Come on already!

I used to consider myself to be pretty patient, but there is something about being a few days away from your first baby's due date and not knowing when he is coming that starts to wear your patience down. We have spent the last 40 weeks getting ready for him to come. The last few weeks we have made even more preparations including putting the car seat in the car, packing a bag for the hospital, getting his bed ready and his diapers stocked. COME ON ALREADY! We are as ready as we are going to be at this point, let's do it!

New Baby Stuff

This is one of my new favorite things that we have for our little guy. In case you can't read the picture...the pacifier says "Mute Button"!


Here are some new shirts I made for the baby using freezer paper stencils and screen printing ink. Of course they had to be red! Too bad they will be too big for him to wear to my graduation, I guess I'll have to make some more!

Happy 2008!

The new year was pretty uneventful for us. I have been sick since Christmas so we didn't feel like going out in 3 degree weather and staying up late. We watched "Stardust" and cooked a pizza and then made homemade Coke Slurpees using one of my Christmas presents. We were in bed by 10:00pm. Here are some pictures of the Slurpees:

Here's the machine in action! You just fill up the canister inside with ice and salt and then pour in whatever kind of soda or juice you want.

And here we are enjoying homemade Coke Slurpees!

Christmas 2007

Christmas was pretty nice this year for the Green's. We had a lot of fun spending time with both of our families. We spent Christmas eve in Heber at Sabrina's family's cabin and Christmas morning at our house just the two of us. Christmas day we went to my parent's house and then to Louise's for breakfast. We finished the day off at Gram's. After all was said and done we ate way too much food and got way too many presents. Harrison even got a few! Here are some of the highlights:

Sabrina's mom got us a recumbant exercise bike that we put together downstairs. It will be really nice for Sabrina to be able to get some exercise at home while she watches the baby and it will be really nice for me to sneak in some exercise time without going to the gym.
We also got a Garmin Forerunner that we will both be using for training and racing this coming year. I have several triathlons that I want to do in 2008 and Sabrina wants to run the St. George marathon.

Here's a picture of my cute pregnant wife in front of our Christmas tree!

We hope that everyone had a very merry Christmas and we wish you the best in the new year!

Done with school!

This week I finally finished all my coursework to get my B.S. degree in Entrepreneurship from the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. It's been a long road that has lasted 10 years and has been through four different majors and two different universities. Following is a brief history of my collegiate career:

I started out at the U right after I graduated from high school. I began work on a Computer Science degree, but decided to change majors after the first couple of semesters. I transfered to Weber State University and started work on an Information Systems degree. After my mission to San Diego I went back to Weber State and decided that Business Administration was more my thing (this was partially influenced by something my mission president said to me). The U seemed to be calling to me and I transfered back and eventually settled on their Entrepreneurship degree. I have always had dreams of starting a business and I figured I may as well study something that I thought was interesting.

And now it's over! I don't really know what to think... It was kind of an anti-climatic finish when I emailed my final project to my professor. I expected trumpets to sound and angels to sing "hallelujah" or something but all I got was an email back from my professor saying "thanks".

I have been working full time and taking night classes, so it will be nice to just come home after work and not worry about going to class, working on homework, and presentations. Now I can focus on some of the things that I have been lacking: Spending quality time with Sabrina (and Harrison in a few weeks!), getting back into shape, reading, and the list goes on...

I think I am going to participate in the graduation ceremonies at the end of next semester (they don't have any ceremonies at the end of this current semester). I figure I might as well get a picture shaking some guy's hand after 10 years of work.

BUNKO!

Who knew that bunko was so much fun!
Well i guess alot of people must but i've never played it before, until last night i'd only though of it as a marginally taboo game that mormon women played.
Well Danae Dunn invited me to go play with her and some of her friends and it was really alot of fun. I'd never met the people there before but to play the game you dont really need to know the other players very well.
And I won a prize at the end of the game. Not a very significant prize. I never won BUNKO, i didnt have the most wins, or loses, or even BUNKOed off. I just had my score card drawn out of the basket.
Well it might be a while before i go and play BUNKO again... the baby is coming soon and my time will be spent being a new mom. but I really had fun and maybe in the summer i might find a group to join and pick it up again!

Spanglishbookstore.com

Josh just this past week launched his very own online books store! We are very excited and hope that all his hard work will pay off.
Josh has been selling spanish and bilingual books at our preschool book fairs for the past year. He has been really successful with them. So he decided that the next logical step would be to sell his books on line.
So if anyone is interested in Spanish or Bilingual books come and take a look.
We'll ship to you where ever you are! We think that the site is really easy to use but any feed back you might have would be greatly appreciated!
OK so go and check out the books at www.spanglishbookstore.com

Also the first week of December Josh will be doing his very first book fair for an entire bilingual elementary here in SLC! Wish us luck on that one too! We'll keep you posted to tell you how it turns out.