First, I would like to apologize for the fact that I have been posting with a significant lack of photos. One reason is that a) I have nothing worthwhile to show you at the moment, and b) I am using my laptop and I don't store photos or graphics on here since the memory on my PC is so much larger. So there you have it. I've used my laptop for the last number of posts... the last one I did on PC was the graphic announcing our news. It's much more comfortable to type from the bed. The office is not someplace I particularly like to be right now, I feel like I can smell something rotten in there, and I'm guessing its probably the snake's cage since it hasn't been cleaned in a-g-e-s. We've been busy!
Can you believe it, I actually watched MORE football than my husband yesterday! Of course, I won't watch any today. I might flip past the Texans game, but I have a hard time feeling any strong allegiance to that team. At least in college football, I really feel strongly about a lot of the teams. Firstly because such a HUGE chunk of our money has gone to the University, so automatically there's a built in bias (duh), but also I have opinions about most other schools worth mentioning. Yesterday I was rooting for Alabama and Oklahoma. Mainly because I really cannot stand Tim Tebow. I am so tired of hearing about how wonderful he is and how he's God's gift to football. I was disgusted that he was all they could talk about during the Bama/FL game, especially since I think that Alabama's got such a great story being (at the time) undefeated and with such a new coach. I just wish we'd have fired Fran a year earlier so we could have gotten Saban. I think he's the best coach in college football. And Zach tells me he played against us a while back at some point (I don't know...) and he developed quite the little crush on our program. I like that. Why can't we get a coach like that? Zach says he's a snake, but let's be honest, most coaches are. And what with us being in the Big 12, we need a snake for a coach since almost every other coach in the conference is a snake as well. Mac Brown is, Baylor's coach is, OSU's coach is, Missouri's is, KU's is... and OH MY GOSH don't get me started on what a lush, pathetic, obnoxious, horrid, disgusting excuse for a human being Mike Leach is. It's even in his name, for crying out loud. I'm getting kind of tired of being the only school in the conference who hires these old, good 'ol boy types who are too busy being the Southern gentleman to be aggressive and coach the dang team. I would KILL to see my Ags coached by the likes of Saban, Urban Meyer, or Pete Carroll. Man, and what they couldn't do in our recruiting arena. Oh, and I wanted Oklahoma to win, duh, because I don't want to give tu the satisfaction, and at the same time, I don't think either Mizzou or OU can beat Florida, but it'd at least be nice to have the Big 12 represented by somebody who can show up and play a decent game. So that's my college football Saturday wrap up. Oh, and I was sad Hawaii lost. I like a good upset.
We were sad to miss Roger's Christmas concert last night. There was no way we could make it back though, Zach's got to do treatments on his and another student's horses both morning and night. It really stinks. He was up there at 8 in the morning, and then yesterday he missed the whole first half of the Bama/Florida game doing the afternoon treatments. And they didn't exactly make that game move fast. I'm so ready for him to be finished with this 4th year. I feel like I never get to see him, and he's always so tired in the evenings, I'm lucky if he's able to stay awake past about 9:30. So it leaves for very little time to spend together, and that's hard. Especially for me right now, because I'm being very pathetic and feeling very sorry for myself. He's been a doll, though, and he's always willing to go and fetch me whatever food I'm feeling like. He went and got me a good tuna salad last night, and barbeque chips. Hit the spot. I made him chocolate chip cookies in return... well, kind of. I was craving something sweet and I decided a good hot chocolate chip cookie sounded wonderful with a scoop of ice cream. I blame the baby...
I did hear from Mom, though, that Roger was wonderful. She said at one point, he was dressed like a baby/young child and had gotten himself so cracked up he couldn't sing anymore. I heard that and figured it was probably a good thing we weren't there because Zach's whole goal in going to this every year is to get Roger to start laughing when he really shouldn't. We managed good one year, Roger had to cover with a drink of water and then couldn't look our way for the rest of the evening. Apparently Mom and Steph had a cute little girl who had toddled to the front and just stood and watched Roger and Suzanne sing. I can only imagine the ooey- gooey look on their faces as they remembered that at NEXT year's Christmas concert, they'll have one of their own... Oh, Lord!
Speaking of which, my mom found the cutest dang crib bedding, and I'm very excited about it. It's proven difficult to find things for a nursery in our theme (which, sorry, I'm not sharing) and she found a lady who will custom make your baby bedding. I found one I really like and I'm excited about it. We've decided to hold off on ordering until we know the gender of the baby and know whether we need to embroider an "E" or an "L" on the pillow. Ah ha! A preview of the names, and you're left with nothing more. Zach and I are very, very protective of the names we've chosen. Only the future grandparents, Bradley and the baby's Godparents (Hi Cory and Lindsay!!) know the choices. Because really, at this point, they're the only ones who matter. And we don't want our choices to get stolen again. We had decided on the name Hunter Lewis Clark for a boy, but after we'd shared that with people, we had one couple who made Hunter their son's middle name, and another who announced that all of a sudden it was their favorite boy's name. Ugh, that ruined it for us and so now we're not telling anybody. I also had always wanted to name my first daughter Hallie Michelle, but when TJ and his wife had Holly, I thought it was just too horrible to have "Holly" and "Hallie." What a bummer. And also because Zach and I hate cute matchy-matchy names. You will NEVER see us name all our children starting with the same first letter. It's funny how opinionated one gets when either somebody they know has kids or you start yourselves. I do love the Tichenor's name... Carson is such a sweet name. It's different, and has personality. My family, well at least my dad's side, has some original names and I quite like it. There's no confusion on that side. We have Me, spelled different, and my second cousins Tonya, Tanae and Tanille, and Tonya's son Tiegan, and Tanae's daughter Addyson. Oh and the twins, Blake and Brock. I love those two together. So it's well received, in my dad's family.
Wow, that was a lot. I have a lot more to talk about now, so I expect to be posting often. Zach has one more week on equine whatever it is (I can't keep the names straight), and then he'll be off for a week. We will be heading back to Houston for that week, and I'm trying to set up an appointment with my OB/GYN to start the process. Zach and I have both heard not to try to find a doctor up here because apparently they all suck, so ... Dr. Mitchell it is. Anyway, hopefully within a few weeks we can get set up for some ultrasounds and figure out how far along we really are and get a due date!
Can you believe it, I actually watched MORE football than my husband yesterday! Of course, I won't watch any today. I might flip past the Texans game, but I have a hard time feeling any strong allegiance to that team. At least in college football, I really feel strongly about a lot of the teams. Firstly because such a HUGE chunk of our money has gone to the University, so automatically there's a built in bias (duh), but also I have opinions about most other schools worth mentioning. Yesterday I was rooting for Alabama and Oklahoma. Mainly because I really cannot stand Tim Tebow. I am so tired of hearing about how wonderful he is and how he's God's gift to football. I was disgusted that he was all they could talk about during the Bama/FL game, especially since I think that Alabama's got such a great story being (at the time) undefeated and with such a new coach. I just wish we'd have fired Fran a year earlier so we could have gotten Saban. I think he's the best coach in college football. And Zach tells me he played against us a while back at some point (I don't know...) and he developed quite the little crush on our program. I like that. Why can't we get a coach like that? Zach says he's a snake, but let's be honest, most coaches are. And what with us being in the Big 12, we need a snake for a coach since almost every other coach in the conference is a snake as well. Mac Brown is, Baylor's coach is, OSU's coach is, Missouri's is, KU's is... and OH MY GOSH don't get me started on what a lush, pathetic, obnoxious, horrid, disgusting excuse for a human being Mike Leach is. It's even in his name, for crying out loud. I'm getting kind of tired of being the only school in the conference who hires these old, good 'ol boy types who are too busy being the Southern gentleman to be aggressive and coach the dang team. I would KILL to see my Ags coached by the likes of Saban, Urban Meyer, or Pete Carroll. Man, and what they couldn't do in our recruiting arena. Oh, and I wanted Oklahoma to win, duh, because I don't want to give tu the satisfaction, and at the same time, I don't think either Mizzou or OU can beat Florida, but it'd at least be nice to have the Big 12 represented by somebody who can show up and play a decent game. So that's my college football Saturday wrap up. Oh, and I was sad Hawaii lost. I like a good upset.
We were sad to miss Roger's Christmas concert last night. There was no way we could make it back though, Zach's got to do treatments on his and another student's horses both morning and night. It really stinks. He was up there at 8 in the morning, and then yesterday he missed the whole first half of the Bama/Florida game doing the afternoon treatments. And they didn't exactly make that game move fast. I'm so ready for him to be finished with this 4th year. I feel like I never get to see him, and he's always so tired in the evenings, I'm lucky if he's able to stay awake past about 9:30. So it leaves for very little time to spend together, and that's hard. Especially for me right now, because I'm being very pathetic and feeling very sorry for myself. He's been a doll, though, and he's always willing to go and fetch me whatever food I'm feeling like. He went and got me a good tuna salad last night, and barbeque chips. Hit the spot. I made him chocolate chip cookies in return... well, kind of. I was craving something sweet and I decided a good hot chocolate chip cookie sounded wonderful with a scoop of ice cream. I blame the baby...
I did hear from Mom, though, that Roger was wonderful. She said at one point, he was dressed like a baby/young child and had gotten himself so cracked up he couldn't sing anymore. I heard that and figured it was probably a good thing we weren't there because Zach's whole goal in going to this every year is to get Roger to start laughing when he really shouldn't. We managed good one year, Roger had to cover with a drink of water and then couldn't look our way for the rest of the evening. Apparently Mom and Steph had a cute little girl who had toddled to the front and just stood and watched Roger and Suzanne sing. I can only imagine the ooey- gooey look on their faces as they remembered that at NEXT year's Christmas concert, they'll have one of their own... Oh, Lord!
Speaking of which, my mom found the cutest dang crib bedding, and I'm very excited about it. It's proven difficult to find things for a nursery in our theme (which, sorry, I'm not sharing) and she found a lady who will custom make your baby bedding. I found one I really like and I'm excited about it. We've decided to hold off on ordering until we know the gender of the baby and know whether we need to embroider an "E" or an "L" on the pillow. Ah ha! A preview of the names, and you're left with nothing more. Zach and I are very, very protective of the names we've chosen. Only the future grandparents, Bradley and the baby's Godparents (Hi Cory and Lindsay!!) know the choices. Because really, at this point, they're the only ones who matter. And we don't want our choices to get stolen again. We had decided on the name Hunter Lewis Clark for a boy, but after we'd shared that with people, we had one couple who made Hunter their son's middle name, and another who announced that all of a sudden it was their favorite boy's name. Ugh, that ruined it for us and so now we're not telling anybody. I also had always wanted to name my first daughter Hallie Michelle, but when TJ and his wife had Holly, I thought it was just too horrible to have "Holly" and "Hallie." What a bummer. And also because Zach and I hate cute matchy-matchy names. You will NEVER see us name all our children starting with the same first letter. It's funny how opinionated one gets when either somebody they know has kids or you start yourselves. I do love the Tichenor's name... Carson is such a sweet name. It's different, and has personality. My family, well at least my dad's side, has some original names and I quite like it. There's no confusion on that side. We have Me, spelled different, and my second cousins Tonya, Tanae and Tanille, and Tonya's son Tiegan, and Tanae's daughter Addyson. Oh and the twins, Blake and Brock. I love those two together. So it's well received, in my dad's family.
Wow, that was a lot. I have a lot more to talk about now, so I expect to be posting often. Zach has one more week on equine whatever it is (I can't keep the names straight), and then he'll be off for a week. We will be heading back to Houston for that week, and I'm trying to set up an appointment with my OB/GYN to start the process. Zach and I have both heard not to try to find a doctor up here because apparently they all suck, so ... Dr. Mitchell it is. Anyway, hopefully within a few weeks we can get set up for some ultrasounds and figure out how far along we really are and get a due date!
2 kind words:
youre pregnant!!! oh my goodnesss!!! congratulations! i have been absent from the blog world, bc umm oh yea GRADUATE SCHOOL IS RUNNING MY LIFE, but i am so excited to hear your good news! goss - where have i been this whole time! i have so much catching up to do on your blog!
congrats again dearrrr!
tell me tell me tell me! I wanna know! and i probably won't have kids, so you KNOW i won't steal ;-)
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