As you can see from the chart, the trends clearly show that the baby will be born at 39 weeks (to the day, mind you), and labor will last a brisk 45 minutes.Numbers don't lie, right?
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Getting Older
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Sunday, April 4, 2010
Bold Birth Predictions
I'm an engineer, which means that I analyze things. Occassionally I tend to over-analyze and it's fair to say that this probably falls into that category. Still, thanks to some basic math, I have a few predictions about how and when our fourth child, Breah, will be born.
As you can see from the chart, the trends clearly show that the baby will be born at 39 weeks (to the day, mind you), and labor will last a brisk 45 minutes.
Numbers don't lie, right?
As you can see from the chart, the trends clearly show that the baby will be born at 39 weeks (to the day, mind you), and labor will last a brisk 45 minutes.Numbers don't lie, right?
Happy Easter
It's been a long time since my last post. I'm worse at this than I thought I'd be! Oh well, you get what you pay for sometimes, right?
Happy Easter to you and yours! As you can see in the pictures we're celebrating the Resurrection of the Savior under a blanket of new-fallen snow.
I'm just glad I won't have to go out driving today. I'm not going anywhere tomorrow either. Cara's going to be induced on Tuesday so I'm taking the entire week off of work. With the other three kids I never took more than two days off so this week will be a different experience for me. Either I'll be in Cara's way all the time or else I'll be responsible for keeping the other kiddos out of her way. Should be fun!
I'll make a few more posts in the next couple of days. I've had a lot of things banging around in my head that I need to get out and down on paper, as it were.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Dining The New Room
Over the past two weeks I converted part of our downstairs from this:
...to this:
As is the case for most good ideas in this household, it was Cara's idea to get rid of the formal dining room in favor of an office. I'm pleased with the result, especially since I no longer have to work on my laptop from a dining room table.
...to this:
As is the case for most good ideas in this household, it was Cara's idea to get rid of the formal dining room in favor of an office. I'm pleased with the result, especially since I no longer have to work on my laptop from a dining room table.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
And 1
In case you didn't know already, Cara and I are expecting baby number four in April. Not exactly the distant future, but it sure feels that way.
No, we don't know if it's a boy or girl yet (it's still a walnut) but I'm secretly rooting for a boy. It would be nice for Gavin to have a brother to fight with. Then again, I love my girls and another one would be just as nice.
Now we all just have to survive the first trimester and Cara's incapacitating nausea. Cara gets the worst of it, but you know the old adage, "when Mom's not happy, no one is happy." Ain't that the truth? Bottom line: the entire process of pregnancy makes me very, very, very glad I'm a dude.
Nonetheless, we're excited, happy, and looking forward to the arrival of the newest Little Lockard.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
10 Blissful Years
A little arithmetic for you -- 1999 + 10 = infinity minus 10
Today, August 6th 2009, marks ten years since I married my sweetheart Cara. She was the answer to my prayers back then and she remains a dream come true to this day. I feel so honored to be with her and blessed to have found her in the first place.
I told Ainsley this evening about our upcoming special day. I said, "Ainsley, tomorrow is Mommy and Daddy's tenth anniversary. That means that we've been married for 10 years!" To which she replied, "So when are you going to stop being married?" I told her, "Never! We'll be married forever."
Forever. That's a comforting thought. There's no one else I'd rather spend forever with than the woman I've spent the past decade falling deeper and deeper in love with.
The happy couple...they had no idea what they had in store for them.
Check out that pretty lady...she hasn't aged a day. If she has then she's getting more beautiful as she ages.
Wow, what a beautiful bride...
Check out that pretty lady...she hasn't aged a day. If she has then she's getting more beautiful as she ages. Saturday, July 25, 2009
Obama's true colors
President Obama...
His wife is unabashedly anti-American. His preacher and "mentor" is a black liberation theologian who wants God to "damn America." Yet somehow, simply because he hasn't "gone on record" regarding his beliefs about racism in America, people didn't know where he stood. He's beyond all that nonsense, people told themselves. He's enlightened - smarter and more mature than the rest of us mooks.
Or not.
Our president - the leader of the free world - officially went on record this week by saying that a Massachusetts police officer "acted stupidly" for arresting Henry Gates, a Harvard professor, in his own home. The police officer, Sgt. James Crowley, cited Gates for disorderly conduct and hauled him off to the station.
With only that much information available to him, Obama essentially said, "well that's an obvious case of racial profiling. Our nation's police officers need to knock that off."
Umm, excuse me? Check your facts before passing judgment dude. In fact, don't pass judgment at all because you weren't there. You don't know what Gates said or did. Everyone who was there, including a black police officer, agree that Gates was out of line. I don't know for sure if that's true (I wasn't there) but I'll tell you what...if anyone was going to get riled up and rail on a white police officer it just might be a Harvard (read: flaming liberal) professor (read: arrogant) who teaches, advocates, and politicizes African American history. I'll bet he's been gearing up for a confrontation like this for the past 40 years. Again, whether this encounter warranted an arrest or not is none of my business, but it would not surprise me one bit.
So, back to Obama. His message is this...to arrest an educated black man is to "act stupidly." Never mind why you arrested him, or what the man says or does to you. Those are inconsequential, circumstantial details. You just don't do it. Uh, ok. Shouldn't justice prevail? Shouldn't we all be treated equally? Or should rich folks and movie stars and anyone else who could give me trouble be treated somehow different? I say no.
Yesterday Obama tried to smooth things over by saying that he should have "calibrated his words" differently. Whatever dude. Now we know what you think. The funny thing about words is that you can't take them back.
IMHO, this provides further evidence for the real Obama and not the messianic, rock star character the media has been shoving down our throats for the past 18 months. He's an elitist; an ultra-liberal American-hater. I hope this further galvanizes the opposition that is quickly gathering for his health care reform bill and the cap & trade legislation.
He can't smile and lie his way out of this one.
His wife is unabashedly anti-American. His preacher and "mentor" is a black liberation theologian who wants God to "damn America." Yet somehow, simply because he hasn't "gone on record" regarding his beliefs about racism in America, people didn't know where he stood. He's beyond all that nonsense, people told themselves. He's enlightened - smarter and more mature than the rest of us mooks.
Or not.
Our president - the leader of the free world - officially went on record this week by saying that a Massachusetts police officer "acted stupidly" for arresting Henry Gates, a Harvard professor, in his own home. The police officer, Sgt. James Crowley, cited Gates for disorderly conduct and hauled him off to the station.
With only that much information available to him, Obama essentially said, "well that's an obvious case of racial profiling. Our nation's police officers need to knock that off."
Umm, excuse me? Check your facts before passing judgment dude. In fact, don't pass judgment at all because you weren't there. You don't know what Gates said or did. Everyone who was there, including a black police officer, agree that Gates was out of line. I don't know for sure if that's true (I wasn't there) but I'll tell you what...if anyone was going to get riled up and rail on a white police officer it just might be a Harvard (read: flaming liberal) professor (read: arrogant) who teaches, advocates, and politicizes African American history. I'll bet he's been gearing up for a confrontation like this for the past 40 years. Again, whether this encounter warranted an arrest or not is none of my business, but it would not surprise me one bit.
So, back to Obama. His message is this...to arrest an educated black man is to "act stupidly." Never mind why you arrested him, or what the man says or does to you. Those are inconsequential, circumstantial details. You just don't do it. Uh, ok. Shouldn't justice prevail? Shouldn't we all be treated equally? Or should rich folks and movie stars and anyone else who could give me trouble be treated somehow different? I say no.
Yesterday Obama tried to smooth things over by saying that he should have "calibrated his words" differently. Whatever dude. Now we know what you think. The funny thing about words is that you can't take them back.
IMHO, this provides further evidence for the real Obama and not the messianic, rock star character the media has been shoving down our throats for the past 18 months. He's an elitist; an ultra-liberal American-hater. I hope this further galvanizes the opposition that is quickly gathering for his health care reform bill and the cap & trade legislation.
He can't smile and lie his way out of this one.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Ward splits
Yesterday our ward split...finally. The old Saratoga Springs 2nd ward was absolutely MASSIVE. Every week we filled the chapel and the entire basketball court. Every Sunday was like stake conference. Our ward had two Elder's Quorums, two Primaries, four Nurseries, and a Gospel Doctrine class that filled the entire chapel. So this split was long overdue.
Geographically, our new ward (Saratoga Springs 3rd) is precisely 6 streets wide by 2 streets tall. That's roughly the size of each of the neighborhoods we lived in back in Washington. Of course, in Monroe, Mill Creek and Everett, the most LDS families we ever had in our neighborhood was 3. Now we have about 100+ LDS-inhabited house out of the 120 houses in our new ward. Weird.
Still, I'm excited for the new ward. It's so easy to get lost in such a humongous group of people. Being with a smaller and more stable group will make it much easier to make friends, hold meaningful callings, and just feel more included. Our kids don't do well with big groups so it'll be a blessing for them as well. But more than anything, I'm excited because I won't have to go to the chapel half an hour early to reserve a soft seat in the chapel!
Geographically, our new ward (Saratoga Springs 3rd) is precisely 6 streets wide by 2 streets tall. That's roughly the size of each of the neighborhoods we lived in back in Washington. Of course, in Monroe, Mill Creek and Everett, the most LDS families we ever had in our neighborhood was 3. Now we have about 100+ LDS-inhabited house out of the 120 houses in our new ward. Weird.
Still, I'm excited for the new ward. It's so easy to get lost in such a humongous group of people. Being with a smaller and more stable group will make it much easier to make friends, hold meaningful callings, and just feel more included. Our kids don't do well with big groups so it'll be a blessing for them as well. But more than anything, I'm excited because I won't have to go to the chapel half an hour early to reserve a soft seat in the chapel!
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