We are so happy to see gas prices falling. We filled up this weekend for under $2 for the first time in forever. I was so excited I had to take a picture. Lets hope they keep falling.

Brock's blessing weekend

We blessed Brock the weekend of Halloween. I know I'm a little behind in my blogging :( We had such a great weekend. We spent Halloween with the Watt family and had such a great time getting all the grandkids together. The next night we went to White Fence Farm with the Fausett family and had so much fun there. We love that place, there is so much to do there for kids, if you haven't been there before we highly recommend it.
Sunday we blessed Brock. We are so happy to have him in our family, and it was such a sweet experience to hear the blessing Brad gave to him. We are so thankful to our Heavenly Father for sending us Brock. And we are so thankful for the knowledge the we have of Eternal Families. I can't imaging going through this lifetime without that knowledge.
We want to thank everyone who came to the blessing and traveled so far to spend this weekend with us. We love you all.
Enjoy the pic of the weekend.

Halloween Fun

We really enjoyed having a baby to dress up for Halloween this year, it sure does make the holiday more enjoyable for us. Brock was so cute in his Dragon costume. We spent the day with family. The day pretty much involved just a lot of picture taking with his cousins Kaitlyn and London, but it was still fun.

Sad Day

I sold my 4 wheeler today and it was very hard to do. I sure did love riding it. It's amazing because I have probably only ridden it twice in the last year and neither time was ultra exciting. I found a nice buyer for it, a farmer from Nebraska, so I am sure he will put it to good use. I realized that I probably won't go Elk hunting again until Brock is a little older so there was no real reason to keep the ATV.
Now if I could just find the time to ride my bikes I could probably take care of this expanding waist line I am getting.

More pictures of our cute little boy

Brock at 3 weeks old.

Brock Pics

Brock James Fausett

Looks like the date change didn't matter in the end. August 27th @ 1:34 PM Amber gave birth to Brock. He weighed in at 7 lbs 6 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. Amber's water broker at 11:30 PM the night before and we began the labor process. She was dilated to a 10 by 9:30 AM but her contractions stopped. We finally started pushing at 10:30 AM and gave birth to baby Brock 2 hours later.

Date Change

I guess I spoke a little to soon. I just got of the phone with my doctor's office and they want to change the date that they induce me. We are now getting induced a day later. Aug 29 (fri). It is just a day later but I am still bummed, not only do we have to wait one more day to meet our little guy, I really liked the date 8-28-08. Oh well what can you do. Wish us luck.

THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

We went to the doctor today and have set a date to be induced if we don't go into labor before. August 28 we are going to be parents. Yikes! We are so excited. So I have one week to get the house in order and everything ready. Since I have stopped working I should have plenty of time to get everything done. We will let everyone know how it all goes and post pictures so you all can see our cute little baby boy.

Baby Brock at 36 weeks. He wouldn't move his arm from infront of his face. He was sucking on his arm the entire ultrasound. It was so cute. We are so excited to meet him.

Brad the World Traveler

Ok maybe not "world traveler" but close. Brad has been out of town 4 out of the last 5 weeks for one reason or another. I am glad he is done. I joined him on a couple of the trips and that was enough for me. I need my own bed to sleep in.
First he went to Las Vegas to transfer some business accounts for a client. He was only there for a couple days but he had fun playing the game Acquire with his parents. (he doesn't get to play that often when I'm around because I'm the biggest fan. Sorry!)
We then both went to California for his friend Patrick's wedding. It was nice to be there but it was so hot and humid. We went to the beach where Brad got to go body boarding, and lost his wedding ring. Luckily it was his and not mine. The wedding was beautiful and Stephanie had a gorgeous dress. However the hotel Brad and I stayed at was less than impressive. We had reservations at one hotel for the whole trip, but after one night I told Brad there is no way I could stay there another night. The bed was horribly uncomfortable, I got no sleep. So we checked out and moved to another hotel on the condition that we could get a refund on the first hotel. We were told we could, but it has yet to come. The second hotel however didn't have a queen bed it only had 2 full sized beds, so we ended up sleeping on separate beds, which ended working out ok because I didn't wake up Brad every time I had to get out of bed to go to the bathroom. Both the hotels were very old and not taken very good care of. After that experience I told Brad we will only be staying at chain hotels that we know are nice for now on.
The following weekend Brad's company had their summer regional conference in Steamboat Springs. I also went on this trip. The hotel was very nice, I was super excited! It was so beautiful there. If Brad and I can every afford a vacation home I think it might be there. The town is still a small ski town, so it has a lot of charm. We went down the alpine slide, walked around the downtown area and just caught up on our sleep. It was a very relaxing trip. It was very nice of Edward Jones to pay for this trip. They do a trip like this every year for their advisers and families. We are so lucky that Brad was able to get this job. He has been doing great and I am so proud of him.
Brad then had a week home before he had to go the St Louis for a couple of days for training. This trip was short, he was only gone for 2 nights. I hate being home alone so I was very happy it wasn't like his other training trips that are a week long. This was the last trip of the summer. We are now just going to be busy getting ready for the baby. We are both happy to have a couple months at home to spend together.

It's Official, We Have A Name.

We have finally decided on a name for our little guy. Drum roll please........... It is Brock James Fausett. We think it will fit him well and we are so excited to welcome him to the world. We had to buy a plane tickets to go to Vegas for Thanksgiving, so we had to give a name for the ticket. So there is no changing it now.

OH BOY IT'S O TOWN

Okay so this is hilarious and if I don't write it down now I will probably forget. So Amber and I were in California at my friends wedding (Patio) great wedding and reception by the way. Wade, my friend from Cali was sitting next to us and kept asking me where we knew the MC of the night from. I had no idea, I had never seen him before. While the MC was very good and entertaining Wade insisted that he went to school with us.

Finally Patrick and his lovely bride (Stephanie) came over and answered the Wades question. "How do I know this guy?"

Pat answered that this guy was in the boy band O Town which I guess was created from a show called Making the Band on MTV.

So I found two things very funny here:
1) Why is this guy Trevor MCing a wedding, I thought he was a big star. Who knows maybe we will see the boys of NSYNC doing high school graduations next.
In his defense....He was very good at what he does, very entertaining.

2) Here poses my second question, why did Wade recognize this guy? He told me he was "shamefully a fan of the show." I think it is something more. I went to the OTown website and it looks like the band was created somewhere around 2002. 6 years have gone by since the show. I think Wade was or still is a huge fan of the band and quite possibly could have posters of Trevor and his buddies plastered all over his room. How else would you recognize this guy?

I should be nicer because Wade will probably never read this post and therefor will not be able to defend himself but come on that's funny.

Weekly update

I think the biggest obstacle Amber and I see with this new blogging lifestyle is not having anything to say. So I am about to give you an update on our incredibly interesting week. We both went to work and came home this entire week. We planted some new plants in the front of the home and we went to see IronMan. Now we were both very against seeing this movie because we thought it would be another stupid comic book but finally gave in today because of all the great reviews. I will tell you if you have not seen it i would recommend going because it is very good.

Besides the movie and did I mention Shawn Heer getting kicked out of Brendon's soccer game over the weekend it was pretty boring. In Shawns defense I still really don't know what happened other than them having maybe the worst soccer referee ever. I will tell you this, it was the funniest thing I have seen in a pretty long time. Another Dad got kicked out as well for attempting to stick up for Shawn.....Can you say over board!

Correction!

I think I need to correct some statements made earlier in my blog. While it is true I did shave my head, I did not, nor will I ever shave my head completely. I left it at my normal length of a 2. I think this looks good on me, I am comfortable with this amount of shortness and more likely than not, I will continue to keep this length until I am completely bald. Or until my wife makes me change it. : )

Home Alone

Well just as the title reads, I am home alone this weekend. Amber has flown to Utah for her cousins wedding and left me here to my own devices. Normally this would end up being a disaster but this time I had plenty to do. So far today I have cleaned the kitchen, done the laundry, cleaned out the garage, gone for a nice bike ride, washed Amber's car and shaved my head. Oh I almost forgot I paid the bills and mowed the lawn as well. I wish everyone could see the lawn right now because it looks frickin good.

So what shall I do tomorrow? I really have no idea. I could finish painting the nursery, wash my truck, pick up after the dog in the back. I will probably just enjoy my time at home. Watch some golf and the Lakers game. <------- Going all the way. Man I am starving! Maybe I should eat something.

ALIENS ARE COMING!

Well not actually but pretty darn close. We just had our baby measured, and that was a mistake because we found out that our baby is all head and no body. For Real! Like cartoonish size. We still love him just as much as we did on day one when we found out we were pregnant. So what am I talking about you ask? Let me just give you some figures. Body 36 percentile and Head size 85 percentile. Yeah he is going to be a genius. I'm talking Socrates, Bill Gates, and Einstein all mixed together. Sorry Amber because that head will be the first thing coming out. YIKES!

Unhealthy Dude

Well I have been waiting for a couple days now to hear the results of my blood test. Still no news, but last week my doctor told my I had high blood pressure. 160 over 110 Yikes! Pretty darn high. I have been having numbness in my arms and legs and lots of pain in my joints so Amber finally forced me to the doctor. The doc wants me to get an MRI but I am holding off until we hear the blood results.

On happier news.....I finally felt our baby kick. He kicks pretty darn hard which tells me he could very well be a Soccer player (not so exciting for me) sorry Brendon. Either way it was very cool, I am very happy to finally feel something. Maybe finally feeling the baby will drop the blood pressure...you know, no more stress from my wife DEMANDING I place my hand on her belly for weeks.

Confirmed

It has been confirmed by our technician that we are having a baby boy! If you don't believe me then look at the arrow our nurse placed on the picture for us. So I am ecstatic and Amber is happy as well. More news.....We are officially done having kids now that Brad has his Baby Boy. What's the name going to be? Who knows. Brock, Brody, Keane, Colby, Teagan, Trig, Deacon, Nolan, Brad, BJ, Jonas, the list goes on and on and on. Check out the pics!

Grand Opening

Okay, we get it we have to build a blog. Man I don't know how many times we have heard this over the last year. So here are you happy? Now of course we run into the same problem that has kept us from ever doing one of these in the first place. WHAT R WE GOING TO TALK ABOUT?
I know I have never been short on words before, but when it comes to sharing our thoughts, our happenings, our trials do we really want that posted on this infinite network system called the WWW. When did this become the norm anyway? When did we all resort to sharing information about ourselves through wires? Life was so good when we actually picked up phones (not cellular) but regular rotary household phones. We didn't send text message, but we had conversations where we could hear the persons voice and understand the true feelings behind the words they spoke. We don't even laugh anymore we just type LOL......WHAT?

As much as I am against this I know it will please my sisters, Jenny, Lori, Kim, Ann (Ann could care less) so it must be worth it. I hope this pleases the hearts of those who read it. If it encourages just one person to pick up the phone and call to just say hello it will be worth it. Think of how good it will feel to just say what's on your mind, just blurting something out in a emotional wreck. Come on, aren't we all tired of erasing every other line we type because we thought about a better more appropriate word to use or a more elegant way to write that sentence.

Since it must be I will continue writing the most elegant, most uplifting, and most pain staking honest and thought provoking substance on the net. I am so LOL right now. CYA