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Happy Birthday Dad!

   Posted by Mike on November 28th, 2007
    

Another year has come and gone and you’re one year closer to the end…

Just kidding…

I just wanted to let you know how much we all love and appreciate you. All growing up I had a healthy respect (fear) for you and I thought I appreciated everything you did for us. As I get older though, my respect grows as I come to realize how much you sacrificed and gave for us. I think of all the evenings at football practice, all the weekends at Lake Powell, all the days we went skiing. The list goes on and on and I just wanted to say thanks for that. I just hope I can be as good a Dad to my kids as you were to us.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!

Thanksgiving Day Fun

   Posted by Mike on November 23rd, 2007
    

Well, I’m just hangin’ out on this glorious day after thanksgiving and pitying all those fools that are out shopping on this day. I can understand people wanting to get good deals and all, but when getting a good deal means lining up at 12:30 am and sleeping in front of Target… count me out.

Anyway… yesterday started out pretty good as Christopher and I decided to go play some football in our neighborhood Turkey Bowl. Our team won with a final score of 21 – 0, but by the end we were ready to be done. 2 hours of football was about all our flabby out-of-shape bodies could take. We limped through the remainder of the day (and I woke up quite sore today).

After that we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa’s house around noon for dinner and had a great Thanksgiving day feast. All the Laursen girls were there with their families so it was a pretty full house. It was good having Jessie and Dell in town for a visit. Not only was there a lot of food, but there were also quite a few babies laying around the house this year. We had Georgia, Owen and the twins all taking up couch space while napping. After dinner we all sat around talking, watching football and playing some Guitar Hero while waiting for for our food to settle so we could break out the pies. As you can see from the pictures below, a little napping took place as well. It was another great Thanksgiving.


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Welcome Creed!

   Posted by Mike on November 19th, 2007
    

And here’s the second little one to join our extended family last week. Creed arrived on the same day as Owen and has almost as much hair (although it’s quite a bit darker). His vitals are below.

Weight: 7 lbs 9 oz
Height: 21 inches

Congratulations Ben and Holly!


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Welcome Owen!

   Posted by Mike on November 16th, 2007
    

Well, we finally got some pictures of Shelley and Adam’s new addition. Shelley was induced on Wednesday and after a few hours of waiting Owen decided to come via cesarean. His vitals are below:

Weight: 7 lbs 13 oz
Height: 21 inches

Congratulations Shelley and Adam!


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A Couple Announcements…

   Posted by Mike on September 30th, 2007
    

So we’ve got a couple quick announcements for today…

The first announcement is that we saw the seasons first snow today. Now in case you’re wondering, I’m not excited about this. I’ve got a couple weeks left worth of work to get done on the yard so I really need the snow to just back off. Today’s snow didn’t stick at all, but I’m not too optimistic about how long it’ll stay away.

Now for today’s second announcement…

This one is a bit more fun than the last and involves my brother Scott’s new ride. Over the last couple years he’s been upgrading cars slowly, but yesterday he went and picked up by far the best one yet… his bright new Chili-red Mini Cooper S.

He let me drive it around the block and I think I may need to get me one of those. :)