Blogging

So I thought I would blog and give an update on what’s going on lately. Nothing too exciting or new; we’re now at 37 weeks… so 3 weeks to go. But my hunch is telling me she will be here in 2 weeks. Wow, 2 weeks- how exciting! I know women are going to hate me- but I haven't gotten one stretch mark this entire pregnancy- no diabetes or gross veins and most importantly no excess fat weight that I'll have to spend 9 months trying to burn off. After she's born I should walk out of the hospital weighing less than before I got pregnant. How does that work exactly? lol. So as I’ve mentioned before I’m going to take 2 months off of work. Josh will take the first week off that she comes home and then sporadic days here and there. I’m sure there will be a lot of mornings he’ll just be too tired to go in. My best friend is flying out the end of July to see Royce, she's like Royce’s aunt since I don’t have any sisters and neither does she. And then my parents are coming out mid August to see their first granddaughter! My mom is thrilled to say the least. Still haven’t gauged my Dad- but I think he’s pretty excited because he created a facebook account and spoke about me being married and having our first baby, so that sounds like a proud dad and grandma. I had a funny dream about Royce the other night, she was in the nursery as a newborn and she was throwing things at the other babies. How does a newborn even have the skills to be able to throw? I think it just solidified my fear of her terrorism :)

I was checking over my degree progression the other day and doing an audit of where I’m at, what classes I need to take and my projected graduation date. As long as I don’t take any time off I can expect to graduate with my bachelors October 2010. And the best part is I haven’t spent or loaned out a dime to pay for this degree. Another reason why I’m a huge supporter of the military and now with the new G.I. bill it’s better than ever, I think everyone who is capable should do at least 4 years in the service. We will definitely be encouraging our kids… they will only have two options though. Full time college or the military.

My youngest brother Jordan, who is about to be 20 years old, is joining the coast guard full time. He leaves July 5th for basic training in Cape May, New Jersery. My other brother is a coast guard reservist out of Westport, WA. The coast guard is only accepting 3,000 active duty people this year. So it was really competitive to get in. I hope he gets stationed somewhere cool- like Guam- so we can visit of course. Key West would be nice too…

Josh (and Caleb) bought a little gyro plane recently, I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures and read his posts. He is just like a little kid in a candy shop- happy as can be. And I’m happy for him too- he has talked about flying since I met him. I just told him we need to buy a 2 seater or better yet a Cessna.

Our puppy is doing well, I don’t write about her too much anymore. She’s just blended into the family quite nicely. She’s still really crazy when the kids come down because she’s not used to seeing them. In her mind she is bigger than them and higher in the pack. I’m really curious to see how she will act around the baby- I’m assuming different because she will have daily interaction with the baby unlike she has now with the kids. Also I think she will sense the baby is mine and since Mishka loves me the most (hehe) she will probably adopt a similar attitude towards the baby knowing how much the baby will mean to me… these are my assumptions at least.