I'm sick of Brad and Isaac, Want Amy belly picture!

Here's a belly picture!!!

In 15 days Amy will begin her Third trimester!!

It's just grow grow grow now! If you're bored please call Amy and remind her to take those darn vitamins and promise her chocolate if she does it.

She's been kinda sleepy lately but then suddenly she'll feel like staying up all night watching TV.

We have our next doctor's appointment in about 6 days, so no really new news. Baby's doing great.

Today Amy sent me this message:
"So I put Homeward Bound on for Isaac. While I was in the bedroom all of a sudden I heard Isaac crying. It was sad enough crying I thought he had gotten hurt or something. So I ran to find him sitting on his little chair watching the cat in the movie drown down the waterfall. He was crying purely out of concern for the "baow."
Amy said that Isaac didn't wanna watch the movie anymore.

I'm sick of Brad, more Isaac Pictures!

We've heard your cries for more Isaac and less Brad so here you go. So on Saturday we had a family day. Went out for a walk to go see the duckies at our pond and play at the park.












The crazy thing is how Isaac has decided that he is terribly scared of the swings. But instead he's become very very brave and bold about the slippery slides! He goes up those stairs and down the slides without hardly any hesitation! Amy nor I need to cheer him on to push off the top, he just goes! And not just the simple slides, Isaac barrels down the big tube slides too!

As you can see Isaac loves his sunglasses and hat. He looks so funny but he refuses to play without them!

And then Isaac became wierd. He fell and got "derdee" all over his arm. He ran over and we helped him wipe his hands off. Then he noticed that his crocs sandals were full of "durdee" too so he walked back to us on his heels so we could clean his shoes. That crazy boy came back yelling "durdee durdee derdy" to us so much that after we had a good laugh we got tired of cleaning a piece of dirt off his shoes and we just told him to deal with it. I think Isaac's dirty shoes reminded me of Rhones behavior with sticky food in his nice car :-) The last picture is of him checking out the dirty on his shoes.

We decided that Isaac has gotten fatter since Christmas. As he runs around and jiggles we start to think that we should get him outside running around more often! Amy just says that the extra chub on him is a sign that he's about to sprout up again.

Beard-Off Results

Last Thursday was the day of all days. 20 of us men who had designed our beards according to several 2nd year optometric artists went up for display unto our school. There were 5 awards. The first award was given to Dr. Bergmanson's favorite beard. He is our faculty from Sweeden and so he considers himself to be a Viking, with thorough beard experience. There were 3 "golden razors" given out to the man with the greatest-thickest beard, to the greatest mustache, and then to the person who "should never ever try and grow a beard again."
I did not get any of those awards because the audience was saving me for the grand award. The Beard-Off gold cup. When it came down to it, the audience was actually the judge, the loudest cheer would win. I got an incredible uproar from the crowd, but so did 2 other men. There was one guy who had his beard in the design of a thong, and he ended up coming in 3rd place. The President of the beard-off decided to give the award to a guy named Jason Cave, who wore the "Clinic Attire" His was great because he actually was clean shaven, but then he took off his shirt to display his chest hair had been cut into the shape of a full length tie, from his neck to his stomach.
They determined that although the audience loved me the most, his design was the most manly, and so he walked away with the trophy and with the job of organizing the whole competition next year. I had fun keeping my clothes on. This was the first and only time I've ever grown a beard and will be the only beard you'll see on me for a very long time.



Here you can see that my beard design was the "peace sign" made famous by the hippies of the '70's. I got the clothes and stuff from a couple in our ward who were hippies for halloween, (thanks Bravos!)
Enjoy the picture! It'll be worth money when I'm a general authority ha ha



























And now that I'm back to normal people who know me very well say that I look really wierd. Amy just sits and stares at me and it's kinda confusing, it's as if she's not sure it's me. Some of my friends in school ask me to not look at them cause I look wierd to them. I guess it'll take time for them all to get used to my white face. Some people say that I have a baby face, but it's ok with me, I've noticed that at walmart, old ladies smile at me now.

The End. Thanks for having enjoyed these posts exclusively about Brad. We know that you don't care much about him in comparison to Isaac and the pregnant Amy, but he needs some attention and nows a good time to have it. Thank you.

The Greatest Grandparents

Over the Christmas vacation, we made it a goal to visit family as much as possible. This turns out to be a difficult task when your so blessed as we are. In Salt Lake City we have Brad's parents, Amy's parents, siblings who live east and west, grandparents living in West Valley, South Jordan, and Taylorsville, AND a few hours south in Las Vegas there's more of them!

Although we would've liked to have seen more of our cousins aunts and uncles, there really just was no time with all the festivities.

One thing for sure is that it was probably the most wonderful dilemma anyone could ask for... Too much family.

We really are the luckiest people ever and although big family can be hectic and emotional and busy busy busy, we really enjoy having so much love and support no matter which way we turn.
Isaac is indeed the most spoiled grand and great grand baby of the decade. A couple weeks ago, Amy and I realized that we had never ever actually purchased any toys for him. He's just had a room full of it since before he was born thanks to eager family members who were baby hungry.

We really really love our family and this post is mainly for the grandparents of Amy and Brad who we really cherish so much. We'd like to believe that all 8 of them are going to be around to watch Isaac and his new baby brother grow up. There's some doctors out there who say otherwise, and so we just want to say that we love you all. Although we didn't spend much time visiting with you, it doesn't reflect how much we wish we could. We miss you alot and so don't be surprised if we call you up on Sundays when we have time to chat. Be healthy if ya can cause to be honest, we want our children be able to know how great you are too. You've taught us the value of family, and we see the fruits of the sacrifice of having kids in your lives. Having babies is incredibly tuff but you guys did it and now look at you. You're surrounded by family and love in all directions. We hope that someday we can be as blessed as all of you and that our current baby-pregnant situation will turn out to be as awesome as your lives have become. Thanks for your examples, not to mention your golden marriages. Wow, you're all getting along as if you still like each other! We couldn't have asked for a more perfect family.
Love Brad and Amy (and Isaac and Duddly McBradington Jr.)

the before and after

The movie star jacket is courtesy of Rhone who had the heart to let me have it for my birthday last year.

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Would you like to see the final product?

The 2nd Cuts

Beard off... the first cuts