Yeah, Im still alive. I’m going to R&D (Ripoff and Duplicate) Alex’s last post as I have a lot to do still this afternoon. So here it is.
- Going to College to get my Bachelor of Science in Technical Management from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Taking MGMT 201 Principles of Management and actually having a lot of fun. It’s all online which works out since I get to work so early. Been maxing out all my points so far so pray that doesn’t change.
- Been riding in a VanPool. So much more relaxing. I get to sleep on the way to and from work unless I’m driving which is rare. The thing that does suck though is that we leave the Winchester area at 4:45-5:00 in the morning. The cool thing is I’m usually home before 4 pm when Nanny Irene leaves.
- Nanny Irene ROCKS! Ryan loves her and she and Stephanie get along really well. She makes life so much less stressful around the Stout House! THANK YOU to Nanny Irene and to those who are helping us out with her.
- Work sucks. Work Rocks. I don’t know. Finally making progress on the class that I was sent down there to establish. It has been sitting dormant way to long! I still feel like I’m beating my head against a brick wall sometimes, but I’m going to eventually get through. Chain of Command has been re-arranging a little and hopefully that will make life a little easier. I don’t know. I still have my issues and probably shouldn’t say much.
- Politics. Don’t go there. I have some very strong opinions.
- What’s with all the spam the blog gets? Askimet is doing a good job but geez!
- Stephanie thought the Washing Machine was broke. I fixed it.
- We had a garage sale. Stephanie rocked and sold a lot of stuff. I love you babe! Thank you for letting me keep my Mac OS 8.0 Sherlock t-shirt!
- Father’s day weekend was really cool. Headed down to Borrego Springs and paid my respect to my Grand-Mother. Got to introduce the family to her and such. Visited the old house which looks sad in comparison. Went out to Font’s Point and suffered in the heat as I remembered the day we spread some of her ashes there. Went to the visitor’s center and found out the paleontology lab that she and pop-pop started is blowing up in popularity and use. So happy.
- BUSINESS IS ROCKING! We’ve had some huge growth in our business! We’re looking for a new name for the website. Any idea’s? Going to be showing the plan to some folks here on Tuesday night. If you’re interested let me know.
- I so need to get together with Alex, Don, Jon, and many of my local friends here. I also need to get together with Tom and Jay as soon as possible. Why can’t they live just accross town instead of out of town? Ahh…Did get to see Christi & Josh last night. That was awesome!
- I miss my parents. I miss the lake. Water level is supposed to be down way low this year but I still want to go. We will go for my High School reunion in August. Yes, I’m getting old. Shut up.
- Going to Disney World in September and finally getting to see the in-laws place in Tennessee it looks. That’s still developing but can’t wait for the vacation.
- MY FAMILY ABSOLUTELY ROCKS! Twins are growing, smiling and developing that personality. Ryan is going to be Two in like a week. I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! Love it. My wife, well Babydoll, you’re AMAZING!
Well, that’s about it for now. Here’s a little thing that I actually got from my class. Hope you enjoy and see you all soon!
Posted in Amway/Quixtar, Blogging, Confessional, Family, Fatherhood, Parents, Planning, Work, friends, time.
By Chris
– June 28, 2009
I am in my own Biggest Loser competion. The twins group that I am part of has decided to do this. We started this last Wednesday and are going for 10 weeks. We all pitched in $20 and at the end the mom that has lost the most amount will win the pot. YAY it is up more then $300. I am looking for some good healthy recipes for all meals and snacks so and ideas for excersice without a gym. I don’t really have any excersice equipment so I am going to be watching a lot of videos and walking. Wish me luck on this road to better eating and better health and shape.
Posted in Uncategorized.
By Stephanie
– June 23, 2009
Ryan is great with Savannah and Garrett, he has become a great big brother. He does beat them up a little when he is over tired but most of the time he is wanting to hold them, give them their pacifier, or kiss on them. It is great I love watching him interact with them. Last night we took Ryan to the movies, ok so we tried twice yesterday, and both times we dropped off the babies he cried a little as he didn’t want to leave them. He wanted them to come with us. Here are some pictures of Ryan doing his big brother duties.
It seems we do not have any updated pictures of Ryan with Savannah I guess that is because he plays more with Garrett.
Ryan has grown so much since the babies were born. He is learning spanish, trying to potty train sometimes, talking a lot more, learning to climb, and knowing what he wants for his birthday. He is just so freaking cute. A few weeks ago we caught him climbign our ladder which was out side our bedroom door, every time he sees a bike now he wants one and chases the kdis down when he sees them riding theirs. He is getting a bike for his birthday, don’t worry all you grandma’s and grandpa’s 
it is a Radio Flyer that is meant for toddlers the training wheels do not come off so it is more like a tricycle but it looks like a bike. Ryan has also fallen in love with trucks an motorcycles. Every time we drive by a truck or SUV it is “truck truck truck” and when we walk by one he tries to get into the truck so he can drive it. The motorcycles he call vroom vrooms and he usually points to his butt and says “sit”. He is allowed to sit on Daddies motorcycle so he thinks every one he can sit on.
Also his speaking has just exploded, when I got out of the hospital in March he said a few words but now he is just talking away not in sentances yet but it is very fun to listen to him point to things and call them by their names. He is also learning to say his name but he will only say it if he hears us say it first. The babies still go by babies but that is fine. He has become ver protective over them when we are out in public. If someone comes over to us and starts looking at the babies and talking to us about them. He flips out and yells “babies babies”, he doesn’t like it when people he doesn’t know very well tries to talk to his babies. I know what he means though. They take attention and sometimes when we go to the stores it takes forever to get through it. Anyway this post is about Ryan.
Ryan has moved up in swimming, instead of being in a mommy and me class he is now in his own privte class and he is doing great. He cn’t float yet so when he tries to swim he is usually underwater. He has just fallen in love with the water and his swim teacher Ms.D. I tell him we are going to swim at the pool with Ms D and he says “pool D”. I am telling you he is such a cute boy. Well here are some pictures of Ryan and also some of my almost 2 year old baby ( he likes to pretend he is a baby). I hope you enjoy.
He fell asleep here instead of his bed since we moved him into a big boy bed. He loves the big boy bed and only falls asleep out of it a few times and it is usually at nap time. Very cute.
Posted in Ryan.
By Stephanie
– June 14, 2009
I have not had a password to this since it messed up so now that it is fixed I a here to tell you all what has been going on here in the house with the twins. They are doing great they are now 11.5 weeks. Time sure does fly. We went to their 2 month appointment on May 26th and man they are getting big. Savannah was 7 lbs 11 oz 20 1/4 in and Garrett was 8 lbs 10 oz 21 in.
Since their appointment they just seemed to be getting bigger and bigger. They are still small compared to other babies their age but they are now in new born clothes. I finally put away the preemie clothes, it was a little bittersweet since it means they are growing up but yay they are getting bigger. As far as their personalities they are different. Garrett seems to be the watcher. He doesn’t like to just stare at people but he looks aroud like he is already trying to figure out how to climb and get into tings like his big brother. He has started to coo and it is so cute. Savannah is the opposite she loves to smile at people and could just stare at you for a long time. Garrett loves to cuddle with people ok so they both do .
They have been sleeping pretty well and giving me a chance to catch up on my sleep. They go to bed around 10ish and usually start waking up about 545-6ish and the pacifiers come in handy til about 7 and then we get up and they eat and we start the day.
Here are some more pictures I hope you enjoy:
More pictures and stories to come.
Posted in Family, Garrett, Savannah, Uncategorized, twins.
By Stephanie
– June 14, 2009
Stephanie and I went on a date for the first time in God knows how long. I think the last time we went on a no kids date was prior to Ryan being born. He’s almost two…geez.
We went to dinner over at the Yard House at the Promenade in Temecula. I really have to admit they did a bang up job on the remodel of that place. I can’t wait till they finish filling up all the shops. Maybe they will also redo the rest of the mall. They also had a couple of water displays that were simple, yet so cool. I love water!
We were going to head to a movie, but we weren’t able to get out of the house in time. So we just went over to Yard House and waited for about an hour to eat. We finally got a seat outside right by one of the heaters. It was really nice. I had a New York (over cooked but tasted decent) and Stephanie had Linguine and Clams. After dinner, we went to White Lime and tried out some yogurt. We ended up getting Cake Batter with some Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups on top. I made such a mess trying to put the toppings on.
We then went back to Tom and Jen’s house to pick up the bambinos. Everyone was passed out. We hung out for a while and caught up on a lot of missed time. It was good. We then went home and crashed! It was severely over due date. I can’t wait to take my precious wife out on more. I love you honey.
Posted in Family.
By Chris
– May 24, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized.
By Chris
– May 21, 2009
Okay, so I had kind of a snafu with the blog. If you notice I’ve lost a lot of posts between February and now. Unfortunately, I probably could have saved them, but didn’t.
Anyway, look for more posts to come. We’ve been kind of busy around here.
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with Blogging.
By Chris
– May 14, 2009
While Stephanie is in the hospital baking those buns, I have to try to keep the house moving. One of the things that needs to be kept up on is our business. Stephanie and I have started a business that is much like Amazon. We have what’s called “Affiliate Marketing,” which means we can sell items (like Amazon.com) and not handle any merchandise. That last part I like the most! I would like to ask you my friends and family, to stop buy our website when you’re shopping online first before you hit up Amazon.
Snapshot of Stout's Online Warehouse
Here are some of our Exclusive Items that you can’t buy anywhere else (even on Amazon):
- Nutrilite® is the world’s leading brand of vitamin, mineral, and dietary supplements, grown harvested, and processed on its own certified organic farms.
- Nutrilite® Sports Nutrition products for energy, strength, hydration, recovery, and daily nutrition.
- Artistry® is one of the world’s top five largest-selling prestige brands of facial skin care and colour cosmetics.
- XS® Energy Drinks provide great tasting, sugar-free, low-calorie blasts of energy.
- Perfect Empowered Drinking Water™ A refreshing drinking water infused with MBO™, a proprietary process that stabilizes oxygen in the water.
Some of our Affiliates:
- Barnes & Noble
- Bass Pro Shops
- Budget Rent-a-Car
- Dell
- Dicks Sporting Goods
- FTD.com (20% discount!!!)
- Hickory Farms
- Musicians Instrument Store
- Office Depot
- Shop.com
- Sports Authority
- Things Remembered
- T-Mobile (12% discount!)
- Travelodge
- Many MORE!
You can set up a monthly shipment for all of your high use items that save you time and money running to the store. I can provide you with cost comparisons sheets to the store in your local area too if you would like. I recently ordered all of our dried goods for shopping through our own website and had it all delivered to my door (FREE SHIPPING too…) and it was like Christmas. It’s so convenient as I hate going to the grocery store unless I have too.
We ask that you stop buy the Stout’s Online Warehouse and just make that your point of purchase. We have everything from Toilet Paper to Ammunition. If you would like to know how to be a part of this, please leave a comment, and I’ll e-mail ya back!
Posted in Blogging, Work, career.
By Chris
– February 4, 2009
We have reached week 27. 
This last weekend was a bit crazy. It started with Friday and me having contractions. I still am only feeling a few of them. I ended up having three shots on Friday and on Saturday at about 3am the put me on an iv with Magnesium. It didn’t seem to work and they had to put me on other meds and I am now off of those. Sunday was an ok day as far as contractions they were still there but not as many as the past few days. The contractions have been coming and going but last night I needed another shot to stop the contractions. They were small but they were 2-3 minutes apart. So small I didn’t know I was having them. Well today I got another shot at 6 am and it didn’t work again. So when the doc came in he bumped up the Mag to double ( 4 grams per hour) what I was taking for only 1 hour and now I am on 3 grams per hour. They had to monitor the babies during that time and Savannah’s heart rate went down only for a few minutes. They kept the monitor on the babies an extra half hour and her heart rate was perfact. 
Since I am on Magnesium for a while they put a more permanent iv in my arm today. Sorry Chris I added a picture of it on here. I will not explain how that works as It can cause some people to not feel well. I love you Chris! It doesn’t have to be changed and the dressing only has to be cleaned and changed once a week. The doctors are doing everything they can to keep these babies in and I trust them and I feel very confident in them.
Please keep us in your prayers that the babies stay in the belly as long as possible.
Posted in Pregnancy, bed rest, contractions, stephanie, twins.
By Stephanie
– February 4, 2009
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