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When is the baby due?
Jan 3rd
It is coming out, and it’s coming out loud! Baby!!!
For those of you who are not familiar with Brian Regan, you should be. Anyway, there have been some changes to the blog this evening/morning. Firstly, I hooked up my Twitter account back to the blog. I don’t remember why it disappeared in the first place, but now it is back. Second, there is a new poll. Please enter in your guess for due date and weight if you are feelin’ lucky! Lastly, there is a new theme for the blog, which should be very apparent. We are looking forward to a great new year with a great new baby.
Happy new years everyone, and I hope you vote (which is on the left-hand side of the screen now).
Elf yourself
Dec 21st
Check this video out, you can make your own at: http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/
Send your own ElfYourself eCards
Yoshi has the Christmas spirit
Dec 18th
Ok, so she doesn’t really have the Christmas spirit, but what you should do is go to this website and vote for her, so she can at least get on the front page of I Can Has Cheezburger.
Give her 5 Cheezburgers!!!
pretend we posted this when it was written October 22nd.
Nov 10th
I uploaded those pictures last night, so check em out.
So, I think I left off last night about loving BJs because of their pazookies. After Xaviea and Leah went back home we got prepared for Yoshi to come live at the new house. Got the garage ready for her and introduced her to the house. She was pretty good and has been slowly getting used to all the newness.
- We made it a point to take the dogs to the park, which has been really good. We’ve met some co-workers and neighbors at the park with dogs and everyone we’ve encountered there is super nice.
- Kate and Lorna have been working on baby shower. They’ve even got me helping out a bit with the invitations. It sounds like it should be a good time. I am thinking about having some “man time” for those of us who have XY chromosomes.
- Kate has learned to drive stick, and she is really good at it. When she first started driving it, she had a couple of stalls, but she really surpassed the idiot drivers that cannot handle a stall or two. Kate has the car every day now, and I’ve been riding to work almost every day.
This last weekend was pretty crazy. On Saturday we (Kate, Lorna and myself) got up early to head up to the Portland area. The agenda was simple. I was going to hang out with David for his birthday and Kate and Lorna were going to do baby things. David and I hung out, ran some errands (including getting a new charger for my laptop), and did a magic draft, which was super cool. We had a good time. I also got to see his fam, which was nice because it has been a while. Kate and Lorna went to OMSI and saw the, “babies in the jars” exhibit. Hey, that is not what I call it. After that they met up with my mom and went to the Babies ‘R Us, a.k.a. “the baby mecca.” My mom got us a sweet stroller and car seat. Check out the pictures for some elephant car seat goodness. We made it home that night and pretty much just hung out with the dogs.
On Sunday we did the normal church thing and after church we hung out with some of Kate’s previous RAs. We had some lunch at Red Robin and showed them the house. It was nice to see PJ and little Lea and Lea’s sister. After lunch we got an hour or so to relax and we went off to dinner with the middle school ministry leaders. We talked about our direction and had some good Mexican food. We had to jet early because we had to head over to our first home group meeting. Kate and I are leading a home group and will be doing so for the better part of a year. It went really well, and we are really looking forward to getting into the meat and potatoes of the home group starting next Sunday. We got home so late that we didn’t have time for Dexter.
Fast forward to last night. I’ve been thinking about installing a wired network in the house, from at least the TV area to the baby’s room. It was a big old failure. I didn’t realize that the outside walls are on top of the cement foundation so crawling around under the house was unsuccessful. I am going to have to go in through the attic if I want to be able to setup a wired network. Boo! Then to top off the sadness that was more time without my desktop being connected to the internet, Yoshi decided she needed to jump down into the crawl space where I was and wouldn’t come out. Silly cat.
Well, that is about it, so now it is time to chill on the couch and figure out how to do the whole network thing.
It has been a while
Oct 21st
I can’t believe it has been over 2 weeks since Kate or I have posted on the blog. We are pretty busy, but had seemed to find the time to do it in the past. Let’s see if I can recap the last couple of weeks.
Well almost two weeks ago it was my birthday. It was super cool. I got some sweet presents (more on that later) and had pumpkin pie for dessert instead of the boring old birthday cake. I came away form this birthday with quite a bit of booty. First, I got a bike, and not just any bike. I got nice road bike. Kate’s parents and Kate went in on this bad boy jointly and now it is my main transportation to work. David knew about the bike and got me some super cool “bomb proof” pedals. Also, I am finally back into the world of smart phones. I got a new iPhone, which is more fun that I remember it being.
I haven’t named the bike yet, but as I am writing this I am thinking that it does need one. Maybe you guys can help me with that. For now, lets call the bike Pat, because I don’t know if it is a boy or girl yet. Anyway, Pat, needed more room in the garage, plus it was time to just take care of that whole mess. So Kate and I did just that. We got the garage looking super nice. We wanted to have room for Pat, other stuff that needs to be stored and of course the cat. Yoshi has her litter box and food in the garage. It is a nice little area. I just need to organize the tool bench now.
Since Leah and Xaviea were coming to visit Kate and I spruced up the place, including, unpacking more of Hannah’s room. We got rid of a ton of boxes in there and made it so you could actually see the new carpet. The room looks much better now and is actually usable.
The weekend after my birthday, Leah and Xaviea came to visit. I think Kate and I forgot how cool they are. So nice to hang out with them. We went to the Saturday market, thought about joining a drum circle, ate great soul food, watched the IT Crowd and got pazookies at BJs. The last activity included many inappropriate jokes about the restaurant’s name. The best idea I heard that night was from Leah asking, “Do they have shirts that you can buy that say, ‘I love BJs”?
I made a list of all the things that I wanted to recap and didn’t even dent the list. Stay tuned tomorrow for another installment of WTF has Adam and Kate been doing for the last 2 weeks.
P.S. I am going to post some new pictures in about 10 minutes.
More pictures
Oct 5th
I wanted to try some new picture software, and did so when I first posted about pictures getting added to the site. After using it a little bit I realized that it wasn’t rotating images correctly, so finally now that I’ve gotten some what settled in, I finally installed a new picture hosting option which seems to be much better. So, to check out the new pics go to http://pics.beckerproject.com or click on the pictures menu item at the top of the page.
House Transformation Log: Day 6
Sep 17th
Ceiling is all scraped off… too tired to write more… goodnight.
House Transformation Log: Day 5
Sep 16th
Today was pretty sweet even though my neck, arms and shoulders are probably going to be sore tomorrow from looking up at the ceiling and scraping for 3 hours. In that time span I got the master bedroom and the baby’s room scraped so that there is no more popcorn left in them (except the master closet, I will have to get that tomorrow). I thought it would take way longer. Every time I told someone I was going to take the popcorn ceiling off, they always had the general reaction of “that is going to suck and take forever”. I am just psyched that I got more than a 1/4 of the house scraping done and it looks really good.
Tomorrow when I scrape out the guest room that I hope you all get to stay in at some point, I will take pictures. It is crazy to see the amount of material that hits the ground from the ceiling. I could make ceiling material angels if I wanted. I wonder what the material actually is. Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering the ceiling doesn’t have asbestos in it, I know that much.
House Transformation Log: Day 4
Sep 16th
I was too lazy to write on Sunday.
Sunday was interesting. Ron and I finished pulling out the particle board in the kitchen only to find what looked like some pretty bad water damage behind the dish washer. The inspectors checked the sub floor (which is under the particle board) and that was perfect (yay!). So we tried to clean out as much of the rotted particle board as we could and figured we should get some more opinions on the whole situation. Ultimately, it shouldn’t be an ongoing problem and it won’t be an issue moving forward.
Taking out that particle board ended up being a lot more difficult than I expected, but we know the foundation is good and we know what we need to do to move forward with the kitchen.
House Transformation Log: Day 3
Sep 13th
Today was a fun day for the remodel. Today Ron and I took out a wall and removed most of the linoleum in the kitchen.
The wall was tricky because it had a phone jack in it and two electrical outlets. With some guessing and checking and lots of turning the fuse box on and off again we figured out how to isolate that electrical outlets. It was much easier than it could have been because the wall outlets were the end of a circuit.
Last we removed most of the linoleum and the extra 1/4 inch particle board underneath it. The whole process was slow going, but it is going to look awesome in there.
Today we went from this:
To this:
And then, To This:
