Yo Ho!

Avast ye Pirate Meldrums! Its been three months since ye last heard from us...arrrrrrr. Some might call three months a trimester. The fact is we be pregnant. Yo Ho!

Okay, enough with the pirate talk, but we are serious about the pregnant thing. We found out at the end of November Heavenly Father is blessing us with a new bundle of joy. This is helping us towards our goal of increasing the number of amazing Meldrums in the world.

We also have moved once again to a cute little basement in south Provo. We like to call our new place, "The bat cave" or sometimes " the cave of wonders". It just seems to fit. Its a perfect place for our little family.

Brad is trucking out his hardest semester of chemical engineering, and working part time as an intern at Flow Serve, the same company where Joel Stewart works. He is most excited this semester about an ice hockey class that he is taking. Last night we went to our first Hockey game together and Brad turned to me and said, "I could definitely get into this". It will be a fun outlet from his grinding classes.

Rach is dominating the world. Just kidding. However, she is pretty much finished with classes and is now working full time at the Mission Training Center continuing teaching chinese, and now working on developing chinese study materials for the senior missionaries. Since cooking meat has made her kind of sick with her pregnancy, she has really gotten creative with vegitarian dishes.

Shiver me timbers and blow me down...and really bad eggs. You best be looking out or every mothers son what calls himself pirate will be down your throats! Until next time ye scally wags. ARRRRRRRRRRR

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The R-Factor

Lately Rach and I have been dabbling in Music Videos.

If we were to make a band, I think we would call it the R-Factor. Cool huh.

Check it out.

And Sometimes things just work out!

So...It goes like this. I was just in the library looking to check out the book twilight and the electronic card catalog directed me to this small room with lots of couches and tons of popular books in it. The computer said there was one copy available. I looked along a couple of the walls searching for the first twilight, but for some reason I couldn't find it. I was about to be defeated and head back to my computer, when all of a sudden I heard a voice say, "Are you looking for this?" I turned around and a girl sitting on one of the couches held up the twilight book. I was like, "Yeah, Actually!" She was like, "I figured you were". Then she handed it to me and said she was just finished with it. Shocked and excited I'm psyched that she was willing just to hand it to me and that she even noticed her surroundings.

...And sometimes things just work out...

July Fourth

Dear Diary:

Today is once again our nations birthday. God Bless America...and No One ELSE! He He...Just kidding. God Bless Taiwan too.

This has been the best Independence Day EVER! First we went to the Parade. They called it the Provo Grand Parade...and now I know why. Boy did they have some neat...stuff. Take a look.
So they did some pretty tricky things for this grand parade. Take this picture for example. They brought some really old dead guys back to life. The only thing I don't understand is why that Brittish Drummer boy is walking right along side some American Minute Men. It's not right but it's Okay. Maybe he is a spy or something. Yeah ...That is it. He is an American spy who was caught in his acts of espionage and executed. He didn't have time to change out of his clothing in the time before the Parade started. And who can blame him. It isn't that easy to find those kind of clothes today.

For their next feat, the Parade organizers performed something incredible. Days earlier they sent a message to the Rebellion Command Center galaxies away, asking for of few of their more famous soldiers to make an appearance. Boy did they ever have a good turn out. And again, enemies were seen walking together. Storm Troopers, and Rebels were seen on the same street. And they weren't fighting. Only on Independence Day. I tell you what.
Next they actually took a baby and cooked it. This is what came what happened to that poor thing. You can just tell that they are not happy to be in that pot. I don't believe it. But the baby made it and the object in the next picture was not needed.

But it is still really cool that they had a hearse in the parade. It kinda killed the mood though. HAHA get it....Killed the mood. Ok whatever.
The best part of the whole thing was the Scottish Bands. I don't know but I think that my Scottish ancestry lives on in my blood. I love the whole Scottish thing. The Celtic music, the cool accents. Even the word Gaelic sounds awesome. If I weren't American i would definitely be Scottish. Which makes me wonder. Why are Scottish bands such a large part of the American Independence Day?
This was cool. This kid would pedal and the prop would turn and the wings would flap. Cool huh?

The First Few Months...

"It's the Ms. Provost Elementary Pageant."

The Joys of Tag

Caught Red handed.

Beautiful.

Caught Ya, Brad!

Grass with Humans playing tag in the Background.

These Photos are mainly contributed by Breanna Meldrum.

OH CANADA!!!!

So...did you ever wonder how Canada picked its name? Well, when it was first becoming a country people just started throwing out letters, "C-eh-N-eh-D-eh!"... GET IT? :)

Anyways, if you don't know what we're talking aboot, our honey moon in Canada was to us, like vanilla ice cream is to a root beer float. Amazingly scrumptious. We forgot to try ketchup chips, but we did go to church in Vancouver on Sunday and lo and behold they had a Chinese Sunday school class. It was awesome to be able to be in contact with the Asian nation again, and they actually told us they wished we could stay in the their ward, we wished they could come with us....but you know how it goes.
The mountains were beautiful, and steep, and we while we were hiking up the mountain we started a new tradition that has stuck with us on every other mountain we've hiked so far...we leave our mark on the mountain with sticks/rocks/whatever we can find. So next time your hiking a mountain in Canada....make sure to watch out for the our initials!
When we got to Vancouver Island our college student wallets kept telling us we had no money, and luckily our hotel had a kitchen, and we realized all we really need to live was love and mac 'n cheese.
We stayed in this port town where we saw this guy rockn' out in a one man band...we thought we'd join in.

The Rest of the Story...

We have been married 2 months now! Life is great! But we haven't gotten any pictures back until now. So this is the rest of the story.