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Hey everyone! Elsie was born this afternoon here at Orem Community Hospital, around 3:30. She’s 6 lbs, 13 oz, and 19.5 inches long. She and Andrea are both doing great. Here’s a little video that recaps the busy day.

Elsie Joy Freeman

For those of you that haven’t heard from me a while, I’m still alive. How are you? But anyways I’m still in school (haven’t dropped out….yet) and I am definitely ready for the Thanksgiving Break. School is going swell cuz I just got a 91 and 100% on my last two tests. So now I have some papers to write and stuff. But fortunately, Basketball season has started and BYU hasn’t lost yet so I can take a break from school to watch games and stuff. Nevertheless, I’m staying busy and stuff (sorry for all of the “and stuff”-s). Here’s some pictures of the Jack O’ Lantern I carved for Halloween. I did some of it at Josh’s house then I came home and put on the finishing touches. Oh yeah, and I’m stoked for the BYU-Utah football game this Saturday. Rah, rah, rah-rah-rah, goooooo Cougars!

PS- I’m working on putting up some of my animations I made in school last block of the semester. I’ll see what I can do there. And Happy Birthday to Josh and Melissa. Can’t wait for baby Elsie!

Here’s how we celebrated opening day of the pro football season (and I’m not counting that one game that was out of the country). Nothing like a game of tackle in the front yard. It’s always me and Ashlee against Nicholas. Nick holds his own pretty good, and Ashlee usually has to be reminded which end zone she should run to.

NFL Opening Day

Make sure you read Becky’s post about this evening if you haven’t already.

OK, I’ve finally sat down and have begun to attempt to get somewhat caught up. I’ve pretty much given up keeping up with Becky, she’s going to attain ‘professional’ blogger status any day now. Make sure you’re visiting her site often as she’s doing a great job of capturing our comings and goings.

Here are the long awaited pictures from Ashlee and Nick’s first day of school this year.

First Day of School 2007

Ashlee started Kindergarten, she goes a full day every day of the week, just like ‘real’ school. Nick started 3rd grade and is in a split class where half are 3rd graders and half are 4th graders. We think it’s working out really well for him even though only one of his friends is in the same class as he is this year.

So there’s a start, hopefully at least a couple more posts before the weekend is over.

Since none of you could possibly have been watching the game yesterday, I’ll try to paint you a picture with words. And with pictures.

Imagine it being cloudy and cold at the beginning of the game, but then the sun comes out, and you think things are going pretty well. Then it gets cloudy again, but, you know, it’s not too bad. Then it starts to rain, and it’s pretty cold, but still. And then the snow starts to come down. And it keeps coming and coming. Imagine a fourth quarter that looks something like this:

I haven’t watched the game yet, but the replay board was useless; you couldn’t see a thing on it. And you couldn’t see any lines on the field. It was pretty crazy. But at least we won!

Well here she is… the newest addition to our little family. With the impending arrival of our newest little girl, we had to upgrade our transportation arrangements. After many hours of searching, by Trish, she found this sweetest of all sweet deals on a van, with just one catch. The van was in San Francisco and we had to get up there to decide if we wanted it before some lady from Salt Lake could fly in and grab it. Needless to say…..and of course sorry to the lady…..we liked it and got ourselves a mini-van.

Becky was printing a bunch of photos to put in some albums when we came across this one. It was taken 1 January 2004, at 12:07am. The poor little boy couldn’t hold his drink and passed out before the ball dropped. Becky remembers us all piling our party stuff on top of him for the picture. He didn’t even budge.

Check this out. Twice now I’ve gotten photos up pretty quickly. Here’s our set for our Independence Day activities.

4th of July

Our day included driving out to Kehoe Farm in Clinton, MI. It’s owned by one of Jere’s coworkers and her husband. We enjoyed good food, games, a performance by Gordo the Magician, and what Ashlee had been waiting for all week… pony rides! Ashlee got to ride 3 or 4 times I think, including the last ride of the day where I guess the pony got to run just a bit.

We didn’t go to any fireworks this year but that’s fine as we have three neighbors (across the street, down the street, and behind us) that seem to be competing more and more each year for who can put on the most spectacular display. Our neighbor down the street is usually the best, he’s been doing it the longest. They always host an all day barbecue at their house for the whole neighborhood capped off the the fireworks display after dusk. I think I decided we really don’t ever need to go anywhere as the fireworks on our own block were just as good and the parking is even better.

We also lit our small fireworks and played with sparklers and finger poppers. The kids had fun, got to stay up late, and I even zonked out before midnight. So, enjoy the pics.

Hey ya’ll!

As you should have guessed from the title, we found out that we’re having a little girl! That will be four nieces in a row since Nina. And there will be more nieces than nephews.

Anyway, here’s some pictures from the latest ultrasound. Hover you mouse over each thumbnail to see the title, and click the thumbnail to see/download the larger image. Enjoy!

In an almost unprecedented move, I’ve actually posted some pictures within 24 hours of taking them. We went to the Howell balloon festival yesterday (officially the Michigan Challenge Balloonfest). They’ve got a ton of shows, events, exhibits, a carnival, etc. We’ve gone before, but we’ve never stayed for the evening festivities, mainly including the balloons ‘glowing’ after dark and the night time jump by some skydivers. So we decided yesterday to go later in the evening so we could catch the after dark stuff. Luckily, as you can see from the pictures, we ran into another family from the ward so the kids were able to entertain each other while waiting.

Michigan Challenge 2007