Time flies.

My oh my. It's been a while. Here's a quick recap of the past 2 months of my life:

1. A fabulous trip to Hawaii with my family---complete with puka dogs (why don't they exist on the mainland?!), surfing, cliff jumping, snorkeling, and my personal favorite: malasadas. Yum.
2. A trip to Branson, MO with Michael's family. More fun, food, and a ride on a boat.
3. Moving from Illinois to Utah so Michael can go to school out here. It included spending a night in a moving truck and waking up with swollen feet and ankles. Ah the joys of being pregnant.
4. Michael joined the AirForce ROTC and is having a blast on the Drill Team. Aside from my not liking him coming home every morning with new wounds on his hands from the rifle he spins, I'm enjoying myself out here quite a bit.
5. I am now 30 weeks pregnant and the baby seems to be doing quite well! My belly grew 5 inches in the past 2 weeks. How does that happen?! Haha oh well. I got a new doctor out here that I absolutely LOVE.
6. The other morning I had to evacuate my house at 3:30 am because a water main broke and our house was flooding. Lucky it was just the basement that got destroyed and we had nothing down there. It had 2 ft of standing water in it. Crazy! We're back home now, thankfully, but are missing our wonderful neighbors (the Colemans) who had to move out so their apartment could be fixed after the flooding.

And here we are now. Maybe some day in the near future I'll get around to posting some pictures of my adventures and/or my burgeoning belly. Yay for life!

So many boxes, so little time.

Anyone want to come over and pack all my crap for me before I go to Hawaii on Friday? I. Do. Not. Like. Packing. :)

P.S. Does anyone actually like packing? Seriously. The worst.

Mail Time!

Today the mailman brought me this nice surprise:

"Jess,
Saw this and couldn't resist! Let the games begin!
Love you, Mom"



Not sure when the surreal-ness will wear off, but it hasn't happened yet.

It's a......

GIRL!!! So far, anyway. Apparently there is some room for error with the initial screening, but we'll just pretend it's 100% certain for now.






Oh and by the way, I cut my hair off.

Oh my.

Here's the first one...I can't believe I'm doing this.

I was at the doctor's office and had to wait forEVER so I figured, hey, why not. According to the nurse and several other people with whom I have recently spoken, they can't tell I'm pregnant. But I feel humongous. Take a look at this next gem. Massive, right?



At least there's no mistaking it now. I am pregnant.

Perpetual Newness

I felt the baby move for the first time---hard to describe how amazing it was. Also hard to describe what it felt like. I loved how babycenter.com describes the movement:

"like popcorn popping, a goldfish swimming around, or butterflies fluttering."

I concur with the popcorn and butterflies....not sure about the goldfish. But the baby is about the length of a bell pepper...so I should start feeling it more and more now. Crazy! I love using food to visualize the size of the alien in my belly. Speaking of bellies, I'll have to post a belly picture soon. It's getting bigger and bigger every day.

I can't wait 'til July 16---we get to find out the gender!!!! Let's hope our baby feels like being a bit of an exhibitionist for the day.

Ta da!

I decided recently (...again) that I have the coolest husband in the world. Here's my proof:



Pretty amazing, right? And yes, that is our clothes drier.

Also, we can't wait to move out to Provo. I think we're going to have a big huge party once we get there, so everyone should come to welcome us back to the "mother land." The end.