Less than a week!

It's pretty crazy how much faster I feel like this pregnancy is going compared to the last one. We find out if we're having a boy or a girl next Friday! I can't believe it's already time for that! So take a minute and vote in our poll to let me know what you think.

Oh, and if you ever get wondering how far along I am (I know you all are just losing sleep over this one when you lose track), you can go to the very bottom of our blog and check out the ticker.

In other news - Jessica's language skills are cracking me up. She says the funniest things and I love to see how her mind works. Here are the best from the past little while.

* "Look little trains!" She was looking in a hymn book at the notes. Think about it. Too funny.

* I handed Jessica a pair of her underwear to put on her baby doll. I told her that it was a "big girl." She was not happy! "NO! Baby not a big girl! She a baby! Jessica a big girl!"

* "Look! I have a big tummy. There's a baby in there. Oh no! Baby! Come back! Baby is hiding."

* My dip is broken!" She was all out of ranch to dip her veggies in.

* "The dream that you wish will come true!" She was watching "Dancing with the Stars."

Go Cougars!

Now that we can watch BYU football at home, Jessica and I were able to start our own little tradition this year. Because it involves running, singing, and a little celebratory dancing (but not too much celebration), she loves it. Here's the deal - after every BYU touchdown, we'll run around the couch singing the BYU fight song ("Rise and Shout") topping off the gala with this...




Well if you've been watching BYU this year, you know that we've done this a few times, and by a few times, I mean 24 times, and I worry that Jessica might just be getting a little tired of it. As such, I better get this posted now just in case our little daddy-daughter tradition doesn't make it past the November 22 shellacking of that "little brother" university. Speaking of which...

Right before leaving Idaho Falls this summer, I found my office in complete disarray.

Wow, and it's not like I did anything to deserve this either except put a little "Lord's University" sticker on a co-worker's car window. I called it my daily service project.

Well I definitely got one-upped, but don't worry Sky, I'll be back in December during the break so we can watch the Utes in the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl as they take on the ever mighty UTEP Miners. Oh I love football season.

Midnight Sun

OK, I'll clarify this by saying that I'm a nerd. But it's ok, because I know that a lot of you reading this will understand my nerdiness. I am actually really bummed right now. Here's why: Stephenie Meyer (the author of the Twilight books - or the "sparkly vampire books" as Michael likes to call them) has been working on rewriting Twilight from Edward's perspective rather than Bella's. She posted the first chapter on her website and I was SOO excited for it to get done and published, although I knew it would be a while. I randomly went on her website yesterday. I guess a copy of one of her drafts got leaked and spread all over the Internet. She is so upset she's decided not to finish writing it at all. The only slightly good thing is that she decided to post what she had so that people wouldn't go out looking for the illegally distributed copy. It's really good, but be warned that it definitelly isn't the whole book and it ends at a very annoying part. Anyways, for any of you who want to read it, here's the link. Thanks for putting up with my nerdiness. :)

Ready or not - here comes #2!

I may have some people upset at me for taking so long to announce this, but we... are... pregnant!! OK, the picture probably was a big hint. :) We are due Feb. 22, so we're about 15 or 16 weeks along or so. I would have announced sooner, but I wanted to wait until we got into the doctor here and they were booked longer out than I expected. We're all sooo excited! Ready or not, here we go!

A Career... wow!

Well, we did it. We took the job in Idaho Falls. Michael's enjoyed working there these past few summers and they're giving him a great opportunity to work closely with one of the founding partners of the firm. So it's a good situation. It feels so strange after all these years of "studenthood" to finally be moving into the "real" working world. We both agree that we'll miss S. California a lot (especially San Diego), but that'll just give us an excuse to go and visit a lot. :) Anyways - congrats Michael! I'm proud of you babe!