Christian Up Close

Here are some good close up shots of Christian we had fun taking. I suppose it is consolation to the gloomy fact we may be facing a Clinton vs McCain Presidential Race. If our children are the future, what on earth are we doing electing these people?

Our Little Thumb-Sucker

Arm Wrestling

Surprised!!!

Does my finger look like a binky to you?

A poster child for anger management?

Contentment Personified

Today was an easy going day. Nothing happened on the adoption front, or as I like to call it, our legal pregnancy. We did get a chance to watch the press conference where President Thomas S. Monson was announced as the new Prophet and President of the Church. Here is a link to the lds newsroom, which contains the press conference. If you didn't get a chance to see it you should watch it when you get the chance. It was really good.

Going back to last night, Heather and I played Blokus Trigon, which is a variation of blokus using a hexagon shaped board composed of triangles instead of squares. My brother Jared was nice enough to send it to us. Below are pictures of yesterday's game:

Heather (Blue and Yellow) Chris (Red and Green)

The Final Tally

And once again, today's special on pictures of Christian: absolutely free!!!

Return to Alabama

Heather was really excited for my return, since it has been 3 whole weeks since we've been together. This is a record, by the way, for the greatest period of time being apart during our marriage. I really wasn't sure I wanted to spend the money to come back to Alabama, especially since it might be for only a few days. I am proud to say, however, that I don't regret coming at all. Christian is growing right up but still cute as ever. He even went to church with us today and behaved very well. I hope we can say the same thing in about two and a half years. My mom always said a tired boy was a good boy, and she's right!!! Christian slept through most of the meetings. It's funny though, because other more experienced church goers could probably say they demonstrate a similar practice on a regular basis.

Heather has been in Alabama one month tomorrow. Gabe and Suzette have been the coolest most understanding people regarding letting us stay here. But there was one thing I was puzzled about. The internet. There is wireless internet here, but when I tried to connect when we first came here the connection didn't work even sitting right by the router. I had told Gabe and Suzette that I was interested in computers and hoped to work in the IT industry some day, but felt pretty stupid when I couldn't get the connection to work. Well, tonight I figured out how to solve the problem. If any of you out there want to skip the technical details you can skip down to the pics below. Anyway, I decided that I would check the network settings again. Something made me wonder if perhaps trying a static ip address would work. This didn't really make sense because most soho routers use dhcp these days. But it worked!!!! I was so happy!!!! But not as happy as when I found out yesterday that our adoption was approved by Georgia and now will be approved by Alabama. We are hoping to return home sometime this week. I made arrangements with my work to be gone for the next week if necessary. My manager Thomas was really cool about the situation, and for that I am thankful not everyone would have been so reasonable. And now the star of the show, Christian:

Another batch of cute pictures.......

Here are some more cute pics of Christian. I would comment more but I don't have a lot of time and it is late..........

Sledding

My younger Sister Kari and my oldest Brother Mike convinced me to go sledding today. Mike came down from Richmond, UT and brought his three children: Mackenzy, Cory, and Dylan. Here are some pictures of the fun we had. I really didn't even want to come at first just because there is a lot to do around our house while Heather is gone, but it was really fun to see everyone.

Steven prepares for takeoff!!!!

The sled hill was near Mountain Dell Golf course, between Salt Lake and Park City

Mackenzy looks good in that hat doesn't she?

Kari and Steven

Cory taking in the moment.

I don't even remember taking this picture of Dylan but it turned out good.