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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.

Merry Christmas!

Its a baby girl! The Chinese were right.

A Few Minor Adjustments

I sometimes feel like I have to have something witty or unusual to merit a blog and given my blogging frequency, you can probably deduce the number of times something witty comes to mind. Even in the absence of these circumstances I figured I would just write a few lines to say, "Yes I am still here and there is more to come."
Firstly, Jen will be 21 weeks along this Friday and we will go in to have the sex determining ultrasound only to have them write it down and put it in an envelope which we can wrap up and open up on Christmas morning. We thought it would be a fun first Christmas present as a married couple.
Secondly, I have applied to 4 different Physical Therapy programs and am now just waiting for interview invitations. This will decide if for the next three years we will be living in Las Vegas, Omaha, Spokan, or Mesa.
So really, just a couple of minor adjustments coming up. All of which we are genuinely excited for.

The First Nine Months: Readers Digest Version

So this is going to be a big jump from our wedding pictures to now, but here goes anyway...

Dr. Van Wagoner I am FINALLY done with Dental School! Graduation was sweet. While I finished up at school, Aaron learned some physics and put a lot of work in fixing up the house. He didn't know he was a handyman, but that's what i asked for, so thats what he was.

SUMMER During the summer, I worked as a hygienist and Aaron volunteered at the summerlin hospitla and the Balance Center of Las Vegas, which he loved. Not so much the hospital...

BABY On Aug. 27 Aaron and I found out that we are indeed pregnant! And are very excited to be parents. We are due MAY 1st, 2009.

THE VANISHING TWIN I have had multiple doctors visits lately due to complications in the pregnancy. The doctor took pictures and noticed two sacs. One in which had hemorrhage and the other had a little bean with a heart beat of 150 per min. which we think is pretty good for a bean!

QUITE THE PAIR Aug. 30 Aaron and I moved from our cozy home in Las Vegas that Aaron has fixed up so beautifully to Provo, UT so that Aaron could finish his undergrad at BYU. With Aaron being very sick and I newly pregnant, we made it with the help of angles and various help from relatives and friends. We couldn't have done it without them. Aaron's sister Rachel made the observation that he was such a sensitive husband to get morning sickness when I got pregnant. We can honestly say that WE are pregnant. And not 20 minutes ago, we were both in the kitchen making dinner and in the exact same instant he hit his head on the corner of the oven hood and I dropped 8 lbs of frozen chicken on my right foot. So basically, we feel each others pain...head to toe.

Life is good

God Bless America

For the Fourth of July we left the big city and went to a little farming town in southern Utah. As we watched the antique tractors, taxadermy trailors, and random people on atvs throwing candy to the people crowded along Delta's main street I realized how much I have missed the 4th in Delta. Its been 5 or 6 years for me. Later on that afternoon we watched the demolition derby and I find it hard to decribe in words the swelling of American pride in my heart. ha! I told a friend after the fact that I was pretty sure that the founding fathers had demolition derbies in mind when they framed the constitution. He corrected me by saying that it was WHY they framed the constitution. My niece, however, would disagree with us. When my mom asked her how she liked it she said, "It was horrible. I would never take my children to that!" She's eight. She cracks me up!

Carpet makes the world a better place

We finally finished the floor. Still no baseboards, but they are on the way.