An ode to Elizabeth

When I lived in Hawaii my friends Kim and Elizabeth decided to have a hotdog night. Eat hotdogs every way we had ever eaten them. Macaroni and cheese, broiled with mashed potatoes and cheese on top and the strangest way I have ever heard, slaw dawgs. Elizabeth is from the south and she says they have hot dogs with cole slaw on top. I thought it was odd, but they were good. Just last night, on the food channel's program "The Best Thing I Ever Ate," one of the guys talked about slaw dawgs. He talked about the best place to get them was a restaurant in South Carolina. So, there you go Elizabeth. I now believe you about the slaw dawgs!

Nathan

Nathan Lofi was born 12/2 weighing 9 lbs 8 oz, 20 1/2 inches long. It was quite a wild ride for us. We got to the hospital around 5 am, after having contractions since 1 the afternoon before. I wanted to wait as long as I could for the epidural, since that slows down the labor and James was so long I wanted to have this one go faster. The nurses advised against it, but I wanted to hang on as long as I could. The nurse said the Dr would come in and break my water and I said I would do the epidural after that. The Dr. came in around 9. I was at a 7, when he broke the water, I went to a 9 and the baby dropped and the cord wrapped around his neck. The Dr. worked and worked to get the cord away from his neck but had no luck so he jumped on my bed with his hand keeping the cord from strangling my baby and they wheeled me to the OR for an emergency c section. Here I am, no epidural and laying flat on my back. I was in such pain. They put me on the operating table and they started to give me a general, when he was able to get the cord away from the neck. They say this is a miracle. This was the first time he was able to feel a cord around a babies neck, and even more rare for the cord to be able to be removed. So, luckily, I did not have to have a c-section. They tried to deliver me right then, but after the cord was removed, the baby moved back and I went back down to a 7. Weird. So, I ended up delivering him at 1:30 that afternoon. Labor stinks. They say that after the first baby, labor is about half the time. Not in my case, it was a bit longer. What's the deal!
Anyway, here is my baby:

What the...

I think I want to change the name of my blog to "What the...??!?!" Why do people do stupid things? So, its January 2, 2010. Aho and I are driving on the freeway on the way to Provo from Layton, and we see two guys in a convertable with the top down. WHAT THE...??? Are you kidding me? They weren't even bundled up. I don't care if they were out for a test drive. It's January. The coldest month of the year in Utah, going 70 mph on the freeway. I have to guess their nose hairs were frozen.