The Wood Family Blog: November 2008

That's What a Hamburger's All About

Posted by ry at Wednesday, November 19, 2008 comments (1)

We love In-n-Out. And we don't get to eat it very often! Pictures to commemorate the occasion last Saturday night:

Oh Yeah, the Future

Between classes at school, working 30+ hours a week at my job, a Webelos leader calling I barely have time for, just getting a call to be the Ward Financial Clerk (a calling I held for quite some time during my Singles Ward days,) and trying to spend any amount of time with Katie and Carter, I spend tons of time outside school hours working on my senior project.

The senior project is a music video I am co-producing with two of my classmates, one of whom I was partnered with on the drama we shot together in the summer. The band members we're using for the video are all friends of this co-producer, so we've gotten along really well with them and they've been really accommodating of our project's demands. But the schedule has been very taxing physically and mentally.

The project is due in just under two weeks from today after a semester of work on it, and we still have a ways to go. It's nearly completely shot, just one scene to go, but we need to put a lot of time into editing it together still.

So that's what I've been up to. We've shot almost every weekend, and gotten together one or two nights a week to log the tapes, importing footage into the computer, and otherwise working on the logistics of the project. It's kept me pretty crazy, and I thank Katie and Carter for putting up with me when I'm grouchy after coming home at 3 in the morning.

Here are some photos of the last shoot we did at a theater on campus:

You have no idea how badly I'm looking forward to the winter break and having a few weeks reprieve from all of this. I think Katie is looking forward to the vacation as well.
The roughest part of my school schedule is nearly behind me! And then the spring (and final!) semester will start and I'll have an internship to concern myself with. I've done a phone interview with NBC Universal, and should be hearing in 2-3 weeks if I got anything with them. We will of course keep everyone updated here.

Carter is 9 Months Old!

Posted by mae mae at Tuesday, November 11, 2008 comments (3)

I took Carter to see his pediatrician for his 9 month checkup this morning. He weighed in at 18 lbs., 1 oz. and is 2'3.5" tall. He's only in the 15th percentile for weight and the 20th percentile for height, but his pediatrician was very happy with his progress.

Carter in his new chair.

Carter says, "Hey you, bring back my banana."

Carter was pretty much done with his banana at this point, but I wanted to get a picture anyway.

Carter and I were at the grocery store last night and this one lady said "she's so pretty." This isn't the first time someone has mistaken him for a girl and I just don't understand how anyone can think he's a girl. The guy behind us in line made up for that lady's comment by telling Carter he had an awesome hairdo. He gets so many complements on his hair and he just loves the attention!

Saturday Date

Posted by mae mae at Monday, November 10, 2008 comments (2)

My boss invited Ryan and I to an Italian cooking demonstration at his yacht club on Saturday and by some miracle Ryan didn't have any shoots that day and my mom agreed to babysit Carter, so we were able to go together. I think this is probably only the second time we've gone on a date without Carter since he was born. We had such a great time learning about Italian cooking from a well trained chef and we're looking forward to cooking some of the dishes ourselves, but the best part was definitely getting to taste everything. I think we had five or six different dishes and they were all delicious!
We took our camera, but for some reason didn't take any pictures. We know who you really want to see pictures of anyway, so here's a picture we took of Carter after we got back.

Look at that big belly! Carter sees his pediatrician tomorrow for his 9 month well baby check (I'm having a VERY hard time believing he's already 9 months old), so we'll update with his stats.

Happy Halloween!

Posted by mae mae at Monday, November 3, 2008 comments (2)

Carter had an awesome first Halloween and was the cutest pumpkin ever! Our original costume plan didn't work out, but we're determined to pull it off next year. We went to Trunk or Treat on Halloween at our church and Carter was able to be in a costume parade and go trunk or treating for lots of candy. It's a good thing the weight loss competition ended Friday since we'll have to eat Carter's candy for him!

Halloween morning. Since Ryan and I ended up not having costumes, I ran to Walmart and got us some Halloween shirts. Ryan's mom gave Carter his shirt when they came to visit a few weeks ago.