One Hundred Monday’s

I’ve recently been lucky enough to start playing with a new band in the Des Moines area called One Hundred Monday’s.  For those of you who didn’t know, I’ve played bass guitar since I was 17 and have been in several different bands throughout high school and college.  I first started playing with a good friend of mine, Jerrid Kruse, back in high school.  We started a band, recorded an album and played shows.  We were rocking and rollin’ our way to the top.

Then college came and after a couple years, we played again together and actually did quite a few shows.  In fact, our last one together with that band was on March 18, 2004.  That 8 year streak ended last night (April 12, 2012) at the Bombay Bicycle Club in Des Moines when I joined his newly formed band (he plays drums), One Hundred Monday’s.  It was the band’s first show and Karen (yep, she most certainly was the only one with a preggo belly there) rocked these shots during it.

- Eric

Genders Revealed

We recently revealed the gender of our twins to our family.  We knew for about 6 weeks before telling them, and it was incredibly difficult to not slip up and reveal them inadvertently.  We found out ourselves on January 24 and in KandE fashion, wanted to make it into a fun event.  During the ultrasound, we asked if the technician could write down the gender of Baby A and B on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope.  Karen then took that envelope  to the place that would make cupcakes with the appropriate filling in each one (blue or pink)….the fastest!  Hy-Vee had them made in an hour…yep we knew we couldn’t wait more than a few more hours to reveal the BIG news to ourselves!  That night, we made videotaped predictions and revealed the genders as we took a bite into each cupcake.  We both admitted later that it was way more exciting than we could have ever imagined it would be….and even nerve wracking (the most unexpected response we expected)!  Even though I knew what we were going to do…about to reveal our future, I found myself not getting too worked up over it throughout the day.  But as the time got closer, and then the cupcakes in hand, it felt like I was literally holding our future in my hands.  So… it was great and awesome and surreal and PERFECT!

We did the same cupcake reveal for our parents during the baby shower our family put on for us in NW Iowa.  Needless to say, they were a bit speechless and extremely excited as well.  The images are of our official “web” gender reveal for those who could not be at the shower, the note that the technician wrote on that Karen then brought to Hy-Vee, and finally our parents’ reaction.  All priceless.

Eric

Maddoxx and Punk

I scrapbook!  There, I said it… I like to scrapbook.  For some, that may sound a little bit funny, but I have come to terms with it.  And it’s a little bit different than real scrapbooking.  I mean, I’m not printing pictures and getting scissors out to cut paper to glue into a book.  I use photoshop… which is much cleaner.  And I only admit I scrapbook to Karen.  To everyone else who might have some questions, I like to say things like I “archive” our life or work on some “publication design.”  I hope to show you more of my scrapbooking in the future.

With that said, the image here is of the first two who were important in our life… Maddoxx (7) and Punk (4)….and many of their crazy nicknames.  For those who do not know, Punk is his real name (really, it is!  Do you now have concerns about the potential names of the twins? :)).  As baby preparations are hitting a new high, we thought it would be a good idea to give them some play on the blog.

- Eric

Greetings from the oven…

We recently announced that we were pregnant with twins.  Needless to say the entire experience has been a roller coaster of initially being shocked, to quickly excited, to “What the heck do we need to do to get ready?!”  But we are super excited for  our first child… um, children.  One of the best things about being pregnant with twins is the fact that we get ultrasounds monthly.  We like to think of them as visiting our children and we do look forward to it every time.  This past Wednesday we were lucky enough to say hi for the fourth time.  Here is what we learned:

- Both are looking awesome and according to the doctor “right on track”

- They each weigh 9 ounces.

- Baby A is a feisty one and likes to move around a lot…and then takes a nap.

- Baby B is much calmer and cooperative when it comes to taking pictures.

If you’re wanting to know, we are waiting to reveal the genders on March 17.  There are no clues in this post.:-)

Eric

 

2011 Christmas Card

We like to go big on Christmas cards as one last HOORAH for the year, with this year being our largest undertaking yet.  In past years, we’ve realized that we enjoy telling our story in creative, nontraditional ways.  After the dictionary theme to Mad Libs last year, we wanted to really challenge ourselves in 2011.  For months I was at a loss of what to do, until…

It honestly started off very small and semi-modest, but quickly took off into something more full blown than what I had envisioned.  If you have not had a chance to see our card, we’re presenting it here.  It turned into an 8-page comic of what we’ve done over the past year.  As a bonus, we sent our card into another photographer’s annual Christmas card contest and were featured on their blog.  The studio is McLellan Style with the direct link to the contest results here.

- Eric

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