First thing I want to say is how grateful I am for all of the night shift people we have had over the past few months. Rachelle and I took our first turns at the night shift last week for a few nights and we quickly realized that had we been doing that every night for the last 3 months, we would be totally crazy. It isn't as bad as it used to be because the babies are starting to have a better schedule but it was still bad enough that it would wear us out really fast if we had to do it every day.
The next thing I want to talk about it football. We were watching the UT vs. Texas A&M game last Friday and as I was watching it, I was really surprised to look up and see one of my babies on the TV during the commercial break. After a moment, I realized that it was a commercial for an upcoming special report about our babies on KVUE (ABC) on Monday Nov 26th at 6:00 PM. One of Rachelle's cousins who was visiting us was shocked about how that kind of stuff didn't totally freak us out. I guess it was a little weird but kind of cool at the same time.
Also, speaking of football, I have to mention here that BYU beat the University of Utah (their big rival) this year in a very dramatic finish. I didn't actually see the game but I watched the score update on ESPN.com. I chose not to watch or listen to it live because I have learned that doing so really upsets me. The University of Utah is our nemesis and it always bugs me when they beat us (which has happened a lot in the past 6 or so years). Anyway, BYU won and I think it might be partly because of the clothes we put on the babies.
Another really cool thing that happened this week was that we went to Rudy's. For those of you not from these parts, Rudy's is a really good barbecue place here in Austin (and a few other places) where we like to go. Rachelle's brother Ryan was visiting so we decided to take him there. However, because we didn't have any volunteers for that time, we decided to take the babies with us for their first big outing.
It was a little crazy going there but we made it OK. When we walked in, a few people stared but we assumed they probably thought we just had a few families together with a bunch of babies. Anyway, we put them all in the back of the restaurant and had Rachelle's mom go and order the food. As she was ordering, she realized that she probably wouldn't have enough cash to pay for it so she asked Ryan to go get some from me. While he was going, the manager of the store asked her if she was with us. When she said "yes", he said that our meal would be on the house and kept insisting that we order a little bit more. He was really nice and it turned out that he has twins and understood what was going on with us. A little later, he asked to take a picture of the babies with a bunch of Rudy's Barbecue sauce bottles for their wall of fame. We said, "Sure", so they brought out their camera and took some pictures then gave us all of the bottles of sauce. It was very nice. Here is a picture of the event:
Other than that, we had the baby blessings for our babies today. Rachelle will talk about that so I will just mention it briefly here. In our church, we give baby blessings to newborns to kind of get them started off right. The blessings are given in our "sacrament meeting" which is the big meeting we have with everybody. The person that performed the ordinance was me and doing five was a bit of a challenge. We had a bunch of people come which was really great but I am sure that Rachelle will talk about it.
Something I wanted to also share were some TV news stories that happened over the last few weeks:
Here is one from News 8 Austin that they were showing on Thanksgiving day (the link to the video is down near the middle of the story):
Link to news 8 story
Here is also one from KEYE that they showed last week (the video is on the right of the story)
KEYE story
7 comments:
Thank goodness the boys were wearing their BYU outfits for the big game! We would have lost otherwise I'm sure.
Loved the TV stories on KEYE and News 8.
Can't wait to see all of you next week.
Love Auntie V
The BYU game was AWESOME! Thank you Rustin and Ryder for wearing your lucky shirts. They sure helped!
We also love Rudy's! Just from the one time we were in Austin, and because my friend Sharlene gave us some of their sauce as a gift once! That is a great story. Way to be brave and just get out there with those kiddoes!
This post was so full of juicy tidbits and information . . . Thanks guys!
Oh my goodness.... I never realized what a blessing the quints were until they provided you with free Rudy's. :) Just kidding. I'm so excited to come and see you all in one month exactly!
Oh man! I am sad that we missed the blessing of the babies. That is sad. I hope it went good. That is awesome about the Rudy's. We love Rudys here!
I wondered how the Blessing would work. I have twins and my niece is 22 hrs older then my boys. My husband was asked to bless her along with the twins on the same day and allthough it was neat it was a challenge also. So I wondered how it would work out for you all glad to hear it went off all. I am sure you feel a bit like a circus everywhere you go I know I do with my 5 and they are not all babies. You are very brave or a little insane to hit a restraunt with all the little ones. I was a little upset by the ernding of the Utah Byu game. I am a Ute fan.
Go Cougars! How cool of Rudy's. I'm going to look for the photo on the wall the next time I'm there. Was it the one on 620?
The most wonderful thing about feeling grateful for so many things is that deep, genuine gratitude creates deep, genuine happiness.
You have shared so many sweet moments with those of us who are following your family's story. Thanks from all your adoring fans!
(And GO COUGARS!)
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