Summer in California

Make video montages at www.OneTrueMedia.com

On being pregnant...

I've decided that the toughest thing about food during pregnancy is not being able to eat certain things. At the top of my list? Brownie batter and cookie dough. I know with the raw eggs you're not really supposed to eat them anyways, but that's never stopped me... and now I'm feeling the absence of licking the bowl when I make brownies. Sad day.

Summer Jobs

__________________________

Well I thought it was my turn to report on how my summer is going,

So, I have come to realize this summer how much I love school. I am not as eager as I once was to graduate and start working full time. In fact, searching for a job is pretty much miserable.

So far this summer I have had two jobs. I started out with an internship working for the Fremont group in San Francisco. It was a research internship and I gained a lot of great experience. I was able to do a lot of informal interviews with people in the firm and really enjoyed myself. I had my own office on the top floor of the building, and it was incredible.



The second job I have had this summer has been helping the accountant at a small technology company in Berkeley. They are called Cantaloupe Systems and they sell remote sensors for vending machines. I was mostly helping as a collections clerk, trying to get the company up to date on their accounts receivable. It was good experience, but I am glad to be finished there.



On Monday I start my last job of the summer.
I am going back to work at Pool Chlor doing what I did the summer after my mission. It isn't the most prestigious summer job for my resume, but it pays really well and I will be done working by 1pm everyday which will be really nice. I will also enjoy spending more time outside and developing my farmer's tan.



On August 25 we are making the long drive back up to Provo to begin school again,
And I am really excited.

It's a boy!!

We got our second ultrasound done last week, and we found out that we're having a boy! The doctor couldn't tell what it was the first time around, so we scheduled an ultrasound with a 3D place that cost half as much as the doctor. We got some cool pictures and found out that it's definitely a boy. We're very excited. We don't have a name yet, but he'll be due sometime around/between October 18-27. The pictures below are scanned in, so they're not that clear, but I'll try again later to put some better ones up. He was moving around the whole time, and his little mouth was opening and closing like crazy - maybe he'll be a singer. :)

His little face.

Profile view with his mouth open.

His face again. Matt thinks his nose looks funny
in this one, but the doctor assured us that because
of the angle of the ultrasound, most babies' noses look
kinda weird while they're inside. It'll look more normal
once we actually see him.

Monterey

_______________

Here are a few pictures from our weekend at the Ocean House in Monterey.
We spent a lot of time down at the tide pools with Josh and PJ

We tried really hard to get crabs to come out of their little caves so we could make them fight.
It didn't work so well

Tea party pictures!!

Here are some pictures from the tea party that we had with Matt's little sisters while we were babysitting them.

The setup.

Lady Marie.

Lady Helen.

Lady Beatrice.

Lord Byron.

Needless to say, it was a very interesting night. It was a requirement to talk in a British accent and have impeccable manners. Quite fun.

It's been a while...

So it's been a while since either of us has posted, so I thought I'd put an update on here as to what we've been up to:

1. I graduated from BYU on April 24-25. My whole family came out for the ordeal, which was great fun. It was a very noisy and busy few days, but it's always fun having my whole family there.

2. Matt and I spend a very frantic Saturday and Sunday after I graduated packing up our apartment. We're subleasing it for the summer, which means we get to keep everything in our second bedroom and use it as a "storage unit" for the summer. So the 'move' wasn't that big of a deal, but it still wasn't that fun.

3. On Monday April 28, we heard our baby's heartbeat! It was pretty neat. Between 160-170 beats a minute. Pretty cool. Ask anyone who knows me pretty well and they'll tell you that I'm kind of (well, really) a hypochondriac, and have the amazing talent of coming up with symptoms that can only belong to the deadliest diseases out there, so I was quite happy to hear the baby's heartbeat and prove to myself (at least this time) that I'm not crazy for being sick for the past couple of months. :)

4. We started our drive to California after we got out of my doctor's appointment, and I can tell you this - I hate car trips. Maybe it's because I have made the same trips (some variation of driving between California, Utah, and Colorado) millions of times. Maybe it was because I was sick anyway, and being in the car didn't help. I felt like asking Matt every two minutes "are we there yet," even though I knew perfectly well the whole way exactly how many hours we had left and what rest stops were coming up next. I'll just say this - rising gas prices have just confirmed what I have secretly known all along - flying is a much much much better way of traveling.

5. Summer in California has started!! Matt and I babysat his family for about 5 days while his parents were in Jerusalem. We had lots of adventures - we ate "spoonghetti," had 31-cent Baskin Robbins ice cream, and had a tea party complete with British accents, frilly dresses, and weenies on a toothpick. Great fun. We loved hearing about the trip once Steve and Debbie got back as well. The rest of our summer will consist of work work work... we're trying to save up money so that we'll be ok once the baby comes and I can't work anymore.

Anyway. That's what we've been up to. Perhaps I'll post pictures later. The tea party ones are especially priceless...