July 23, 2008
From seaside, or
Testing out the new wordpress application for the iPhone. Here are photos from seaside. Jiffy pop, riding the train and recycling.
July 7, 2008
Some Peas and our Chicken Alarm
Ashley and Baron picked these from the garden today. Mind you we are enjoying this crop today because of our chickens. Yes. The other day we were sitting on the couch when we noticed that the chickens were clucking rather loudly. I went to the window expecting a prowling neighborhood cat. I didn’t find a cat, but DID see a nice young deer munching on Ashley’s vegetable garden. I shoo’d him away and he mosied on down the alley. After Ashley saw him leave, we both had a nice laugh at the alarming chickens. Thanks ladies (hens). You definitely earned your feed this week. Now how about some fresh eggs!!
June 22, 2008
Father’s Day 2008 at Zuanich Point, Bellingham
Roman chilaxing in his car+seat
baron and his jar of water
Emily and Ethan eating sandwhiches so they can go ride bikes.
Apparently Ethan only ran into one person while completing the bike loop about three times
Hopefully those will stay blue (eyes)
the boys on Gerald’s new boat
Roman with his Grandpa
The new boat in action
June 19, 2008
A Day to Remember : Roman’s Birth-Day Stats
This content was taken from the St. Joes Peace Health Baby site. It’s a nice little service they offer of photographing all the babies born there and putting them up online. It’s actually pretty entertaining just looking through and reading all the names that people choose for their babies. And these super candid snaps are pretty funny as well.
I’m happy to note that Roman shares his birthday with “The Duke”!!! The first thing I told Roman when he entered this world, “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” (Which is better than another famous John Wayne quote: “Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.”)
Ashley and Gabriel have chosen the name Roman Victor for their beautiful new son born May 16, 2008 at St. Joseph Hospital.
Birth Statistics
Weight:
9 pounds and 13 ounces
Length: 21 inches
Time: 12:54 pm
Date:Friday, May 16, 2008
Origin of the name Roman…
Latin - From Rome”
May 16, 2008
- a day to remember
The Weather:
The sun rose over Bellingham at 5:27 am
and set at 8:47 pm
Local high: 73° F
107° recorded at Death Valley, California
and 16° at Deadhorse, Alaska
In the financial world
12986.80
and the prices of some big and little ticket items were
Populations:
In the world of entertainment this week
Roman Victor shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
- William H. Seward - American Secretary of State under Lincoln who
negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for a price of about two
cents per acre.
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - American educator and innovator who opened
the first English-language kindergarten in the United States.
- John Wayne - “The Duke”, All-American man and Academy Award-winning
actor for “True Grit”, one of his more than 200 movies.
- Olga Korbut - Soviet athlete who won the hearts of the world as well
as three gold and one silver medal performing never-before accomplished
gymnastic moves during the 1972 Olympics.
There have been some other notable events on this day in history
1866 - Congress authorized creation of a new coin, the nickel.
1920 - The Catholic Church officially recognized Joan of Arc as a Saint with canonization ceremonies in Rome.
1929
- The movie “Wings” won Best Picture; Emil Jennings, Best Actor; and
Janet Gaynor, Best Actress, in the first ever Academy Awards
celebration.
1971 - The cost of a first class postage stamp increased 33 per cent from six to eight cents per ounce.
1975 - Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei became the first woman to set foot atop the world’s highest peak, Mt. Everest.
Happy Birthday Roman
from your friends at
St. Joseph Hospital
June 4, 2008
Back by Popular Demand
Had many requests for more photos of the boys, the little-ist one especially. As you can imagine we’ve been a bit busy adapting and working. These are the photos I have for now. You’ll see that Baron loves his little brother “Baby Roman. ” And that he like to kiss Roman. Baron also gets a kick out of the fact that Roman can’t control his arms and sometimes flails them into Baron’s face. Another note: if your two year old bonks his head on something (anything will do really. Baron doesn’t seem particular, he’ll hit his head on just about anything and without warning) you can use an otter pop to alleviate both the physical and emotional trauma that comes with such an often occurring injury. 
June 3, 2008
Happy Birthday Garrett
Yeah, we were cool even then. I think my hair pretty much looks the same, but I don’t have any cool red overalls anymore.
On a more serious note, I’ve been blessed with a really great family. My brothers are rad and today is Garrett’s Birthday. We’re getting together on Friday to do something that we’ve done ever since I can remember… play video games! ha. I remember when Garrett and I used to get 25 cents for allowance and we’d hop the fence in our backyard, run across the field to Tastee Freeze and spend our weekly allowance on a game of Super Mario Bros. (Arcade Style). Guess not much has changed except video games cost a little more and our allowance is a little more too.
May 23, 2008
Baron Latest Favorite Videos
We Youtube’d “Tractors” and baron loves to watch these videos. Is technology the new babysitter? Well not in our house, but it is nice to be able to put one on for 5 minutes of peach while I finish an email.
May 17, 2008
Images of Roman Victor
I’d like to introduce my second son, Roman Victor Rodriguez!!! We think he’s just perfect. Baron is already giving his brother lots of kisses and is going to make a great older brother. Thank you to everyone for all the emails, calls, texts, visits, flowers, cards and prayers, we are so very blessed. We’re at home now and going to relax for the weekend.
Roman Victor Rodriguez
5/16/2008
9lbs 13oz
21.5″ long
May 16, 2008
Roman Victor Rodriguez
He’s here!! 9lbs 13oz 21.5″ long. 12:54pm today!!! Thanks for all the texts and prayers. Excuse the iPhone photo. Better images to follow.
May 14, 2008
Baron on the Boardwalk
Taken on this evenings walk. We ended with a trip to DQ, a family favorite.
May 14, 2008
Apparently Egg Plant is the way to go… into labor
We’ve been hearing about all of the ways to aid my wife’s body into labor and one piece of advice came up that I had never heard of (but Ashley seemed to be familiar with the concept). Somebody at the farmers market told us to eat egg plant. We thought about heading over to Olive Garden but haven’t. Turns our there is a restaurant has a dish “guaranteed” to induce labor. See the story here.
May 13, 2008
How to go into Labor?
I think Ashley could write a book with all the tips, tricks and unsolicited advice that is thrown at a pregnant women in the last dregs of her pregnancy. There are the traditional wives tails tales such as eat spicy foods, go for long walks, etc. (most of which we’ve tried) and then there are others that I’m hearing for the first time like, eat eggplant and take natural concoctions.
Ashley may hate me for it now, but I thought it’d be easier for everyone to post your “Get Labor Moving” suggestions here rather than bombarding her or other pregnant women with them. Now I’ve never been pregnant (with no long-term plans of ever being pregnant) but my thought is that at this stage of the pregnancy (day two beyond due date), they don’t want to hear anything other than, “PUSH!!”
May 11, 2008
Baron Rockin the Mic
My grandpa took some fun shots of the kids last night as we celebrated his Birthday as well as our Mom’s for Mother’s Day. I’m sure what the Mom’s really wanted was for us to play Rock Band and Wii… Actually, Ashley is Mario Kart king in my household and usually puts me in my place.
May 9, 2008
Beverly Hill Chihuahua [video]
We had a Beverly Hills Yorkie, but apparently that idea was scratched for the taco bell dog.
