Idol Is On!

I just wanted to let you all know of my television debut next TUESDAY on American Idol!...Tune in and make sure you keep the Tivo remote handy to find my face flying past the camera! ha ha ha If you missed the details it's here. I can't tell you how long it took me to watch the first 3 minutes of the first show. I kept rewinding and playing back slowly to see if the camera caught me. I know I was there for over 2 hours just to shoot the opener, "Season seven starts in San Diego," well, they didn't start season seven in San Diego so that one is out. I feel like I may know how actors may feel when their fav scene was cut out. I spent a lot of time and sweat, and fake screaming to shoot that! I'm sure it will be well worth the wait. Oh, by the way when they try to show the "entire" group in the front of the stadium saying some catchy phrase, I'm standing just to the right of the kids in the center (who happened to be standing on a picnic table holding signs), just want to make sure you don't miss me. Enjoy!

P.S. Janey this is for you, "I AM THE NEXT AMERICAN IDOL" (and I mean it!)

**New note to posting: What the crap? The website says airs TONIGHT (Thursday)...just keep watching for the San Diego auditions, whenever they may be.

We went to the Dr. and It's a ...

GIRL!

We couldn't be more excited!! I can't wait to have another girl! I really thought it was a boy but I am so relieved it's a girl! (of course I probably would have been just as elated for a boy too!) WA-HOOO!!!!

Can the sick be over?

Jeez, I HATE being sick. I got sick the worst when I was teaching, but after I gave that a rest I have been pretty healthy. I think the change in climate between AZ and OR really did me in (and Gracie too). I just want to sleep through a whole night before the baby gets here!

Tomorrow is our big day. Let's hope the baby lets us see what sex it is! I get so excited to nail down the name.

Naptime here I come...

Back to School, Back to School

So we are home in the Portland and life has already started rolling again. I had school today, and while it was less terrifying than the beginning of my first quarter,I must admit that I still had some butterflies before my first classes today.
I know that it is over, but I wanted to reminisce on our break and post some of the pictures that we took while we were on our first break from the rigors of chiropractic college. These are some of my favorite pictures that we have uploaded so far. If there are any questions on the pics, please ask. I gotta run to bed cause its my night to handle the Gracie if she wakes up, which she is doing more frequently the last few days because of that darn cough.
-Lance

New Year!

Happy New Year!

Christmas Dress

Playing In AZ

what happened to the cartoons?- long rant

So it is early on a Saturday morning, and instead of sleeping in like a normal person who goes to bed at midnight and is on vacation (this normal person is Em), I have pretty much been awake all morning... and I can not make myself go back to sleep.
so here is how it happened. I have been pretty congested in my chest ever since we landed in Arizona. In fact, as we stepped out of the airport into the parking garage, I started to feel like my throat was dry and it was a little hard to get my lungs all the way filled. I didn't take much notice of it at the time, probably because I was so excited to be home in this brown land that we live in, but in retrospect I see that that is the first place that my breathing was troubled. Gracie had a hard time falling asleep that night(Wednesday) and so I stayed up with her for a while. but it was really hard for me to fall asleep because I could not get comfortable and my breathing was weird. Thursday night was much the same thing, except that I did not try to fall asleep until after one o'clock, because that is when Emi came home. Gracie woke up in the middle of the night again for about two hours and after I figured out she is still teething, I got her to go back to sleep and I figured out that I could no longer speak in a normal voice (because of the congestion, I feel like I have lost my voice, but my throat doesn't hurt or anything, and I don't have a cough, but I can hack up some nasty goo if I want to clear my throat. Last night we had a dinner with some old friends from Mesa High, and although I didn't talk a whole lot, I really enjoyed myself and wish I could have talked more, we were home at around 8:00. We went to bed around11:00, and I couldn't get comfortable for almost an hour and then Grace woke up and Then I fell asleep until three, at which point I tried everything that I could think of to try and clear my lungs so I could feel like I could breath ( my chief complaint) and go back to sleep. I finally put Vick's Vaporub on my neck, and I was comfortable breathing almost immediately and I dozed for a while after that until 5 when my mind woke up the rest of my body and I discovered that there is nothing good on TV for early morning cartoons anymore. Kids these days don't know what they are missing. Remember GI Joe and He-man and Thundercats? I would wake up early every Saturday to watch those cartoons and there wasn't even anything entertaining on today at all.
Well, Gracie woke up about 45 minutes ago, and wants my complete attention so I will finish up with a sleep tally for the last seven days
Saturday night- 7 hours
Sunday night - 4 hours
Monday night- 5 hours
Tuesday night- 6 hours
Wednesday night-5 hours
Thursday night- 5 hours
Friday night- maybe 4 hours
total 38 hours- and I am on vacation!
my normal total=between 49 and 63, so if I seem agitated or irrational, it is not you, it is me. So please be understanding.
-Lance

An end to the beginning

Lance with other 1st quarter buddies sporting "handlebars" for finals week. I don't have the slightest idea where they came up with it (LANCE). Sorry to the other wives who had to put up with it. And I really wish Lance had kept his hat on! :)

Time for the HAPPY DANCE!!! Congrats to Lance who finished his 1st quarter of chiro school, only 12 more to go!! It's been a tough quarter, and these last few weeks were even worse. Lance was doing very little other than eating, and studying (and helping with Gracie in all of the craziness), and maybe fitting in a little sleep. I'm so proud of you!

tons o fog

First of all whoever told it it never snows where we live in Portland LIED! I know it's supposed to rain a lot but JEEZ!! It's been raining since last Friday! With the exception of it SNOWING all day Saturday! Today was weird, a great dense fog. We get a lot of fog from the gorge, but every once in a while it's a doozy! I took these on my way to the gym, probably not the safest thing to do but I was being careful. :)

This is the view (from our bedroom) of the field behind us and a street light and many cars we can't see!