Test

this is a test

Funny

Go to google and type in the phrase "I am extremely" and wait to see what appears at the bottom to finish your sentence.

Goo

So grades come out on Monday, and I am not very excited about it. I don't think that I did very well because of the baby craziness. I am nervous to check to see what they are. Grrr. Oh well, life goes on.

Where is everyone? I'm bored, tell me a story!

hmmm

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/28527841?gt1=43001

You know you're a stay at home mom when....

You know you're a stay at home mom when your current pet peeve is the boy named Miguel (it's sad enough that I know his name) on Barney who has the nasaliest voice in the WORLD and has NO rhythm to be able to dance along with "Mr Sun" and other such fun songs. Sigh.

The Best Headline I Have Ever Seen

Seriously funny.

Seen this?

Have you guys seen this.... you probably have, I'm kind of behind when it comes to the funny websites, but here it is if you haven't- he he.

Curse the International Trade Final (curse finals in general actually)

As long as we are cursing things, I am about to have a very unpleasant three hours with an international trade final. I feel like I know the stuff pretty well, but finals tend to be a crap shoot. I just hope I don't freeze up and type absolutely nothing. I will be so excited a week from Thursday at six p.m. when I am done with finals. Until then, send all of your smart mojo my way. (send some mojo over to Catherine too while your at it)

Curse the common cold

You know how you don't know that you use certain muscles for something until you have done it so many times it hurts? Such is the case for me with blowing my nose. Apparently, you use some muscles in your back, if anyone is interested.

Overall, I have preferred being a mother to the other jobs I have had, but there are some downsides. Unfortunately, there is no calling in sick- and my boss seems to have no clue that I don't feel well and would like for him to stop yelling. On the other hand, I am sure at most other jobs you don't have a cute little boss that you can cuddle with while he is watching Barney!

Happy Monday all.

You Know Its Finals Time When...

The Georgetown International Law Library is full before noon.

Seriously, the library is usually pretty empty until around three o'clock, but the week before finals it is packed starting at about ten. It makes it a little difficult to study with all of these people around.

Self Explanatory

Christmas

Cat, do you remember when you and Di and Andrew used to pretend it was Christmas morning and unwrap gifts that you had wrapped up in towels? I laughed so hard when I found out that you guys did that. I guess it is no worse than me and Liz saving the sheet of bubble wrap to pop when we got up on Christmas morning. Pretty silly.

By the way, are we drawing names for gifts? Karen and I were just planning on getting presents for everybody. But we can draw names if you like.

Dream

Last night i dreamt that it was christmas time and all of us were home...everyone was there including Andrew and James' and Karen's baby. It was snowing outside and the house was all warm and nice, we were having so much fun. It was a great dream and it made me miss all of you so much! I hope all is well, I love you!!

yeah.....

So, I stumbled upon this tonight- uhhhh that's all I can say about this

Calling All Catherines

Catherine where are you? I have tried to call you for two days now. Are you ok?

Dear Catherine

I fixed your picture.

More videos

Where is everyone?  Probably busy, eh?  Well, here are some more videos of Ezra yet again.  He has now graduated from dancing to his phone toy to dancing with his favorite show's intro (although, I don't think he really likes the show, just the theme song!)  He has also discovered the fun of the luv sac now that we have it back....thanks to Kathy and Ann!

I know its backwards but I am excited

hey there babies

so I thought i would post a couple of pictures of me and Tim in yellowstone... we had a really good time, it was absolutely beautiful there and i feel like i can appreciate it much more now that i am not little ;)

Party

Hi again,

Here is a video of Ezra's party with all of his guests...it was after his bedtime so he was kinda grumpy :)

Videos

Hi All,

I hope that all of the siblings are doing well. Where are you all???? Here are some Ezra videos that I have failed to post. Lately he has loved this phone of his that plays music and he likes to rock out to it. Today he took a ton of steps and we got a few on tape!! I was going to put some video of his b-day party, but I can't get them to work. I'll have to get to them later. Love you all- tell me how you're doing!

A Walk and a Warthog

Hello Siblings,

Things are coming along here in Tucson. We are getting used to our new digs and kind of getting used to the heat. We have been going on walks around sixish when it is a little bit cooler and to tie Ezra through his pre-bedtime grumpiness. Today as we were walking in our little neighborhood we came upon a javelina- basically a warthog. It was BIG and I was afraid it would run after us and attack Ezra, but it didn't. I couldn't help but think about that scene from Rescuers Down Under- isn't it a warthog in that one? Anyway, there is my exciting story for today. Love you all.

What I'm Reading

In the spirit of Karen I have posted what I am reading. What about you?

Ella Enchanted

So I just finished "Ella Enchanted". I liked it a lot. You just wanted to kill Hattie. It was sooooo much better than the movie (no surprise). Now Diana says I should read Ulysses :o)

Movie and Podcast

Hi all! James and I watched a great movie last night called "The Dish" It's all about the satellite dish in Australia that helped broadcast pictures when man first landed on the moon. Also, I recently discovered the podcast "Radio Lab". It's pretty entertaining. It talks about science and stuff. I really like it. So you'll have to check it out!

Grades

So grades were supposed to be posted yesterday at six. I am such a worrier that I couldn't sleep the night before etc. and I waited with breathless anticipation until six o'clock, turned on my computer, went to the site, clicked on the link and....

DISCOVERED THAT ONLY TWO OF THE GRADES WERE POSTED AND THREE OF THEM WERE STILL MISSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was not pleased.

Plus the grades that I did see were two measly B's so I was not happy with that either.

Long story short I got the rest of my grades today and happily they are better than the ones I got last night.

I ended up with a cumulative GPA of 3.48 which should be good enough to put me in the top third of my class and on the dean's list. (I won't know for certain until Friday)

Anyway that is the story of how I almost had an aneurysm because of the registrar's office.

Ezra is standing!

Hello all,

This week I have started packing, and Ezra has started standing!  I haven't made a huge dent in the packing thing, but I am glad I have at least started. Here is a video of Ezra standing up with us today.  Love you all.

Hot Hot Heat!

Hey everybody. Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time. We have had Karen's family out here visiting this past week. It was really nice to see them, but it decided to get crazy hot just in time for them to come out and see us. It was like ninety six degrees and crazy humid. Not cool, in more ways than one (wink). (typing puns is not as fun as saying puns). Karen's family went home today, and she took tomorrow off as well, so she gets an extra day off tomorrow. The professor I am working for is going out of town starting next week so I won't have to meet with him for a while which will be nice (it is kind of stressful to meet with him) Other than that we are just working hard to stay cool.

Haircut

Last week Ezra had his first official haircut.  We have had to trim his little tuft in the back a few times before, but this time we got his whole head of hair.  Here is the first part of his haircut and a picture of the final product!

Random

But funny.

Bored on Sunday...Again

James told me I need to post on the blog. So here is my post. I'll try to do better, but there are no guarantees :o). So...I'm sick. Yuck! Everything makes me nauseous. Even someones breath. Thank goodness they say this will go away. Liz asked me if my sense of smell had become super human. Well, it's now happened. I like plain pasta, rice, rye crackers and water. Anything bland is super. So there is my rant on morning (all-day) sickness. But I must say that James is fabulous. He has cooked dinner and done dishes and cleaned out the fridge. On a happier note, we wen to see Indiana Jones last night. James thought it was pretty stupid-which it was. But would you really expect any less from an Indiana Jones movie? For those of you who have not seen it, there is a funny twist at the end :o) My family is coming to see us on Wednesday. I'm excited to see them! It will be extra nice not to have to go to work.

cool website

This is pretty cool

Names that whisper love....

Hello All,

As you can tell from the title (maybe) I have been reading "Here at the Scenic View Motel".  I finally bought it and I am glad to have a copy of my comfort book around.  It is much better to read at 3 am when I can't sleep as opposed to "A Thousand Splendid Suns"...which isn't so relaxing.

On a different note, here are some videos of Ezra.  He has just started pulling himself up on things.  Mostly just my hands and legs, but yesterday I found him standing up in his crib and today he has been pushing himself up on his toy basket.  Great Grandpa Parsons visited on Sunday so Ezra got to hang out with three greats.  Hope everyone is doing well!

Finals Are Over!

Finally!!

this is pretty funny

Hey there

We are bored on Sunday so here is a picture of us. I hope everyone is doing well.

One down, three to go

24 hour property take home + James = one gigantic headache

For Your Viewing Pleasure

Hey guys,

Here are a few videos of Ezra for your enjoyment. For awhile he has given us a definite cue of twisting his wrists and ankles around for when he wants something....here are some examples.   As you can see he does it when he wants anything, be it Dad or food.  Joe is playing his guitar more now, and is taking lessons from his cousin Leah.

I guess Ezra has decided that the traditional knee crawling is just not exciting enough for him so he does a bear crawl around.  It's pretty cute.

Love you all!!

LIke a Frog in a Pot of Boiling Water...or not

turns out it isn't true I wanted to try out for myself but mom suggested looking on Snopes who would have thought too bad for all those mutual lessons and new era articles i suppose they will have to think of a new metaphor

I guess it was funny!

Hello Siblings,

This is a video we got of Ezra one night last week (I'm not the best camerawoman).  He was really tired, and for some reason Joe decided to start barking at him. This was the result!

but yet

This has been bugging me for months now, so I have decided to vent. I swear at least 3 times a day I hear someone say blah blah blah, but yet blah blah blah. Isn't it just but or yet? One of my dumb pet peeves. Love you all. No ifs, ands, buts, or yets about it.

Scary

This is scary, buy a shredder or use your fireplace.

Coolness

Coolness

Death By Printing

Trauma at the Bates household this morning. So I printed my take home exam last night thinking that I will wake up early this morning, look it over one more time and turn it in. I woke up at about six forty-five, read it one more time and found a few errors that I needed to correct which I marked with a pen. I then decided to replace the ink cartridge in the printer and print it. When I replaced the cartridge and tried to print it wouldn't work. I kept trying but the dang thing wouldn't print. It is now about seven o'clock and I have to turn the exam in by ten. I get docked a full grade for every five minutes that it is late. I decide to save it on a jump drive and go to the local copy place and get it printed there. The dude tells me it will take about an hour to get it printed. I wanted to punch him, but I didn't. So we decide to take it up to Karen's office and get it printed there. I just about blew a gasket on the train but we ended up getting to Karen's office in plenty of time and she printed it just fine. I just turned it in. It has been an exciting morning.

Good Times

Cat, I was checking my e-mail today and I saw a banner ad for investools. It made me think of you. Hope everything is going ok with your finals. Hang in there you can do it!!!!!

My coach calls me the train

so i am at the library.....and i just saw Jeff Craig that kid is as big of a tool now as he was when he was 10

have a nice night!

Just Hangin Out

Hi all,

Here is a video of Ezra doing what he does a lot now during his waking hours.  Love you all!

April Fools

Go to Youtube and click on one of the featured videos.

Make sure you have headphones/the sound enabled.

Funny Craig's List Post

Check it out.

Times a changin'

Hey kids.

I decided to change the template of the blog, without asking you about it.

Sorry if you don't like it.

I am not very tech savvy but I was trying to make it so that you could subscribe to the RSS feed, and I didn't want to edit the HTML on my own fearing that it would cause a meltdown or something. Anyhow, let me know if you don't like this template and we can certainly change it to something else.

Cherry Blossoms

Yesterday we (along with everyone else on the Eastern Seaboard) went to see the cherry blossoms at the tidal basin. They were really pretty, but there were so many people there we didn't stay for very long. Here are some pictures.

Mr. T

I knew Mr. T had super powers.

Siblings!

whats up?

not much here

today me and some friends went to the local skate park and took some pictures i thought you might enjoy, love you all and i hope everything is well!

Hilarious

so in grammar today my Professor showed us these video, diana get excited this is what you have to look forward to

Awareness Test

Check out the Awareness test.

Multi-purpose chair, and more!

Hi All,

I can't email any videos so I thought I would put them here.  Ezra has decided that his high chair is also his commode.  Most days he does his business when I am feeding him lunch or dinner.  I couldn't resist- he he.  He is still working on crawling- this is a video of him a week ago.  He has gotten a little better and frequently rolls strategically to get where he wants.  If he is trying to move and can't, he lays his head down in frustration and then tries again.  Here is a taste!

enjoy!

if you are into having an absurd amount of useless knowledge floating around your brain have i got a site for you!
Enjoy!

another one, I'm not kidding

Ok- this is for real, really. Like two hours after I wrote the last entry Joe was watching yet another show on the History channel, this one was on the Bermuda Triangle. There was a man on the show who hypothesized that the Bermuda Triangle was caused by a bubble- apparently he specializes in bubbles, and yes, he was referred to as a bubbleologist. I wonder how many bubbleologists there are out there? Well, I think for the next few months if I ever need to laugh I am set.

what-ologist?

Hey Siblings,

So, Joe and I have been watching a series of shows about UFOs on the history channel. Joe had been watching it before I started and while watching I heard one of the narrators say ufologist (you- fologist). What is that....yes, ladies and gentlemen, someone who studies UFOs. It's a week later, and I am still laughing. Happy Monday.

Eliz

holy amazing-ness

Constitutional Question

So we are learning about congressional powers in Con law. This brings me to a question: Are you in favor of a stronger state government or stronger federal government? I think for most of my life I pretty much took separation of powers for granted and never thought much about state sovereignty, but now that I am taking this class it has become something I do think about. (not that I can really do anything about it if I am dissatisfied with the current system). Anyhow, what do you think? (sorry this is such a civics lessony post, I will be more entertaining in later posts I promise)

Random

So I get this e-mail about a week ago from match.com saying thank you for setting up my account. I thought that it was spam so I just deleted it. The following day I get another e-mail from them showing me people matching the profile that I supposedly set up on match.com. So I guess someone created an account using my e-mail address and I have been getting match.com e-mails for a week now. I e-mailed them and told them what happened. They e-mailed me back and told me to sign on to my account and deactivate it. Oh thanks, that could be hard since I didn't actually create the account and don't have the dang password. Then today I got the bright idea to tell them that I forgot my password. They e-mailed it to me and I closed down the account. Then I changed my e-mail password just in case. This whole thing is kind of creepy weird and makes me nervous that someone has hacked into my e-mail account. I don't want to have to deal with some identity thief.

Also we have been having freezing rain here which is not my favorite thing in the world.

a big step in the life of catherine

Last night i went skiing at kelly canyon with daniel cass and megan it was so much fun!!!!!! Daniel teaches lessons up there so he got us all in free and then gave me and megan a lesson. It was awesome but kind of scary too. here are some pictures i love you all and hope everything is going well.

It's cold...where's my money?

I'm pretty bored, so I am going to share my thoughts at the moment for something to do...

So, the other day I was thinking to myself...hmm I don't think I have gotten my paycheck this week. So I call our payroll office and they informed me that they had not gotten my hours for this whole month hence the lack of funds. I guess it's kind of good because now I'll get a bigger one next week.

It's cold- I haven't been warm for about 3 days. All I want to do is sit in my bathtub in scalding water.

I think Ezra is regressing. He has been a stinker, fussy pants all day. I feel like I did when he was one month old except that he has much greater lung capacity now!

That's all.

too much time on my hands

Close Call...again

So, we woke up to about a foot of snow this morning and it was still coming. We had bought tickets for the auto show online, so we decided to go despite of the weather. We got there fine, but the parking lot at the expo center was a little more dangerous. We were trying to find a parking spot when a snow plow started backing up- fast- well we got out of the way and ran into a snow drift. At least it was snow and not another snow plow- sheesh. Hope you all had a good weekend!

First Week of School

this week has been just grand, i have really enjoyed all of my classes...even my biology class which is surprising! last night me and my friends got together and made and decorated sugar cookies it was a lot of fun... here are some pictures love you all and i hope you are well!

It's Over!!!

I am finally done taking tests and now I have almost three whole weeks to just relax. I am so excited! It will be nice to come home and see everyone. I can't believe how stressed out I have been lately so it is nice to be able to take a breath and calm myself down. Thanks to everyone for your encouraging words and prayers. See you on Thursday!!

Remember the good old days?

Remember the good old days when siblings posted on the blog so often? When witty back and forth was a daily occurence? I do. Those were the good old days. Now I can't think of anything witty to say. Finals have eaten my brain. Hopefully after Monday I will regain my brain. I am so excited to see everybody and go see the lights and eat pancakes and everything else Christmasy that I have been missing. I have not really had much time to think about anything other than civil procedure, contracts and torts. I only have one more final left to take and then I will be free for TWO WHOLE WEEKS!!!!!
I am super excited. So is Karen. We will have to make the most of the time while we are there.

Death to Finals: BYU-I style

basically i want to die

i can't wait to come home and see all you guys and have a christmas tree and drink egg nog and not do any school work or talk to teachers or worry about roommates stealing my food or cleaning or anything like that

Basically saturday can't come soon enough

Stinkin' Snow Plows

So this weekend was the first step in the move. We planned on moving some boxes and painting Ezra's room. Well, it snowed quite a bit last night so we knew it would be more fun than we planned. When we go in our car there was this snow plow in the parking lot over by the dumpster going back then forward. It was just sitting there when we pulled out of the parking space so we backed up. Then the stupid plow started backing up. Joe tried to pull back into the space, but the car was stuck in the snow, so he honked for like 5 seconds but the stinkin plow just kept backing up and then hit us. I hit my head, but no one really got hurt. The back of the car is pretty messed up, but at least the rear window didn't break (it came pretty close). We then got to spend about 45 minutes filling out police reports and junk.

Even though all of that junk we still moved about 8 boxes and painted Ezra's room. It's a nice light yellow that will look pretty cute with his digs. Hope you guys had a good weekend. Love you all.

Death to finals

I'm serious I want to kill them all. I'll do it too. You try and stop me.

(they are tests silly, you can't kill them, but they can certainly kill you)

Also in case you missed it before.

ELFED!!

New Glasses

I got new glasses because I lost my old ones. Here is a picture of Karen and I being glasses buddies!

Hi Ho, Hi Ho

Hello all,

So, yesterday was my first day back to work. My two appointments cancelled and Dr. Burr was out of town, so I only stayed for a whopping 4 hours. Joe played with Ezra in the morning and me and Ezra enjoyed the afternoon by listening to our drunken neighbor scream along with Pearl Jam and topping it off with maintenance saving us from a near kitchen flood (again). Ah, what a life. Love to all!

Dear Siblings

do you know anyone who wants to date me? if so kindly send them my way, thanks
love,
catherine

Done

Well I finished my legal research and writing take home test. I have to wait until ten o' clock to turn it in though. I can't wait to get rid of the dang thing. I just want to turn it in and not think about it again. I think I did a pretty good job, but grading here seems a bit on the arbitrary side so I am not sure how well I will do. This only counts as 30% of our total grade for this class so it is not as bad as finals are going to be where the three hour exam counts for 100% of your grade. Fun stuff. Anybody have any fun Thanksgiving plans? Karen and I are going up to Bert and Tiina's house to have dinner and then we are going to watch Rattatoullie (we got it about two weeks ago but have been saving it to watch it over thanksgiving). We are pretty excited. I also wish I could find someone with cable so I could watch the BYU Utah game at their house. I guess I will just have to settle for listening to it on KSL.

Mission: FAILED

he wasn't home so i couldn't give him cookies and i would have just left them but i want to see him.....that was the whole point of the cookies so i guess i will just call tomorrow? i don't know. Why do things have to be hard?

James, do you still....

Hello all,

Tonight for some reason I was thinking of James' always needed Friday dance. So do you still do the Friday dance, James? I would assume you have beefed it up for Law School- I'm sure it's even better now. We will all be excited for a presentation when you return!

Love to all.

Story Time

Brush With Death

Bet that title got your attention. Huh? Huh?

So Karen and I went to have dinner with a friend who lives in Maryland on Sunday. We got directions to his house from the internet and you know how sometimes they aren't exactly clear? Well we were on what we thought was the right road, but then it ended and our only option was to turn left or right. So I decided to turn left and then make a U turn and go back. I also decided to call my friend and see if he could clarify where the heck his apartment was. So I get out my trusty cell phone and try to find his number and then dial him up. While the phone is ringing the light turns and I have a green arrow. But I'm still kind of distracted because by now my friend's wife has answered the phone and I haven't met her yet so I'm trying to be polite and still ask her for directions and dive at the same time. Consiquently I am a little slow getting out into the intersection, when suddenly a car that must have been going at least fifty miles an hour totally blows through the intersection and misses us by inches. If I hadn't had been distracted by the cell phone conversation I would have probably been dead, or very seriously injured at the very least. Which would have put a damper on our dinner plans.

So here is a case where talking on a cell phone in the car actually prevented an accident from occuring. Kind of ironic huh?

Ezra's first "vacation"

Hi Siblings,

So, I kind of forgot my password to get on the blog and then James kindly reminded me it is just gmail name and password. Sorry for my absence.

This week has been an adventure! We got word that Joe's Grandma was pretty sick so we left on a spur of the moment trip on Saturday morning. Ezra didn't have the best time during our 12 hour trip to Los Alamos, but we made it okay and he slept through the night that night! Sunday we drove to Amarillo with Ann to see Grandma Parsons. I am glad that we went when we did because she passed away that night, so she got to hear Ezra before she passed away. We left Amarillo on Tuesday and will hang out here at Joe's parents house until Friday when we'll go back for the funeral.

All in all it hasn't been the most ideal baby's first vacation, but at least he will have a picture with his great-grandma and we are glad we came in time to see her. He is definitely getting used to long car rides, so I guess that is good.

Hope everyone is having a fun November- talk to you soon.

Happy Halloween

We carved our pumpkin yesterday. Here are some pictures.

Just kickin' it in the library, old school!

That's right friends, I am writing this blog entry because my brain has ceased to function. Hopefully it will get back to functionality in about five or ten minutes because I still have a lot of reading to do. We shall see. Everything is going pretty good here. I am still really busy, but I am understanding things a lot better now, so that is good. Karen and I are going to listen to the House Majority Leader speak tonight so that should be cool. We are also going out to dinner before we go, so that should be cool too. Don't forget to post!!

man i am hardcore

So i went bridge jumping today and it was pretty intense and a lot of fun.

me cass tyleen and janiece decided to form a rollerblading gang so here we are, matt remarked that if i want to look hardcore i need to stop smiling but frankly it is hard with these girls!

Adventures in the big city

So Karen and I went to the Nationals baseball game on Friday night. BYU was having an alumni night so we got tickets for just $8. We were going to go right after Karen got done with work, so I met Karen at her office and we took the metro over to the stadium. We had to go to parking lot number seven to get the tickets and they were going to have pizza there too. Well, parking lot seven is in the twilight zone of the stadium. We found parking lot eight and six and five but not seven. After walking around for a good half an hour we found it, ate some pizza and went to the game. It turns out that the nationals are not very good. They were playing the Philadelphia Phillies, and they got spanked. To make matters worse, there were all these really obnoxious Phillies fans sitting right behind us. They kept chanting really loudly. It was annoying. So we decided to leave early because I still had to go up to campus to get my books. We left at nine o'clock and didn't end up getting home until midnight. The trains run a lot slower after rush hour, so we had to wait about twenty minutes every time we wanted to take a train. It was not cool. While we were waiting for the train to go to metro center these two girls stumbled over to us. I was sitting towards the end of the bench and this girl just colapsed right next to me. It was very obvious that they had had a little too much to drink. So, of course, I used them for entertainment. One girl commented on my civil procedure book and said that she had one just like it at home. So I said "oh really, what do you think of personal jurisdiction?" She replied "I believe in it, I really do" It was kind of funny and sad at the same time. They rode on the same train as us, got off at metro center and took another train back in the same direction they came from.

Anyway that was our exciting adventure yesterday. Today I have been doing homework all day. All in all a very exciting weekend.

Wyoming, a state worth not exploring

I feel obligated to post because everyone else who has moved to another state has posted some sort of update. Well here is my update, everything is exactly the same every day. I am sure my experience here has been an episode on the twilight zone. If not, it should be. Sounds like the other out of staters have much more sweet stuff to talk about.

I-Daho

is pretty weird i will tell you what

a far cry from hanging out with jamie anyways
i always forget how many stupid couples there are
and how many attractive mormon boys there are.

things have been good thus far my roommates seem nice enough or maybe even too nice

i am excited for the rest of my friends to get here love you all!

First Day

So I have concluded that the first day of law school is a cross between a BYU premed class, and a conversation with dad. It is like a BYU premed class because everyone is raising their hand constantly to prove to the professor how brilliant they are, and it is highly competitive. Everyone wants you to know exactly how much smarter they are than you. (this is a bit of an exageration but not far from the truth) It is like a conversation with dad because you need to back up everything you say and be prepared to defend your comments. I think that being a member fo the Bates family has prepared me well to argue with anyone around on any subject imaginable. (that might be anexageration as well but hey, what the heck) also there is a large number of legal pads present in most areas, and everyone and their dog uses laptops to take notes. I am bucking the trend and using plain old pen and paper for now, but we will see how that goes after a while.

Our apartment

Hey everybody. Here are some before and after pictures of our apartment. The before ones were taken last Thursday right after we finished moving in, but before we had started unpacking. The after ones were taken today because today is the first day that we have had the internet. Not as exciting as a baby, but we do our best.

Before:





After:






We will take more pictures and post them later. Karen wants to start a new blog for both of our families so that her family can see the pictures too. I will send everybody the link.

hello fam

james/dia when do you start school?

james how is VA?

i feel very disconnected from you all i hope everything is well

Have a Pepsi and a smile

Today was my last day at Coke. Kind of weird to think that I will probably never go there again, and never see those people again. I am glad to be moving on though. It will be nice to actually have to think at my occupation instead of just being an order entry monkey. Everyone was really nice to me when I left though, so that was good. I talked to Karen just now and she is stuck on the tarmac in Washington DC. She doesn't know when she will be taking off. That is no good, I hope that she is ok.

Peoria

Congrats to Andrew on his mission call. I was poking around the internet and foud this website Check it out.

asian babies

no catherine and james, this is not "the catherine and james blog"

even though it sure seems like it. I just never have anything to blog about.

-dianabates

[sorry i didnt sign outta your name catherine, im on your compy and feeling lazy]

My Public Apology to James and Karen

Dear James and Karen,

I am sorry for freaking out at you guys tonight when we were talking about the whole "chris" thing. I just get really frustrated because i feel like i can't attract/ aren't attracted to guys that are mormon. My reaction was also due to a culmination of things that include matt not talking to me for a couple of weeks and Emily Omer telling me she has been on three times as many dates in the two months she has been single than me in the two years that i have been single. (that sentence is poorly constructed but i don't care).

I just keep thinking about all the guys that went after and go after my roommates/whitney and i can't help thinking what do they have that i don't... Sorry didn't mean to be bearing my soul here mostly i just wanted to say that i am really sorry for yelling and i know that you are just trying to help and i appreciate that. I love you both and i am excited for baklava and disturbia WOOHOO!

Love always, your little sister,
Catherine

ok so i misread your comment and now i feel stupid

you said what are we to do i thought it said what are we doing here.




i am going camping and i am going canoeing i feel like i haven't seen you in 3.7 years can we hang out?

are you coming to dinner on sunday?

maybe i will call you

have fun at work weirdy

I Will tell you what we are doing...

We are liberating the minds of Bates a crossed the state encouraging them to use those famous Bates English skills to enlighten the poor inhabitants of the blogging world who have not yet had the horrifyingly illuminating experience of Bates-esque prose lilting on their tongues, that my friend is what we are doing here.


also because frankly i like to blog and i think you do too.

Cold

Hope you get feeling better. I am sad you can't come to the baseball game, but it is more important for you to get feeling better.

Haircut

I got a haircut today. It made me ichy. In other news, it is uber hot and the swamp cooler is struggling to cool our house. Pretty much all it ends up doing is make our house a little cooler and a whole lot more moist. I guess I should get used to moistness if I am living in DC huh?

Dia and I are watching the cosby show

so i decided to post so that james isn't sad about our lack of blogging.

so i am going to rexburg on friday, going to talk to my counselor and go to a reception and hang out with one Matthew Johnson WOOHOO!!

and with the roomies and all sorts of fun stuff.



i love you all bye!