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...

Summer at Last

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Yes, the rumors are true...
summer has come at last for this family.

After a five hour Accounting Exam last night,
ending 3 mins before the testing center kicked me out,
the time has come... for freedom.

This is going to be an amazing summer for us,
seeing as it is our last one as kids
before we have a kid.

So we are going to make it count.

I am not a pansy

I am happy to report that I am officially not a pansy. That's right... I had my blood drawn today for the first time in my memory, and I didn't cry, didn't whimper, and didn't even come close to passing out. This probably seems like a very small accomplishment to the rest of you, but I am very proud of myself. :)

Finally finished

This is me.

<------------------------------------ I officially finished my last final at BYU today at 2 PM. I will graduate next week in Political Science... which basically means I have no marketable skills, besides being really really opinionated and really really good at reading the newspaper. Am I going to graduate school? Not quite yet. As far as I'm concerned, this is my graduate school training for now:

And frankly, I'm much more excited about that than about going back to school. :)

Baby names

So Matt and I started with a book of 25,000+ baby names, and each highlighted the ones we liked best. Then, we narrowed our lists down to the top ten, and compared them to see which names appeared on both lists. The baby boy names to the left are the top five ones we came up with. Please vote and let us know which one you like best (not that it will influence our decision in any way, but we'd still like to know :).

As for girl names... let's hope we have a boy. We pretty much didn't agree on any girl names. :) Maybe at some point in the future we'll be able to put up a girl name poll, but for right now, we'll stick with the boys.

Brand New

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Somewhere between insanity and brilliance,
in the time between asleep and awake,
there is a place where few dare to enter.

Come inside Apt. 309,
and you may never want to leave.
But we will make you.