April 9th, 2008
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The other day a friend of ours told me about an old wives tale for finding out the gender of your baby. We’re planning on finding out the gender, but when I heard the test I laughed and told Nate that we should do it so we could post about it on the blog…so here’s the post.
The test is that you get powdered Drano and mix it with the urine of the pregnant woman in question, and the gender of the baby is determined by the color of the mixture. Warm colors like red, yellow, orange and brown indicate a boy and cool colors such as blue, green or purple indicate a girl.
So we got some powdered Drano (who knew that even existed), and mixed it in a small bowl with some of my urine. The mixture immediately started to smoke and give off these horrible fumes. It was sputtering and fizzing and Nate was saying, “Ashley! Don’t breathe that!!” We took the bowl outside and opened all the doors and windows, turned on the fans and waited for the lightheadedness to go away. After a few minutes we took a look at the mixture and the color was a brownish-greenish color. So we’ve conclusively decided that we’re having a boy… or a girl.
As a side note, we’d like to add that the test really should never be done since you are in essence mixing bleach and ammonia which is a toxic combination (pdf). So leave it to the professionals - like us.
We didn’t really want to post a picture of the test on the blog because let’s face it, that’s just gross. So here’s a picture of my growing belly (17 weeks) instead.
Posted in ashley, baby, family, howto, pictures
November 28th, 2007
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This weekend was Ashley’s Birthday. I decided to take her to San Diego. We usually like to stay at the Lafayette Hotel on El Cajon Blvd., but because we’re on one income we opted for the Good Nite Inn, San Diego.
There’s a photo booth we really love at the Balboa Park Museum of Photographic Arts. We visited the booth last year and we’re trying to make it a tradition.
Posted in ashley, fun, pictures, trips
November 5th, 2007
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Well you are in for a treat today. My parents have digitized a gang of photos from my childhood. I have uploaded them to flickr and you can view the set here (slideshow).
Posted in fun, holidays, nate, pictures
November 4th, 2007
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Here’s a photo of Mat, Melissa, me, and Steph from a Halloween years ago.
Posted in friends, fun, holidays, mat, nate, pictures
June 4th, 2007
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This weekend we had a blast going camping with some people from church. Ash and I are going to be posting a little more about it but I wanted to post these pictures as quickly as possible. Click here.
Posted in friends, fun, hikes, outdoors, pictures, trips
May 9th, 2007
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That’s right everyone, I got an upright bass! Posted below are some pictures. I’ve been playing it so much I haven’t had time to write many posts but Ash and I have been very active these past few weeks. It seems like nearly every weekend we go into L.A. for some reason or another. For instance, the other day we went to 3rd Street, Santa Monica with Leah and then this weekend we went to a Cinco De Mayo festival at Olivera Street downtown (near Union Station).
The bass was made in Mittenwald Germany and its a little bit older, which is nice. It means it will be more stable in this climate because it’s been here for a while. The guy I bought the bass from claims it was made in the 50’s but I don’t think its that old.
Posted in jazz, music, pictures
April 11th, 2007
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Here are some old pictures from when we went on a hike down Placerita Canyon. They have a fun 5 mi hike that we took one weekend. In a wetter season there is a waterfall at the top, but this time it was barely a trickle.
Posted in hikes, outdoors, pictures, trips
April 4th, 2007
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Below are some pictures from various regular days.
Posted in ashley, nate, pictures
March 14th, 2007
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So for Christmas my boss gave me a gift certificate for the Amadeus Spa and Salon. I went there today with Leah, and we got haircuts. Here are pictures of my new hair. I love going there, I got a haircut there last year when I had a gift certificate, and I wish that I could get my hair cut there all the time. Its like $100 for a haircut though, so I’ll just have to be satisfied with Fantastic Sams. After that, Leah and I went shopping and then picked Nate up from work and we went to The Stinking Rose, a garlic themed restaraunt in Beverly Hills. We had garlic bread with garlic spread, garlic chicken, whole cooked garlic cloves, garlic mashed potatos, even garlic ice cream. The ice cream was suprisingly good. All in all, it was a great afternoon and evening and I was so happy for a break in my week. And I can say with certainty that there will be no vampires at our house tonight.
Posted in ashley, food, friends, fun, pictures
March 7th, 2007
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Here are some pictures from my recent visit to Pennsylvania. It was so great to see Erin and Rod and the kids and experience an actual winter again. You can see the ice floating in the river in some of the pictures. The kids are hilarious - whenever I turned on the video camera they wanted to sing “Holy, Holy, Holy”. No other songs, just “Holy, Holy, Holy”. Adelaide is learning how to read and working on basic math. While I was there she did a lesson on counting change and did a great job. She really knows how to count those dimes. Henry is two and learning how to pee-pee in the potty. Actually, he’s learning how to stay dry between trips to the bathroom, a task that became much easier last Friday when Erin decided that she was tired of washing three pairs of little boys jeans a day, and sprung for some snazzy vinyl underwear for him. Henry wasn’t too happy about that, and it took a great deal of coaxing to get him excited about wearing an elasticized poncho. Adelaide took the rubber undies out of the package and smelled them and said, “They smell like my swimming pool.” While I was there we went to this iron works place called John Wright Company. They had tons of great things, especially in the bargain room upstairs, but unfortunately, I had to think about how I would get items made of iron into my suitcase and home. I did get some great baking dishes, but had to leave the five foot coat rack behind.
Posted in ashley, family, pictures, trips
January 28th, 2007
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Here are more pictures of us:
Posted in ashley, family, pictures
