Free Weekend!

At Scott's school they have blocks that are about 6 weeks long and at the end of the block classes stop and they have a week full of tests on all of the stuff they learned through the block. I am proud to say that Scott has successfully finished his first block of medical school! Last week was his test week and he did great on all of his tests! I am so proud of how well he did. He worked really hard during the entire block and it definitely paid off. Good job Scott!

The weekend after a block finishes is kind of considered a free weekend, which we definitely took advantage of. This meant that as soon as his test was over on Friday afternoon he didn't have to study until this morning. We celebrated his being done with tests by going to the Astro's game with our friends the Brames and Caywoods. It was our first time at a professional baseball game, and although the Astro's lost miserably, we still had a lot of fun. The game even had a great fireworks show at the end!

Saturday started by Scott actually getting to sleep in for the first time in a

couple of weeks! Then we got a picnic packed and head down to Galveston to go to the beach. The beach in Galveston is nothing like the beaches in Hawaii or even California, but it's still a beach, which automatically makes it fun. We had a lot of fun just hanging out and doing nothing at the beach. We tossed around a football, played cards, swam, and ate a bunch of unhealthy food!

We topped off our weekend with a nice relaxing Sunday. We were really proud of ourselves because of our fancy Sunday spread! I actually felt like I was back in Utah eating a meal made by one of our moms. I had to take a picture of all of our food, because I knew our moms would be proud! We had ribs, scalloped potatoes, watermelon and homemade rolls. It was fantastic! It was the perfect way to end our weekend. I loved being able to spend so much time with Scott and I'm already looking forward to his next free weekend!

26 Weeks

After some requests, I have finally decided I should put up a picture of my pregnant belly. I didn't think I'd gotten that big, I think I forgot what I used to look like, but for church on Sunday I decided to wear a skirt that used to be really baggy on me. I thought it would for sure work. Needless to say, I couldn't even come close to zipping it up! I guess I am getting bigger. I think I've been especially starting packing it on in the past 3 weeks.

Also, Scott wanted me to clarify from my last post. He was worried that by saying he was jabbing my stomach that people would think he was abusive:) Don't worry, Scott is very careful with the belly and more squeezes it...not jabs.

Playtime With Dad

Right before we fall asleep at night, baby usually kicks a lot. Scott will always make sure that he feels her kicking and say good night to her. Last night, she wasn't kicking so Scott decided to try coaxing her into kicking. He would jab my stomach, and almost instantly she would kick pretty hard. At first we weren't sure if it was coincidence that her kicks were coming right after Scott's jabs, but after a bunch of jabs followed quickly by kicks we decided that she was definitely responding to her Daddy. You would think that his jabbing would have started her into a kicking frenzy, but she would only kick when Scott would poke at her. It was really funny because you could see her personality coming out. It amazed us at how quickly she would respond to Scott. It was a lot of fun because it was really the first time that we were able to be a family, with the 3 of us all involved.

It's True What They Say...

Everything really is bigger in Texas! Especially the bugs! While we were at church, my friend, Nicole, was telling me about their horrible experience with a giant cockroach that they'd found in their apartment the night before. As she was telling me I just kept on thinking, "Thank goodness we haven't had any giant bugs in our apartment." Well, I thought too soon.

As soon as we got home from church it happened! We walk into the bedroom and were just talking to each other. All of a sudden, Scott points at the floor and shouts something. I whipped around as fast as I could, just in time to see a huge cockroach flying at a seemingly impossible speed underneath my night stand! I screamed in the exact same way Nicole said she had done the day before. After a quick assessment of the situation, we decided to capture it in a small tupperware. This wasn't easy because the bug had gone under the night stand and bed area, and it was really fast. At first we couldn't find where it had gone and I was terrified that it was going to be able to roam freely through our apartment until we found it again. Luckily we found it, and Scott, being the good husband that he is, captured him. We weren't sure what to do after we'd found him because we didn't want him to come back. We ended up throwing it away, tupperware and all, down the garbage chute outside of our apartment.

These pictures don't show quite how big the cockroach is, so you'll just have to take our word for it when we say that it was HUGE!

Getting Ready for the Baby

I have been awful at updating our blog for the past couple of weeks!  As a quick summary of what we've been up to, Scott has been studying, a lot, and I have just been getting ready for the baby.  With the timing of our move and the due date of the baby, finding a job has not been much of an option.  I might start coaching a swim team, or something small, but basically I've been getting ready for the baby.

When we moved in, the baby's room was the most hideous mustardy McDonald's yellow.  I kept telling myself I could deal with it, but as the weeks went by and I kept looking at it, I couldn't deal with it!  My project for the week was to paint the room.  This proved to be a much more difficult task than I thought it would be.  I spent the entire day on Tuesday priming and painting the room.  When Scott got home from school the mustard yellow wall no longer existed!  We decided to paint it a really light blueish-greenish color.  Here are the before and after pictures of the room.

I also finally picked out the bedding that I wanted for the room.  After consulting with my mom and sisters for what seemed like hours over the phone while searching the internet, I finally got what I think is the cutest bedding!  I was originally very against getting bedding that was pink because I didn't want it to be too girly.  I caved on that idea when I found this cute bedding that's pink, green and white with ladybugs on it.  This is a picture of the curtain valance that it came with.  We ordered her crib online and are excited for it to get here so that we can set the bedding up and see how it all looks!

As you can tell, we are getting very excited for this baby to come.  We can't wait for her to join our family... 25 weeks down and counting!