Resolutions

Everyone procrastinates their New Year's resolution. Well I decided that since I never really set them for 2008, that instead of saying that I'm procrastinating, I'll begin working on my 2009 resolutions. I guess that I'm hoping all of you will help keep me in check. Here are three:

1. Health and Weight. So as many of you already know, I've put on quite a bit of weight over the last few years. I wouldn't go as far to say that I am unhealthy, but I definitely am not in ideal health. Since we moved to our new apartment I've been able to make it back to the gym regularly. I'm there about 4 times a week. It's a great way to start off my day, and it feels great to be back in the gym. The goal: down to 200 by the end of next year. That's about 50lbs or so. Funny aside, Cea and I have a little bet going on...she told me that she wants to see if I can lose as many pounds as she puts on by the time she has Kaniela.

2. Running. Anyone who knows me knows that I find running to be labor. Despite my hate for it, I know that it is very healthy for me. Last year, Cea ran the Moab half marathon. I was supposed to run it, but due to a snowboarding knee injury, I wasn't able to train for it. This year, some of my friends and I are planning on running it. So that will be my first one, and the goal is to run two half marathons in 2009. Wish me luck!

3. Daddyhood. It has been such a fun experience to watch Kaniela grow and to see the cuteness of Cea's belly get stronger and stronger each day. I know there's really now way to measure it, but I want to be the best Daddy and husband that I can be. If any of you have advice... I'd love to hear it.


I'm sure there are more things that I'll want to accomplish in 2009, but these are the ones I want you to hold me to.

We sure do love you all, and want to say thanks again for visiting our blog!

My he grows so fast!

My oh my how baby's grow so fast. It seemed like just two days ago that Cea was 22 weeks, and now Kaniela is pretty good sized toddler! He gets his eyes and great hair from his Mommy, and stunningly handsome face from his father. He likes to push his basketball around and his first words were "Daddy Rocks"! He's a little more fair-skinned than I had imagined, but I hope that remedies itself when we go to visit Koko and Papa in Hawaii.

So there is this really cool application that is part of an advertising campaign for VW, where you can take two pictures and it will create a baby from the images. Some of the guys in the lab created a baby with pictures of Doug and Jeff, and it was pretty hilarious.

Cea and I tried it out last week, and the baby that I made came out looking really funny. This is one that Cea made this morning...he's much cuter... I guess that's why women make the babies and not men...we'd just screw them all up.

Anyways, you should give it a try...google "Routan Baby" to find the site.

Thanks for always visiting...we love your comments, so keep them coming.

Cea's first public pregnant picture...

It should be in the tabloids...people have been trying to snap pictures of it all over Provo...there was even a hooded photographer who ran into her office and snapped a shot. Thank goodness Cea works with a Tongan...he had to chase the photographer down and take the camera...thanks Lua. Oddly enough, when we got the photos off his camera, he also had pictures of celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Jessica Alba with their children. Shows you how anticipated this first public picture is. Needless to say, the public pressure has been high, so here is the public release of Cea's belly.

She is now 22 weeks and is the cutest pregnant woman you'll ever see. Little Kaniela is growing and is so much fun to play with. There are certain things that get him really excited:

He's already got a sweet tooth...whenever Cea eats sugar, he goes crazy and moves and kicks a ton. We think he inherited that from his Uncle Ray

He loves funny Italians...my friend Billy Reano performed in a comedy show the last night, and the entire time Kaniela was moving and kicking. We think he got that one from his Uncle Russ.

He boos when BYU and Michigan don't play well...that's from his Dad and Uncle Ron.

If Cea hasn't eaten, he gets grumpy...he gets that one from his Dad.

And when Cea sits in any position that cramps his space, he fights her back...he gets that from his Mother.

Pregnancy is treating our family well. We love watching Cea's tummy, and subsequently Kaniela grow. Be sure to stay tuned for future public releases.

You gotta love the 80's do....

If you haven't heard of "yearbook yourself", you're missing out on some laughs. Go to www.yearbookyourself.com and see what you would have looked like in the 80's. Cea got introduced to it somehow, and she has yearbooked a lot of people in her family. I was teasing her Sister that I'm just going to go grab her senior picture and add it to the collection (thanks for being such a good sport Jackie...you know I think you still look young and beautiful).

So Cea decided that not only would she yearbook herself, she would yearbook me. She emailed me the picture this morning, and I had just cut my hair....my repsonse to the picture, "Man, now I wish I never would have cut my hair...I could totally pull off the mullet!"

That sent us into a debate that I need your help answering. Who can pull of the 80's do better? Cea in her fro, or me in my mullet? She is seriously considering growing out her hair to prove me wrong. If I could grow out a full head of hair, I'd try to grow out a mullet.

So...what do you think?

TAP TAP

The Ad Lab keeps us pretty busy. There is a project that we're beginning to work on that I'm really excited about. First....a little bit of background.

Did you know that every 15 seconds a child dies due to the lack of clean water?  We take for granted the fact that we have clean water straight from the tap.   UNICEF partnered with a New York advertising agency, Droga 5, to come up with the TAP project. 

The premise:

$1 will provide a child with clean water for forty days.

It's really that easy.  But what makes the TAP Project beautiful is how simple they've made it to donate.  How many times have you seen a commercial for a charity that you want to donate, but the actual act of calling someone, sending money in the mail, or giving your credit card information is enough to prevent you from donating?  Well, in March of 2007, Droga 5 and UNICEF introduced "Water Week", where restaurant patrons in New York were asked to donate $1 for the tap water that they would normally drink at a restaurant.  How simple, you don't have to change anything that you do or go out of your way to donate, but you get to help save lives. 

The BYU Ad Lab has been asked to be the agency of record for the TAP Project in Utah.  Our role is to unveil the project with local insights next year.  It is one of the most meaningful accounts that any of us will be able to work on, and we feel lucky and honored to do so.  It is awesome to think that the work that we are going to do can and will affect the lives of thousands around the world.  

Stay tuned for more information as the project moves forward.  If you want any more information about how you can get involved, shoot me a message or go to www.tapproject.org.

Late nights, busy noses, hurting heads....

Who would have thought that a little (well not so little I guess) Hawaiian boy would be interested in marketing a fragrance. Well these past few weeks, I've been part of a competition for L'Oreal. Each year, they host a national brand management competition based around one of their brands and a new product for that brand. This year, it is based around a fragrance launch.

Basically, we're given a brief which consists of a brand and a market, and we analyze the market, the brand the consumer, the current product offering and we propose a product line, communications strategy and brand.

Over the last two years BYU teams have won the national competition, and this past year, a BYU team won the international competition. Needless to say expectations are high, and we're pretty busy.

I'm working on a team with two of my good friends, Tommy and Chris, and we've close to 24 hours or so in the last few days working on this stuff. If we make it to the next stage compete with our classmates here at BYU. The winner of the BYU competition goes on to compete in NYC. Whoever wins there, goes to Paris.

It's a ton of hard work, and we've racked our brains over this, but the pay-off is totally worth it...an amazing opportunity to work with a Fortune 100 company, a world class advertising agency and to travel to New York and Paris. Wish me luck!

To my BYU counterparts reading this blog....best of luck to you as well. We find out Friday if we make it to the next round. I'll be sure to let you know!

Our Little UFC fighter....

Another proud moment as a father....

I got an message from Cea yesterday, and she said she had been reading a daily pregnancy update. It gives tips on your diet, and tells you about the growth and development of your baby, and all that fun stuff. She mentioned that yesterday's letter said that at this point, the mother should begin feeling the baby move, but the father won't be able to for another few weeks.

Well here is where my proud moment comes in. Kaniela has been moving and kicking like crazy the last couple of weeks. In fact, a few weeks ago at church Cea grabbed my hand and placed it on her belly because he was kicking. It was such a cool feeling. She tells me that he is moving around all day in her tummy. A few weeks ago, she said that it felt like he was swinging his arms, like he was either practicing a volleyball swing, or a freestyle stroke.

Recently, we think that he is going to grow up to be a UFC fighter. Anytime that Cea does anything to restrict his space, he starts hitting. She says that he is kicking her all day while she is sitting at work.

The other night, she was lying on our couch and we had pulled her shirt up to see her tummy, and it was so funny because you could see where Kaniela was hitting. A few times every minute you could see him pushing and kicking. So to see how feisty he really was, I put my head down on her belly, and in a few moments I got a shot to my right temple.

So, I think that he's starting his training early and is going to pay for my early retirement by cage fighting.

Meet our little boy....

Alright, so the day that everyone has been waiting for has arrived. Okay, maybe not everyone, but we've been pretty excited about it for a while now. Introducing you to the newest Wunder Boy. Meet Kaniela Loren Wunder. If we don't have a drastic change of heart, that will be his name.

Kaniela is hawaiian for Daniel. Daniel is a name that both our families really like....in fact we found out tonight that if I wasn't named Kevin, my mother would have named me Daniel. Kaniela is also my best friend's Hawaiian name. He doesn't know that we're naming our son Kaniela yet, we're actually telling him tomorrow night. I don't think he's ever read our blog before, so I think that the secret is safe until tomorrow night.

Loren is Cea's older brother who passed away 2 weeks after he was born. Loren was a twin brother to her older brother Lawrence. We loved that name, and no one else in the family had used it yet, so we wanted to preserve the name in the family. If Loren has the sense of humor that Lawrence has, then we're really hoping he's teaching little Kaniela a few lessons before he comes down.

So the lady who was doing our ultra sound asked us if we wanted to know the sex of the baby. We told her yes, and she pulled this image on the screen and said, "Okay, I want you to imagine that I've just placed the baby sitting down on a glass table and you're looking up from underneath. What is your baby?"

As you can tell....it is definitely a boy. We felt for a while that it was a boy. He is really active in Cea's belly, and it has been fun pressing on her tummy and having him kick or hit where we are pressing down. Whenever Cea puts any bit of pressure on her tummy, he quickly hits her as if to say, "I NEED MY SPACE!" (That's an inside joke between Cea and I that I think most of you know).

The rest of these shots are just some cool ones that she gave us of the baby. They are of his face, fingers, feet and his cute little ear.

Talk about an amazing experience. To see our child moving around in there was an awesome thing. One of the really funny things, is that anyone who knows my family very well knows the joke about my "flapping". The obvious way to tell that I'm tired and want to sleep, is to watch my feet. About 10 minutes before I go to sleep (and also 10 minutes before I wake up in the morning) I will flap my feet back and forth. The joke is that I am flying to and from dream land. Well today when we were doing the ultra sound, the doctor was trying to get a good shot of Kaniela's feet and she was having a hard time because he was flapping his feet. I'm so proud of him!

We hope that you enjoy the rest of the pictures. We think that they're pretty fun. Keep tuned for more updates.


I kind of like to think that this is Kaniela trying to give you a "shaka" and waving...look out world here I come!