pleasant surprises of mommyhood

The fragrance of bananas on tiny hands when they are smooshing my nose.

Nonexistent personal space filled with small, dark eyes when they are inches from mine at 2am.

Endearing meltdowns when she just sits pouting at the injustice of it all.

Stuffy nose snoring through the baby monitor that sends me off to sleep.

Any one of a million different, toothless smiles.

Spending the last hour listening to the sounds of a 7 month old talking to herself.

Becoming the playground to be crawled over, sat on and toppled over.

Long, quiet walks.

Daily pulling of my lips, sticking her fingers in my nostrils and jabbing my eyes.

At times, being the only one she wants, until I hold her and she pushes away.

No matter how completely draining today may have been, I always look forward to doing it all again tomorrow.

prop 8

I don’t know why I can’t stop thinking about the outcome of Proposition 8. But every time I do, I feel really sad for all of those families out there that can’t have the same civil liberties as everyone else; for all of the loved ones out there that have to be validated by someone else living hundreds of miles away; that other people’s prejudice and discrimination has a say in the way other people live and love.

The issue itself is either a moral or civil rights one, depending on which camp you reside, but for the life of me, I really, really, really don’t understand how one group can decide on the morality of another when the former is not causing any harm to anyone else. In every morality case I can think of – abortion, capital punishment, murder, theft, the guy cheating on his wife – someone else is getting hurt. But this, this just doesn’t make sense to me.

People that say “I don’t hate gay people, they just shouldn’t be allowed to get married”, um, excuse me, do you not see the hypocrisy in that statement, the hidden, subtle spite that you perpetuate? It makes me sad that hatred, ignorance and bigotry still has a huge place in people’s hearts.

how I met my husband

There was only one decision that I can think of that determined events:  My decision to leave the mold of Utah State and Cache Valley. God wasn’t fixing my early 20’s unrest – and why should it be so easy – so I left all I knew. Followed my gut and left what I no longer held near and dear. To start fresh, I wanted to work somewhere with what my interests were at the time. This happened to be astronomy and so naturally I went and applied at the Hansen Planetarium.    I even remember thinking at the time that I was pondering leaving Cache Valley, What If My Husband Is In SLC?

The fugitive entered my life in the fall of 1997. :)

How I met my wife, part 5 — meeting my love

Recap: got in trouble, community service at Hansen Planetarium.

So I finished the portion of my community service that I could do at the planetarium (there was a rule that said you couldn’t do them all in one place, or something like that), and had a few hours left, so I helped out the Forest Service. A few months later, after I was done with that, I went back to the planetarium, and asked my boss there if I could have a job, and they agreed and hired me on the spot. So I was working at the planetarium, hanging out, and met a girl.

Continue reading “How I met my wife, part 5 — meeting my love”

How I met my wife, part 4 — trouble

Recap: I had just found raves.

So, not long after my first rave (and I had been going to every single one every weekend since), around spring of ’95, I was at Confetti’s (which was open every Friday and Saturday nights, but Saturday nights were the raves, so we usually went to the club on Friday, discussed the logistics of the rave the next night, and then would pre-party at Confetti’s on Saturday until the rave started at midnight, which would make a large portion of the people at Confetti’s disappear, but back to the story…), and had met a couple of new people there, named Ben and Andy. They were both cousins, and we were talking, and hanging out, then I left for the rave as I usually did around midnight. Funny thing… I saw them at the rave, which made them even more likable. We began to hang out, and became very good friends, and they introduced me to several more people, namely Josh, and Angie.

Continue reading “How I met my wife, part 4 — trouble”

bathtime

Now that I have a YouTube account, and can post videos, I’m posting this one. It’s old, but I still love it.

Chalk this one up to being new parents, and not really knowing how to do it.

It’s still cute though.

She was 6 days old in this video, and we made tons of newbie parent mistakes, but I gush every time I see it.

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It’s like email forwards, but more permanent

9 T.V. Shows I watch:

  1. Heroes
  2. Office
  3. Chuck
  4. Bones
  5. Dirty Jobs
  6. Mythbusters
  7. Modern Marvels
  8. Nova
  9. Good Eats

9 Favorite Restaurants:

  1. Rodizio
  2. Blimpie’s
  3. Quizno’s
  4. Costa Vida
  5. Spaghetti Factory
  6. Settebello
  7. Leger’s
  8. Applebee’s
  9. TGI Friday

9 Things that happened yesterday:

  1. Woke up at 5a to deal with the little one
  2. Worked
  3. Got a tough portion of a project I was working on done
  4. Played Halo (at work)
  5. Played Guitar Hero II (at work)
  6. Went to lunch with the beautiful baby dahl
  7. Passed out candy
  8. Played with the baby girl
  9. Put the baby girl to sleep

9 things that I am looking forward too:

  1. Holding Skye on my shoulders on a beach somewhere
  2. Watching Skye play on a beach somewhere
  3. Building a sandcastle with Skye on a beach somewhere
  4. Finding out what truly makes Skye laugh
  5. Using that knowledge everyday
  6. Sleep
  7. Having enough money for retirement with Chelsea
  8. Skye being old enough that she’s not so high maintenance
  9. Seeing the end of chain blog tags

9 things on my wish list:

  1. Time
  2. Sleep
  3. Becoming independently wealthy
  4. New Computer
  5. Outdoor toys (ATVs, Jetskis, camper, etc)
  6. The death of Internet Explorer
  7. New, larger, nicer house
  8. Motorcycle
  9. A garage/toolshop

And I pass this tag on to:

  1. Nobody

You’re welcome.

tiggity tag by jizosh

9 T.V. Shows I watch:
1-heros
2-office
3-er
4-house hunters
5-law and order
6-bones
7-sweat equity
8-good eats
9-house hunters international

9 Favorite Restaurants:
1-rumbi
2-spag factory
3-settebello
4-jasons deli
5-subway/blimpie
6-einsteins
7-litzas
8-macaroni grill
9-cisero’s

9 Things that happened yesterday:
1-got up at 2am w skye
2-got up at 5am w skye
3-went on a 2 hour walk w neighborly friend
4-cleaned
5-answered work emails
6-changed a pruney diaper
7-clipped skye’s nails
8-paid some hospital bills
9-watched missed episodes of heros and office because of skyes bedtime ritual

9 things that I am looking forward too:
1-watching skye grow up
2-skye’s first christmas
3-coziness in the house w snow outside
4-european vacations
5-helping skye do her homework
6-getting benjam a computer
7-sleep
8-cousins for skye
9-retirement w benjam

9 things on my wish list:
1-another baby someday
2-fancy schmancy camera and the skills to use it
3-never having to redo my roots again
4-financial security for our families
5-a new car
6-more patience when learning new things
7-sleep
8-remodeling the house and new furniture to go w it
9-shopping spree