Killing Time

The last couple of weeks cruised by. It is weird thinking that we only have two weeks left in Denver. Everyday has been pretty much the same lately. We kick off the mornings watching the Wiggles with Finn, talk about starting to pack, forget about starting to pack, find a way to get out of the house, worry about moving, watch crappy evening television, then go to sleep. Somewhere in there, Jesse has squeezed in the last few days of medical school and we have managed to eat way more than we should. Here are a few pictures of us killing time.

"Take me to your leader!"

At the zoo.

This is the batch of strawberries Lindy threw together for her last of the weekly "The Bachelor" and "Dancing With the Stars" parties. She has some ladies get together every Monday and they all squeel about the dancers and the loose ladies on the worst show on television, The Bachelor. May we all sleep better knowing that the most dramatic rose ceremony in bachelor history ended in true love once again.

This is Finn bright and early in the morning. As you may be able to tell, he is waking in his parents' bed. If you have any advice for our parenting skills, go eat a fart.

Jesse turned 29 on April 29th, his golden birthday. He celebrated the day by waking up early and going on a 29 mile bike ride. He came home to a lit up slab of German pancakes that were quite delicious. He milked the golden birthday thing for a whole week and was spoiled, spoiled, spoiled. Unfortunately for him, the golden birthday thing eventually wore off and now it is back to being the grubby little grunt that he is.

Finn with Blake, his buddy who is 4 months younger than him. Finn had his 18 month appointment a few days ago and we are happy to report that he is now a whopping (drumroll-tttt-ttt-tttt-ttt-tttt-t-t-t) 19 pounds. 19 HUGE pounds! What a little squirt.

Finn with his potential future wife, Maddi. Sadly, these two may have to struggle with a long term relationship because we have been unsuccessful at talking anybody in to moving to Ogden with us. People think that just because they have jobs and family elsewhere, they can't move to O-town. Ridiculous.

Lest you think that life is all roses, here is our little booger's new favorite thing- the totally fake whiney fit. To add sound effect to the picture above, let out all your breath except for the last 10%. Push the last bit out as fast and as hard as you can, with a touch of a high pitch. This is awesome.

Celebrity look-alikes

We saw this while we were blog-hopping and thought it was pretty funny so we did it ourselves. Go to www.myheritage.com and follow the links to see who you look like the most.

Jesse's look-alikes:


It was a little weird for Jesse to see that he matched best with Ms. Flockhart, but he is coming to terms with it and is even thinking of changing his last name to McBeal. We don't know of any actual relation to Herbert Spencer but Jesse is envious of his sideburns. All in all, this was a pretty sad list and a kick to the face for Jesse. What little self-respect he had is now gone.

Lindy's look-alikes:


Lindy is nothing but hot! What more can be said?

Our new casa

We have been procrasti-blogging lately because we were in Utah for the past couple weeks looking for some new diggs. We had the complete experience. We spent a few days looking at rentals, a few days looking at places to buy, and then a few more days looking at places to rent. In the end, we decided to rent and are really excited about the place we found.

It is really close to the hospital and should work out well for us. Here are a few of our favorite things about the place:

---This will be the very first time in our marriage that we won't be sharing any walls, floors, or ceilings with any neighbors. We are very much looking forward to having marital spouts at increased volume now that we aren't afraid of the neighbors calling the cops on us.

---We met one of our neighbors and she seemed normal. She looks like she might be the type of person that will send a few freshly-baked cookies our way for no reason.

---The house has a couple of spare rooms so you are all invited to spend a night (or few) at the new Chateau-le-Spencer in beautiful South Ogden. Your stay will include a breakfast of a selection of the finest cold cereals, entertainment by Finn, and perhaps some fresh cookies made by the nice neighbor lady.

---A back yard for the boy. As you can also see, there will be plenty of opportunities to spy on the neighbors. As you can't see from the picture, there is also a garden plot, a big patio, and a waterfall with a hot tub. Nothing beats a dip in the hot tub with fresh veggies to munch on as you soak.

---There is a sink with a drinking fountain in the garage. This was the selling point for Jesse. He has dreamed of having a drinking fountain in his house forever.

---There are two big family rooms (total of three in the house) that we have absolutely no furniture for. Lindy sees this as a positive because she wants to buy more furniture. Jesse sees this as an opportunity for a dance floor to work on his break dancing and another room dedicated to a foosball table or a go-crazy-room for Finn.

---It ain't all good though. The kitchen has fleshy-pink coutertops and the place needs some cleaning love. Hopefully the cleaning will be done by the time that we move but we are pretty much stuck with the fleshy-pink, yum!

As you can see, we are tickled fleshy-pink about the place and are glad that the house-hunting is finally over.

We did other stuff in Utah besides look at houses. We did a lot of Wii golfing, a ton of eating good food, some biking, Finn played with lots of cousins, some watching cousins play soccer, playing fetch with Neil's dogs, watching our sister-in-law run the Salt Lake half marathon, watching Rachel's dance company perform their spring show, watched "Baby Mama", and a bunch of other stuff. As usual, we took no pictures of those things.

Genetics!

I decided to do a post to clarify a few things! Those of you who know Finn, know that he is a little bit of a runt for his age. (But a dang cute runt!) And because he is completely off the charts in every way we had to take him to Children's Hospital last week for some tests. These tests were to make sure that he small due to genetics rather than some type of disease. Everything came back just fine and he is indeed small due to genetics. But looking at his parents we aren't exactly giants or anything. So I decided to go through some of my pictures when I was Finn's age and I hope that it clarifies that my sweet little boy just might take after his mom. (Poor kid!!!)

Our sweet little boy

This is Lindy at Finn's age

For some reason I think that Finn looks just like Lindy in this picture... What do you think?

This is Lindy when she was a Sunbeam at church. I think that I might have these other girls beat on being the shortest in class. Dang genetics!

It's April!

Here are a few pictures from the last week. Nothing too terribly exciting is happening here in Denver although we did get together with some friends for dinner and of course I am lame and I can never remember to bring my camera. Other than Jesse playing an April fool's joke on me by putting toothpaste in my straw so when I decided to take a drink of my delicious diet coke I was surprised with a disgusting minty paste... What a sweet husband I have. I guess it could have been worse! And that was our week. We are thinking of driving to Utah sometime in the next week to go house hunting and that is all that is in the works for now.

Finn in his Easter outfit.

Finn got this Easter basket from the Mawhinney's Grandparents. They invited us over for Easter dinner and she had a little egg scavenger hunt for Finn and Josh . Each of them received a little basket which had a toy car, animal crackers and a few other cute treats in it. It was the sweetest and cutest thing ever. And Finn absolutely loved it.

I attempted to be crafty and met with some friends to make "pillowcase dresses" and baby hair bows. And no... this dress is not an announcement of any kind. I made it for a friend who just a little girl!

Finn loves to talk to his Grandmas on the phone and he thinks that is either extremely funny or a complete tragedy when I try to take it back. In this instance it was funny.

He must be concentrating on the question!

He is so good at multi tasking! He can play with his toys and talk on the phone at the same time. He's got mom beat!

Eggs and destinations...

Happy Easter everybody!

This has been quite the exciting week for our little family. On Thursday, the wait for Match Day was finally over. For anybody familiar with the process, you know that there was a lot of belly-aching and sleepless nights leading up to the date. Anyhow, we found out where we will be for the next three years as Jesse does his family medicine residency. And the winner is:



We are really excited to be going back to Utah and getting much closer to our families (with a little cushion still). His residency starts in mid-June so we will be moving shortly. It is a little bittersweet though because we have really loved Denver and the friends that we have met here.

This is at match day. It is a big fancy event with the media there and tension that you could cut through as all the students wait to find out where they will be headed off to.

Today we took Finn to his first egg hunt ever at the park across the street. It was absolutely bananas. There were 3000 eggs spread over an acre and once the hunt started, they were gone in 30 seconds (at most). Finn ended up with three eggs which we feel like was a huge success. His loot was a single Starburst, a mini Hershey's bar, and a mini Mr. Goodbar. Not bad at all. He mostly enjoyed being part of the scene there at the park with the rest of the little kiddies. We did a few minutes of training at home just before the hunt so he had a pretty good idea what to do. He also gets a little head start as seen in the video below. If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin':

This was taken before the hunt started. We thought about claiming this tree but then remembered that this is a favorite place to walk dogs and this tree has gallons of doggie pee on it. So, we headed for the open spaces instead.

Finn checking out the booty. His trick-or-treat basket doubles nicely as an Easter egg basket.

Trying to figure out where the chocolate went. It was in dad's tummy.

After the big hunt, we went home and colored some eggs of our own. We miss the annual event at Neil and Becky's. Half of these we made for our friends Mark, Jenny, Josh, and baby-girl (due Thursday). He matched into the surgery program at the University of Utah (wahoo!!) and today is her birthday.

Our favorite eggs

This was cute until he started throwing them.

More Moab...

Here are a few more pictures from Moab now that the blogging gods are happy. We are still trying to figure out what to do with ourselves now that we are back in Denver. Jesse is off school until graduation in May and we find out next week where we will be spending the next three years.

We just want to eat him sometimes.

Jesse's brother Clint, number 3150, cheering on the cheerleaders near the end of the race. The guy in the bandana apparently has a man-crush on Jesse.

High-stepping with mamacita and g-pa Neil.