Anti-Blog No More

Russ has been running our blog since...um...whenever he decided to start this thing. I guess he expected me to get all excited about it and take it over, but to no avail. And then we had a baby. Oh how that changes things. All of the sudden this blog has become the link between Hannah and the grandparents. So thank you Russ for encouraging me to start this and yes, "You were right. I was wrong." (He loves it when I say that).




HANNAH
Our little girl's a crawler! She hasn't quite figured out how to get into things yet but she will. She seems to be content playing with the door stoppers and pulling herself up on all the furniture. A couple weeks ago she got her first tooth. So long to the toothless smile days. She's such a fun kid! She loves to laugh and Russ and I love to make her laugh. Parenthood is so much more fun than I ever imagined it to be.

MBA SCHOOL
Russ decided to go to Notre Dame this Fall for his MBA. We're pretty excited about it but time is sneaking up on us. We're moving in 7 weeks! There's still so much to do! My job is to figure out how we're going to fit into a tiny on-campus two bedroom apartment. It's amazing how much stuff you collect when there's room to collect it.

FOOD
Since our last post we decided that eating healthy is the key to staying healthy. So we started following the Word of Wisdom more closely. Now we eat very little meat, lots of fruits and vegetables, and somehow Russ convinced me to make homemade whole wheat bread. We also have a Green Smoothie everyday. If your wondering what a Green Smoothie is check out . Russ has lost 25 pounds and I've gone down a dress size. The best part about it is we feel better and it's been a really easy transition.

TRIPS

We went to Hawaii in April for Russ' sister's graduation from BYU Hawaii. It was awesome! The highlights of the trip were Janelle's senior recital, shark cage diving, and skydiving. I highly recommend skydiving to all who are able. :) We also went on a road trip across the South. We went from Dallas to Houston to New Orleans to Mobile to Destin to Savannah to Columbia and back to Dallas. (It was a 9 day trip). The highlights of that trip was staying with Brother and Sister Bone--a senior couple Russ served with on his mission--and going to an alligator farm.

Back in the land of the living

We're back. kinda.

Feeling quite a bit better although Hannah has a cold again. But all in all, we're on an upward swing.

So here's the latest: We're debating right now about which graduate business school to attend in the fall. I've been accepted to SMU and Notre Dame, both great schools, each with advantages and disadvantages. We're definitely leaning Notre Dame's way mostly because we feel good about it. The logical choice is SMU since we already live in the Dallas area. Hannah's pick is Scranton University but I just don't think I can handle Michael Scott as a professor for two years. Dwight would be great but Michael can really chafe after a while.

Let me know what school you think we should attend and why.

Sick Sick Sick

We're all sick.

Russ - Strep Throat
Heather - Stuffy nose
Hannah - Cough and cold

No fun at all.

Oh yeah - by the way, Hannah is our baby girl. She is now almost 4 months old and is wonderful to have around. Every time she makes a sound, smiles, defecates, or whatever, we are sure to exclaim, "She's a genius"! (in honor of all those wonderfully biased parents out there that think their kid is the greatest. I love it!)

Let's see - updates since Easter...

Heather - stopped working, gave birth to Hannah, ate some brownies, started teaching gospel doctrine class at church, changed a few diapers, became enamored with Julia Childs, bought Russ THE OFFICE seasons for Christmas, and slept some.

Russ - applied for MBA programs, slept a little more than Heather, became a babydaddy, got some spine injections, ate some chips and salsa, worked a bit, got sick for the first time in a long time, and bumblebee tuna.

Hannah - (correction - updates since Sept. 20) ate well, smiled a lot, rarely cried, won over all the grandparents in about .2 seconds, transitioned to her own room, scored a 700 on the GMAT, solved the credit crunch, and lept small buildings in a single bound. Let's be honest: Our kid is a genius.

Dog "Skippy" - YEAH RIGHT, LIKE WE'D ACTUALLY HAVE A PET...

Anyway - life is good. We're trying to figure out what the forseeable future will hold for us. We may be getting back to our Irish roots or becoming Methodists. We'll just have to see.

Here's the kid. I mean genius kid.