Well....Last night my brother and I, on whim, went to go see Transformers. I thought it was pretty good! Shia LaBeouf, who plays Sam in the movie, along with his "guardian" Bumble-Bee really made the movie, I think. The special effects were great, although Steve and I agreed that some of the transformation scenes were too fast and too close up, it seemed all you really saw was metal flashing before you, not really the "transformation". I think the movie did a pretty good job at bringing inanimate objects to life. I certainly will not look at my car the same after watching Transformers. ;-).
On another note. I often call Cera my "baby girl" and lately I have started asking her "Are you my baby girl" and she usually nods her head and says "Yesssssss." Tyler's newest thing is he'll grab your hand and say "common daddy, common" when he wants you to go play cars, or trains or whatever with you, or go somewhere. Carter is getting stronger than ever, I fear it will not be too long before he's crawling. He already will push himself up on his hands and, in effect, crawl backwards. He is still one of the happiest babies I've ever met, as he constantly smiles and goos. You gotta love kids...and I do mine. Things have been busy with us as I have worked quite a bit of overtime the last 3 weeks or so, and Beth started a part-time job as well, but We are doing well and enjoying life and our family. Beth and I are looking forward still to seeing Harry Potter when neither of us have to work and we can find an available baby sitter. And Harry Potter 7 comes out Saturday.....so.... somehow in our schedule we'll have to find time to read that too! Priorities, you know! ;-)
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Transformers and update
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Movie Ramblings
Well....Sometime in the near future I hope to find an opportunity to go see Transformers and Harry Potter 5. Beth and I are looking forward to the last Harry Potter book coming out next week. It's nice it is coming out over the summer, I may be able to find some time at work to read. Life is going pretty good for us right now. We're busy as ever, and I'm sure I don't see it letting up anytime soon. In fact, I would assume with the kids getting older, the opportunity for extra curricular's will grow, which will only add to the busy schedule. Tyler and Cera have a cousin (Beth's sister's son who is about their age) over this weekend so they are all having fun, including Beth who gets to watch them all (and Carter) while I'm at work. I get to watch them all by myself Monday until I have to go to work. Three 2 year old's and a 6 month old....If you don't hear from me by Wednesday, send reinforcements ;-).
Sunday, July 8, 2007
4th of July
Well....the 4th didn't go quite as we planned. I was asked to come into work on my day off to cover for someone else. I was able to get some OT hours (which is usually nice for the obvious $$ reasons), and still manage to get out by 8:00PM. I ran home and Tyler and Cera were SOOO excited to go see "boom booms." So, I changed, we headed out and found parking without too much hassle. We went to the main "gathering" point for fire works and found some real estate to camp out in. We did our best to entertain Tyler and Cera before the fireworks started, but they were pretty restless. FINALLY, the fire works started, but we had two problems. One, We managed to find the perfect spot to watch....a tree. The fireworks were directly behind it and we could see pretty much nothing. We tried to move over a bit...but were prohibited by problem number two: Cera and Tyler had decided the "boom booms" weren't so much fun after all, and almost immediately, Tyler grabbed my hand and was saying with great concern "Walk, daddy. Walk!" and pointing away from the park. Cera was sitting on Beth's lap absolutely shaking, apparently too scared to complain much. Carter on the other hand barely showed any signs of even acknowledging the loud noises and lights, except he did glance up to what we could see of them through the leaves. Well....2 minutes into the show we couldn't see we determined we should probably cut our losses and go home. Interestingly enough we noticed once we got back to the car that we had a much better view of the fireworks. Plus we turned on the AC, which made us all a little more comfortable, and we also turned on a local radio station that plays patriotic music during the fireworks. To top it all off...Cera and Tyler seemed to regain some of their enthusiasm for "boom booms" since the "BOOMS" weren't so loud this far away, and inside the car. All in all...it was a nice night out with the family.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Quote of the day
Cera's latest phrase is "I love it!" A couple of days ago Beth was doing something and she asked "Do you love it mommy, Do you love it?" Tyler and Cera both constantly ask now days "What are you doing mommy/daddy, what are you doing hmmmm?"
- Ulavale1
Sunday, July 1, 2007
It's a beautiful day!
Well... once the little en's came, Beth quit her job to be a mom. She has been all that I ever wanted and expected a mom and wife to be! She is an example to me in so many ways. I admire and adore her so much. Tyler and Cera have grown so much in the last 2 and 1/2 years. Cera is quite the goof ball and ham. Tyler is extremely understanding and tolerant of his possessive sister. 2005, after the kids were born wasn't such a good year for us. We went to 7 funerals in two years from 2004-2005 including three of our closest loved ones. In January of 2005 My mom's mom passed away... Grandma Drew. In February Beth's Great Grandma June passed away. In December my mom, Rose passed away. It is an understatement to say that we felt overwhelmed with the loss of these great women in our lives. I am so grateful for the gospel in our lives! Without it, a very very difficult time could've become a time from which I would have never felt I could have overcome, nor had the drive to want to overcome. With it, I learned that death is, while very hard to accept sometimes, a VITAL part of life's plan. That we have to be born into this world to gain the experiences that we must have to return to our Heavenly Father, and that without death, the trip home is unachievable. I now look at birth and death in a whole new light. Birth and Death are not merely events in our lives, but I see them as quasi-ordinances. One must be baptised, repent and be faithful to enter the Kingdom of our Father. Aren't Birth and Death also required, in fact with out them, none of the stuff in between would be of value. Well...I have tried to learn from those events in life I didn't understand. One big help in rebounding from these emotional set backs in our lives came in August of 2006. I had just returned from a trip to Samoa (which I will talk more about in a later post) in which I had conducted research on parenting styles and adolescent behaviors in Samoa . To our surprise, we had been told that Beth was pregnant, but later we were told she was losing the baby because the hormone levels were not where they should be. This we felt was yet another blow to our already fragile spirits when, one night, Beth was having major stomach pains. We didn't know what it was, but thought it may be her miscarrying or something. We took her to the hospital and they determined it most likely was gall stones. When it rains it pours. They confirmed the gall stones with an ultrasound, but at 1 am that morning in a small ultrasound room in a small town hospital we learned something else. Beth did have the stones, and they confirmed she was pregnant, but not 5 weeks like they had initially thought....but 5 months...and everything looked great with the baby. In February of 2007 we had Carter a healthy baby boy.
This was only 2 months after I FINALLY finished up my bachelors of Psychology. So...long story short...I've had a blessed and eventful life. I'd had a couple of pretty bad years...but I think we're on the up bound now. Forgive this monstrous post, but hopefully from here on out, it will be more hip and happening and filled up with to date stuff that we all love to hear and gossip about ;-) . I hope that someone will find my ramblings useful and entertaining!
- Ulavale1