With the baby's due date just a week away, I figured it's time to do a belly update. FYI, the last one was before Thanksgiving... so maybe that will prepare you for how big Katie's belly has gotten:
I was at home yesterday and started hearing helicopters circling close by around 12pm. I eventually decided to turn on the news to see if they mentioned anything and saw that there was "breaking news" in Gardena. A police officer had been shot at the corner of Rosecrans and Normandie (A), which is only .6 miles from our house (B).
Denise's most recent blog post reminded me that I haven't told anyone about my new calling. I was even on the phone with my mom last night and it completely slipped my mind.
I am now a teacher of 8-11 year old boys in the Primary. (Yes, it's a very small ward when all the 8-11 year old boys are in one class. And theres only about 4 of them that come regularly, I've been told.) I co-teach with another brother in the ward.
This is a new one for me. I've done Executive Secretary, Finance Clerk, Elders Quorum presidency, and young men's presidency. I'm noticing a trend where I'm teaching younger and younger age groups...
What's next, Nursery? :)
The grouchy Christmas Manfairy threw a fit when he saw he didn't make the Christmas blog post. "Christmas magic this, and presents that, nyeah nyeah nyeah. I'm what's happening, baby!"
To appease His Grumpiness the Christmas Manfairy, I present this blog post dedicated soley to him.
On December 28, 2006 Katie and I were married. A year later, we're amazed how quickly time has flown and that we're about to have our first child. I heard a lot of things from people about the first year, such as "it's the most difficult year." I guess that opinion isn't universal, because I don't think there was anything hard at all about our first year of married life. I thought it was a lot of fun, and I'm confident Katie would agree with me. The stress of two moves and busy work and school schedules wasn't even that bad in retrospect, especially since we had so many laughs and great memories along the way.
Sorry for being so slow with these posts. Christmas was over a week ago and I'm just now getting it blogged. Thought with my time off from school and work I'd have more free time to do this stuff, but other things pushed this down the priority list.
Anyways, on to the good stuff! Since neither of our parents were here for the holidays, my older sister Denise invited us to stay with her family for Christmas. We drove over to their house after work on Christmas Eve day, and spent the night together with all the Bakers. Although we had a really fun time, we felt bad for them because every member of their family except our youngest nephew Luke got sick with some nuclear monster disease virus. It wasn't pretty, and it lasted days, but I think everyone is fine now.
Christmas Eve started with a walk around the lit neighborhood to experience Christmas Magic. Ahhh... Christmas Magic! It's hard to explain, but I think the pictures turned out well enough that you too can experience the wonder:
