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BOY!

Hello Family and Friends!

Merry Christmas from the The Milwaukee Ogilvie Clan, soon to be Texas Ogilvie Clan, which we'll like just fine. We had a great holiday. Dennis finished taking written boards for school, grandma Jensen came to visit, and the kids have had a lot of fun together. Plus it is noteworthy that we have hardly received any snow at all, which is AMAZING for where we live, and how hard the rest of the mid-west is getting hit.

Plus, Amber had her ultrasound and found out baby number three will be a boy. We're excited Will will have a younger brother with which to share all things manly. Emma has had her hair curled a lot lately and she loves checking herself out in the mirror. Justifiable.



Uncle Eric and aunt Jen picked up these t-shirts in Australia for the kids.



Skirt fashioned by her mother, hair styled by grandma.



Striped tights compliments of Aunt Emily



We love you all and we miss you.

Dennis, Amber, Emma and William Ogilvie.

Important Update #3

Due Date: May 14

Important Update #2

Hi Guys,

This week we found out I will be stationed at Sheppard AFB near Wichita Falls, TX. It is only for one year, while I am in an AEGD (advanced education in general dentistry) program, then on to some other location. I don't start until August or September, so we'll for sure come to UT and visit again this summer.

We are a little disappointed we didn't get assigned one of the locations a little closer to the West, but we'll make the most of it and have a great hot tornadoey redneck fun loving big Texan time.

At least we'll NOT have to deal with another Milwaukee winter again for...ever.

Love you all,

Dennis, Amber, Emma and Will.

PS- On a side note take a look at one case I finished up a few months ago. This pt came in with a lot of teeth problems caused by erosion and caries. We ended up (among other things) crowning twenty teeth and now the pt looks completely different. Here are a couple before and after photos:

Important Update!

I tried to fix the red-eye in this picture but couldn't get it quite right.




Hello (This is Dennis posting... again. I don't know if Amber ever will again, so please ask her to).

There is not really an important update. I just wanted to let everybody know I still think our kids are cute. Plus I secretely want to drag people into reading our blog and possibly leaving a comment. A couple of weeks ago we went on a trip to Nauvoo. Our friends Andy and Abby Olson live not too far away from there and we stayed with them. It was a lot of fun. We loved seeing the temple for the first time, and were really impressed with all we saw. One of our favorite sites was visiting Carthage. The church seems to have gone a long way in being very diplomatic and polite to the surrounding communities. Maybe this time they wont run us out.



The weather was a little chilly, but beautiful the second day we were there.





Emma and William had a lot of fun playing with Ben and Henry. They were kind enough to share an entire basement full of fun toys with them. On a side note Andy and Abby fed us some "chicken lips" from a local restaurant. They were really good. Plus the town they live in (Burlington, Iowa) has the honor of having one of the windiest roads in the world! Sadly, we forgot to drive it on our way out of town.



Once again, we had a quick before-church photo op with the kids.







One day while at the zoo the fish were being totally awesome! They were behaving so well we just had to take some pictures in front of them. Aren't the girls in my family a couple of cuties?





William was behaving like one of the animals. Typical.






For our pumpkin carving this year the kids were really excited to help out. William kept stabbing them with whatever utensil he could get a hold of and Emma was a trooper with her job of separating seeds for baking. That's the kind of stuff she loves doing.







I don't think so William. On a side note look at the serious amount of drool on his shirt. He constantly looks like this nowadays. Teething, or just part animal? Who knows.





They were too sick this year to get dressed up in their costumes and go trick-or-treating. But they honestly look like a couple of zombies in this picture don't they?

Fun Runs and Superman

Hi everyone,

Today our whole family ran the 8K fun run that Dennis has done every year with his dental school team. This year it was my turn to push the stroller. I'm really glad I got to run. Emma has never been so quiet for an hour straight. She really enjoyed watching people (thousands of people) run with us. We will miss doing this particular event here in Milwaukee, but we'll find some similar way to torture ourselves wherever we are next year. Normally I wouldn't say torture, but Dennis and I had both been pretty sick for over a week and we were just barely recovering before this run which really took it out of us all day. Plus it was really cold today.


Dennis came home from school one day and was doing some back exercises (the one called a superman) when William and Emma just couldn't let him alone. They view any opportunity with dad down on the floor as an opportunity to play around and have fun.


It seems they have learned a thing or two from watching dad do his exercises. They will do them anywhere it seems. Superwoman Emma and Superman Will.


What we like the best are the sound effects.

We love Utah!

Hello,

This is Dennis again. I received a death threat today. Apparently somebody wants us to update our blog. What was wrong with my mold collection blog? It was true art. I put my heart and soul into it. Since Amber is at the RS woman's conference and she's not ever going to update the blog again, I'll step in. This for sure fulfills that new year's resolution from 2008 to write in my journal right?

Okay here's a bunch of pictures out of order from our visit to UT and some from Wisconsin. We had a blast visiting with family. That was the first time we had all been together for a couple of years. I'm just going to throw in some cheap commentary for this one. Sorry if you were expecting some grand event like the mold collection. I know that one was hard to beat and do you know why? I had more negative comments than I have ever had comments on a blog before. (Most of them in person, off the record you know.) Going by those snobby critics standards, that is a sign of a true work of art is it not?

Swingin' on the porch at Gma Jensen's house.

Canoeing at First Dam in Gpa Weaver's canoe. Lot's of fun.

Amber and her almost twin sister Emily.

William throwing rocks at Third dam. I told you the commentary was cheap.

This was the sunglasses club on that day's hike.

William wouldn't keep his shades on.

William. Slide. 'Nough said.

Ditto.

He's a true boy. We went to a pond to catch frogs and Emma screams like a girl just getting near one. William screams like a girl too, but picks them up and looks at them and then throws them at his sister.

Emma had her face painted at the annual dental school picnic. Our fourth and last one!

Amber bought a sewing machine and it came in a huge box full of packing peanuts. The kids hopped in and Emma kept calling it a bubble bath. They obviously had a lot of fun.

The pack rat I caught in Laketown. If you care to see more please visit my sister Debbie's blog. I had to make an example of the rat.

Our friend Mindy came to visit and William kind of saddled up next to her to be picked up, but had this uncomfortable expression on his face the entire time (about 5 minutes). It was hilarious.

A cute shot of Emma and her aunt Debbie. By the way, way to go Deb!

The kids wanted a tractor ride so I drove them around the yard for a few minutes and then moved a pile of dirt so they could see the digger part in action.

Hanging out with Gma & Gpa Ogilvie. Eating crackers on the swing.

Emma and her Uncle Trevor who likes to tease her.

We went hiking on the crimson trail in Logan Canyon. It was fun and beautiful with the exception of almost sending Gpa Weaver "home" before his time. I have been haunted by that ever since.

Uncle Eric and aunt Jen with Emma at a BBQ up Logan canyon.

Video of Emma and William playing with a frog.

Every year I'm in Laketown I try to take advantage of my dad's workshop. This year my project was to make another tissue box. I was working on the one in the middle.

Here's the finished product. I've made a total of four. This one was all black walnut. I have changed the design a little bit each time and I like this one a lot.

My Mold Collection

Hello family and friends. Amber has encouraged me to "keep a record" more often so I volunteered to publish a blog once and a while. I decided to share with you something kind of special to me, and repulsive to Amber. My mold collection. Living in Milwaukee is surely something "unique." If you were to ask others who have gone before us in the Glen Courts apartments to describe their experiences with ten nouns, mold would be one of them. It grows so readily here and in such a colorful variety that one can scarce enjoy it at a glance before it is cleaned up, so I try to keep a picture record of the better ones. I hope you enjoy.

PS- Some of these specimens are due to forgetfulness or procrastination, which would embarrass Amber (she actually keeps things very clean around here, despite the efforts of the children). However, a good deal of them are sheer bad luck from living in a moist climate, poorly constructed apartments, and a seemingly perpetual winter creating that winners combo.

Specimen #1: I think this was leftover pumpkin pie filling after Amber made some pumpkin dessert thing. Delicious. The pumpkin dessert was good too.


Specimen #2: Or should I say specimens? What amazing color and variety in shape and size! I believe this was some left over whipping cream we made for some dessert. Maybe it went on top of the pumpkin stuff? Either way here it is for all to enjoy.


Specimen #3: So, there are the usual spots we have to clean a few times per year to get all the mold. It's usually in places like our closets down on the floor on outside walls where the moisture builds up when it's cold. And of course all the window sills. But what is this! We noticed a little darkness behind our bookcase (outside wall for a few feet) and look at what had crept in on us! We have been so blessed to have such good company lurking just a few feet away.


Specimen #4: Don't tell me you've never lost a spaghetti squash in your fridge before! Silly! This cornucopia of fungus was a delight to experience before Amber made us walk our different paths. In all fairness it really was lost deep down in there on a little ledge we never use, or do we? I should go check it right now for some new blogging material.


Specimen#5: This is one reason I don't care for the climate. It wastes money. I wore these shoes to church and put them away damp (apparently). The next week I pull them out expecting nice dry and snappy shoes and what do I get? Mold! I washed them with some different chemicals and then polished them up nice and black... but to no avail. It came back a week later. The Milwaukee Mold had won this round.


Specimen#6: Another refrigerator pleasure. This was some cream cheese I believe. You know, when you store things in these little color containers you can't really see through, it's easy to forget about them. Then you pull it out when you're curious what's in there, smell it, oh it's still good. Then one day you pull it out remembering you have some perfectly good cream cheese in there and you just happen to have a good toasted bagel ready to be loaded and wham! Mold! It just hits you like that! this stuff was still good after scraping off the top layer, which you have to admit no matter how hoity toity you are, it's pretty darn beautiful.


Specimen#7: This is one I had a strong suspicion was there, I just didn't want to look or else I'd have to clean it up. We have a little AC unit in the wall. I had my dad make a nice oak framework to fit around it so it looked pretty nice, and cover up the seams. Well, one day I did look, and presto! The little black fuzzy friend we kicked out earlier tried to sneak in through the AC! That rascal!


Specimen#8: This is the final offering I have for you (for now- I'll keep collecting but this took years!). Ten points to whoever can figure out what this container originally umm... contained. What word would you have used besides contained. Kept? Held? Stored? Whatever it was, let us all be grateful we still don't have to eat it and let us ponder just for one moment what it smelled like.


Thank you all. My next posting will be various pictures of roadkill I have come across in my travelings. Some of them I still can't find, they were pics from my mission I never converted to digital. Whatever the case may be please tell Amber this posting counts as a journal entry and my new years resolution from 2008 is now fulfilled.

Warmly,
Dennis George Ogilvie.