He's here!!! and he's a JOY

  So as you know Carolyn gave birth to Caleb B. Kidd last Sunday night at 6:37 p.m. I guess I'll tell the story of how it all came about.  Saturday night we were watching a movie (Saints and Soldiers), after the movie, around 11:30, Carolyn started to feel pains. After a while she started to time how many they were within an hour.  Of course being new to this thing we decided to sleep on it and see if they continued to go at the same pace, one every five mins.  So Sunday morning we woke up and they were still there.  At 9:30 we left for the hospital to make sure nothing was really happening.  By 11:15 they told us that we needed to stay and that we were going to have a baby today.  This was a shocker in a sense.  We were not expecting him to come so soon.  Minute after minute the contractions got stronger and stronger.  Luckily by 1:00 she got her epidural and everything was just fly.  So now we were in a waiting period.  Slowly yet surely the time came for Carolyn to start pushing, 6:17 p.m.  Twenty minutes passed by and Caleb was out.  I admit that it was not what I was expecting to see.  I knew he had to come out but... I dont know if I can explain how I felt.  Still that feeling has passed and this little guy has been such a joy to our little family.  He is so cute!!!  We just love to stare at him while he is sleeping and watch him smile while dreaming.  He is such a happy baby.  He sleeps most of the time, even while eating.  It is hard to keep him eating as he just falls asleep.  Well we wont complain.  He is such a stud.

On a side note, Dad if you are reading stop!, here is a list of places that he has tinkled without a diaper.
1. Nurse's arm right after being born
2. Carolyn's hospital bed
3. His hospital bed
4. Home bathroom floor after taking a bath
5. Crib
and more places to come I'm sure

It wont work

So let me tell you the experience I just had with these bullets.  So while Carolyn went to her baby shower I took Ginger up to the mountains on the west side of Utah Lake to the shooting area that is over there.  Well the first problem that I encountered was getting up to an area where there were no other shooters.  My truck can not go up steep inclines.  My poor baby has bad traction and little power.  So I had to park and hike to get to a good area.  When I got there I decided to load my gun.  Just then Mom text me and asks if I could go to the hospital to give dad a blessing when I am done with my activities.  I said I would and continue to hike to find a target.  I shoot at something and walk shoot and walk.  I did that till I found some pop cans (or were they beer cans) and set them up to shoot them.  Well if you remember my gun holds 15 of these little babies. I loose count of how many I go through and during that  time I hear this weird rattle come from my gun.  Still a shoot a couple more times and notice that my bullet housing has come out (that is where you put the bullets in initially.  It is a metal tube on the underside of the barrel).  I try to slide it back in but something was blocking it.  When I try to put a new round in the chamber it gets jammed.  So I had to somehow get the jamming bullet out of the way so I can close the chamber.  So I fiddled with that for ten minutes and let Ginger roam around during that time (there were no other shooters for hundreds of yards and over hills, she was safe).  Finally I get it to close and call for Ginger and head back to the truck.  Later that day I try to take a hammer and tap the housing tube back into place but that didn't work either.  I finally dare to look down inside (the gun was pointing at my face) with a flashlight and find that these bullets and one more were jamming up the housing inside the gun.  So I had to take a hanger wire and unjam them.  It made me nervous to do this while the gun was pointing at me.  I finally get them out and saw what I had done to these bullets.  By tapping the tube down in with the hammer I split the bullet and scrapped the other.  I think I am lucky to be here today to tell you all of this.  God was watching out for me, like he always does.

Unfortunate Events

Well it seems that something has come up and our sealing date will be pushed back for a while.  I regret to inform you all this way but it seems to be the best way.  So I will let you know when things will happen.

So things are going just great with us.  Carolyn has found out that Veteran Affairs will be paying  for her schooling and some other things that I can't remember, but we will be gaining some extra cash come January.  That is when she will start her schooling.  She took a placement test just the other week and we are waiting to hear back from them.

As for me, work is work.  We just had a mock inspection from the Health Department.  I was not in the meeting but I will find out about how everything went Monday.  Dad was there so he knows and I heard a little bit about some of the things we are going to have to do.  I think nothing big will change.  Just some small stuff.  We shall see though if I'm right.

Above are some pics.  I haven't posted any for a while now and thought that you would like to see how we look now.