Category: Personal

This is just another story to express how some people are losing their minds. Today i was woken up by my mom, telling me I needed to get ready for church. My dad had already left to go speak in another ward. So trusting my mothers decision, i got up and got ready for church in 15 minutes. I then went down and read the comics, had two bowls of cereal, then my mom was ready to go. We drive up to church and I go in, since i needed to prepare the sacrement and all, while my mom checked her hair, did some last minute things in the car mirror before going in. I get into church to find people i didnt know sitting in the lobby, I quickly looked in the chapel door to see the other ward still having sacrement meeting. I was shocked. Could they have gone this late? I took out my cell phone looking at the time realizing it was ten o clock, which jarred my memory.. Doesnt our ward start at eleven? I went back outside and told my mom who was just now ready to come in, and we laughed about it, she told me she was losing her mind, and we drove home. I then took the time to write this. It was quite an odd experiance.

For those of who you dont already know. Probably few. Chase James McCulloch was born this morning, Friday April 14th, around 11:00 Utah time. I tyler took it upon myself to write this just for anyone who hadnt already been informed, pace and joy im sure will have more information when they get a chance to come home and right. As for birthday guesses, Cotton and Becky won. They both guessed Friday the 14th. However cotton guessed Late friday, so he gets 1st and a half place. Once again, if you want more information talk to Pace or Joy.

An interesting thing has happened to me recently, in addition to the regular symptoms of the end of pregnancy. My fingers seem to be a little swollen, but in addition to this common phenomenon, the tips of my middle finger and ring finger of my right hand have become numb. I think that’s weird, but I remember TMom telling me that sometimes during pregnancy her entire hands were numb. It amazes me what happens to the human body when pregnant. But I’m due within a week now, so I’m hoping that some of these weird things will disappear along with the upcoming birth of the child.

PS – The doctor said today that I’m dilated to 3 cm, and the baby could come in the next three days! Wooo Hoooo!

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I usually drag my quarters in to these machines once I have around 60-70 dollars worth of change to cash in that way its worth the 10-15 dollar charge since I am lazy and don’t want to actually count/roll these pennies. Now we don’t have to give them anything to recieve our loose change in gift certificates at iTunes and amazon……..BRILLIANT!!!!!!

Just in case anyone missed our little side comment a few postings ago, we are staying in Utah and NOT moving to Vegas. We are kind of glad about that, because the cost of living in Vegas is much higher than here.  Pace is going to work for Bizsight in Orem, which is a multimedia marketing/web development type of company.   He actually has already been working for them doing web design, and he loves it, so that’s good.   We are anticipating getting a house in Orem within the next few months, after we’ve at least somewhat adjusted to having Chase around!

I have a question to raise here: When you, personally, buy new clothes, do you wash them before you wear them? As for me, I usually like to wash new clothes if I’m already doing the laundry anyway, but if I’m excited to wear the new item and it’s not laundry day, then I go ahead and wear it. It seems like it’s not a bad idea to pre-wash, though. Just think about it… Someone with bad B.O. might have tried on that shirt just before you bought it, and if your nose is congested due to a bad cold that day, you will be unaware of your personal stench. In other words, if you haven’t pre-washed it, you’ll stink– You’ll stink bad. And people will refer to you as The Stinker. I chose to wash our new baby clothes, my reasoning being that then the baby will smell fresh and feel soft. However, Pace felt that new clothes are clean enough, so why wash them? I don’t want people to take sides here, because Pace and I are best friends, but just to say what you tend to do.

Last weekend was the 176th annual general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Joy and I enjoyed listening to men and women that we know are called of God to teach His principles and help remind us of His teachings. One such talk from Brother Stone, not only entertained me, but helped to remind me of what is really important in life. He described the motivations of people and how we are all influenced by external and internal forces. He then discussed some ways we can keep ourselves focused and act the way WE want to, not the way the influences direct us to. This helped remind me that I don’t need new ram for my already sufficient computer, and we don’t need the JEEP baby stroller. Those are just commercials and ads influencing me! Things that will help us but also allow us to live within our means will be just fine. Well, I really liked it, if you want to watch the whole talk, check out Elder Stone on LDS.org or to listen to one of my favorite parts, click on the snippet below.

No, Chase hasn’t been born yet. But it IS Pace’s birthday on Wednesday! This is a reminder to all of you good-hearted folks out there reading this fabulous blog that April 5th is Pace’s 25th birthday! So be sure and call him, email him, come over and sing to him, comment on our blog, and/or give him money.

Joy is nearing the end of pregnancy, it is officially the month that Chase will be born. Please post the date you think Joy will give birth to Chase. Just some background data that would be useful, her due date is the 18th/19th. Pace and his brothers were all early (just kidding) Joy and her sisters were all late (just kidding again). The moon is in the 3rd phase and diamonds are the birth stone of April. He will be an Aries unless he’s really late… and you can make up any other info you think will help support your guess.