Baby Shower Time

What will the baby look like? You be the judge.



S had her baby shower last weekend. Our house is jam packed with onesies, bouncers, swings, diaper bags, and strollers. Aunt L and Uncle J were nice enough to lend us some hand me downs from our nieces younger days. Grandma and Grandpa South came up for the festivities as well as Aunt L, Kara, and Aunt Boo. S had a blast and loved all of the cool gear. As you may recall from a previous post we had received numerous outfits for East Coast Teams. Thanks to the shower, we know have a few more West Coast representations. Not only did we get a very cool Oregon State outfit, but we got some Willamette Bearcat clothes from Grandma and Grandpa South.



Decor at the shower included an equal number of blue and pink balloons. After the shower the balloons ended up at our house. By the end of the evening there were six pink balloons and one blue balloon still hanging up on the ceiling. We don't know what we're having, so we're looking for all kinds of signs and hints to tell us if the baby is a boy or a girl. The next morning when I woke up the only balloons that remained high on the ceiling were one pink balloon and one blue balloon. Those two balloons managed to hang tough for another day and then......



The balloon voodoo says it's a girl.

Old Man Winter

Shoveling is not fun.


We got blasted by a series of storms that dropped about 20" of snow during the week. It was a good half hour every morning of shoveling to get the car clear and make sure S had a path to her car. I woke up after the major hit, which dropped about a foot of snow, and proceeded to shovel mass quantities of frozen liquid sunshine. The morning after, I woke just in time to see the plow go by(Saved By The Bell anyone)? and lock me into my parking spot on the street. Two hours of shoveling later, I was ready to go to work. The piles I created through my shoveling exploits were about as tall as I am. I have added snow shoveling to the list of things I do not really enjoy.

This is why people retire to Arizona

Needless to say, my back is sore.

Christmas 2007

Christmas was a blast this year, lots of family, lots of fun, and of course, lots of snow. We had a short visit from G & G South before Christmas and it was great to see them during the holidays. Gama, as our niece like to call her, got to make some pretty cool cookies with the Northites.


The soon to be Aunts and soon to be Mom had to make soon to be Grandpa some cookies in recognition of his favorite team.

Baby got some pretty nice outfits for Christmas. Our child's sport interests have been shifted to the right, two New England Patriot outfits, and one Boston Red Sox outfit. The only Northwest flavor the Baby received was an Oregon State cap from Mom.

You can't have Christmas without some stockings that are about to rip at the seams.

Prelude To Christmas 2007

Update on the belly progress. Dec. 23, 2007

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving this year was a blast, much football was watched, bellies expanded that were not supposed to be expanding, and crazy people went shopping at ungodly hours. Oh yeah, and nothing about the weekend was trrrrrrrrrble.




We brought some cookies for Jana to decorate with some frosting. Jana's not a big fan of frosting and, no amount of encouragement from Gramps and Sarah could get her to taste it.



We did get Jana to try one of the old Seahawk helmets that have been floating around the family since before we could walk.



Kara's impersonation of De Niro. "Are you talking to me?"

Baby's First Trip To Boston (kind of)

Last weekend we were lucky enough to go to Boston to visit Sarah's family (with a side trip to a Gonzaga basketball game). I think we almost gave Sarah's grandma a heart attack because she didn't know the grandkids were making the trip.



Corrina and Cousin Mikey were displaying their fandom. That sign made the jumbotron at the arena with KTO playing Vanna White.



Thanks to Auntie Moe's connections we were able to get seats two rows behind the Gonzaga bench.



The crew at Parkman Street after the games.