Jimmer's a really smiley baby, we love him.

He's drooling ALL the time.

Sometimes we think he looks like Emmy, sometimes he looks like me, I think this is definitely one where he looks like me when I was a baby.

He's always very interested in what's going on

He's been doing a good job keeping his head up

He probably gets tired of us playing with him for hours

This is almost perfect symmetry

Emmy made my b-day amazing, although she got the wrong turtle on my cake, Raphael was the best. (Dallas actually told her wrong).

Interior Crocodile Alligator

There are a few videos that should be viewed regularly, this is one of them

So that's weird...Google says 4:54 on that post, but it was actually 5:03 when I posted it...strange

28!

The even years are much better than the odd years...27 was a pretty cool year. So far the b-day is going pretty good too. Last year on my b-day I lost an softball intramurals championship game and got in an accident on my b-day...no bueno.

Exactly 28 years ago in Provo, on a Friday, at 5:03 PM, was when I was born.

Little did I know then that I would blog exactly 28 years later to the minute on a Friday and about a mile away from where I was born.

I'm pretty sure I was born with BYU clothes on.

My Better Half

Something that I preach to my single buds is that you know you found the one when you'd rather hang out with her than your roommates. That says a lot about Emmy, because I had some fun roommates. From day one Emmy was just awesome. First time I talked to her was in October 2006. Pdub (Sara Skids) went to General Conference with her and later mentioned that I should ask her out. I remember being in Sacrament Meeting and trying to look her way without being creepy or obvious that I was interested. My first conversation with her was after a ward FHE activity where we talked about the best drinking fountains on campus. A few months later I took her to a basketball game and then ice cream afterwards. After the date, I don’t know why but I didn’t wipe off snow that accumulated on her car as we parted. That’s still one of my biggest regrets in life; that and losing to Travis in the squirt gun war (some things I’ll just never get over, ya know). Fall 2007, when I was home working for Mitt Romney’s campaign, out of the blue Emmy emailed me, so I emailed her back and ended up going to Provo for a weekend. I introduced her to werewolves, a boyfriend, a best friend, and then took off. Winter 2008 I was back in Provo for school and me and Emmy pretty much hit it off right away and started dating. The rest is history.

Some of my favorite stories that describe Emmy well:
-When she was a kid and she’d get scared at night, she would go to her parents room and stand by her mom’s side and just looked at her. She didn’t want to wake her up, but she needed her at the same time. Sometime she’d be staring for like an hour before her mom would wake up. It’s just funny because Emmy needs love/comforting, but she doesn’t want to be a burden either. A few times I’ve opened my eyes and seen Emmy looking at me. Makes me wonder how many times she’s done it. I joke about this, but seriously, the only things Emmy needs in life are sleep, a water bottle at night, love, and giving love to others.

-Emmy’s family went to Europe and on the long flight over, her bro fell asleep on her shoulder. It made it really difficult for her to fall asleep or doing anything else like read a book. She didn’t want to wake him, though, so she just sat there for like 3 or 4 hours with him on her shoulder.

Emmy is the best example of Christ-like charity that I know of. She has a natural love for people, which is really difficult to have. The side that I wish more people could see of her is how funny and witty she is. She’s had these alter-personalities since she was like 12 and they are hilarious. She’s also great to talk with. When we go on car rides, it doesn’t matter if the car ride is 14 hours, 3 hours, 22 hours, it doesn’t matter, we never get bored talking to each other.
I definitely married my best friend.
Happy b-day Emmy!

You got Jo'd

Before there was Jimmer, there was the more famous Jimmer, and before that, there was the Jo. Early on, Carrie was that little sister who annoyed you cause she wanted to be around you and play with you, terrible, huh? Growing up in a boy-dominated family she realized she had a few weapons in her arsenal against her brothers- her violin and singing. She successfully got me and Skyler in trouble, mostly Skyler, by utilizing these weapons. Sky often had to dance with her as punishment. Later on in jr high and then high school when girls were alright, a sister close in age was no longer an enemy but an ally. I realized she was pretty cool and fun to be around...it also helped that she was a cheerleader which meant she had cheerleader friends too. My senior year me and carrie did show choir and were in a play tgether. We were tight and only became more and more tight since then. College was awesome, and a big part of why it was awesome was because of Carrie. Our tightness is what led to moving to park place and played a contributing part in me meeting Emmy, Kyle meeting Becca, Alan meeting Nieman, and Carrie meeting Bret.

Me and Carrie are still tight as evidenced by this sweet gift she gave me (some think it was for Jimmer, but please).

Getting Jo’d means chatting with Carrie, doing fun things with her, and seeing how neat of a person she is. She’s a thoughtful and awesome sister, and life just really would be much more dull without her

Anyway, hope you someday get Jo'd. Happy b-day Carrie Jo!

This is the beginning. Don't forget this day.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/18/lingodroid-robots-develop-their-own-language-quietly-begin-plot/

Yeah buddy

Jimmer doing his thang

2 months!

Well 2 months ago we were at the hospital as Emmy was going into labor. It's crazy to think how fast it's gone and how much I forgot what it was like when it was just the two of us. I'm so blessed to have Jimmer in my life, I feel like I've changed a lot in the past two months...for the better. It's just awesome being a dad! It has helped me understand better the love Heavenly Father has for his children. I'm not completely sure he's my kid because I don't think he looks like me. I'm not sure he's Emmy's kid either cause he doesn't look like her. None of our families claim him either- with Emmy's family saying he looks like me and my family all saying he looks like her. But, ya know, I still love the little guy and just assume he's mine.

He's been smiling and coo-ing a lot. He has a lot of different type of smiles- he does this smile that's kind of like a sarcastic, making fun of you-type smile. My favorite is when his whole face smiles. It's fun to see his personality, it's like, "oh, there you are Jimmer, where have you been?" It's fun that he's starting to respond to us. So I'm trying to do exercises with him where I lift him up like 10 or so times. If I keep it up and do that his whole life, imagine how strong I'll be when he's 18!!

Jimmer's first trip to the Temple.

A couple things about Jimmer:

-He grunts all the time, a few of the videos show that too. We're not sure if that's a normal thing with other newborns, but this kid is always doing it.

-He gets the jimmy leg a lot.

-The whole soft spot in the head kind of disturbs me. I mean, I can see his pulse through his head. I got a haircut this last week and the girl who gave it to me said she was born without a soft spot and had to have 7 surgeries because of it, so I guess I'm grateful for it.

-He's not doing the mouth shiver as much as when he was first born, but he still does it quite a bit.

-Again, not sure if these things are normal with other babies, but when you lay him down to change him or put him in the crib he'll turn his head back and forth over and over, it's pretty funny.

-He likes sticking up his arm like the black power sign.

-He's outgrown his newborn clothes and is doing pretty good with his 3-6 month clothes. He's not growing out of the clothes wide-wise, but length-wise. Go figure, I got a tall son.

-His hair is starting to come in better. It's kind of coming in blond and light brown. I was born brown and then went blonde until I was like 6 or 7, so I dunno, we'll see.

Utter tings:

-Really glad it's spring/summer. I like the springs a lot here in Utah! I love it when it's nice down in the valley but still a lot of snow on the mountains. Today it's nice, cool, crisp, weather. It's great.

-Playin softball this summer for intramurals, it's my last chance to get a t-shirt, man I want one!

-Taking out our fence, putting in a nice white vinyl fence. It's become quite the project because of all the vines back there. The roots grow deep. This fence is the one of the major steps of our plan to really beautify our yard.

-I don't know what it is, but the last 2 days it seems like everyone in Provo is out on the roads, it's just been so packed on the roads. Provo is a growin methinks.

-Getting pretty excited for jet skiing and then college football--seriously, the best time of year!

-I'm venturing into the computer building world. I guess it doesn't take that long to do, so I've been buying parts that Emily's bro, David, is showing me to buy. He'll show me how to put together the computer and hopefully I can make a few hundred. Trying to build up our jet ski fund. It was around $800, lost a few hundred in some stock gambles I took. If anybody reading this wants to donate to my jet ski fund, please feel welcome to.

-Been riding the good ole scooter to work and softball games...it's so fun. Man I love that thing when it works.

-So we're tentatively scheduling a trip to Europe next year. I think the plan is to do Holland for like 5 days and then SW Germany, Luxembourg, and Paris for like 7 days. If anybody is interested in doing the second part with us, let us know.

-Shout out to Alan and Nieman for getting engaged!

Papa glove, mama glove, and baby glove

Am I a bad parent for hiding notes to Emmy in Jimmer's rolls?

Today I was going to work on the yard all day

Ah ah ah, merlin! -says the weather

Jimmer didn't wake up at all last night! That's 3 days of only 1 or no feedings at night, I'm lovin this kid even more!

Yeah! I'm going there!

Alright, can't believe I'm weighing in on this, but I think the royal wedding stuff is pretty rediculous, mostly because kings, queens, princes, princesses, dukes, earls, pied pipers, sirs...are all pointless. Seriously, what is the point of having them these days. What's the point of recognizing families and individuals as your leaders, and then giving them money, simply because of the family they were born into? Ok, I guess sirs are pretty cool and they have done good stuff to be recognized. I won't lie, I'd like to be a sir someday.

I keep hearing over facebook and the news about how majestic it was, how great Kate's dress was, blah blah blah, well, yeah, when you're able to throw tons of money that you made simply by being in a family that receives money from every person in your country for no reason other than to support a ceremonial role...of course it's going to be all that! Shoot, give me half of what they had on their budget and I'll make it twice as good.

Anyway, I'm not down with this, though I did teach the exiled king of Sri Llanka on my mission, that was pretty cool, he's a pretty nice guy too.

In other news, search google news and you can find the world's first zombie safehouse.

Jimmer's awesome and I love it when he smiles!

If guys were like girls 2...

Lol, so Emmy says this is exactly how girls are. It is pretty funny, but she couldn't stop laughing.

So I had to take Jimmer away from Emmy. She needed to get some stuff done and he was just being too cute. It was for her own good too, her heart can't take it, at least that's what she keeps telling me. It's been just tons of fun with him, especially lately with him smiling and responding to us. He's doing pretty typical newborn things of kicking all the time, looking around everywhere, staying at the darkness if he's in a lighted room and then at the light if he's in a dark room. Man, though, he is just so cute and fun to be around, I can't get enough of him. It's been rough to go to work and be away from him. I need to figure out how to bring him to work or something. Or maybe I can convince Emmy to be the breadwinner of the family and I'll be the one at home. He did great yesterday with his blessing, that was neat. Family was all here, that was cool too.

The videos will be up on kaseyandemily.blogspot.com

We finally got Jimmer smiling on the video camera

The first movie Jimmer saw was Ocean's 12 with Mommy. They watched it 3 times.

This is Jimmer's first attempt at Frame 3 face.

Rushin the court after the San Diego St. game. It's like playing "Where's Kasey?" (hint, I'm pointing to the camera)

His favorite toy is the massage chair

I think he finally realized he doesn't have any hair and is embarrassed.

Me and Rose (the Lil Caesers lady)

Spring football game yesterday.

You can tell he's mad at Daddy for making him do tummy time

TEMPEST FREERUNNING ACADEMY - GYM VIDEO

This is what I do in the early hours of the morning.

Freerunning? Or survival traning in the zombie apocalypse?

Cute little guy

Jimmer's first football jersey, from Unkie Dallas

FREAKING OUT!

So one thing neither me or Emmy thought would happen is her getting really scared at night.

Allow me to explain.

The past two nights Emmy woke me up because she was really worried Jimmer was in bed with us and we were crushing him. She says she wakes up every night and thinks that he's in bed and we're crushing him, the past 2 nights she dragged me into it as well. I only remember last night's experience, here's what happened:

Probably like 2 or 3 in the morning Emmy wakes me up to tell me that she's done feeding him. That means it's my turn to put him back into the crib, which is to my left. She then got really panicky because he was not anywhere to be found in bed, I got really panicky too as we are both looking...scared to DEATH that we rolled over and are crushing him. This goes on for probably a minute and then I tell her that I found him and he's in the crib. I made sure he's breathing and then we went back to sleep once all the adrenalin has subsided. So we're both in that between stage of asleep and awake, and we're both FREAKING out! It's not really fun, and makes me scared/nervous just thinking about last night.

Anyway, weird, huh? I guess it happened pretty similar to that the night before but I don't remember it. Emmy does it each night, poor kid.

Sup Angelina Brolie, Bro Naimith, Bro Paterno

this blog ud mostly with my right hand because i got a baby wuth the left. life is kind of interesting being a dasd. here are some thoughts and feelings about everytginh including some things about baby jimmer.

-it was so neat seeing him come out. many probably know that i really strygglr with blood, needles, and stuff like that. but i was able tyo watch the water break and go everlywhere. i watched the head come out, while helping emmy push obviously. my ange wasnt very good, so i first thought it was a small head, then saw a bigger head and then the arm and shoulders, and he was/is a big baby. i might ber qrong but i think dallas was the biggest in my family and he was 8 lbs 6 oz. jimmer came out at 8 lbs 13 oz. well actually thats wgat he weighed after pooping 6 times before he was put on the scale. the doctor thinks he lost 5 or 6 oz with that. emmys family is used to big babies, her one bro was 11 lbs 6 oz! look at me talk and be all interested in weight of babies, defintely not a conversation topic i wasnt interested in before emmy got pregnant.

anyway, it was such an amazing experience seeing him for the forst time andthen seeing the doctor rake out the gunk in his mouth and then hearing his voice. He opened his eyes and saw his dad for the first time. That was neat. The whole experience was just so special.

(got 2 hands again)

-I don't think Jimmer knows that he's a newborn. Emmy's family all say he's a super active baby. The other day he rolled over his whole body except his head, he couldn't quite figure that out. He's so rythmic when he's eating, Emmy sings songs to the rythme he provides. He's a night owl, he likes to stay up late and doesn't really want to sleep the whole night. This is all probably the same with every newborn I'm sure, just sharing observations about this kid. A few positions he really likes to be in: sitting up (with our help of course) and being over my shoulder. He lifts his eyebrows a lot- that's a cute look. He gives kisses already (I'll have to post a video of that sometime). When he roots he goes all out and really lets you know he's hungry. And when he's actually eating he reminds me of the cookie monster. He handles stress differently than most people. When he was circumsized he did awesome, didn't cry or anything. But once he realized what happened as he was being cleaned afterwards, he pooped, peed, and spit up at the same time. The pediatric said that was a first for him. He does that a lot when he gets excited/frantic when he gets changed or have a bath. Again, all probably normal newborn stuff...but I don't know that! He growls and grunts a lot...and I mean it. Sometimes he growls or grunts like he's having a conversation. He's very flexible and if he had it his way he would go his whole life with keeping his legs up in a frog position. I try to stretch out his legs for him once a day because the frog position has gotta be uncomfortable! His smiles are cute, it'll be fun when it's not just gas that causes them. He squeels sometimes when he's upset. Emmy likes getting the boogies out of his nose, it's so satisfying to her, maybe I'm missing out.

Um, this parenting thing aint so bad. It's still kind of weird to be a dad. The sleep loss...well that just stinks. But he's a pretty cool kid who knows it. He's got a cute chin and a really nice profile. Even though we did it, it's just strange to me that you go to the hospital as just you and your wife, and then you leave with a baby...someone who's totally dependent on you. I'm giving a talk in a few weeks about this, about how his total dependence on me and Emmy is like our total dependence on the Savior.

Anyway, cool kid, he's fun. He's a handful, but he grows cooler by the day. Hopefully he thinks his dad is cool too. He better, I change that kid's diapers, he better be grateful. I thanked my mom the other day for dealing with me as a newborn, though I'm sure I was easy.

Wow, that was a long post. I've been blogging a lot. We don't leave the house much these days, so there ya go.

Jimmer often has a turtle look to him. This is the best picture I could find that looks like the below Jimmer picture.

Our form of entertainment has changed a little

Jimmy's down!

One of his many funny faces

Hilarious, I'll be playing BYU Bingo tonight.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1087380/BYU%20Basketball%20Bingo.pdf

Baby Jimmer (for you huWhit) and his muscles

He likes to show them off to Daddy

OK Go - End Love - Official Video

I feel like this video is unappreciated. It is so cool!

So look at Jimmer's faces in the previous posts. I can't help but think of the beavers from Chronicles of Narnia everytime he makes that face (which is a lot).

He's been doing this face for five minis now

Mom requires one picture a day for awhile

Kyiv Ukraine Temple - Youth Cultural Celebration

This is a really touching video

Teach Me How To Jimmer (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Haha, only in Provo

Jimmer Mania

What a guy!

Really good Danny Ainge interview on the BYU Honor Code

http://audio.weei.com/a/37354448/danny-ainge-on-byu-s-brandon-davies-and-the-celtics.htm

BYU Student Section Flash Mob 2011

This one may be a little better

BYU Student Section Flash Mob Dance - BYU vs. Wyoming - March 5, 2011

Well, here's the video. The video really doesn't do the justice it deserved. We were opposite the students and it was impressive seeing several thousand do this dance. It was much more impressive than this video shows.

Well, Emmy went to the doctor's, she's dialated to a 2. Doctor said the baby can come any day, especially since he has no room to go cause of how small Emmy is. Emmy had a pretty lousy weekend- not feeling well and just being very uncomfortable, so it helped to hear that she's up to a 2. There really is no more room for the baby to grow, he's right up to the surface, I'm already playing with him- got him all excited for the San Diego State game the other day. AWESOME game by the way! The doctor also said they want to induce Emmy the 10th or 11th if the baby hasn't come yet. 11th is nice because it's a Friday...and his daddy also came on a Friday. But the 10th would be better so I don't miss a BYU basketball game...me and the baby would be off to a bad start if he makes me miss a game. I may have to punish him if that happened, a timeout or stand in the corner or something.

Ramblings of a soon-to-be Dadda

Well in a few weeks I'll be a dad. The last few months have gone by really fast actually. I don't quite know what to think about everything. It's all happening so fast, and yet nothing has really happened at the same time. Baby is coming, I'm going to be a daddy, ready or not here he comes. I know many people that read this blog are already parents and so you all have felt the same feelings that I'm having...anxious, excited, nervous, scared, and a whole lot of other emotions and feelings that can't be described. I'm excited to have a son who I can watch as he goes through similar experiences that I had. It's anxious to have a baby around- someone that me and Emmy created together who has attributes of us both. It's amazing how there's not a cap to the amount of love you can have for people. Of course I loved my family growing up and continue to love them, then Emmy came along and I had more love for someone than I thought I could have. And now baby is coming. In those quiet moments where I think about him and wanting to be the best dad I can be to him, I always tear up a as I think about how much I already love him*** and how he'll come out loving me so much. I won't have to convince him to love me, it's just natural, the way I naturally love my parents. Nervous because I'm responsible for his survival, safety, and well-being. Scared because BAM, tons of responsibility on ya. When I got married I was hit with responsibility but ask anyone I'm still the goofy kid I always was. Things change when you have a kid, you are responsible for teaching him the Gospel, you have to be an example 24/7. I don't know if being goofy will get the job done. So you know, some things will probably change...and they probably should. Some things will stay the same obviously. Anyway, I hope this kid knows he's causing some weird blog posts. If you don't like this blog feel free to email him. We set up an email address for him and someday we'll give it to him. If you want to email him- either send me an email or leave a comment and I'll forward it on to him.

***All bets could be off once the diapers and cryin happen, j/k.

Follow-up to my Saturday, September 9, 2006 blog post

http://councilbluffs.blogspot.com/2006/09/date-tonight-was-awesome-except-lady.html

Yeah, Lady in the Water is still terrible. Emmy found the movie at Provo Library. Neither of us was crazy about watching it, but eh, why not give it another chance, ya know. Well, we watched it and it's just lousy. I guess there might be people out there who like it, maybe even people that read this blog, so maybe I should tone it down a bit. But I'm sorry, it's just so lame!

Jimmer Fredette - Court Intruder

Friends and family often ask me what's going on in Provo.

One word...Jimmermania

Haha, it was a fun day on Cougarboard. A BYU student wrote a letter to the editor about how there's too much Jimmermania. Man Cougarboard let her have it...but in a good way. Most of the responses were just funny statements about Jimmer, not mean things to her. Overnight people swarmed her facebook profile. I got to it a little late, I think I was the 600th person to post. Anyway, I hope that she thinks it's funny, takes it in stride, and comes to a basketball game with a Jimmer jersey or something. What's crazy is how this has made national news. Some of the comments are a little sacrilegious which I don't like, but some are just downright hilarious!

Here's the link to her facebook wall:

http://vrusp.com/jimmered/

Here are the national stories about it:

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/22753/jimmer-mania-gives-us-epic-facebook-thread

http://beyondthearc.nbcsports.com/2011/02/08/jimmer-fredettes-growing-more-powerful-by-the-moment/

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Letter-besmirching-Jimmer-inspires-hilarious-Fac?urn=ncaab-318567&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

http://college-basketball-blog.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/26283066/27441707

Here are my favorite Jimmer references:

"Why did Jimmer cross the road? Because he got tired of crossing over Tre'Von!"

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• "Jimmer can kill two stones with one bird."

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• "jimmerboard.net because he never hits rim."

Jimmer once lapped someone...in a 50 yard dash...

Jimmer Fredette can speak French...in Russian

Jimmer has never had a heart attach, nor will he ever. Not even his heart is foolish enough to attack.

Even Jimmer's enemy's list him as their emergency contact

Jimmer can get McDonalds breakfast AFTER 10:30 am

Someday 9th East will be named after Jimmer. Students living east of the street will be out of luck because nobody crosses jimmer and lives

Am I surprised that Jimmer goes sledding uphill?

Jimmer doesn't need night vision, the night needs "jimmer vision"

Jimmer is the reason why Waldo is hiding!

there is no control button on Jimmer's computer. Jimmer is always in control

Jimmer put humpty dumpty back together again

Why did Jimmer cross the road? Cause he got tired of crossing over Tre'von!!!

If Jimmer ever got pulled over for speeding, he would let the cops off with a warning

UFO's spotted over Utah on Jan. 26? The aliens just wanted to see Jimmer drop 43 on the Aztecs.

Your facebook page has been Jimmered. If you don't know what that means, ask Tre'von Willis

You've been Jimmered music video

The Jimmer Jammers

Yes, that's right, that is LaVell Edwards, Chad Lewis, and Shawn Bradley in the group- the Jimmer Jammers, singing the song, "You've been Jimmered."

We went to AZ last week. Holy cow it was sooooooo nice! We might become snowbirds later on. The reason we went down was to see Grandpa Richardson. It was nice spending time with him, we took him on a long walk and went on a drive with him. Grandma posted pictures on her blog:

http://jayandlavona.blogspot.com/2011/01/our-oldest-grandson-and-wife-visit.html

We went first to Vegas to see Em's sister, Becky. When we went from Vegas to Phoenix we went on this new bridge to bypass all the windy roads (the English language stinks again! Windy and windy (air--wind) is the same spelling, that is terrible-- maybe I should have said winding) to the Hoover Dam. Anyway, it was really lame driving on it, until we saw this picture of what we actually drove on. This picture is old, though, and doesn't have the completed road, but you can imagine it with the road.

John Buccigross Talks to "The Best Scorer In The World", BYU's Jimmer Fr...

Jimmer shares his testimony

Editor's note: So this is written in Council Bluffs font, but I guess it won't show up as that if you don't have it installed. This post probably won't make much sense either.

This post comes to you thanks to Kyle. Freshman year he made my handwriting into a font. It was all fun and dandy until one day I came home from classes and saw a note that ready something like this; i

Dear Kyle,

Hope you had a good day at school, I’m going to clean the apartment, starting with the kitchen and then the bathroom. Go ahead and eat my ice cream too, watch out for spatulas in the ice cream, though.

Sincerely,

-Council Bluffs

Something like that.

So yeah, it’s pretty cool to have a font named after me. I can’t do apostrophes, but who needs those anyway!! I don't have a colon in my font, so I just use the lowercase i. Sad thing is that my handwriting literally hasn’t changed since like fifth grade. I guess I don’t have numbers on here either.

Kid History - Episode 1

Haha, these are pretty funny. I usually am not that entertained with kid stuff, (maybe that'll change when I have kids) but these are funny to watch at least once, especially 1 and 3.

Kid History - Episode 2

Kid History - Episode 3

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - ...

Pretty neat, huh?

2 Things happened yesterday that are worth blogging about:

1) Me and Emmy shared gmail passwords. It took me awhile (like 2 years) to convince Emmy that we were ready for this step in our relationship, but I did it. I've been reading her emails all morning.

2) We saw a picture of baby, and he looks like Emmy. He has the frown thing down that Emmy does so well.

Baby Moby is doing really well. He's weighing in for a March 9th delivery, but they kept the due date March 15th. If you've seen Emmy recently, you can see that she's not very big...that's probably why the placenta is smashing his nose (hence the frowning).

The Christmas Spirit

Things we're grateful for that help us get the Christmas Spirit:

-Walking on Temple Square

-Cold weather/snow

-Serving others (example- letting others stay a night or two with us...Me and Emmy are very grateful for the blessings we've gotten from that, and love visiting with friends and family when they're in town)

-Making Gingerbread Houses (or eating them before they can be assembled)

-Mr. Krueger's Christmas (would you like some Chocolate?)

-Chocolate

-Singing Christmas Hymns during Church

-Family

-Jingle All the Way

-Miracle on 34th Street

-Mickey's Christmas Carol

-Claymation Christmas

-Merry Christmas Charlie Brown!

-It's a Wonderful Life...oh ahho, It's a Wonderful Life

-Gift giving

Nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rjY0l_CFEk

Some people say the original interview is funnier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNhaLUT520

BED INTRUDER SONG!!! (now on iTunes)

I can't believe I haven't seen or posted this yet.

My life is forever changed.

It gets lame after he sings.

This is devastating to watch. It seriously hurts.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/article_616dbab4-09db-11e0-972b-001cc4c03286.html

My son is very talented. He and Mommy figured out a trick, where Mommy is in bed, puts the remote on her tummy and baby kicks it so it shakes up and down.

Umm, when did the spelling change from "mininum" to "minimum"? I've seriously been spelling it mininum my whole life, but recently noticed Microsoft word changes my spelling.

BYU-UTAH!!!!

This is what it's all about sports fans! We've had some amazing game the last few years- I get goose bumps everytime I watch these videos because sitting in the stands...or R22 for 2006, I was on pins and needles- we could have won it or lost it with these three plays. Man, I sure hope BYU has it in them for some fireworks this year.

BYU vs. Utah 2006 Final Play Must See!

2006: Harline is still open

4th & 18...Collie is still open

2007: Magic Happens

Max Hall TD pass to Andrew George - BYU Beats Utah 2009 Football!!!

2009: George is still running

On the San Francisco trip this past summer, we discovered that Emmy's tay-tay loves the Laser Dance. It was always dancing, so I took a video of it for baby Moby.

River Dance

BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT!!

Monkey River Dance

It's only 30 seconds

Top 3 Operating Systems people use that visit my site:

1. Windows

2. Mac

Did I say you guys were welcome?! J/k.

3. Linux (1%)

...bless your little heart.

The top 3 browsers people use to visit my site:

1. Windows Explorer

...come on kids, windows? seriously?

2. Firefox

3. Google Chrome

The top 3 countries that visit my site:

1. United States

2. Germany

3. Netherlands

You rock USA!

Wie gehts Deutschland!

Nederland, Ik houd van jullie, a.u.b. probeer maar om ten minste tweede te zijn.

Councilbluffs.blogspot.com's most visited posts of All-Time:

1. http://councilbluffs.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html

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3. http://councilbluffs.blogspot.com/2009/12/well-sorry-about-boring-post.html

Just want to give a shout out to my blog's top traffic sources, in third place we have...

Mckiemoments.blogspot.com, woohooo, thanks Amanda and Jack!

In second place is...

tonybeckfamily.blogspot.com, nice, attablog family!!!

And in first, is...

theschmec.blogspot.com!!!!! Thanks Becca! I'm editing my blog and will be putting your blog first on my link list, you've earned it.

Conan O'Brien Drives an Explosives-Packed Car Off A Cliff!

Pumpkin Drop

Definitely cooler than dropping a pumpkin off a bridge

It's a...

Well I get to add another item to the list of significant events on October 25^th, though the latest happened the day after I’m still going to count it.

October 25, 2001- My last football game with TJ- the best game of my short football career

October 25, 2002- Went to the Temple to receive my endowment; Opened my mission call to the Belgium Brussells/Netherlands Mission

October 25, 2008- Wedding reception in Council Bluffs

October 26, 2010- Found out the gender of the baby

So yesterday before we found out the gender of the baby, I was very nervous/anxious/excited. The only other times in my life where I had those exact feelings were before opening my mission call, on the plane coming home from my mission, proposing to Emily, right before getting married, and now right before finding out the gender of the baby. It was exciting because this meant that our baby was a him or her now, and we didn’t have to keep saying ‘it’.

So drumroll……………………………….it’s a boy!

We both knew it all along, we really did. Saturday I was saying that I was 92% sure it was a boy. It’s amazing how watching the ultrasound you just feel that you’ve always known this baby and that he really does fit in our family. I’m sure I’ll keep having those feelings, but it’s just awesome to be able to have a better image of what life will be like with him, what he’ll do in his life, him going through a lot of the same experiences I did as the oldest boy in the family, etc. Fitting his personality, he was sitting Indian-style with his legs crossed, trying to be funny and not let us know what he is. The nurse went for different angles and was too quick for him. He’s “perfectly normal” she says...that’s also very good to hear.

The part that kind of stinks now is that I have to wait 4 ½ months before I get to play catch with him. (Ha, isn’t it funny how I get teary-eyed just thinking about doing all the dad-son things?!?!) What stinks for him is that he has to wait a whole year before watching college football with his dad. He kicked for the first time Saturday during the football game. We’re not sure if he was kicking because he was mad Mom wasn’t there or because he was mad at BYU (he might be watching from above). I’m going to do a better job of telling him the final scores on Saturdays and discussing the progress of the team with him. I’m glad he was able to go jet skiing a few times in the summer, it kept him happy. On a more serious note, the first thing I thought of when I heard that he’s official a boy was giving him the Priesthood (dang it, again the teary eyes). I know we have a stud in Emmy’s tummy. Some time you’ll have to hear Emmy’s side of hearing news…no doubt she’ll be a great mom. She’s done a great job putting up with a difficult kid, now there’s two of us!

Nice, we got some good responses, thanks kids. We'll take any others for a chance to win a prize in 10 years

Anniversary time!

Yes that's right, I have now been married as long as I was on my mission! Crazy! It's been an awesome two years. So we wanted to do this last year but just plain didn't get around to it. My uncle and aunt, Melvin and Tammy, did this when they got married. We wanted to send this out to our friends and family and let you all make predictions on what the 2020 Beck family will look like. We'll pull out the answers in 2020 and the winner will get a prize.

In 2020:

How many kids will Emily & Kasey have?

Will the oldest be a boy or girl?

(we find out in a week)

Will their kids say BAG or BEG? FLAG or FLEG?

(sidenote: Emmy calls Bag, Beg, and Flag, Fleg...she's so cute)

Where will Kasey and Emily be living?

What will Emily's Church calling be?

How bald will Kasey be?

a) About the same

b) More hair than now (pick me)

c) A stylin' comb-over

d) Hanging in there- slightly less than 2010 Kasey

e) A shaved head

What will Kasey's current job be?

Where will the Becks latest vacation have been?

Puppy or no puppy?

How will BYU football be doing?

Republican or Democrat as president?

Will California still be connected to the mainland?

What will be the latest advancement in technology?

What will you be up to?

You can email the answers to me at kbeckdawg at hotmail.com or post the answers as a comment here.

Um, yeah...

Dang it, baby knows I drank all the orange juice

Danimal vs Animal

Haha, Ok Go does it again

Baby Moby

Emmy and I are learning new things each day about Baby Moby. I was skeptical, but Emmy has convinced me Baby Moby is trying to take over the world and that Emmy’s body is its host. As Emmy says, “Each day the baby goes stronger, while I grow weaker.” Baby Moby has established a puppet regime through Emmy in a matter of 4 short months. Moby can get Mommy and Daddy to do anything it wants. Moby had us go to a super expensive baby store the other day and made us feel poor. Moby has made me buy so many things that we don’t normally buy- gushers, fruit roll-ups, Capri suns, cheetos, lots of juices, etc. Moby made Daddy buy TONS of tuna, only to reject it a few days later. Moby has requested that we replace our AC/furnace because it wants to live like a king when it comes out and always have the temperature in the house be at a comfortable 70-72…even at night, and even in the winter!!! Moby also thinks it’s funny for Daddy to cook dinner more often and do the majority of the cleaning, while making Mommy sick all the time. Moby doesn’t like Mommy or Daddy hanging out with friends or being social. Moby does not like work or Church at 8:30 in the morning! We’re not sure why Moby has altered mine and Emmy’s lifestyle so much, but we fear the worst…Moby is trying to take over the world! The plan is to first take over me and Emmy; who knows who Moby will take over next…it could be you! We’ve decided to not fight with Moby, but to give in and offer all these things to it, to try to appease it. It, I have to keep saying ‘it’, because Moby won’t even tell us if it’s a she or a he.

Right now Moby is “the cause and solution to all our problems.” Moby gives us troubles occasionally but has also made us totally dependent on it somehow so that we get super happy and excited thinking about it. Yes, it’s true, we are slaves to Baby Moby…but I have a feeling it’ll all be worth it! And if Moby does take over the world someday, like we think is its plan, at least we know Moby’s weakness…gushers.

They jump and land at the same time!!

Dadda, Dadda

So the other day a little girl knocked on our door and asked if our kids could come out and play. I told her to come back in a year...because Emily's pregnant!!!!!

I came home from Church meeting one day, Emmy was taking a nap, so I got on the computer and saw an email from her with an attachment:

It didn't take that long for me to figure out what was going on.

That's right sports fans, Kasey's gonna be a daddy. Emmy's due date is March 15th!

Brian Wilson of the SF Giants on Rome is Burning with Jim Rome - BETTER ...

Lol, just a funny video

Gosh it's been too long since I actually wrote on here. Life has been really busy with the Becks. Sometimes I feel like my head is spinning with so much going on.

August through the 2nd week of January is my favorite time of year. I love watching college football. It is just so fun for me to have a couple games going on at a time, and listen/watch as I work on something else. In college I had school work to do, now it's yard work/house work. I'm getting very excited for the upcoming season, especially because all that has gone on this offseason. Last week was sure interesting with word getting out that BYU was going to go independent in football. I won't give a summary of all the drama that happened from that, but things were just exciting last week- it was fun talking about it at work and with the fam. We talked about it for half our bishopric meeting. Anyway, life is just great right now, we're going jet skiing all day Thursday and football is here.

I hate politics. I don't really like reading current events or listening to the news anymore, it just all makes me so mad. I still do all those things, they just make me mad. BYU football has kind of filled that void. Probably what has made me the most upset is the overturning of Prop 8. It's the fact that one man's opinion has more of an effect than 7 million voters who twice showed they don't want gay marriage in their state. It just leaves you feeling really helpless. If voting against it won't stop it, then the voter is powerless. That's so undemocratic! I read a book about the whole John Edwards mess, called "The Politician." That book was very interesting and very unnerving. John Edwards was a good man, a good father, who was passionate about some things and wanted to change circumstances for the better. I didn't agree with many of his stances, but he was a good guy. When he got elected to Senator, he didn't really even like it. He didn't like being away from his family all the time. And then someone mentioned his name as a possible running mate with Al Gore. From then on, the desire for more prestige and more power drowned out his family and other important priorities. It’s sad how often things like this happen in politics. The book just amazed me at how corrupt politics/Hollywood/The REALLY Wealthy are. I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised because this is how it was in the Book of Mormon. But gosh, ambition and power is a deadly combination.

Whitney got married last week, the house the reception was at was HUGE. I think it’s the biggest house/yard I’ve ever been to. I talked it over with Emmy and we decided we’re not going to have a house like that in this life. But oh man, wait til ya’ll see our house in Heaven, trust me kids you’ll want to come. Just a little sneak peak- waverunners and dolphins will be involved.

Inception- good movie. I made it down 2 levels last night, but that’s so common for me, I’m pretty sure I hit that level 4-5 times a week. Once in awhile I’ll hit the 3^rd level. I wonder if I’ve ever hit 4…it’s possible, as is being in limbo.

I’ve noticed that I’ve been happier lately than usual. It’s probably not obvious at all on the outside but I definitely feel that way on the inside. Two things that I think I can attribute it to is living in the now and not comparing myself/my situation to others. It’s funny because we’re taught to not just live for the present, but I think at the same time it’s bad to live just for the future as well. I think I’m the type of person who is always looking forward to the next step and planning that next move. That move could be anything, but I think it was distracting me from just being content and enjoying the present. Planning ahead is usually what gets me worried, stressed, unhappy. If I just think about today, and how purposely live to enjoy today- the people I’ll be with, the weather, the food I’ll eat, the different events I’ll participate in, the beauty of the world around me, etc. it really makes me grateful for everything and just content and relaxed with what’s going on now. This explanation is pretty much the same explanation for why not comparing yourself makes you happy. When I think that if we would have waited 4 months to buy our house we would have gotten it cheaper and would have been given an $8,000 tax credit I get frustrated. But at the time, it was what we wanted, we felt good about the decision and it was just a good situation for us. It’s only when we compare our situation to what we could have had that we get frustrated. That goes for pretty much anything I think. If we compare ourselves to others we’ll never be content or happy with our current situation. It’s just a vicious and nasty cycle that’s tough to get out of, but getting out of has just got to be HUGE for making you happy. Anyway, here’s to today!

I can't help it

Advice from Elder Busche

I really love this video, please check it out, it'll simplify everything for you

-So this last week was pretty much amazing, it's probably what Heaven will be like. Hung out with family all week and spent several hours on the jet ski. Gosh I love that thing.

-LeBron made too much of a deal announcing on ESPN that he was leaving Cleveland to go to Miami. It is definitely insulting to the city of Cleveland to announce it that way. But the Cavs owner has been dumb saying he guarantees the Cavs will win before the Heat...yeah right! And then Jesse Jackson has to be dumb and bring race into everything. Pretty much everybody is acting dumb with this whole situation.

-Excited for college football

-Me and Em have both been trying to figure out everything- what are we supposed to be doing. Lotsa questions. You ever heard that story where the fisherman spends his time fishing in the mornings, hanging out with the kids and wife the rest of the afternoon and evening and then plays guitar with his friends at night. A banker comes along and says how he has a Harvard MBA and can help the fisherman buy giving him a loan to purchase a fleet of boats which will make him a few million. The fisherman asks how long that will take, the banker says 15-20 years, the fisherman asks and then what, banker: then you'll have millions of dollars, fisherman: then what? banker: then you'll be able to retire and spend your time fishing in the mornings, spending time with your family in the afternoons and evenings, and play guitar with your friends at night.

Lol, it's a funny story, our elders quorum teacher told the story this last Sunday and just got me thinking about things. A few months ago in a Priesthood training, the stake president told us to always remember that your job is just that...a job, it's not your life, it's not "your work." Your work is your family and doing the Lord's work. I'm trying to figure out a lot of things right now, one difficult part about running your own business is that it becomes more of your life. It's tricky to not let that happen. But the absolute best thing, I think, about running your own business is the flexibility. I'm able to just take off and do service in the middle of the day, or do random things because of that flexibility. Tons of tradeoffs! I've read quite a few biographies about Sam Walton, Jack Welch, and Walt Disney...all good guys who worked hard and really benefitted the world with the businesses they built up, but the downside is that their job was their life. Their family lives suffered in my opinion. That's a tradeoff I'm not willing to make. Balancing life priorities is tough, especially when you add in Church service and having fun. That entrepreneurship bug is definitely in me, and I can't go back to not trying to start up things, but sometimes I envy an 8-5 job because it's a job, not your life. Anyway, just some random thoughts as we are trying to figure out things. I doubt I'll have things figured out anytime soon, but I think day by day I'm figuring it out a little bit more.