We received new information on our Adoption status tonight while attending an Infant Care Seminar. View our Adoption Website for more details.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
New Flooring is complete
The materials for the new flooring in our upstairs was purchased about a month ago. My parents came down to the cities on Friday evening to help us get it installed. I did most of the prep work (removing the carpet, padding, staples, and tack strips, moving furniture, taking doors off of the closets, etc) ahead of time so that it was mostly ready for when they arrived. Wanda and I had also already painted the Baby's room.
Saturday morning we got up at 7 and started working on the house. We worked all day with a few breaks mixed in. We managed to get the Baby's room, Extra Bedroom, the long portion of the hall and a portion of the Master Bedroom all completed on Saturday.
Sunday morning we headed to church and heard an awesome sermon on being Sold Out to Christ. After church we went home and continued work on the house. We decided to put the Baby's Room and the Extra Bedroom back together (baseboards and closets) and then watch a little bit of the Superbowl (we watched maybe 30 minutes of it total). We got all of that completed, cleaned, and set back up so all we had left was the rest of the Master Bedroom and the rest of the Hallway.
Monday we got up early and started breaking down the Master Bedroom and started laying down the tiles. Dan and Chase showed up for an hour or so and helped out a bit as well. By 7pm we had the entire house finished and were able to start cleaning up all the tools and managed to watch 24 before retiring for the evening.
Due to the snow, my parents chose to stay an extra night so the roads could get cleared out a bit more before leaving. It was a good long weekend but we got it all done. We had just enough laminate and pad so it worked out very well. We love the look of the new floor. Bailey still has her doubts.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Video Games cause Obesity? Really?
This may seem like an odd post to my blog, but I heard something on TV the other night that bothered me. It said that one of the leading causes of obesity is Video Games. TV is high on the list as well. I don't agree with this.
A cause of obesity is something like the lack of exercise, eating too much, constant snacking, etc. TV and Video Games are things that may cause the lack of exercise. But to say that the cause of obesity is something like a Video Game just doesn't make sense. Even if this was the case, it can't be said of every game. Look at items like Wii Fit. They might take a bit of offense at hearing that their game causes obesity.
Let's take a different scenario. Is it valid to say that the cause of you driving into a ditch was because you have a lot of friends or is it because you were texting a friend while driving? I would hope the answer is the latter or else I may be in trouble. Having a lot of friends may lead to distractions while driving (phone calls, texts, etc) which may cause you to go into the ditch. But having a lot of friends is not what caused you to go into the ditch.
Video Games and TV don't cause obesity. Playing too much or watching too much may result in a lack of exercise which may lead to obesity. If we are going to state it properly, you should say that the main cause of Obesity is the lack of exercise which is often the result of playing video games too much or watching TV too much. That statement I could agree with.
Just my $0.02.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Adoption Update
Some of you may not know this, but Wanda and I are in the process of adopting. In an effort to make it easy for people to know the plan, see the status, donate money, etc, we have created a simple website for people to use. I will update the website as our status changes or as I find information to add that people may want to know. I won't go into more details as that is what the website is for.
Baby DeFoe Adoption Process (http://adoption.dustindefoe.com)
Lack of Updates
I just realized it has been a month since I last posted. I apologize for that. I have been updating my facebook/twitter statuses more frequently but haven't felt I had too much to say in a more "lengthy" posting.
We had a great Christmas with the family the week before Christmas. We enjoyed the time with everyone and I especially enjoyed playing with my nieces. We returned to work the week of Christmas which worked out well in regards to missing the big snow storm. I was hoping for more snow (I'm a fan of having it snow a LOT when it does snow...not just an inch here and an inch there). We had very minimal travel plans during the Christmas break so that was nice.
Last night I enjoyed learning how to play "Killer Bunnies" with the Gallops and Yzermans and am very thankful that my wife was willing to learn aside of me. We then proceeded to play "Pass the Pigs" in which I failed miserably (but had fun doing it). It has been a good past month and things are going well in the Defoe household.
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