Airport Woes

We are sitting in the Albuquerque airport waiting on a flight to Salt Lake. Of course, it's late. My rear end is getting sore (can't imagine how Becky is doing!) We are headed up to see my parents for a few days before the new year. We've been looking forward to going up for a few weeks now. They just completed their new house and moved in last week. They have moved a bunch since my brothers accident last May, and are looking forward to having a place to call home. I've been told that my job is to set up all the electronics.

We had a good Christmas. It is the first one that we have spent by ourselves. Becky's parents had planned on coming up Christmas Day and spending the night, but her Dad wasn't feeling very good so they had to miss it. We were disappointed, but enjoyed spending a relaxing day together. I asked for some geeky onesies for America for Christmas. Becky got me some blank ones, and I printed up some sayings on the 'puter and ironed them on. They turned out really well. I had tons of fun making them too. I made one for myself that says "New Dad". I'm supposed to wear it in the hospital when the little tyke is born. I want to make another one that says "Just call me George, I'm the father of America." I haven't run that one by Becky yet, so we'll see what she thinks about it.

I spent the past couple of days painting the nursery. It has turned out really well. A co-worker offered to help me with it in exchange for some coding help. It worked out well as I work much better when I have some company. We just painted it a creme color and are planning on putting a border of some kind on it. I want to do A's in different shapes and sizes. The other day I mentioned that we needed to get some pink paint for the border. Silly me, thinking we would have pink stuff in our little girls room. Apparently, "We are not using a bunch of pink." and "She's going to be a tomboy." We'll see what Dad has to say about that.'

Well the plane just showed up, only 30 minutes after we were supposed to leave! Have a great holiday, what's left of it!!

Scott's Survival Vest

Last weekend we went up to Farmington to visit Scott�s sister, Michelle and her family. We had a good time, even though we really didn�t do a whole lot. It was nice to be able to compare pregnancy stories and get her feelings on labor. (She gave birth to her second son yesterday morning.) We laughed a lot and wondered around with our bellies sticking out.

Since, we won�t see them for Christmas we decided to exchange gifts while we were there. They got Scott a daddy survival vest. It was a fishing vest with all the accessories that he might need when changing a diaper and a couple other things. The best things in there were a mask and surgical gloves. We plan on putting some pictures and possibly a video up of Scott and his vest.

The funny thing about this is I will probably be the one that needs the mask. I have a really weak stomach when it comes to smells and haven�t changed a whole lot of diapers in my life. I tease Scott that I am going to wait for him to get home when the diapers have #2 in them.

Time has slowed down it seems like. I think with the anticipation of quitting work and having the baby, I have done it to myself. The next couple of weeks should pick up. We are going to Utah next week to visit Scott�s parents and then in a couple weeks we plan on having our baby shower. (Don�t worry if you haven�t gotten an invitation yet. They haven�t been sent out.)

We hope that everybody has a Merry Christmas and a Great New Year!!

Semester Winding Down

Ahh, the semester is starting to wind down. It is so nice to start knocking down finals one by one. I have two left and then get a month off to finish my honey do list. Apparently Ami won't sleep well if the walls aren't painted a different color. (I'm just kidding, I'm looking forward to putting some time into getting the nursery ready.)

I have a favor to ask of anybody who has a few minutes. For one of my classes I worked with a team to create a web site. It is located at www.evoart.org. It is basically an attempt to create art by evolution. We take two images and "breed" them together to create a new image. The breeding is based on how popular an image is. It would be great if anybody could check it out, rate a few images, and let me know what you think. Thanks! Back to procrastinating my studying.

Birthing Class

As we are approaching our due date of February 13th, I have started to think about what labor might be like. I have had people tell me to go in with the idea of taking drugs as soon as possible to labor is a wonderful thing. So, I don't really think anybody can explain how my contractions are going to feel.



However, we just got home a couple of hours ago from our birthing class. The class has put me a little more at ease. At least now I know how my labor should progress and when we should call to let them know that we are on our way.



We did some relaxation techniques. Scott was really good at being my support person. I think if we practice some that it will really be beneficial to me. I am thinking of taking some relaxing music with us, so if any of you have any suggestions that would be great.



We've also started our gift registry at Target. Take a look if you are interested. Look carefully there are some special items on the list for Scott.