

Emmie loves to dances she will come up and grab your hands and say "I know you I know you" (the song from Sleeping Beauty when she dances with the prince)

Merry Christmas!

The day Nate gave birth

Friday, December 12, 2008

You may have read in the news about the man that gave birth to a baby, and then you read that man actually was a woman, but was trying to be a man and was married to a woman. Then you probably lost interest like I did.

Let me tell you a story of how a real man gives birth. On Monday afternoon I was on may way to work and I started to have a bit of a stomach ache. I got in my car and drove for a couple of blocks and it started to really hurt. A couple of blocks more and I thought for sure I was dying. I called my work and turned around and went to the hospital. After I was comfortably naked on a gurney with some IV morphine and had a CAT scan I got the wonderful news. "You are going to give birth to a 1 mm kidney stone" I was told. So I was given a filter and some pain meds and told to strain my pee until I caught the little bundle of joy. I gave them the 'you want me to what' look, and got home at about 12:30 am. About 3 liters of water later little Diablo was born. I thought what many new parent thinks, "how can something that small cause so much pain". Anyway baby and daddy are fine now.

By the way, if anyone is in need of a gently used strainer, I've got one lying around. I can send pictures. Paypal only please.