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December 1, 2000 |
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Has it really been over a month since I have updated this site?
At any rate, things are great here. Kellye, thanks for the baby clothes and maternity clothes! We are set! We had a sonogram and it was neat seeing the baby on the screen. We didn’t find out what it was. (I will be posting a new contest soon where you guess the delivery date and time, baby’s sex, weight, length, etc. Keep your eyes posted for it!) The sonogram showed that everything is okay with the baby, but that Jen has placenta previa. That means the placenta is covering the cervix. I will post some information on this shortly. It is pretty scary, but it occurs once in every 250 pregnancies so it should be okay.
Thanksgiving was great! We went down to Tucson and spent the weekend with Mom, Dad and Karleen. We had a great time and enjoyed the warm weather. Mom is still an excellent cook – I had forgotten how much I missed her stuffing!
I am still hoping that you dudes and dudettes would send me some stuff to put on the website. I feel badly for not updating in over a month, but I need stuff to update the site with!! I have been working on a fan site for a computer game that is coming out in March. I update that site four or five times a week. (If you want to check it out, here is the link: Tropico. I used the same format of the family site and have received some great feedback. The site gets about 300 hits a day right now, and the game won’t be released until March!! It has been viewed by people in about 30 different countries. Crazy....) I want to work on websites for the experience, but it doesn’t seem like anyone really cares about this family site. If you dudes would send me one major update once a month, spread out over the month, this site could be updated regularly with great information!
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October 27, 2000 |
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Just wanted to give you all an update of my 30th birthday. It was pretty neat. I had my first ever surprise birthday party (and boy was I surprised! I had no clue...). Jen put it all together. I came home from a football game on Saturday and opened the door and to my surprise -- the house was decorated with streamers and balloons. Three couples were there. It was so neat. We ate pizza and snacks and for dessert we had Jen's famous mud pie. We played games and I opened a few presents. I really have an awesome wife. My actual birthday was nice, too. We got yummy wings and just hung out. Almost everyone remembered to! I won't mention which of my sisters forgot because I wouldn't want to embarrass her, but I will say that you can check the calendar periodically so it won't happen in the future.
Jen had a blood test yesterday. They take her blood and look for various problems (spina bifada, Down's, etc.) We get the results next Friday. Also, we are in a position soon to decide if we want to know the sex of the baby. I don't want to know, but Jen does. I figure neither one of us cares if it is a boy or a girl, so why do we need to know. Jen says we need to start planning (making blankets, etc.) and we need to know. We will probably find out. For names, we are thinking of Jakob Hugh if it's a boy and Katelyn if it's a girl. This may change though!
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October 18, 2000 |
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Karleen was kind enough to send me an update of her life. Here it is:
Thanks for the replacement photo. Can you believe that was me almost 6
years ago?! I'm really getting old! I like your "HUSBAND" link
too......."No winners yet. Check back soon." Not too many guys entering
that contest these days, or at least not too many guys qualifying to
enter.
You asked me for an update.....Really there's not much of an
update on my life. I've just been working on my "test engineering"
projects at work and taking an electrical engineering class at ASU. I
have one more deficiency course after this, and then I can start taking
classes in the masters program. I'm not exactly sure if I will pursue a
masters in this field or not. I haven't decided yet.
I've been working
out a lot, trying to train for a triathalon in Case Grande in November,
and then another one next April. I want to run in this 5K "stair climb"
race this weekend in Bisbee, but no one will venture to do it with me.
I need to find myself a man who likes to do those kinds of things. That
might earn him some extra points in the contest.
Anyways, I'm also
learning to play the guitar - just teaching myself really, but I'm
getting pretty good. I don't do a whole lot of "picking" yet, just
"strumming", but I already know several songs. It's fun.
Hmmmm.........what else can I say? .......My dating life is not really
worth mentioning at this point. I'm still trying to get over my
whirlwind romance with Joe. Did you know he was getting ready to
propose - he had a ring and everything! Oh well.....it just wasn't
meant to happen. I'm no longer inviting divorced men to enter the
contest......
I still live with all the same four girls - they are really
what make my life fun. Mom always asks me when I'm gonna move out into
my own place and live by myself. Why would I want to do that? Silly
Mom.......That pretty much wraps it up for me. Did you ask everyone
else to send you and update? I'm anxious to hear what's going on in
everyone else's lives. Get on 'em!
Love ya ..................Kar
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