SMOKIN' ribs for the first time.

The woes of smoking ribs for the first time 

The other day I had an epiphany I wanted some BBQ and i didn't want to go out to get it either so i searched YouTube, pinterest and our favorite site google.  I originally wanted brisket so set out to find the best "how to" and brisket video out there, I looked at reviews, how many likes the video had and I found some very good tips.  once i found my recipe i set out to buy all the ingredients i had everything except for a couple of spices and the brisket.  

I get to the frozen meat section and bam! i find it only its more then what my recipe calls for and 60 dollars...I never turned around so quickly in my life, i was on the rocks with it for a while and eventually i told myself not for my first time and left it at that.

So back to drawing board for me and i came up with ribs, I picked them up and get everything ready at home.  I quickly went into the zone and started everything I had my hickory wood, in grill thermometer, chimney and the grill started in no time, seasoned the ribs, everything was looking good.

Until...an hour and a half in the grill starts getting too hot, the temperature was supposed to be from 225 to 250 degrees and its at 300 degrees and staying steady im moving things around.  so back to google for ways for it to cool down but everything is telling me its hard to take heat away its easy to give heat to the grill...in my head im screaming I know that! give me something I don't know.  While this was happening my son is in the background crying because the sound of the door being open constantly woke him up, my wife is giving me dirty looks and im looking guilty but I was thinking to myself I need to press on I am not about to lose to the grill.  my son eventually falls asleep when my wife takes him for a walk and finally  I was able to continue cooking without feeling bad.

eventually I calm down and start thinking if its going at a higher temperature ill just shorten the amount of time by an hour and pray that it turns out great, I pulled the ribs off the grill and let them sit for a bit and dug in.  they were great!  let me know if you had an experience similar to this with your first time smoking meats.  

baby time!

The moment your wife's water breaks, it breaks!

It was 20 March 2015 around 2100 (9:00) and I'm outside smoking I come inside and my wife is creeping towards the stairs like she's the pink panther, I ask whats going on?  and I see a trail of something following her and going down the side of her leg.  I'm what the heck  is going on? I start freaking out checking her over and she says her water broke.

So we head on over to the hospital all the while we are smiling and laughing calling all our family members back in the states, we can't look at each other straight either because we would laugh.  we get to the hospital and they put us in a room stating they are going to check up on her to see if her water broke or not, I give her this WTH look....do you not see whats going on?!?! we get checked out and she brings her hands back up and says yup your water broke.

we get admitted into the hospital and we start waiting for everything to go down...and we keep waiting and I'm not the most patient person in the waiting game so I'm out walking around trying to pass time, when finally the next day she's 10 cm dilated and It's go time.  The nurses are telling her to breath in and out and I'm observing everything that's going on, I notice that when the nurses were  prepping her that she had only one sock on! I ask her what did you do to your other sock? lol.  I never did find out what happened to that sock.

She's such a trooper she pushed him out with 12 pushes and out came my little one.  2028 (8:28) ,
21 March 2015 6 pounds 15 OZ.  comment on your experiences you've had with your wife or even your own experience during pregnancy.

Finding out my wife is pregnant

Last year my wife simply Tuiesa and I had a conversation about when we wanted to have kids and we decided that then and there we would start.  when I agreed to it I didn't understand the finer points of a woman's menstrual cycle and how hardcore they become when they are in that time frame.  There would be times when i wanted to sleep so bad and I would turn around and she would say its time, I would literally sweat drop by how fierce she was about having a baby.  I mean I was enthusiastic about it too but sometimes you have to think about sleep and how wonderful it can be.

A couple weeks later still nothing new and we start to get discouraged, everybody is giving us advice and we try take it in with a smile and head nod but I would never forget the one sound advice that i took to heart.  My uncle told us to let it be and it will come don't try to get pregnant and stress about it because it never happens that way.   

 Flash forward - So we slow down and put it to the side for a bit.  Two weeks later and were laying in bed (its late by the way) and my wife turns over and gives me that look, so I give her a different look remembering our conversation with my uncle and said "I don't want to do it tonight I'm stressed out right now and I don't want to stress out" and promptly turned over and fell asleep. That night was one of the best times I've ever slept. 

We let nature take its toll and a month later we move on from actively trying to get pregnant when my wife is freaking out and feeling sick, in the back of my head I'm thinking she's pregnant but naw that cant be right its not that fast.  she wants to go the Emergency room and I'm freaking wondering whats going on and if she was OK.  she walks out into the waiting room gives me a sheepish look saying that it was only diarrhea, my face probably wasn't the most loving one at that moment and she quickly whispers to me "I'm pregnant."  wait what!  "I'm pregnant" she says again i was so happy at that moment and I held her stomach and couldn't help but laugh and tear up knowing that there was someone growing in there.  

Whenever your feeling down and don't know if what your doing is right. don't stress out (really it worked for me) and hopefully for you and don't let your wife break the news to you that way.  let me know your stories if you have any funny ones.