Michi and Eita's New Baby

So, here I am in Burbank, CA! I am staying at the fanciest hotel I have ever stayed at! I am here with my dad and we are visiting the newest addition to the Nelson clan. We are in a studio with 2 bedrooms and a common room. (3 TV's!)

He is my sister Michi's baby, and he is so darling! His name is Noah Keita Asama. He was born 3 days ago in a swanky California hospital. He weighed 8 lbs 14 oz, and was 19 inches long. His hair is so luxurious, it makes you want to run your fingers through it! He even has dimples already.

Research

So, here is a funny kid story!

Ivy and Nellie found a dead mouse that Bluebell caught 2 days ago. When Scott saw it, he asked the kids to throw it away.

So, yesterday, Nellie said to Scott, "Dad, Ivy lied to you last night."

Scott asked what she lied about. Annel's response was, "We didn't throw the mouse away, we wanted to keep it so that we could do research on it."

Gross!! But she did bring the thing down to me and we threw it away. Without the reasearch.

Mariko and Patrick's Baby

My littlest sister just had her baby yesterday. He is a beautiful 7 lb, 3 oz 21 inches long little boy. As far as I know he does not have a name. But he is so handsome, I needed to post a pic!

Halloween's a-comin'

Oh, is anyone else ready for Halloween? My kids are getting so excited. Abby is going to be a Japanese girl, Ivy and Megan are planning to be vegetarian vampires(in honor of Twilight) and I am not sure what Nellie is planning on, though.

I am sure that Scott and I are both going as parents. "The toughest job in the world!"

I am so enjoying the change of colors of the leaves this year. My only complaint is that it didn't last long enough. Everything sort of skipped yellow and went straight to red! I hope to post some pictures of the beauty that Ben Lomond and Lewis Peak treats me with every day.

More to come!

Hunt '08

Well, I went today and picked up the girls in Wyoming. They had spent the weekend with Dad in the Uintah's hunting deer and elk. Scott got his deer this morning. He gave me the pictures and I saw a beautiful animal lying in it's gore. It makes me want to be a vegetarian again. As time goes by, I realize that I am not a good hunter's wife. It just hurts me to see an unnecessary kill.

I don't know, I guess if it were necessary, it would be alright. But I have learned to dislike the sage taste of the animal, and deer are just so beautiful! I am tortured each fall because I am supposed to cheer and be supportive of my sweetheart's desire to provide for our family. It must be some kind of leftover prehistoric instinct that causes him to do this. I swear I must be more evolved!;-)

Well, his deer is beautiful, but if you want to see the pictures and hear about the story (how he had to kick it down the hill) you will have to ask him personally.

But for my part, I will post a couple of pictures of the girls that I liked. First off, here is a pitiful picture of my girls passed out asleep on some rocks. Next, a sweet picture of the two of them looking for deer. And lastly, a gorgeous picture of Uintah Yellow.

Red Leg Social

I just wanted to post this picture of Scott and I before the Redleg. Which is a dinner for Artillery and partners. Scott looks soo soo good!!

A Delicate Constitution

It has been a little while since I posted....Not too many exciting stories to tell. First of all, we finally found the battery charger for the camera! Fun!

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Well, there is this ONE story! We had a fun family vacation right before school started and we took one day and spent it at Lagoon. We were having a great time, but I think we learned that Scott has a "Delicate Constitution."

Scott and the three older girls rode a ride that turned them upside down and around in a fountain. It held them upside down for quite a while!!! Well, when they got off, they were all drenched with water.

Scott came over to me and asked me to check his pulse. I felt his wrist and his pulse was doing the rhumba, the polka, and the swing--all at the same time. Well, he was feeling alright for a while so we rode a few more rides. We were secretly hoping that somehow a ride would flip him back into a normal rhythym. NOT!

As we began to travel home, Scott said that he wasn't feeling that great. We decided that it was time to go to the emergency department at his hospital. We took the kids home and got someone to watch the girls. We called the ED Physician and told hime that we were on the way.

We got there and they hooked Scott up to the monitors. Sure enough, his heart was in atrial fibrillation. So fun! (By this time, Scott was having a little pain and nausea--completely normal but still worrisome.) His heart rate was around 170, and jumping all over the place. Our choices then were, (1) Stay there all night and use medication to adjust his heart or (2) Shock!

So guess what Scott picked....that's right! Shock! So, he had 2 shocks of increasing intensity that reset his heart. In case anyone was wondering, it looks a lot like the movies. This was Scott's second time he has deserved a little shock. Bless him.

Well, it did work. We just had to hang out for all the sedative drugs to wear off and we were home in a jiffy! I guess the moral to this story is "Scott can only ride the kiddie rides at Lagoon."