Valentine's Day

Most women got flowers, chocolates or 

a pretty card for Valentine's day.  

Not me, I got something WAY better! 

 A new operating system!  

Not only does my husband love me, 

he also knows me. 

Hope you all had a good day!

Cookie Monster

Ella has discovered Oreo cookies. She likes to lick the cream filling and then eat the cookie. She is quite the messy eater these days. Spencer and I like to call her cookie monster.

Grandbaby #5

Coco's first baby photo shoot. We went to the doctor today for Kim's first check up and we got a few pictures of the new baby. Ella likes to call him/her Coco. That is what she also calls Colby and her new baby elephant from grandma and grandpa Clark (Coco). The due date is September 5 but we are hoping it comes before I have to start medical school.

Valentines

So today in my ward I guess the elders quorum wrote valentine cards to people. My hometeachers decided to write Valentines to me and this other girl in my apartment that they home teach. The only catch is mine is written in Portuguese and my roommate's is written in Spanish. My hometeachers did this on purpose (apparently as a favor to us). So now I have to find a good-looking guy that speaks Portuguese to translate my Valentine. Oh man!

Thumbsucker

I think Emerson is going to be a thumbsucker, he will sleep forever if he can find his thumb. Sometimes he gets a finger and that's ok with him too but he prefers the thumb. If it wasn't so cute it might bother me.

So, I was all set to have my pre op appt on 02/15 and surgery on 02/26. We have a new nurse, whose husband is a scrub tech in the orthopedic dept. and she strongly encouraged me to get the opinion of the physician who her husband mostly works with. The physician she referred me to is Dr.Metcalf and the one I went to was Dr.West. Well, a few days ago, a couple of physical therapists from the facility that I would have surgery at came to our office and I told them I was planning to have surgery on my shoulder and the first thing they said was "Oh, you need to see Dr.Metcalf!" I told them I was seeing Dr.West and they were like "Oh, he's good, too" in a not so reassurring tone. Dr.Brown told me that when her husband needed surgery, she went on the recommendation of the scrub techs when finding someone to treat her husband as they work very closely with the doctors and know whose surgical skills are best. So, I cancelled my appointments and made another with Dr.Metcalf on 02/19. We'll see what he recommends. Hopefully will resch surgery with him on 02/29. Will keep you posted.

Caucusing in Colorado

So Colorado is a caucus state. That means that instead of going to the polls and voting like you would in an election, you go to a neighborhood type meeting and vote within that meeting. Our precinct (fancy name for political neighborhood), took a straw poll and these were the results: 3 for Huckabee, 2 for McCain and 40 for Romney. Next step in a caucus is to elect delegates to the county Republican convention; the delegates go to the county convention and "should" vote along the lines of the precinct's majority; from there, delegates get elected to the state convention and so on and so on until the national convention.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I was elected a delegate from our precinct to go to the county convention on March 1st. Hmm, maybe there's more to life than being an actuary-Super Dad.

SuperBaby

Thomas got the flu over the weekend and was pretty darn sick. On Sunday Michael was starting to feel pretty crummy too so he laid on the couch and flipped on the Superbowl to take it easy. I slept all day because I'd been up with Thomas all weekend (plus 2 o'clock feedings). Emerson was the only one not effected by it all (thank goodness), he was just happy to hang out and watch his first Superbowl.

Ella and Travis

Ella Jane loves to teach her cousin Travis new things. In the first picture she is teaching him how to share (by politely taking his toy). In the one below that one she is teaching how to say goodbye. She says, "Bundle up, baby its cold outside!" :)

Comedian

Too bad Amy already left, I think she would find this especially funny.  For all the girls who've had their nails done (and the guys brave enough to admit it), this is for you...