30 Weeks

I am 30 weeks today. It is probably a little too early to start a countdown but I only have 10 weeks left and 70 more days. We have been having record breaking heat and it is really taking its toll on me. I mean we are in the second week of October for crying out loud and it was 92 degrees yesterday!! Give a girl a break already! So that justifies my countdown a little bit right? Anyway, as you can see my tummy is BIG! Ty moves around A LOT, which I love to feel, except when he lodges himself up in my ribs on the right side...arghhh!

Humanitarian Aid Project

Saturday, Sept. 29th was our Stake Relief Society Humanitarian Aid Project. There was a great turn-out and we were able to get a lot done. Our "station" was in charge of sewing baby blankets. We were able to finish 39 blankets. I brought my sewing machine and sewed my little heart out for 4 hours! It was mixed with dinner, talking and laughing, and it was a great afternoon. Below are my friends, Bonnie Pratt and Anne Cannon. Both of their husbands are law students.

Tuesday Night Ladies Club

Tuesday Night Ladies Club (TNLC) is a club for wives, girlfriends and fiances of law students. It's not an LDS thing...it's for everyone. We meet every Tuesday night at 7PM and we rotate who is "hosting" that week. Last week, the girl hosting decided to have it at a pottery place. It is a cute store where you paint your own pottery then they fire it for you. They have a place like this in Utah called "Color Me Mine". I've never been and was a bit nervous about painting and trying to come up with something cute and creative. So, of course, I turned to Martha Stewart! I found this really cute idea on dot-painting pottery or ceramics on her website. I downloaded the template and voila, I had a great idea. The first picture is Martha Stewart's version...I copied the blue plate on the bottom. The second and third pictures are my creation. Not bad...I think I should have made the dots a little smaller...but all in all...I like it. I want to try the white plate flower template next.

New Doctor?

A funny thing happened to me at my routine OB check-up on Tuesday. My OB doctor is Dr. Buckovic, she was on vacation so I saw Dr. McMillan. Dr. McMillan was excellent and very friendly and everything was just fine with me and the baby. As I left, I went to the check-out window to schedule my next appointment. The receptionist asked if I wanted to see Dr. McMillan again. I told her that I only saw him because my doctor, Dr. Buckovic, was on vacation and that I need to be scheduled with her. The receptionist looked at me funny and said, "Vacation? Dr. Buckovic doesn't work here anymore!" I said, "What?" She then repeated herself and said that my OB doctor doesn't work there anymore. I asked her when someone was going to let me know that I no longer have a doctor? She snapped at me and said, "I know for a fact that Dr. Buckovic was telling her patients she was leaving." I told her that no one told me. I then told her that I was fine with seeing Dr. McMillan for the rest of my pregnancy. I couldn't help but laugh at the whole situation. I mean, I am 28 weeks for crying out loud and no one told me that my doctor was leaving!?!? Oh well. Dr. McMillan was excellent and I think I will be happy with him.

New Hair Cut

I decided to try something new with my hair. Don't laugh, but yes I took these myself and while at work. I am a little bored if you couldn't tell! Hahahahah!

Barboursville

We had a work party to celebrate how well the office did last academic year in fundraising. W&L received 2 of its highest gifts ever. One for $33 million and one for $100 million. Can you imagine having so much money that you could give that much away? They each were from individual people, not like a bunch of people or a corporation...just individuals! Anyway, we had a dinner at Barboursville. Barboursville is a winery and vineyard that is very prestige. There was, of course, wine tasting and a small tour of the vineyards, which were absolutely beautiful. After that we had a 4 course dinner with wine pairings for each course. Dinner was $95 a person!! Needless to say, everyone had a little to much to drink and as the night worn on it became more and more awkward. Thank goodness there was one other LDS girl that works in my department there and we hung out with each other all night. It was a fun night and a probably a once-in-a-lifetime chance to eat a $100 meal!

http://www.barboursvillewine.net/b/

Bonfire!

A group of us drove up the mountain and had a bonfire for Spencer's birthday...and just for fun. We roasted hotdogs and made smores...yummy! It was such a fun night and a much needed break for everyone from school and work.

There was this cool wooden bridge that went over the river. I didn't brave the bridge though...there were slats missing and who knows which step would be the next one to have a slat fall from underneath your foot??? No thank you! The scenery was sure beautiful though.

25 Weeks

Here is another picture of my baby bump. It's really not a bump anymore...it's definitely getting bigger. School has started and Spencer is busy as ever. He had his first interview in California over the weekend and he thought it went really well. It was actually for a firm in Las Vegas but the interview was in California. He has applied to about 10 firms so far and will apply to about another 30 by the end of the month. All of these are for an internship next summer. We are hopefull that he will get a lot more interviews and a couple of good offers. Most of the firms he is applying to are on the West coast, mainly in Utah. It will be a busy semester for him. I'm doing great and have been feeling fine. My only complaint right now is my puffy feet. They puff up during the day and hurt all day long then if I am good and elevate them at night they usually go down and feel much better.

IT'S A BOY!!!

We found out today that we are having a baby boy. We are so excited and couldn't be happier. He is very healthy and looks adorable. Here are some 3-D pictures we got. He is so cute in the first picture with his little hands covering up his eyes. The second one is a good profile shot. We couldn't believe how amazing these picture turned out. It was so fun having this ultrasound done!

Baby Bump

I have finally decided to take a picture of my baby bump. It is a hard thing to do because you don't want to see yourself getting bigger. It's a mix between "oh, how cute" and "I'm getting fat"....very hard to deal with if you ask me! Alas, I have taken a picture. Sigh! And this picture will stop the phone calls, emails and letters asking me for a picture! HA! :) The first picture is at 20 weeks, the next picture is at 21 weeks. Enjoy!

New Addition

We bought a new car. It is a used 1997 Jeep Cherokee but it is practically new. It only has 8,300 miles on it!! It was a government car that they obviously didn't use that much. The outside and inside are immaculate. It wasn't my first choice but because of the miles and Spencer's persuasion we decided to go for it. And, we got a good deal on it too. It should last us a very long time. The 4-wheel drive will definitely be nice during the snow and ice storms we get here. Too bad we didn't have this when we lived at the cabin! We have the truck up for sale right now and people are coming to look at it over the weekend, so hopefully it will sell fast.

Happy 4th of July

We had a pretty fun 4th. It started off with a children's bike parade down Main street. All the kids decorate their bikes and they ride down Main street like a little parade. It only lasted about 8 minutes but it was cute. The kids loved it, of course!Later in the afternoon we drove downtown for all the festivities. They had a small antique car show, lots of food vendors, crafts, music, games for the kids, hot-air balloons and fireworks. After being there all day I was so exhausted so we didn't quite make it all the way to see the fireworks that night, we came home early and I fell asleep at 8:30pm!! I tell ya...humidity takes it out of you! Overall, we had a good time.This is the main building at VMI-Virginia Military Institute. It is right next door to Washington and Lee University. Not very many people realize we have 2 colleges side-by-side in little Lexington, Virginia.