Happy Half Birthday!

To Ryan.  You are OLD!

Onions

So, it's true that Vidalia is an onion and it's true that that's where we got her name.  When I was probably 13 I saw a bag of Vidalia Onions in the grocery store and decided I liked the name Vidalia.  I must, since I convinced Ryan we should name our first child that.  I'm thinking I should tell people that we named her after Vidalia, the city in Georgia.

I guess that wouldn't help much, since that's what they are known for and (if you didn't notice) they're quite proud of their onions.  In fact, every year they have a Vidalia Onion Festival!  (One year we're going to take Vidalia and tell her the festival is all about her.  They pronounce it different then we do though...Georgia = Vi-dale-ya (long i), We = Vi-dahl-lia (short i)...we're just going to tell her it's they're accents.  I hope she thinks it's fun.  When do you think is old enough but still young enough?)

Well, now that I've explained that the actual onion is pronounced different than my daughter, here are two songs written about my daughter.  This first one is a country song by Sammy Kershaw entitled (I'll let you guess) Vidalia.  The second is an Andrew Bird song, also titled Vidalia.  Wow!  She's popular already!  ;)

Happy

From my phone...I should really upload pictures from our camera...they aren't usually blurry like all the other pictures.  Enjoy.  I know I do! ;)

Us

Because yesterday was Valentine's Day...

here is something good to read.

Funeral

So here's what happened, we went to the DMV.  We didn't have the title with us.  They told us we needed it.  We decided we'd go back next Monday.  We started the jeep.  It sounded terrible (loud knocking sound and what not).  It felt terrible (horrible shaking).  We felt a little sad about it's condition.  We went to leave.  There is a small hill out of the parking lot.  The jeep went halfway up the hill.  Then it wouldn't go up anymore.  I thought to myself, "Oh no!  The transmission!"  We tried stopping and restarting.  It stopped starting...weird.  We rolled it back and parked it.  We made lots of calls until someone could pick us up.  (Side note:  Ryan's boss got frustrated at him not having a phone yet and gave him a temporary work phone that we happened to have in the jeep.  I've never been so glad that someone got frustrated with Ryan before.)  We emptied the jeep of things.  Ryan's nice coworker picked us up.  Seriously...she's SO nice (and not just because she picked us up).  We made it home.  We tried to decide what to do.  We called the kidney foundation.  They said they could pick it up in a few days, but they needed the title.  We called Ryan's friend in our ward and asked him if he could help us.  Ryan went with him to put the title in the car and take off the license plates.  Ryan came back with the license plates....and the jeep!  So...we decided to put off the funeral because the Jeep has resurrected itself!  (To our astonishment)  It's going to die for real any time though, so we're doing research and have a back-up plan for always.  

Death

We've experienced a recent death in our little family.  A sad one, but not one to mourn.  Good bye faithful jeep, we wish you had been faithful a little while longer.  May you rest in pieces...in a junk yard.

Ryan Scott Work Schedule

This is my work schedule. As of mid February 2011. Just so everyone can know what therapy sessions I'm conducting.


If this is hard to see, click on it, then click on it again. It worked great for me.

Smiles

First of all.  I apologize for the blurry-ness of these pictures.  They were taken with my webcam which isn't really meant for picture taking, let's just face that.  So, Vidalia smiles and she has been doing so for two or three weeks.  I decided I should get a picture, so I grabbed the webcam (camera would have been a better choice).  Here's the problem though, when she sees the camera she makes one of these two faces:

Apparently she thinks cameras are really weird.  I tried to trick her and this is what I got.

Only partial smiles, sorry.  We'll work on the tricking her part.  Oh and kudos to whoever can figure out what this is.

Vidalia

These are pictures of Vidalia when she was 3 1/2 weeks.  They were taken by my friend Annie.

The $3 Stick

Yesterday my mother bought Ryan and I a gift...that is correct...a $3 stick.  She said it would be very useful and could make a good weapon.  Boy was she right.

After purchasing the stick (cylindrical, maybe a 1 inch diameter, and 4 feet long), we left the store.  My mother bravely tried to prevent injuries from the stick and moved it in the cart.  Actually, I think it went something like this...

- Kathy-Mom moves the stick
- "I just didn't want it to hit me in the head."
- Within seconds the stick whams Kathy-Mom on the head.  She was right!  What a fabulous weapon.

A few minutes later when I tried to remove the stick from the cart, it got stuck.  I pulled it really hard and hit my knuckles against the cart, tricky stick.  (Once again a good weapon.)

When we picked Ryan up from work we decided to have him play 20 questions to figure out what our present was.  After a few questions he had figured out that it was a cylindrical piece of wood.  He couldn't figure out what it was though.  We gave him hints at this point, such as, it IS a cylindrical  piece of wood, a cylinder made of wood, and what not.  He figured it out when we used it to prop the jeep's back door.

Nebraska

We made it!  And do you know what...we are happy about the making  it part.  It seems that we have a very good ward.  We blessed the baby and today she is 5 weeks old!  More updates will come, but first I need to move in enough to find clothes!

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