The night of Kara's birth, Evan and his family were going to come down and visit. Unfortunately, some of the kids were sick, so they couldn't all come. Marissa was particularly disappointed, and even cried that she couldn't come. So Evan and Eli came down. As a added surprise, I got a call from Darren, Elena's brother who lives in Logan (actually Menden, near Logan). Turns out he was in Austin with his wife Katie at a conference. They decided to rent a car and drive down, and we all decided to make it a surprise for Elena... and I got it on tape.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Kara's Birth
We came in Sunday night for Elena to be induced. We got here at about 9:30 pm. Just as they were about to give her the first medicine at 11:00, her water broke. They can't give the first medicine if your water has broken. So Elena happened to go into labor on the day she was scheduled to be induced. Elena was a real trooper, and wanted to go as long as possible without an epidural. She ended up with the epidural at about 4 o'clock in the morning when she was dilated to a 7. We then took a nap and woke up in the morning when her doctor came. He checked her and said, "Wow, she's at +2, and your fully dilated. Are you ready to start pushing?" We got ourselves gathered together (this is when I almost started to cry (TOJ, tears of joy) realizing that this was all about to happen. Elena was a GREAT pusher, probably from all of her working out. She says it's 'cause of her abs. 6 pushes and we had our little sweetheart. Here are more pictures, I'll try to put some videos up soon as well.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
At the hospital
We're at the hospital!
It's a planned induction, since Elena is past her due date. Our nurse is LDS her name is Martha (aka Sister Hall), but she's not in our ward.
You'll notice a whole bunch of posts being put in over today and the last few days. I've been trying to get caught up.
Our Last Weekend Together
There should be a name for married couples who have no children. It would be akin to "bachelor", but for a couple. We had our last weekend that we will have no children.
Elena's Dad was in town this weekend, but only for Friday and Saturday. We made it up Saturday and spent time with him at Evan and Angie's. We went to Eli's piano recital and went back to Evan's house and Wendell gave Elena a blessing with Evan and I. She was glad to have a Father's blessing.
Dad had to leave then, so Evan took him and we played our new games (Family Fluxx and Citadels). We then went swimming with the kids, got back home and hurried to the Temple. I brought the Wii up so Evan and the kids could play. I am a wonderful uncle, yes, I know.
We went to the temple and made it to the last session. We started a new tradition, since I found an ice cream place nearby. They have big servings :)
iPod Headphone Jack
Be careful about how you store your iPod headphones. If you're like me (and probably most people) when you're done listening you wrap the headphone cord around your preferred MP3 player. Well, you do that enough and you can ruin the connection. My iPod is beyond warranty coverage, and Apple doesn't repair them (my options are pay a lot of money for a refurbished one, pay a lot of money for a new one [a small discount off a new one]) or... go with a separate company that repairs it for you. I'll probably go with the latter. I had found a website before that seemed like it would be a good choice, but it'll cost me about $40.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Cankles
Elena has been pretty active during her pregnancy, and had gained less weight than average... then came the water retention with ... cankles. A few of the pictures you can see our fingerprints.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The Camcorder (May 13th)
Elena and I were planning on getting a big screen (not as big as I want, but bigger than she wants) HDTV since our old TV is going out. So we were saving up with money from my Birthday and Christmas. With the baby coming, I decided that a camcorder would be a better purchase. So I shopped around (more than I had already). HDTV camcorders are much more prevalent than when I had last shopped. Elena and I had almost bought a camcorder about 3 years ago. We had been planning on getting a 3ccd camcorder from Panasonic, because the color reproduction is supposed to be better.
Anyways... I chose the Canon Vixia HF100. It's 1080 with 30p and 24p modes. It has no onboard memory and uses SD cards (and the new higher capacity SDHC cards). I picked up a 16GB card which will record 2 hours worth of HD video. The battery only works for 1 hour, and we'll pick up a 2 hour battery sometime. Canon's have won a lot of best camcorders as a brand (and I've got a digital camera and multifunction which I like from Canon). I didn't choose the one with built in flash because I can get a card for that 16gb card cheaper, and prices on the cards will go down. A hard drive would be nice but would have driven up price, size, and weight while decreasing the battery life. It has a CMOS sensor (I had been looking for a 3CCD because I thought they were always better) but in my reading I've heard that CMOS can be equivalent or superior to 3CCDs, depending on setup.
UPS came and tried to drop it off, but nobody was home, so I drove to the UPS place and picked it up, (even though it was down by Galveston).
I've already got my first video to submit to America's funniest home videos.
Lakeside Picnic Double Date (April 6th)
We went down for a picnic with Kevin and Laurel by one of our lakes. It was very pretty out, and we took some pictures.
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