The Rose Family

 

 

The temptation was too great. Maybe it was the super-cool ability to be a rock star. Maybe it was the screaming of the crowd as we danced and rocked our way through Muse, The Ramones, Foo Fighters, Disturbed and others. Whatever it was, we gave in. Yes, the Roses have acquired Rock Band for the Wii and have been playing it nonstop. That game is an absolute blast to play. Rebekah took some pictures of us unpacking it and plugging it into our new TV (yes, we had to get a new TV too). I'll be posting the pictures when I get home tonight. So watch out Howards and Gilberts! A Flock of Roses will be playing Expert and rocking your world soon!

So it was pretty much a normal Monday... dragging my feet into work and wishing the weekend was longer. We had a pretty decent-sized storm roll through the Phoenix area but we didn't get much of it out in Queen Creek. Tempe, however, must have bore the brunt of it. As I drove in the parking lot, quite a bit of it was under water and several trees were down. No biggie, I thought. Storms almost always flood things here. Then I walked back to my desk. The ceiling had collapsed right over my desk and two others. Mine was in the middle of the three (what luck). You can see it in the first picture, the desk right in front of the window. Everything was drenched and covered in drywall... my books, my computer, basically anything that was left out in the open. Luckily nothing inside the desk got wet. So I thought I would share my Monday experience with you all. Happy Monday!



This is what it looked like before...

He has arrived! Jacob Douglas Rose was born July 2, 2008 at 9:07PM, weighing 6lbs 12oz and was 18 inches long.

Rebekah went to the doctor yesterday for a check up. Her doctor said she could feel a hand, so she was sent to the hospital immediately. They wanted to do an ultrasound to see if he was in the wrong position. If he was, and her water broke, she would have needed an emergency c-section. So she got to the hospital and they did an ultrasound. Jacob was just scratching his head apparently, because he was set and ready to go. They checked her in and no more than 5 mins after they hooked her up the contractions started. Her water broke at about 8PM, the epidural was applied at about 8:30 and she was pushing 10-15 mins later.

Jacob is so peaceful. He hardly cried, only when he got his bath. He's just adorable and has got his hands full with his two older brothers. There are more pictures on our Flickr Photo Gallery.

With the clock ticking down, I managed to get the last bid in on a new Nintendo Wii with 4 seconds left on eBay. So now we are a Wii family. We're all excited. Matt and Josh are going to have a blast playing it. It's being shipped out from Illinois and should get here Monday. FHE will be fun.

So yeah, the first round of dental work is over. I spent two days with that nervous pit in my stomach, just knowing I was getting an emergency root canal. Tooth #18 (very back-bottom molar on the left) had become abscessed and it needed work. The tooth itself broke back in August, but since I dread the dentist, I never went... until it finally became unbearable. I knew I had a big problem when the numbing tooth gel I bought at the pharmacy didn't do a thing.

I was sent to a specialist for the work, and I was REALLY impressed by the office. The staff was great and the endontologist was very good at what he did. I needed three novacaine shots and some smaller shots right around the tooth itself. He ended up pulling out three roots and put me on antibiotics and vicodine. I was pretty fuzzed up the rest of the afternoon.

So part one is done. I need to go in again to get the opposite molar (#31 on the right-bottom side) worked on as well. There's a 50/50 chance it might need a root canal too, but the dentist thinks he can do enough to keep that from happening. You'd think I was chewing on gravel or something.

So can I say that I absolutely hate the dentist?