Eventful Weekend

This past weekend was one for the journal, or at least it would be if I were at all consistent in my journal writing. On Thursday the 19th we drove down to Vegas, stopping in Cedar City to meet our new Midwife (who was wonderful). Friday morning I had my interview at UNLV and loved it. The faculty was wonderful and the first year students were helpful. That night I got on a plane and flew to Spokane Washington. In the morning I had another interview at Eastern Washington University. Their facility was very nice, but I didn't even get the chance to meet a faculty member. Following the interview I flew back to Salt Lake and by the time I got home and checked my email, there was a letter from UNLV that said Congratulations in the title. I was accepted to UNLV! Anyway, pretty happy about that. So here's the basic outline of our life right now: Graduation in April, Baby in May, PT school in June.

Like Mother Like Daughter / Pictures / Milk and Honey

At church last week, I had a cold bottle of water on my lap. It was laying against my tummy getting that spot cold. After a few minutes, I felt a strong kick from our little girl at 22 weeks pregnant. It was as if she was saying, 'I'm freezing here! Get that thing away from me!'

Aaron began reading a brochure out loud to me. I quickly borrowed it to look for any pictures inside and out and then gave it back to him exactly how he was holding it so he could finish reading it. He looked at me puzzled and wondered why I did that. I told him that I was just looking for pictures. Now he knows how much I like pictures.

Aaron and I read the Book of Mormon together every night. While he was reading one night-23 weeks pregnant, I interrupted him and told him that OJ sounded really good right now. He commented 'You are really into this tonight.' I told him 'I heard everything you said, right up to milk and honey, then you lost me.'

The Chinese and the Eskimos

We had a fantastic vacation which started right after we got the gender determining ultrasound done. We asked the technician not to tell us at that point but rather to write it down on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope for us to open on Christmas. The Chinese calendar told us that it was going to be a girl. The confirmation of the gender was official on Christmas morning after breakfast that we are indeed having a girl! We concluded that the Chinese are never wrong.

During our stay at the beautiful New Harmony Get-A-Way, we made use of the 3 feet of snow with multiple activities. We designed and built a tube slide complete with jumps and turns. Aaron's dad contributed to the slope by adding pounds of snow using his new snow blower toy. Aaron and his dad reasearched about how to build an igloo. We used shovels, hands, and a saw to cut through the icy snow to make bricks. It was beginning to look like a fort instead of an igloo because of the lack of curvature. It took us all two afternoons to complete the masterpiece and we concluded that we would have been pretty good eskimos as long as we had a really nice house to sleep in while we tried to get our igloo up to code. Jamie used the snow to make delicious snow cones for everyone.