The stockings were hung on fake garland-lined walls...

We have officially begun the Christmas season. We decorated the house a few days ago because I will be on call on Saturday and with Molly's blood pressure problems we never know if she may go to the doctor and be induced. Christmas seems really early this year. The girls are uber-excited and I thought several times during the hanging of ornaments they were going to spontaneously combust.

Go Team Halloween!

Not the best picture in the world but at least the girls are cute. And if you'll notice, yes that is my grandfather's University of Utah sweater. As to my costume I had an idea of what I wanted to be but I don't think I pulled it off. I'll ask everyone in a multiple choice way. What do you think I was trying to be?

a. A dork (even though I wouldn't need a costume for that)

b. A college nerd (again, no costume needed)

c. A member of the University of Utah Glee Club from the 1950's

d. Edwin H Bingham Jr (my grandfather)

e. None of the above, I didn't have any better ideas

f. All of the above

g. a and b only (SAT shout out)

If it helps, I pegged my pants and was wearing argyle socks with penny loafers. In retrospect it was actually a poor idea because we had our Trunk or Treat events outside and thanks to Florida weather it was about 90 degrees. As for the girls, Sadie was a devil and Ana was an angel. They were super cute and got so much candy, which I have already confiscated due to excessive findings of wrappers all over the house. I can hear my dad's voice when I say "If I find one more wrapper on the floor...". On Halloween day I was on call in the NICU and missed the kids walking around FishHawk getting even more candy. I'm glad we have cool friends. Hope your Halloween was spooktacular. That is all.

Happy Halloween kids, now join the dark side

The neat thing about working at a children's hospital is that they have fun little events on the holidays. Take today for example, as I turned the corner who should appear, but Darth Vader wielding a light saber accompanied by Princess Leigha herself. We exchanged pleasantries but I had my eye on him the whole time. That is all. (I had a really good joke about light sabers but Molly made me remove it...as usual she is probably right.)

That wonderful post-call feeling

I think my favorite part about being on call is working for 24 hours straight and then as a reward you get to work for 6 more hours. Then you get to drive home half asleep as the fog of excessive tiredness descends over your brain and the faint nausea comes helping to keep you awake. Awwww, medicine..

Pre-Halloween Shenanigens

First there is the ever popular pumpkin carving which always starts out very promising but usually ends with me regretting the whole thing. The best part of the it was when Sadie said "I think I'm gonna hurl." She actually had to leave the house and go outside to get some fresh air. What is Ana doing in the meantime? Squeezing the pumpkin guts in her hands making that squishy sound with this maniacal look on her face. We then tried to bake the pumpkin seeds, but lets just say it didn't go very well and leave it at that. That is all.

My other amazing Halloween creation was the Pumpkin hat of superiority. This was made for Ana's school. She wasn't too excited with the idea of it, but loved the finished product. I made all the other kids hats look like they were...well, made by 4 year olds.


We tried something new this year and made a Halloween house out of graham crackers which was a great way to eat old stale candy. And although we wouldn't make the cover of Martha Stewart we had a good time and only spilled the purple sprinkles too many times.

Purpose of this blog

As I sit here with nothing to do at the moment, I will try my hand at blogging again. I will try to be humorous but I will in all reality only put something on this blog about once a week or month with actually very little humor. I hope you enjoy.