Goodbye, Mom and Dad

Yesterday Mom and Dad spoke in church, then all 40-something of us (except amber and her family) crammed into the house for food and then saw them set apart as full time missionaries. I shot the group shot below, Presley shot the two-generation shot, and Marci shot a whole bunch of candids, some of which I've posted below. We'll miss you, Mom and Dad but I know you'll be great missionaries for The Lord and his church.

On What causes kids

When we say Erin's pregnant, more than once I've heard people say "You know what causes that, don't you?" in a joking (or maybe half-joking) way.

My response: "Yeah, I guess Erin and I will have to stop washing our clothes in the same load."
 Perhaps I could start using the equally snarky "Why, don't you?" or "Why? Are you wondering?"

 

Here we go again

Erin went to the Emergency room today for double vision and the spots she was seeing last night. The labs came back okay so the docs are just assuming it's a different variety of migraine, but the bigger news is that we also had an ultrasound while we were there and they confirmed that the baby we've only known about for a couple of weeks definitely has a heartbeat, looks healthy, and is 9 weeks 2 days along.

  New Baby Nielson will be due around September 15, which is the day before Josh's birthday. I'm hoping that (s)he comes on the 9th, though, so we can continue our pattern of 1-week-apart birthdays in september. Now to get serious about finding some good names Erin and I can both agree on. We can agree on at least 2 girl names but the boy names are always so much tougher...

Levi's Prayer

Levi's prayer from dinner tonight: "Please bless that Dad will stop making for dinner what Emma had for lunch."

  Oddly, it happens more than you'd think...even though we try to have at least SOME variety in our meals.