I spent yesterday sick with the flu. AGAIN. This is the fourth time since Brooke has been born that I’ve had the flu. Even though I had a massive headache, fever and chills, and was puking up my guts, there were some good parts of the day:
#1 Dallas had the day off and so he took care of Brooke all day. What a dear, sweet husband! (When I went into the kitchen, I saw that Brooke’s lunch consisted of M&Ms and chocolate milk. I didn’t even ask what he fed her for dinner.)
#2Â I didn’t have to feel guilty lying in bed all day watching the Olympics.
#3 My weekly presidency meeting was cancelled. Even though I was feeling sick, I hadn’t thrown up yet so I was still going to go. I was in denial that I could have the flu again. A few minutes before the meeting, someone called to tell me it was cancelled. From my calculations, I would have thrown up twice during the meeting.
#4 I was reminded of a fun situation that happened last time I had the flu. I woke up in the middle of the night with the feeling that something was in my stomach that shouldn’t be. I finally threw up and felt much better. I went into the kitchen to get a drink. As I was coming back to bed I saw a huge centipede. I got a shoe and smashed it. However, I didn’t kill it the first time and so I had to hit it several times. It was making me sick again to bend over and I was getting frustrated so I yelled, “Die! Die!” Dallas came out of our bedroom looking worried and asked what was going on. I explained.
The next morning Dallas told me how the night unfolded from his perspective. He was rudely awakened by my boisterous vomiting. Then he heard me go into the kitchen. The next thing he heard was pounding and me saying, “Die! Die!” He imagined I was nearly passed out on the floor, hitting the ground, willing myself to die because I was so sick.
If I get the flu again anytime in the near future, that may very well be the scenario.
Rebecca’s sister, Sarah, got married this weekend down in St. George. We were there to witness the occasion. The wedding was in St. George and the reception was in Cedar City.
Our cute family
Abe and Klarissa
Ben and his girlfriend Chelsey
Glen with a sign at the reception barn
Rebecca’s family with Jeff
Jeff being hoisted up by his friends
Jeff Excell
Brooke hanging out with the women folk
Jacob’s family: Natalie, Jacob, Emma, Laurie, and Luke
Natalie, Brooke, and Emma
Sarah with all of the kids
Ben, Kim, and Glen
Lastly, Sarah and Jeff Excell. You may be saying to yourself, “If this is a post about Sarah and Jeff’s wedding then why are they the last picture on the post?” We did this so you would keep scolling down to the end of the post. You have made it so congratulations! And congratulations to Jeff and Sarah Excell!
We all have our favorite part or moments of movies or songs. Today we are going to focus on our favorite moments of Rebecca. This is going to be an important post for you to post a comment on. Please take time to post a comment of your favorite Rebecca moment.
I am going to start off the posting with one of my own favorite moments. Since there are so many I’m going to have to go with the ward prom we recently went to. This is more of a personal moment than a humorous one. We had such a great time together and she looked so hot. It was a great night. I’ll keep going with favorite moments.
I love listening to Rebecca play the piano.
A couple of weeks ago Rebecca put some rolls into the oven to help them rise quicker. She forgot about them and as a result the plastic wrap on top melted onto the rolls. See the lovely pictures I captured of the moment?
I often enjoy Rebecca’s reaction to bugs and spiders. When we were living in our first apartment she shrieked several times one morning over seeing a bug or something that we were worried that our neighbors were thinking that I was abusing Rebecca.
When we were dating I took Rebecca to Classic Skating on Disco Saturday Night, Rebecca took a face plant and received a huge bruise on her leg. That was pretty funny.
On our honeymoon we went to Sea World in the middle of winter. We sat in the splash zone because we couldn’t imagine that the dolphins would actually make that big of a splash. We were seriously wrong. The dolphins purposely splashed the audience and as a result we were wet and a little miserable for the remainder of the day.
Another time while we were dating we went ice blocking at Rock Canyon Park. It was so hot that day that we felt like eggs frying on a frying pan. We ended the activity with a nice cold slurpee. It was a pretty great day.
Well, Rebecca has seen this post and she feels like she needs to write a rebuttal. So I will just finish with a admonition. Write a comment about Rebecca and save your energy for the post that is coming in the future of Brooke’s moments by skipping over the one about me.
How could we have forgotten that it was May 10, 2003 that Rebecca and I met? I guess we were too busy to remember.
Time for a trip down memory lane straight from the archives of my journal. Do I really dare to copy straight from my journal?
“This morning started as a regular Saturday morning. Nothing exciting happened at all. I got up and went into work. Rick is still vacationing in Europe so I’m the only one that was there in my office today. I went out to use the bathroom and there was a cute girl sitting by the stained glass window reading a book. On my way back I stopped at the reference desk and talked with Marlice.
“I was feeling pretty claustrophobic in my office so I didn’t want to go back there and Marlice and I were having a good conversation, so I sat down and talked with her for a long time. The girl who was reading by the window kept looking my way and I kept an eye on her so I figured she was checking me out, so I was checking her out right back. Patrick came to relieve Marlice so I stood up to go back to my office. At the same time the girl stood up to leave. I continued to watch her because I was debating in my mind about whether I would go talk to her. As she was leaving she turned to look at the books and she looked like she was debating on whether to go to the bookshelves. I saw my opportunity to go and talk to her. I walked up to her and asked her if I could help her find a book. When I asked her this she blushed and I’m sure that I myself blushed because I lost all confidence and my tongue became tied. She asked me which books I would read and her question further sunk me into a blubbering mess. Since my mind had gone blank, all that I could think of was the LDS book section. I walked the girl to that aisle. I then thought about Michael J. Fox’s book that I enjoyed reading and I had to admit that I didn’t know where it was because I’m not really a librarian but I really wished that I was at that moment. She then asked me what I did at the library so I told her. We continued to talk and I kept on tripping over my tongue. I don’t remember a lot of what we talked about because I was very nervous for some reason. I decided that it was time to act upon my fight or flight response and take flight back to the safety and protection of my office. Before I left I asked her for her phone number and I gave her mine, then I retreated to the safe haven of my office. I had become so nervous by the whole encounter that my leg shook for a long time. I don’t know why I got so uneasy about approaching the girl because all I was doing was talking to her. Her name is Rebecca Thomas. I found her quite attractive.
“Later on in the afternoon I received a phone call from Mom. She asked me if I would like to take a date to the ballet that was happening tonight. We were originally going to go together as a family, but they decided not to go after all and they gave the tickets to me. I decided it would be the perfect chance to call the girl I had just met and to invite her to go with me. When I called and asked her she said yes. I was a bit surprised by this because I thought she would have turned me down after our unusual introduction earlier.
“At six o’clock Mom came and picked me up because I had left my car at home since I have been having troubles with one of the tires locking up. I couldn’t exactly take my date our in my car, so Mom agreed to allow me to use their minivan. I’m sure that my mom was really excited to have me out and dating, so she was more than happy to lend me her car. Unfortunately, a minivan is a really dorky vehicle to be driving on a first date. I can only imagine the thoughts going through Rebecca’s mind when I picked her up in a family van.
“I went and picked Rebecca up at her apartment and we went to the ballet up at BYU. The ballet we saw was Romeo and Juliet. I liked this ballet better than the Nutcracker. This was Rebecca’s first ballet and she says that she liked it. After the ballet we went to eat at Denny’s because nothing else was open at the time. We were at Denny’s until midnight because we were talking so much. When I dropped Rebecca off for the night I asked her out again for next weekend and she agreed. I guess I didn’t sound all that retarded this afternoon. I had a really good time this evening.”
Our ward had a prom! It was so fun. Dallas and I got all dressed up, dropped Brooke off at a babysitter’s house, and danced the night away. We were able to get our pictures taken by someone in our ward. It was such a fun date night.
Unfortunately Brooke didn’t enjoy the night as much as we did. She screamed for two hours and threw up her bottle before finally crying herself to sleep. What a little stinker.
