Updates on La la la LIFE

I can't believe Thanksgiving has come and gone. I can't believe I have been teaching for almost 4 months already... and yet how slowly that has seemed to pass..

For Thanksgiving this year, Anthony chose to go to my Grandma Mary's house. (I have a monopoly on every Christmas Eve, so A gets to choose Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve.) Dinner was divine. My grandma has some award winning apple pie... Anthony says I should learn how to make it, but there is no way to compare my cooking to her cooking.

My aunt Jill was in town with her 2 daughters and husband all the way from OREGON. We never see them. Last time I saw them was at my wedding, and I think it totaled 3 minutes.. so it was fun.

After my grandma's, we went and visited Anthony's Grandma Brown. She is an amazing cook as well. Anthony made all the rolls for their dinner the day before. I thought they were great, but his family is large connoisseurs of food, and apparently they weren't up to par. So he is going to make them for our Christmas Eve party... practice practice practice.

We set up our Christmas tree and I LOVE it.

Our house feels so cozy and warm.

and the BIG NEWS...

Anthony got accepted to Cornell for his MBA/MHA degree. We are super excited. We are still waiting for other acceptances, but this is my #1... besides the U of U for Medical School... the U doesn't send out their acceptances until March, so we might have to decide on Cornell before then. Tough decisions... I think New York would be so fun. It is about 2 hours away from Manhattan. It is in Ithaca, NY, which is BEAUTIFUL. Green and lush.

I only have 3 weeks until Christmas Break... yes, Thanksgiving break is over today, but I am ready for the next one! I think after Christmas, the baby is going to come soooo soon! I am READY.. mentally.. so far we only have JEGGINGS. yes, I got her jeggings. They are adorable.

Anthony's brother, Chris, and S.I.L., Ashley, had their baby girl on the 18th.

Evelyn "Evie" Mae Brown.

She is one of the cutest babies I have ever seen.

Full head of hair and her skin is the prettiest olive color.

It's a.....

We had our ultra sound appointment today. Everything is looking great. We saw the FEET, SPINE, BRAIN, HANDS, HEART, KIDNEY'S, LEGS, ARMS... and can I say... my baby has the cutest bum in the world?!

I am only 18.5 weeks right now so I was really nervous they wouldn't be able to tell what gender our little babe is... but they could and
it is a GIRL!

We were so sure it was a boy... at least I was. But we are very happy it is a girl. Her feet were tucked on her bum, like child's pose in yoga, so it took a good 20 minutes to find the right angle... sure enough there is nothing between the legs. hee hee.

We forgot to bring a c.d. so we can't upload the pictures. and I am not going to buy anything until my next doctor's appointment because I am still apprehensive that it could turn into a boy... but for now we call the lil babe a SHE.

We are so excited. My mom and grandma Pat came with us to the ultrasound so it was really fun. We have picked out a name, but will keep it a secret for a bit longer :)

16 Weeks

I feel like I should be documenting this pregnancy better since I am terrible at keeping my scrapbook up to date.

I have decided to keep a baby journal. I saw this idea on somebody's blog and thought it was cute. I will probably do it every 3-4 weeks.. unless I get bored and do it more often.

Happy HaLLoweeN

I hope you all had a very wonderful Halloween weekend. We sure had fun. We went to a few Halloween Parties, carved pumpkins, watched all of our scary/halloween movies, and Anthony ate yummy junk food since it makes me sick.

These are the costumes we made. They took FOREVER, but they were fun.
I have a baby in my belly and we put milk and cookies in Anthony's belly.

Ps.. I am now 16 weeks. We get to find out what the little babe is in 3 weeks! EEK!