Happy 31st Jeffrey!

Friday marks my very wonderful husband's 31st bday! Happy Birthday Jeff!!

Final Finals

I am entering into my last REAL (*see note) finals of what I pray is my entire academic career. THANK GO0DNESS! Three more weeks of pain and suffering and ideally I will have only a few more firey hoops to jump through to finish my doctorate.

*note: I take two classes in the spring and two in the summer...reportedly there are no finals. :) Thus this marks the end.

Dec 3rd

We find out the gender of our first born child on December 3rd at 10:00 am. We will update our blogs if you care to find out!

Going home...

Thursday we get to go home. I can't wait. I look forward to seeing family and old friends. After our time in Spokane we head to the dessert for Thanksgiving....again, can't wait to see family! Happy Thanksgiving!!!

4 Months...

We have crossed the 4 month mark. Which means I'm almost 1/2 through pregnancy. Which is great. So far it has been very easy. People ask me often "how is it going" referring to pregnancy. Some of these people have never had kids...so I feel like they ask me honestly...no knowing what the response will be. Others though, many are those that have had kids, many a while ago, ask and I feel like expect some strange answer. I don't know what they expect? Maybe something like, "oh boy...it's so hard", or "I feel awful". I don't know. I am curius to know what they are expecting?

So far...I feel great. I was tired, really really tired the first trimester...which was weird because I'm not a napper - but I was a really really good napper for three months. Now, during the second trimester...I feel relaxed (maybe too relaxed as I have TON to do for school) I have a lot of energy. I am excited about the baby but not overly excited that baby is all I think about (I'll reserve that for next trimester, ha). I am able to get out and excersize. My body doesn't hurt. I feel normal. I still fit in some of my clothes (not my professional ones), but am just barely starting to show...a very little bit. People still can't tell. I get asked that a lot..."when are you going to start to show". I have started to tell them to ask my stomach. I get a quizzical look when I do that. It's humorous to me. I think thats all...just thought I'd give the update.

Dec. 3rd we have an ultrasound. We can find out the sex then if we want. I think we will. But we are taking votes on what people think...boy or girl? What do you think?