It just flies by...

The summer went by so fast this year that I think I already forgot most of it. Jason had one summer class that he took that was over in about 3 weeks, he passed the class and now he is done with his generals and ready to start on the fun stuff. He started classes again on August 25 and so far he has been enjoying at least one of them. One of his teachers goes off on tangents which doesn’t allow him to really learn the materials he needs. Unfortunately he has this teacher for three of his classes and then the other class that this teacher isn’t involved in Jason is enjoying that one much more. He’s home a lot more right now because of his school schedule/work schedule. I get to see him in the evenings on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and then he’s gone at work in the evenings on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It’s not fantastic but it’s not horrible either, he at least had yesterday (Sunday) off so it was nice being able to sit with him in church and hang out with him all day.

Every summer there are certain things that you would like to do like go on a picnic, visit historical sites, visit with family, go camping, play some wiffle ball, and go camping. I’d like to tell you that amazingly we did do some of these things. We went on a picnic for Labor Day, we packed up our stuff and headed to a local park and spread out the blanket and ate our delicious meal. However, it quickly turned too cold to be outside for too long so our picnic lasted about half an hour. We visited with family, my parents came out in July and then we went and visited Jason’s parents in September. Kevin and Nicole and Noah came out in August so it’s been fun to be able to see almost everyone (Jordan & Christina we’ll have to visit with you soon). The camping part didn’t happen this summer; we do have a tent but only one sleeping bag which we will have to remedy sometime in the future. We did go to the drive in theater which was a lot of fun; we’ve also gone to a Bee’s Baseball game. However, our most exciting thing we’ve been doing this summer is….preparing for our baby.

This summer we found out that we are expecting a baby. I had to take a couple of pregnancy tests in order to make sure that it was positive, however; a line is a line. During the first trimester I had nausea and everything but there was only one night where it got the best of me. I don’t know if I can look at French Dip Sandwiches the same way. There were foods I couldn’t bring myself to eat, anything with BBQ sauce, and foods that were just tempting like cookie dough. However, I’m proud to say that I have not succumbed to my cookie dough addiction. We are hoping that our baby boy will be healthy and strong and according to the ultrasounds he will be.

With a baby on the way we are trying to figure out how to accommodate all of our stuff and all of the baby’s stuff into a one bedroom apartment. We’ve tried to consolidate, Jason cleaned out all of the boxes I was saving for when we are going to move and took those down to the trash can in order to make more room for whatever we might need. We bought a new bookcase to try and get rid of the clutter behind the loveseat that I hope no one ever noticed. I can now fit all of my books into one place…until they start expanding again. Our latest adventure is trying to rearrange the bedroom to make room for a crib and changing table. We haven’t rearranged the room yet but I’m sure it will be coming soon, I’m getting too impatient. We went to Kid to Kid on Saturday to try and find something that we liked and we walked away with a changing table pad, our first purchase for the baby. Jason likes to wait for the sales or for January but I think I’ve talked him into finally buying a few things soon. We’ve been looking at crib/changing table combos to see if that would free up some more space in the bedroom. We have a dresser that isn’t in use that we could stick the changing pad on and then we can just get a crib. We’ll see what happens in the next few months. We’ve thought of moving several times but we can’t find anything within our budget that would allow me to feel safe while I am home alone. We'll see what happens.

My ever growing belly....

And my ever growing book collection.