everett's blog

We came in "knowing" that his middle name was going to be Everett and we had a list of three names that we liked for his first name, Jasper, Benjamin, or Samuel. We were set on not deciding on what his first name was going to be until we saw him because what if he wasn't the one that we had picked? After seeing him with his hairline and facial features he reminded me of some pictures I've seen of Jen's biological grandfather Delmer Ockey. Delmer Ockey died when Jen's mother was seven years old and was very fondly remembered as an awesome man and missionary.

I've procrastinated this entry too long...

So about three weeks ago on Friday March 12th, 2010 Jen was having really bad abdominal pains. So on my lunch break I took her in to the womens' center and found out that she was in active labor, mind you 15 weeks early. She had dilated a centimeter and the hormone test they did the day after, Saturday March 13th, tested positive for the hormone that tells her body that she's in active labor. Needless to say she was put on mandatory bed-rest.

Optimist / Pessimist / Realist

Too often I hear people make snide remarks about this politician, that superintendent, a boss, coworker, friend, family member, church leader, etc. We focus on how a particular President is ruining the economy or going to send our young out to war. I hear remarks that we're killing the earth and others are standing on the corner proclaiming “the end is near!”

Jen and I went in today to check up on the general health of the baby. A bonus was that we found out the gender and we can also add them to the little guy's photo album. (Got to start stocking up these embarrassing photos for a little leverage ... you know ... blackmail ... got to have something to make him behave) (o_-) Just kidding ... Gosh! Don't take me so seriously! :D The digital copies can be found at the link below.

http://everettpilling.com/photoalbum/babysultrasound20100125

Today another concern about society in general was brought to my attention. When people face a little bit of resistance or hard work they abandon it and try to accomplish their goals a different way that doesn't APPEAR to be as difficult. I think that some people spend so much time trying to get out of doing something difficult that they just make that task harder by exponential orders of magnitude and compromise the quality of the work they are doing.

Jen and I have recently bought a house and consequently moved into a new ward (congregation) for church. Since we've been in this new ward, one of the teachers has been giving me an unsettled feeling every time this teacher gives her lesson. The first thing is that lessons should be more of a discussion. Secondly, it should be based off of and have the same or at least similar goal or purposes of the material provided by the First Presidency.

I just realized something. Generally speaking there are political and lifestyle stereotypes that can be correlated almost directly to where you stand on Windows vs Unix. (Unix includes Macs and other operating systems like linux etc.)

First baby pictures are often so cute but I think we jumped the gun a little on this one. The baby embryo is only 9 weeks along and a total of 2.42cm short ... long. Today was Jen's first doctor's appointment and she brought home our [soon to be] baby's first portrait.

So on the 6^th of this month I had made a post about a mortgage broker giving me a call and saying that Jen and I were approved on the loan for a house that we had put an offer on and was accepted. So, since everything else was done, we asked them if we could close early and they said, "Sure!" It's now the 26^th and we are having an extremely difficult time getting any information from our loan officer / mortgage broker and we and everyone else concerned has been trying to contact him, leaving messages and such and he doesn't respond at all.