Saturday, July 5, 2008

Berkley & Animals


Berkley loves her doggie pillow. It usually spends most of its time on her bed, but she brought it out to play today and brought several other of her friends, including Moshi, with her. Since we are not going to be having a kid brother or sister for Berkley to grow up with, Moshi will have to fill this role. He actually does a very good job of this. He helps clean up Berkley's messes by following her around whenever she is eating something in the hopes that she will drop something that he can claim as his own. Although Moshi loves his doggie bed, he willing shares it with Berkley as she uses it as an activity center. (OK, I don't know how willing he shares it, because she pretty much pushes Moshi out of the way whenever she wants to use it and he happens to be there.) Some of the time, he becomes an unwitting pillow as Berkley comes and lays on his bed and him at the same time. Moshi will usually have a pathetic "help me" look on his face, but to his credit, Moshi knows this is one of his only jobs that he has in this house. He thinks his other job is to bark at everything that enters the house, but we're trying to convince him otherwise.

Fourth of July



Fourth of July was pretty relaxing. Connor was playing with cousins in St. George and the girls went to watch Miley Cyrus in the Stadium of Fire. Nancy, Berkley, and myself went to Mike's for a BBQ and came home for the Dulle Firework Show. Berkley was surprising calm with all the bombs bursting in air. I loved to watch the light from the fireworks bounce off of my girl's faces.


My Wife's "Happy Place"


This is Nancy's "Happy Place" (her new couch in our living room). You can find her here reading a book, taking a catnap, clipping coupons (her latest hobby) or just watching the kids run around the house.


Sunkist

We are enjoying our backyard very much this year. It's been fun to sit and watch the kids play.



Wednesday, May 21, 2008

My Wife is a Superstar!!


Want proof that moms would be earning a pretty good income if they were getting paid for their work? A report by Salary.com says moms would be earning a pretty good income if they were getting paid for their work. The time moms spend on 10 "mom job functions": housekeeper, day care center teacher, cook, laundry machine operator, computer operator, psychologist, facilities manager, van driver, chief executive officer and janitor would bring $116,805 in the work world. (This doesn't even mention all the other jobs that Nancy does) Moms work an incredible amount of overtime at their jobs -- 54.4 hours a week above and beyond the normal 40.


Did I mention that Nancy does all of this, plus she works a full-time job as well! I think the song about the woman that can bring home the bacon & fry it up in the pan was written because of Nancy. I just need to publicly say how much I love my wife, and that I truly feel that she is a Superstar.


Nancy is very unselfish with her time. It's very hard to get her to spend very much money on herself, or take time for things that she wants to do. She is always thinking about those around her. If you check her blog, http://mackaydisplay.blogspot.com/, you will see that I do have to share my wife's affection with Harrison Ford & Harry Connick Jr, but I'm good with that. So, we have our movie tickets in hand and we will continue the Indiana Jones saga on Thursday.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day Part I

My lovely wife (wait, she's way to cute for me to call her my lovely wife, but she's uncomfortable with me calling her "my hot wife". I need to figure out some term of endearment that will portray her true hottness without making her sound like a desperate housewife)... My "awesome" wife is my ultimate Valentine. I can't quite explain it, but my life has become increasingly better every year we've been together. (6 years now) We just seem to click, like we were truly meant for each other. (I mean really meant for each other, like we somehow knew each other up in heaven and had this plan to meet up once we got down here on earth) But, come on, we met on the internet!! We had both been married before living totally seperate lives. There is just too much randomness in meeting on the internet to think that we were somehow "pre-determined" to be together. (In fact, we actually met on the internet, chatted for a couple weeks and then we went our own seperate ways. Now if you talked to Nancy, she would tell you that I was the one that stopped chatting with her, but in my own mind, I feel like she blew me off somehow. I can't exactly explain it because when we looked back at the text messages, it somehow showed that she was the last one to send a message that I didn't reply to, but if she truly liked me, don't you think she would have sent a followup message wondering where I was. Sometimes men like to feel pursued, I know I do. So we went our own seperate ways, Nancy actually got engaged to someone else!! If they turned our love story into a movie, you would be watching this movie and thinking to yourselves "There is no way they are every going to get together. He had his chance and he blew it. She is going to be married & moving to Tremonton soon and he'll be S.O.L. Plus, I don't think Brad Pitt should have been cast in the role of Bruce. I mean have you seen Bruce? Maybe John Goodman wasn't available"... Well my friends, do you know that sick feeling you get in your stomach when you know you just aren't doing the right thing? (Like when you tried to wear parchute pants and moon boots to school) Nancy was getting that sick little feeling about being engaged to this other guy. That sick little feeling is what I call "Bruce's Love For Nancy". She was carrying around my love for her and she didn't even know it yet. (kind of like a tapeworm) Now... all the while this is going on, Bruce has finally figured out this whole dating thing. (When I first chatted with Nancy, you know, the time she blew me off and stopped writing me? She was one of the very first girls I chatted with! Again, another amazing thing, it was like I went fishing, threw my hook in the water, and immediately landed the best trophy fish, only to have her wiggle from my hands and swim back in the sea for 18 months.) So she stopped chatting with me (it really bugs her when I say that "she" stopped chatting with me and not the other way around, but hey, it's my blog, my story!!) and I started meeting "other women" and began to date. I met many perfectly nice girls and had lots of fun, but I would never get that feeling inside me that would tell me that "she's the one". The void of this feeling is what I'm going to call "Nancy's Lack of Love for Bruce". So I'm going through life fearful that I will never truly love anyone because I'm meeting all these nice girls, but no one was filling that spot inside me. I later came to realize that was the case because "Nancy's Lack of Love for Bruce" kind of acted like a black hole and it would gobble up anyone else's love that was trying to form inside me. intermission..........................

Beautiful Baby Berkley

Berkley is so cute. I love her like I never thought I would (well acutally that is not true, who doesn't think they will love their child, but it just sounds like something good to say) I guess I should ammend my prior statement to say that I can't believe someone so cute came from me, although I give full credit to Nancy. I think she was very selfish with her DNA and kicked mine out of the gene pool. She's not a happy camper right now. She's been battling ear infections and she's been quite lethargic. I guess you need these kind of times, to fully enjoy the times that she is running around as a happy camper.