Thursday, August 25, 2011

Has Apple reached it's pinnacle?

Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple.

Huffington Post

There are very few people who are able to put into form what people want/need before they themselves know. Example, Henry Ford said "if I had given people what they wanted, I would given them faster horses." I believe Steve Jobs was one of these people.

My question is, can Apple continue on this path without Steve Jobs at the helm? Has Apple reached its pinnacle?

Sunday, August 21, 2011

. . . and thanks for the ding dongs!

Friday, our good friends and neighbors moved on to bigger and better adventures. I'm just realizing that our week was so busy leading up to and directly following this event in order to distract us from the fact that this momentous occasion was coming. In a way the Lord was being kind to us.

I just wanted to say thanks for allowing us to be part of your lives and for always being great examples of faith and love. You will be missed, but now we have an excuse to come and visit you in California! Good luck and when you become wildly famous we will be one of the first ones to be there to tell you "I told you so"!

This is a note of thanks and in no way represents a good bye.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Let the Guessing Begin!

At the end of our doctor's appointment today, like usual we scheduled our next appointment. That alone isn't super exciting, but what is exciting is that at our next appointment we are going to have our big ultrasound!! The big day is Tuesday, September 6th! So, Shawn and I thought it would be fun to get some guesses as to whether you think our little one is a boy or a girl. Shawn thought it would be even more fun to have everyone give a name suggestion with their guess too :)

So, let the guessing begin!!

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

One down, two to go!

I felt like today was a blog worthy day because today I am officially 14 weeks, the start of the 2nd trimester! According to BabyCenter.com, our baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck its thumb! Our baby is about the size of a lemon, 3 1/2 inches head to bum and 1 1/2 ounces. By the end of the week its arms will have grown to be proportional to the rest of its body. It's fun getting emails each week to tell us the big developments in our baby's growth. It helps make things more real!

I'm excited to be putting the 1st trimester behind me. As soon as we got back from vacation, my morning sickness kicked in hardcore and I was sick all day every day. I spent the last few weeks sitting on the couch, trying to figure out what foods would stay down (not many, by the way) and watching Supernatural on TNT. In the last week, I've started to feel a little bit better and have gone from being sick all day every day to mostly just at night. Hopefully, it will keep getting better and maybe I'll have whole days where I don't feel nauseous :)