In Other News

I got some straight bangs. Some days they're my friend, some days not so much.

Amy's Wedding Extravaganza

I realize its a been a while since I've posted anything but that's only because the more you have to post about the less time you have to post it...right?

So, on May 9th 1/2 of Shawn's family arrived for Amy's wedding along with Shawn's Aunt Connie and her daughter Haylie. On Monday we had a shower for Amy with a lovely spread.

We had many activities throughout the week including the whole family coming to the Gardens, a Mother's Day roast dinner, a picnic, familiy pictures and more.

Amy was a beautiful bride and she and Luke looked great together.

All the neices and nephews had fun catching the real butterflies she had in her centerpieces and later released.

Amy's dress became a little bit of a butterfly litter box...oops.

Overall it was a great wedding that was fun for all.

What's In a Name?

Whelp, people keep asking and I'm not one for privacy. I'm also not one who easily gets their feelings hurt over other's opinions on her taste (i.e. my entire life my mother says her "trick" for getting me something she'll know I like is going into a store and picking out the ugliest thing she sees.)

Therefore I feel emotionally prepared to tell the world (wide web) what we are planning to name our son. Yes son, for those of you who aren't very familiar with human anatomy the shot below is a crotch shot and the limb in the middle isn't a limb.

Presenting, the name:

Berkeley Aaron Lindseth

or

Berkley Aaron Lindseth

We haven't exactly decided, see we're naming him after Shawn's favorite cartoonist/inspiration Berkeley Breathed. I've never been a big fan of throwing in the extra syllables, you know sometimes people call me Whitaney. It's so annoying. And since we'd never pronounce his name with 3 syllables why throw in the extra letter???

But to truly be a name sake Shawn feels it has to be exact. He also thinks middle name, name afters are "a rip-off." I think he's a bit dramatic about it really. He is however being very open minded to ditching the "extra" e.

So that's it, take it or leave it. Oh, and we'll probably end up calling him Berk.

It's a...

If you can't tell I'm not telling.

OK fine, here's a clue...the first one is not of the baby's face.

We weren't supposed to have an ultrasound at today's appointment but when we were going through all the vitals Shawn joked with the nurse (while listening to the heart beat) "does it sound like there's a penis in there?" She thought it was pretty funny and when she finished up with us and went to send the Dr. in she told him what Shawn said so he said "well, you want to see if there's a peanut? There's no one in the sonogram room so come on in." We were so excited because it was so unexpected.

Neither of us were really surprised though because the baby is exactly what we thought the baby would be.

Better Late Than Never

You're Welcome...for the life lesson you're about to receive.

The next time you have a bad experience with a company, really it doesn't matter what kind of company, it could be a clothing store, a phone company or, say...a 55 acre botanical garden which boasts the largest man made waterfall in the western hemisphere surrounded by 250,000 tulip bulbs which are ready to burst the minute the weather starts to cooperate, ask yourself this:

"Am I more inclined to be nice to someone who is mean to me, or nice to me?"

And I promise you, you will get farther with that person. Yeah, yeah, yeah the customer is always right...in a perfect world. But ya know what? The person who's "job" it is to tell you you're always right, doesn't want to. They want to tell you what an idiot you are for thinking that even though its been snowy and cold, 250,000 tulips will be blooming. They want to tell you that you're absolutely right, you can just go up and take portraits in the canyon and save yourself $100 fee, so why don't you? They want to tell you to shut the crap up before you have a pregnant woman come at you with a gun. They want to tell you that you should be careful, because you have a membership, and this manager can access your home telephone number, your home address and the names of all of your children.

So, the next time you want to "speak to the manager" remember this...the manager is a person who's life does not revolve around their place of employment. Who really, is just counting down the days until she gives birth and leaves this all behind her. Who really, promises, she'll do whatever she can to help you if you're nice. And if you're not, she'll do whatever she can to keep your money and make you leave upset. That's right, she gets a little bit of satisfaction out of it.

It's a...Real Baby!

We went to the Dr. yesterday and got to see our little bugger. The Dr. said that everything looked great and the baby is "perfect." It was really fun to see him/her moving around in there, it seemed like he/she was really performing for us, twists and turns and a little arm lift/wave. Very cool.

I am officially 14 weeks today and I am officially due on October 1st, both of these statistics are per the date and per the baby's measurement so we're right on schedule. And, I know that babies rarely come on their due dates but I'm still glad to have an official one.

That's all, maybe Shawn will scan in some photos and we can show you our child's alien brain shot. Pretty awesome.