Upcoming posts

I'm working on finishing a bunch of unfinished posts. It's basically old news by now, but it might still be fun to read and see some pictures, so I'll put them up... as a teaser

Lanea's visit
Valentine's day
The Child Clans Married Female Weekend Away (at least a portion of the everyone's invited so Grandma can see the grandkids)
Houston Zoo (caution, picture of Bald Eagle is enclosed)
Elena pregnancy pictures
Grandpa Baugh's visit (Wii bowling pictures...and results)

We'll see if some more make it in, but I'll publish them shortly.

Grandpa 's Visit (End of March)

Grandpa Baugh (we get to call him that now) came down to visit us and to check out the "Star of the South" dental convention. He stayed with us and I took vacation days because I haven't been using them, and they expire at the end of the year. Dad had to go to the conference, but he made some time for some catnaps :) We had a good time, and I even got him to play Wii Bowling. It's always great to have family come and visit.

The one thing he wanted to do was to go to a grocery store, so I took him to Central Market, which is a huge, very nice grocery store in the nice shopping area of Houston. We also took him to our local HEB, which is the same company.

We went out to eat at a BBQ place (Thelma's BBQ) near the convention center that has a "hole-in-the-wall" charm and has been voted best BBQ. We also went to dinner at Saltgrass (local steakhouse chain), and Papadeaux's (local seafood chain).

Preggy pictures

People have requested pregancy pictures, and these are the one's I emailed out a while ago (when they were taken). Enjoy, I'll have some more recent ones soon.

Houston Staycation (Night and day 2)

For our night, we saved money and rather than go to a hotel, Laurel was great and finished the decorations that Elena and her had planned for our room. They left to see a movie or something and Elena and I chilled with our sparkling cider, and I ate some peeps. MMmmmmm.... peeps.

The next day, we tried to go the temple, but Elena's recommend had expired. So we walked on the grounds and saw 2 families from our ward there, the Johnstons and the Baums. Yeah, the Baughs and the Baums in one ward, some people have gotten it confused. In fact, they put Kevin and Laurel as living at the Baum's house.

Anyways, we had a good time, Elena got some shopping done at the distribution center and the LDS store there nearby, and we had a nice time.

Our Houston Staycation

With Elena being pregnant (and some poor planning on my part, but regarding vacationing) we did not get off on our vacation to Disneyworld we had hoped to take. We needed some time away, so we're having a staycation.

Our first day we went to the Houston Arboretum... we saw millions of tadopoles, a few turtles, and pretty scenery. All of this surrounded by 5 million people or so.

The Houston Zoo

The Baugh, Child, and Sommerfeldt families descend upon the Houston Zoo. Evan and Angie have a family pass, so we thought it would be fun to go (Elena and I; Kevin, Laurel and Clarissa; and Angie, Eli, Brigham, Marissa, and Derek). When I got there they were looking for the bald eagle, Eli was very excited to see it. We went around a bit and saw some animals on our way.

By the time we got to the eagle, we were kind-of tired and we were right in a kids play area. The kids played in the various areas (some pictures included), and we tried to keep track of them. We then went to dinner together (separate post to follow...

Dinner after the Zoo

We were hungry after the zoo, so we looked for a pizza place. I don't remember the name of the place we ended up at, but it was a New York style place (maybe it was New York Pizzeria, and I think it used to be called Anthony's). Anyways, Evan was able to join us following his school, and we had a grand time. We even convinced Marissa to try the pesto, that she might like it.

She decided she really likes pesto. The next day we went up for Sunday dinner and Derek showed us some piano.

Pretty soon I'll have my own kid to take pictures of and write stories about.

1st Annual Child Women Getaway

What are they getting away from anyways? And with "equal-rights", do the men have the opportunity of a getaway? (I have a few great ideas...).

Anyways, Elena's mom flew her and Katie down for a girl's weekend together. It is now a planned tradition for all the married girls to get together. Laurel was already down here so it made it easier. I took a day off of work (but ended up working moonlighting for the evening) and we had lunch and did some shopping. Then everyone (except me) got together at the hotel pool in the wind and had some fun.

That evening the men and kids (grandkids had to be included in the weekend's activities at some point) were then excused for the girls to have their fun. They went to the big mall (The Galleria) and looked at expensive shoes and stuff. They then went to dinner and a play (which they almost missed, and barely got into).

Elena asked why I was blogging about something that happened so long ago, and I just want to catch up. I'll be sure to blog when the baby is born and put lots of stuff up.

Lanea's visit

My sister, Lanea, came down to visit just after Christmas. She has a friend who was driving back from Utah to San Antonio, so they came back together and I went and got her from San Antonio. We played games, talked, made sugar cookies and worked out at the gym. We ate at Saltgrass, a good steakhouse nearby.

We had a great time, and we were sad for her to go.

It's a....(drumroll please)

Girl (80% chance), based on the ultrasound findings from today. Elena will have another repeat in 4 weeks, and that should be confirmatory.

And here's a picture. I'll work on putting up some realtime video, but I need software to convert DVD into a more useable format, any suggestions? (Gordon, Brady, Spencer, Shawn, etc...)