The new Crib

Big thanks to Grandpa and Grandma Spatz for the gift of our new crib!  It arrived yesterday and we set it up last night.  Our matching dresser came a couple days ago and you can see it in the left hand corner.
We're finally getting to the point where the "baby things" in the nursery outweigh the "extra crap" we've been keeping in there.

Marcos: Mechanic guy

Yea, thats me.  Just replacing the thermostat thingie on my car.  Yup.  Look I even had to take off that big plastic thingie.  And  the car still works, and gets better mileage now.  So there.

Tree Huggers

Well this post has nothing to do with the baby, but I haven't posted anything in a while (due to my medicine rotation). Ryan and Karina have a new tree in their yard, thanks to a local forest and a precarious trip in a small Mitsubishi.

Yes, I'm jealous. I transplanted a fairly well established tree from behind our shed to the middle of the back yard, and I'm fairly certain its not going to make it. It might already be dead, but I still hold on to the hope that it will return in the spring.

(insert insightful commentary here about hope/spring/trees)

Pack and Play in the wild

The Pack and Play given to us a week ago has now been assembled (and subsequently disassembled) in our living room. Heavy bugger...

St. Louis Trip - 4

The happy couple.

St. Louis Trip - 3

Brother Marcos holds one of the native's braves.

St. Louis Trip - 2

One little, two little indians. 

St. Louis Trip - 1

Our previous small group in St. Louis threw us a baby shower, in the theme of Thanksgiving.  So we had a big turkey dinner complete with costumes and turkey related crafts.  More pics to follow.

Vacation!

Praise the Lord, tonight Hannah and I leave for a short vacation. We're spending the night at Jared and Kristen VanNoord's house near Chicago and then heading down to St. Louis to visit family and friends as well as go to a show, and I have a conference to go to on Friday. Then Saturday we head to my (Marcos) mom's house for a wedding (my best friend from high school). And back home on Sunday.
We're excited....

New car, painted nursery

Well, most of the nursery got a second coat yesterday (one wall got its first coat). We painted quick before we headed over to Hudsonville to pick up our new (to us) 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix SE. Thats right: SE. Thats Special Edition for those not in the know. Whats special? Well the inside is kinda dirty, thats pretty special. There are huge, made in 2000 buttons on the steering wheel - thats pretty special. Power seats even. Special. A far cry from the Mazda.

So now to sell the van (see previous posting).

Picture of the new car to come. The outside only - the body looks really good.

Painting the Nursery

Masks donned, we paint.

Readying the Nursery

We've begun the process of painting the nursery.  We've chosen a lovely sage green to accurately reflect our baby's sex.  First step is a lot of taping.  Oh, and we need to buy some brushes.

And era comes to an end...

Wanna buy a van?

Yes, the 1991 Astro van that we all know and love is up on the chopping block, as we are soon to be the proud owners of a much smaller and more fuel efficient vehicle, a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix.

I've posted on Google Base as well as Craigslist. So tell your (low income) friends. Or high income friends who need a car for the winter - AWD baby! and Heat!

*cough*

I know, I know. you're thinking, here's yet another blog that Marcos has started, that he's not going to update. Well I have a good excuse this time - I have no new information befitting the title: Machado Family Pics.

Keep waiting. Add me to your Google Reader. Read some comics. You'll figure out something to do.

Marcos

PS - I really like the comics at xkcd.com, I think they're hilarious.

PPS - don't ask me why some of the pictures on that textamerica blog don't show up anymore. i haven't updated it in a couple years.

4D baby

Here's the good pic. Babys on the left, facing to the right.

Baby Ultrasound

Coming attractions...

We hope to post the ultrasound pics here from today, but our stupid scanner wasn't working for me in the 2 minutes I tried to use it before coming to work. But hopefully this week we'll have pics up.

And in the future we hope to keep this website at least intermittently updated with baby pics. Pics of the yard too, if there is enough demand.

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Another Go

ok so i'll try to start yet another blog. I know i know. For sure this time.