Category: Married Lessons

Well, I have found the secret to getting a baby to sleep. If you are interested watch the secret to getting Chase quiet. It’s sure to shed some light on what he experienced in the womb… mom did I have anything weird like this?

UPDATE: Is anyone having problems viewing this video in the pop up window? If so please post your operating system and browser info. Thanks

UPDATE2: If you are on a mac, please try updating your windows media player to version 9 or if you want install this plugin off the microsoft site to play WMV in quicktime.

Wow, thanks Ty! That is awesome, I’m gone for a day in the hospital and my lil bro covers everything perfectly. Man I have great bros. Yes Tyler is right, he was born in under four hours (arrived at hospital around 7:15AM and Chase was born at 10:42 AM), 7 pounds five ounces, 19 plus inches, and healthier than a McCulloch. We are SO proud and very excited, we are very open to visitors if you are in the area, but we hope to be discharged by noon tom (Sat). I’m just writing this real fast while home on a pit stop before I go back for the night. Also there are some pictures posted for those not in the area at our McPhotos page b/c that’s what I had setup and I don’t want to take the time to make it look great. There is also short video of Chase blinking and stuff (no time to make it streaming so you’ll download it and it will play with quicktime or windows media player, 6.0MB). Enjoy, love you all.

UPDATE! We are back home now, and are getting settled in. Joy has dressed Chase in cute baby clothes that we recieved as gifts and trying to nap. If you would like to stop by give Joy a call to see if it’s a good time. Pace is going to upload more pictures and video soon, stay tuned long distance Chase fans! Love ya’ll

“Do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so concerned about his physical appearance and his bank account that you overlook his more important qualities. Of course, he should be attractive to you, and he should be able to financially provide for you. But does he have a strong testimony? Does he live the principles of the gospel and magnify his priesthood? Is he active in his ward and stake? Does he love his home and family, and will he be a faithful husband and good father? These are the qualities that really matter.” –President Ezra Taft Benson, To the Single Adult Sisters of the Church, 9/24/88)

I like this quote because I think that people from our generation who are even interested in marriage at all are too focused on finding someone who is “perfect”, extremely good looking, or with a lot of money/financial security, which things can be desirable in this life, it’s true. However, these types of features are fleeting and shaky; they can change at any time, and don’t last into eternity anyway. I feel extremely blessed to be married to a guy who fulfills these types of eternal goals and who is a great husband and future father in the ways that truly matter. Yes, once again, I’m bragging about Pace! 😉

Here’s a little “married lesson”: This evening, Pace asked me out of the blue if I wanted to go rent the movie “Must Love Dogs” from our local Red Box. This was surprising to me, because he doesn’t generally enjoy that genre of movie, the genre being a chick flick. But to me, after having had a restful yet somewhat boring Saturday, this idea seemed appealing. In fact, I was delighted by his suggestion. I was in the mood to watch a movie like that, but for a moment I did have a painful recollection of the last time we rented a chick flick which was Elizabethtown, which ended up being the weirdest, most annoying and uneventful movie we had seen in a long time. But nevertheless, Pace fearlessly stood in line in the freezing cold at the Red Box and waited a good 15 minutes for some very indecisive people to make their big $1 decisions for the night. Nada and Darin came over to watch the chick flick with us, too. But just like the last chick flick we saw, it turned out to be slow and sort of lame (although not as lame as Elizabethtown). However, I was very grateful to Pace for sacrificing what I assume were his initial desires to rent a more masculine, action-packed movie. So basically, it turned out to be a successful event, even though the movie wasn’t very good, because he did something he figured would make me happy, even though it wasn’t #1 on his list of fun things to do for the night. The moral of the story is that men who tolerate chick flicks are sexy.

Tonight Pace and I went to the Smith Fieldhouse at BYU to exercise. We walked/jogged around the indoor track. I like it because it’s easy on the joints and it’s not 20 degrees in there like it is outside. The whole exercise thing is a good thing because if we don’t make it a point to do so, we are definitely considered “sedentary” in my book, because we don’t do much other exercise. At least when we were in school, we had the excuse that we had to go to and from school, and walk across campus to all our classes, and go running with people of the opposite sex just to try to impress them, etc. But now, that isn’t the case. I feel much happier when I get exercise in, especially because being prego like I am, my weight has skyrocketed anyway. But as you can see from this current photo of me here, I don’t look too bad… 😉 Please, everyone, please exercise, especially all those married people like us who are getting fat. Thank you.

Yancy is hot and heavy on a girl.

“we did kiss, yes”

“i wouldn’t say that we made out…”

When asked if he was dating, Z said “we were just friends, and then we became friends that kissed occasionally” So whatever that means, good work Z. Congrats Z, hopefully everything works out and lil Z’s are running around soon.