Molly Susan

enjoy the pics. details to follow.

Wt: 7lb 6 oz. L: 19",TOB: 7:56PM,Hair: Brownish black

No baby yet

That's correct - no baby as of yet. The day is still young though. Sara is getting over her cold just in time for Molly to get here too. She has had some contractions the past couple days but no baby.

My car has been nasty dirty since I went ice fishing with Keith. The dike road was really muddy and so my car got this nasty red dirt all over the sides and it would get dirt on your pantlegs. On Monday my boss asked me if I had gone muddin'. And as much as I would like to have said yes to that question I had to respond with a no. So I washed the car Wednesday night in a real 1.00 car wash (not just waiting for a rainstorm.) Thursday I got the rainstorm --kinda.... I don't think we got more than a cup of water that day, the rest was dirt. So my car went from medium dirty to dirty everywhere. It's just disgusting. From this experience I've learned that washing your car is a bad idea.

Spring Break: Post by Sara

So I thought I would update on all the fun we are having on spring break. Basically Fred is working during the day and I am chilling at home. Its pretty relaxing except that Fred has caught some kind of cold. I have stopped working for the last two weeks of my pregnancy which turned out to be a very good idea because for some reason I can not stay asleep for long periods of time. So I end up taking lots of naps during the day and into the night. We are having fun doing some last minute before the baby comes date nights. Last night we went and saw Blindside as a last date night movie experience complete with drinks and popcorn which we never do because of the outrageous prices but luckly logan has a dollar theater so we were able to get 2 movie tickets, one large popcorn, two mediums drinks, and nachos for twenty dollars. What a deal! And the movie was awesome, I kind of expected a lot before hand because of all the oscar nominations and critic reviews but surprisingly (at least to me) the movie lives up to the hype. No baby yet the doctors have told me I am barely dialated to 1. Which is a little discouraging because I am ready to have this baby. I wonder if I have made life in the womb a little to comfortable for the baby because she seems pretty happy to stay where she's at. ;)

Ice Fishing, baby update

The last few weeks I've been hitting the ice fishing pretty hard. I went with my brother Ted and his kids and had a blast. We fished like demons, had lots of bites, but never brought a fish out. Boy we drilled a lot of holes though. My ice auger was the new toy of the day. I remember being that way when I first got my auger. I just wanted to drill holes almost more than I wanted to fish. And in true red-head Lillywhite fashion I went home with a cherry red sunburn that felt oh so good the next day. We were out there til 1:00 - that's a long day when you started at 7:30.

Nevertheless, I had to get back out there the next week. I was by myself from 7am til about noon when Keith showed up. I caught 3 decent rainbows and even a dinky bluegill. All the fish seem like they died very horrifically but let me assure you they were not.



There were these guys next to me that had an underwater camera and they would just watch the fish come to their line and when it got close enough they would jerk up and snag it in the face. They caught 10 between the two of them (5 each). I did pretty well catching 3 myself. I don't need no stinking camera! (But if anyone is giving their underwater camera away I would be willing to take the stinking thing.) There were a couple goobers next to me that were there til about noon and they didn't catch a thing! I felt their pain (when I wasn't catching a fish that is). When Keith came we fished much but it had slowed way down. Towards the end of the day though Keith snagged a little trout. And let me empahasize the word SNAG in that sentence. If you look at the picture you can see the fish wasn't hooked in the mouth, belly, or eye. He was snagged in the side of his tail! Many laughs were had over that fish.



Sara is unmistakably pregnant and is very excited?! for Molly to get here (her excitement level depends on the day - it's especially low after our weekly labor class). The baby showers are over and we were richly blessed by everyone's generosity. We have lots and lots of girl clothes. If the baby comes out a boy then that is just too bad because he will have to wear pink, be in a pink bouncer, wear pink diapers, and sleep with a pink sheet.

Molly

Since about the first month we knew we were going to have a baby we've been toying with baby names. When we found out it would be a girl we tried to pretend we were deciding between names but in my opinion we were just deciding whether we would name her Molly Pollanthropa or Molly Verionionica. So technically we haven't decided on a middle name but we have decided to call her Molly. Not sure where that name came from as its not a family name and we don't know anybody named Molly but it has stuck out in our minds and emerged as the winner.

This week we attended our first pregnancy class at the hospital. Pretty interesting and good to know information although I kept falling asleep lots. They wanted the husbands to learn how to give their wives exceptional hand massages at one point. I am no missoose but I do consider myself somewhat skilled in the art of hand massaging so I thought it would be all good until they came around and put massage lotion on the wifey's hand. Nastiest smelling stuff ever! I think it was expired vegetable oil and it even rubbed in that way (I know how that stuff rubs in because I've eaten lots of fries). Other than that it was a pretty decent class.

To celebrate President's day I went ice fishing at Mantua with my good buddy Dave. I was blessed with a lovely trout that was significantly larger than the baby one I murdered last time. And yes, I did eat peanut butter cups. Perhaps the fish wanted to eat them too and decided to come to the surface for them. Here's a picture.



Sara had some back pain the other day making dinner so we used the computer chair to make things easier for her.

Baby Update

Hey There, this is Sara updating the blog. We are now in the countdown til the baby comes and the doctor has been saying that this little girl is probably going to be coming right on time. We are really hoping that she will decide to come a week early because then fred will be on spring break. But I know that all doctors in logan will not induce early with a first pregnancy and my doctor has already said no. So here is hoping and wishing. That also means that our plans for spring break will probably include: spicy food, jumping on trampolines, lots of walks and anything else recommmended to induce labor. Its weird because Febuary is suppose to be the shortest month of the year and it already feels way to long.

Ice Fishing

The past two weeks I mustered up the courage to do one of the most mannifying (the act of making one a man) things a person can do - ice fishing. I guess muster is a bad word to use because I really dig it. It's by far my favorite type of fishing. Ever since Mantua froze over I've been dreaming of the time I would go, despite my unsuccessful attempts two years ago. But the most mannifiying part of it all is that I actually asked my 7 month pregnant wife to go and she said YES! Quite a surpise. We went that Saturday the 17th and it was fun but we didn't catch anything. Mostly we were bored and ended up doing the following:



Which as you might imagine did not result in us catching a fish. However, I got a bite and that was enough to motivate me to celebrate Dr. King's Birthday bash by trying it again. I got my good buddy Frank Smith to go with me and lo and behold I actually caught one! A puny 9 inch or so trout, but it was fun nonetheless.



I was just ecstatic the whole day that I had actually conquered Mantua. The next Saturday the ice fishing desire was burning quite hot in my soul. I specifically wanted to go dipnet cisco at bear lake but it turns out all the ice got blown off by a storm and had even affected the cisco's movements and slowed things down. So I decided I would go to Mantua again. It was supposed to snow really bad but I still wanted to go. I tried to get some friends to come with me but they all had other things going on. So Friday night I got up the guts to ask Sara. Initially she said no way jose so I got her to come to walmart with me while I bought some gear with my wal-mart gift card. Little did she know that she was also being baited... I tried offering to buy her some new snowpants because her current ones don't fit. No Go. Then I tried offering to buy her a big poncho so she could stay dry. Nope. Then I think I offered to buy hand and feet warmers for her. Not even a nibble. After that try I was pretty disappointed and accepted my fate to go fishing alone.... until I walked past the candy isle. I slowly gazed over the candy whilst watching sara's eyes until they rested on a 6 pack of peanut butter cups. I got them and as we were checking out I informed her that they would only be eaten by those who chose to go ice fishing the next morning. And then I got a bite. It seemed to have changed the whole ball game. Within an hour she decided she would in fact be going fishing with me. When we got to Mantua it was a blizzard. The snow was deep, we got the car stuck and had to be pushed out, and ended up not even going out on the ice at all. But I still feel I had a successful fishing trip. I never knew peanut butter cups could be such good bait.....



Also, there have been a lot more non-engineering classes being held in the engineering building on campus. I can usually tell if the class before me was engineering or not simply by the number of girls. For example, 2 of my 5 classes this semester are all guys. The others have maybe one or two in them. So if I see 5 girls leave a classroom as I'm about to go in, or if it has any hint of perfume (as opposed to the pleasant scent of BO) then I know it is not an engineering class. The other day I was given another clue which I'll share with you below:



That's right, they are pistachios. Not only did someone have time to eat pistachios, they also took the time to draw faces on them. Sounds like someone has a little too much time on their hands.