The past week

We've done a lot of traveling in the past week. First, Chad and I drove to the cabin on Friday to get everything a little more organized and for Chad to do some painting. Friday and Saturday we spent the days working, and Sunday we mostly just relaxed. It worked out perfectly--it rained almost the entire day Sunday, so it was the perfect weather for reading and napping. Chad used the leftover paint that we painted our house with back in December to paint the bedroom. I discovered that this specific type of paint gave me pretty bad nausea, because when Chad painted our house I was in my first trimester. I couldn't go into this room without holding my breath the entire weekend.
So we slept in the living room on the sleeper sofa. I know this picture was taken Sunday because Chad is resting. He was a workhorse all day Friday and Saturday. He painted while I went into town and made a BTU and Wal-Mart run.
This is supposed to be the "before" picture. I never did get around to taking an "after." We were in a hurry to leave Monday morning because I had to catch a plane from Lubbock to Dallas, where I would be spending a couple days with mom, Erin & the fam in Weatherford.
Chad primed the upstairs and hallway and painted the bedroom. Everything else still needs to be done.
So after our wonderful weekend in the mountains, it was back to hot Texas. I was only at mom's for a couple days, but the highlight of the trip was going out to the land where they were breaking ground on mom's new house that she's building.

This cow kept running back and forth and mooing. I think the kids will have a lot of fun out here at granny's place.
Here is a view from mom's side of the road to grandmother and granddad's house that they built in the early '60s. They lived here until 1999 when they moved in to town so they could be closer to doctors, not have to take care of all that space, etc. I have so many good memories out here of being with my grandparents, so I am extremely excited that my kids will get to have some of the same memories when they come to visit granny. The builder is estimating that mom's house will be done in 4 months, which makes it even more exciting!

Garden

Well, we finally got around to planting our garden. Here are some pictures from yesterday...Here's Chad adjusting the timer on the underground irrigation system. It seems to be working really well so far.
I planted basil, serranos, jalapenos, chives, gold bell peppers, and three varieties of tomatoes: celebrity, roma, and cherry. Last year we started a lot from seed but this year since we're getting started so late, I went ahead and bought plants. Chad planted some bean, canteloupe and squash seeds, and ordered some more seeds online yesterday.
Here is Chad's birthday/father's day present...a backyard composter. It's pretty stinky already, so I guess that means it's working!
In the back alley Chad planted rosemary, honeysuckle, raspberries and strawberries. We already had two thyme plants back there that survived through the winter.
Look, here's proof that I'm not just sitting in the house laying on the couch trying to stay cool. It's getting harder and harder to get down on the ground and then get back up, but I wanted to be a part of the garden that we planted! Chad's pretty much done all the work so far, so now I can say I contributed. Check out that belly!

Thursday I'll be 34 weeks pregnant. Six more weeks to go! We'll go to camp this weekend for a quick trip to the cabin, then I'm going to visit mom and Erin, and then that'll be it for me and traveling until after the baby arrives. Just to be on the safe side I'm going to the dr. this Friday, and they're going to make sure I'm not showing any signs of having this baby any time soon.

The dream is reality!

In the summer of 2005, we went in with Shawn & Emma to purchase one of the last empty lots available at Camp Blue Haven...it was kind of a leap at the time, and the hopes of building a cabin was something that we thought might happen in 20 years or so. Fast forward to 2008...and last summer as we were teaching at camp, we began the process of actually getting all the permits to build a cabin and meeting with the builder. By the end of the year, the cabin had been all but completed, and this last weekend, the Montandon men made a trip up there to move a LOT of furniture to get the place ready to stay in. Shawn started in Georgetown, bringing a refrigerator with him. Paul started in Tyler, bringing a hutch and dining room set with him. They met in Weatherford where my mom had pretty much an entire garage full of furniture, and when they got to Lubbock, we added 3 beds, a sleeper sofa, and what can only be described as a bunch of other random stuff that we didn't want at our house anymore. Basically, the cabin is the new Goodwill...for the past year, instead of anyone getting rid of anything, we ask, "Could we use it at the cabin?" So now it's nice that we can actually take the stuff up to the cabin instead of just storing it indefinitely. Anyway, enough talking. Here are pictures, which I tried to put in sequential order.
We stored the sleeper sofa in the baby's room, which is one reason it looks so much more like a baby's room now instead of the room of random furniture. One thing about our house is it definitely wasn't built for big furniture...navigating around the corners and through the doorways can be a little iffy sometimes. Anyway, Shawn and Chad made it look pretty much effortless. Needless to say I stayed out of the way and kept my mouth shut and my "helpful" suggestions to myself. Check out all the junk we were able to get rid of! I knew those big ol' Ikea bags I bought for $.59 each would come in handy at some point. Here are the guys after stop two. They're still smiling! As you can see all the furniture pretty much took up the whole truck. The guys decided to go ahead and drive to the cabin last night. It must have been fate--Beth made stew and cinnamon rolls for the counselors (in counselor training week) and the guys showed up right before they were about to put up the food. Good timing!Here are some views from the top of the loft so you can kind of see how the furniture fits in there right now...also it gives you a little bit of an idea of how big the space is. The kitchen area has nicer furniture than my kitchen. If this is roughing it then I think I'm gonna like this place. When you walk to the top of the loft and turn right (you can see a little bit of the stairs in the bottom right corner of the picture), here is a little nook where one of the twin beds is. Perfect size for the bed and a little side table. And the all-important bathroom. I am happy to report that the water runs and has good pressure and the water heater works. I'm glad the boys made this re-con trip so I didn't have to find out the hard way that something didn't work. The bedroom. Anyone have a queen bedframe they don't want? Erin, the washer and dryer fit perfectly under the stairs! Thanks for letting us have them. This place is finally starting to look like a cabin. The only problem is I'm jealous of the cabinets and light fixtures in this place. They're much nicer than what we have at our house! The kitchen appliances are all there thanks to donations from Shawn & Emma and one of our neighbors in the canyon...I don't know their name, but they were getting rid of their oven/stove and microwave and another cabin owner knew that we needed these appliances and kept them for us at his place for a year. I think I'm going to like hanging out with these people. Oh good, they're still smiling. These guys were serious troopers. Our cabin is complete with a porch glider, which mom bought as a "cabin-warming" from a place around Ft. Worth that makes porch furniture. I haven't gotten to try it out yet but I hear it's pretty nice. I think I'll be spending some time on that thing this coming weekend, when Chad and I go up for our first weekend trip! We're going to make it in time for 1st session closing campfire, worship on Sunday morning (which is the first Sunday of 2nd session), and opening campfire on Sunday night. At least if we can't teach this summer, this is probably the next best thing. I can't wait!

Baby shower

Yesterday my church friends threw me a really nice baby shower. The decorations were cute and the food was yummy too! It was a fun day, and the best part was coming home and getting to go through all the goods. (See post below for the latest nursery pictures)Me & the lovely hostesses
Here I am opening up the hostess gift, which was a Pack-n-Play. It's set up in the living room right now, because I just wanted to see if I could do it. Thanks girls! And thanks Amanda for writing down all the gifts. Mom and Barbara were both able to come for the shower. They'll probably both kill me for posting this because they claim that every picture taken of them is bad, but I think it's good! Plus, y'all are the only ones that read this blog anyway! I am just really appreciative of everyone who came out and took time out of their day to come to my shower. So to those of you who read my blog who came, thank you, it really meant a lot that you were there.

The baby's room in progress

I've been working on getting the baby's room decorated and organized, and there are pictures at the bottom of this post, but first, let's travel back to 2007, shall we? The above picture is what the room looked like when we bought the house. Below is after we did our first remodel with the room, and later we ripped out the nasty carpet. Just wanted to show the phases that the room has gone through since we've moved in to the house. And below are the newest pictures of the room.

I am all about hand-me-downs. This little guy gets a new crib and a new glider (which is more for Chad and me), but all the other big furniture in the room is a hand-me-down, and mostly from Erin. She has supplied her little nephew with the swing, bookcase, changing table, exersaucer (not pictured), a bouncy seat, and a brand new high chair, not to mention a bunch of baby clothes that Kellen once wore. How awesome is that!? Thanks Erin. And the chest of drawers is my old one...maybe one of these days I'll get some new furniture for myself! The walls are very bare right now, but eventually I will hang the quilt above the changing table and chest of drawers, and the two paintings below will go above the crib, with another painting with Baby M's name in the middle that Emma is still working on because we are being stubborn and not coming up with a for-sure name. I looooove how the paintings turned out, and in the 2nd picture below you can see the frog and helicopter in the quilt and what a good job Emma did of replicating them. The colors in the painting look a little more subdued in real life (right now on my computer screen the helicopter background is looking very bright purple, but it's not actually that color). I am really loving how the room is coming together.
And since some people are interested in stuff like this, here is the stroller that I picked out (carseat is the same design) and this is what Barbara gave us for the shower. Thanks, Barbara!So there you have it, the latest nursery pictures. Eventually I'll get the stuff put up on the walls and the room will look a lot more put together, but just in the last few days it's really started to look like a baby's room. Makes everything even more exciting!

Helpless, helpless, helpless

I think I know what it's like to get old. One day, you're doing your thing, driving, going to the store, running errands with ease, and then one day, BOOM. You can't do those things anymore. I had this discovery today about myself. I ran a few errands this morning before going to the grocery store for what I thought was a typical grocery trip. About halfway through the store, the cart became unbearably difficult to push and every turn required a huge amount of effort. Of course I chose to go to Wal-Mart today where they are huge proponents of American Individualism (YOU unload your groceries onto the belt, YOU load the grocery sacks back into the cart, YOU load your car). I usually shop at the United a few blocks away where they do all that for you. Well, 5-or-6 month pregnant Lesley wouldn't have thought anything of loading a few groceries into my cart and bringing them into the house, but 7+ month pregnant Lesley realized today that she can't do that anymore.

By the time I had come home and unloaded the car I had only enough energy to put the cold stuff away. Everything else is still just sitting on the counters, waiting for me to get a second wind. So, lesson(s) learned: 1. Plan grocery trips around when Chad is not working or sleeping, and take him with me next time. 2. Don't go to Wal-Mart, where the lady still charged me $3.86/lb for tomatillos even though the sign above them clearly said $2/lb. (and do you think I had the energy at that point to argue or talk to customer service? Nope.) It's totally worth it to pay a few extra bucks to get someone to load your car for you and take the cart back in, because even 7+ month pregnant Lesley is not willing to leave her cart in between two cars instead of putting it in the cart return. That's just rude, people. 3. Don't buy groceries during the summer. Too hot.

So, there are my lessons learned for the day. I wonder what's in store for me tomorrow.

Ohhhhh homeownership

Here are some pictures of some things going on around our house lately. The two photos below are of our garden. Chad recently had a new irrigation system installed that is hooked up to our sprinkler system but has its own timer. Then he ran irrigation hoses throughout the bed and since it's a raised bed, now he's in the process of filling it with dirt. We borrowed a truck & trailer from our friends Talin & Amanda, and they brought us a trailer full of dirt from Talin's mom's farm. That got us a little way, and Chad brought two more yards of dirt to fill the rest of the garden. He'll finish filling it up using potting soil, fertilizer, and all that stuff to prep the soil for planting.
Our next little "project" has not been quite as fun. About a week ago I was turning on the hot water faucet in the guest bath and the handle just came right off in my hand. So today was the first day Chad has been able to look at it, and when he started looking at it to see what kind of replacement faucet we'd need to buy, the water came on, and even with using the pliers he wasn't able to turn the water back off--it just kept coming out of the faucet. So the first priority was to turn off the water coming in to the house, which has now been off since about 8:30 this morning (it is now 4:30). We also noticed that the job wouldn't be as simple as going to Home Depot and buying a faucet to repair it, because as you can see the pipes for the faucet itself are behind the tile in the wall (the fixtures are so old that we couldn't just buy handles to screw in to the existing pipes). I had some stuff to take care of to finish up at school and at the district office, so Chad and I left the house for a while to get that done. We picked up a new faucet and handles on the way home, and soon realized when we got home that this was a job for a plumber, mostly because Chad has to work tonight and he needed to rest up instead of spending a frustrating afternoon with our plumbing. So the plumber finally got here about a half hour ago, and as you can see he quickly went to work getting in the cabinet that is behind the shower to check it out. Luckily to get to the fixture pipes, we didn't have to bust through the tile. Apparently a previous owner needed to access the plumbing as well, so there was already a piece of drywall cut out behind the plumbing and duct taped into place in the cabinet. So I emptied out the cabinet, and the plumber got to work. By the way, I took the picture below while the plumber was out in his truck getting tools. Even I'm not desperate enough to get a picture for the blog to ask a plumber to move for a second so I can take a picture. So 45 minutes and $180 later, we have a brand-spankin' new shower faucet and handles. It couldn't have happened much later either--we're expecting multiple guests this next weekend, so we needed the guest shower to be available! (Not to mention I needed the water to the house to be turned back on STAT). Speaking of homeownership, from what I hear our cabin is ready for occupancy. The well pump is working and the pipes are running to the house. The electricity is up and running. Our builder said he turned on the water to make sure everything is working and that the water pressure is GOOD. Can you believe it? We actually have a cabin at Blue Haven!!!! It makes me so happy that just thinking about it right now almost makes me cry.

And so begins the great furniture migration of 2009. This weekend Shawn, Paul and Chad are making a trek up to the cabin to move in most of the major furniture that we will need. Shawn is bringing a refrigerator from Georgetown. Paul is bringing multiple pieces of furniture from Tyler. They're picking up pretty much a UHaul's worth of furniture from mom's house in Weatherford, and then they'll stop off in Lubbock to get a sleeper sofa, twin trundle bed, queen mattress & box springs, etc etc. It's going to be a long weekend of driving and loading and unloading furniture. Have I mentioned how glad I am that I'm over 7 months pregnant and literally CAN'T help? Selfish, I know, but I'm pretty sure the guys would just as soon have me out of the way to get this done faster. Then, hopefully in a couple weeks, Chad and I can take another trip up to the cabin after the guys have so graciously gotten it ready, and we can spend a couple days getting it MORE ready for people to stay there, and also just to be able to enjoy it after spending most of last year getting this place built. I am excited that we now have this little place to go to and enjoy anytime we want to get away. More pictures to come, I'm sure! Although I'm not going to ask Chad to take pictures this weekend...I think they'll have their hands full with all the manual labor, probably won't be much in the mood to be the historian. Anyway, I'm excited, and we will let everyone know when it's ready for habitation (we are still lacking flooring and painted walls, so it's really dependent on how much you want to "rough it.")

And that's about it. Did I mention I'm done with school? I know I posted after the last day of school on Thursday, but I still had a work day and had to empty out my classroom and do all of that other end-of-the-year checkout stuff. Well, I finished that today. I turned in my keys to the office and officially gave up my rights to the classroom. On to a new, very different, chapter in my life. And on that note, I will be 33 weeks pregnant on Thursday. 7 weeks sounds like not very much time. It also sounds like a short amount of time when I say that it is now June and the baby is due in July. I am excited and can't wait to meet our baby boy.

**EDIT: Much more excitement has happened since I posted this afternoon! After the plumber left, the hot water would not come back on. Also, there was the issue of the natural gas smell in our house. I thought I had smelled it earlier in the day but Chad didn't smell anything, so I thought I was just being paranoid or smelling the some excess gas from the stove not lighting right away earlier in the day. But after a few hours, the smell really began permeating the house, mostly when the A/C would kick on. Wonderful. I walked out to the garage, where our water heater and furnace are, and I could smell the gas the strongest in our laundry room (which is connected by a wall to the closet with the water heater and furnace). So I called the gas company and they came out around 6:30, and the source of the gas was the furnace in the garage closet, and the pilot light on the furnace had gone out, but the gas was still turned on. So the guy turned that off and the gas smell has gone away. The water heater was a separate problem. The pilot light had gone out on that too (the gas company guy was kind enough to check it and re-light it for me since Chad is at work).

So, it has been quite a day filled with numerous, all unrelated, house maintenance issues. I had plans to continue checking other things off my list like cleaning, de-junking the house, and grocery shopping, but that will have to wait until tomorrow. Which is okay, because I don't have anything else going on. :)

I just had to share two of the three paintings that my sister-in-law Emma has done for the baby's room. Aren't they adorable and isn't she talented?

So long, farewell

Well, I made it. I am officially not a teacher anymore. It has been a great year and I have had a wonderful experience during my two years at Coronado. I will miss certain aspects of my job, like the students, but students come and go so they would leave eventually anyway if they weren't already graduating this year. I will really miss a few of my co-workers, especially my across-the-hall neighbor, Cecilee, who became a good friend and my daily lunch buddy. She was even the first person I told (after Chad) that I was pregnant. So it goes without saying that I will think back about my relatively short time here with mostly positive memories (except for this. Oh, and this. And a few other things that I chose not to blog about because of the very public nature of blogs). Now, it's time for the next thing.

Speaking of the next thing...I have been pondering my new profession a lot lately, thinking about how I will be using my time differently and what my new purpose will be. Obviously, my main job will be to make sure our child stays fed and dressed and loved, but what else is involved in my new job description? Well, one thing that I have started focusing a lot on lately is how we will be spending our money. We've had a few good months as DINKs (that's Double Income No Kids to you acronymally-challenged), but now we're about to be SIKs (I reeeeeally wanted to think of something that started with "C," so it could spell a word, but anyway, I've already wasted too much time on this AND I took out the "W" cause that wouldn't work). Enter the new Montandon family budget! We've budgeted before, but it's always been more of a self-imposed thing, since both of us have usually had some source of income. So, June starts our first month on our new, much more limiting, budget. I also subscribed to the Sunday paper so I can start clipping coupons. And for those of you who like to make suggestions and give advice, please feel free to leave comments about what else has helped you save money. Other things that will be higher on my priority list when I am a stay-at-home mom are being better about cooking at home and doing weekly menus and keeping the house clean (Chad keeps saying that he is waiting for my "nesting instinct" to kick in because our house is a mess). I also plan to spend much less time on the computer and more time studying my Bible. I have been thinking a lot lately about how much time I spend on the computer and what a waste it is, and I know it will only become worse if I don't make a conscious effort to minimize my computer time. So, there you have it.

Still reading, not wordy enough for you yet? Well, in baby news, I am 32 weeks today and I start my "every two weeks" dr. appointments tomorrow. My church friends are throwing a baby shower for me next Saturday, so that will be fun to ooh and ahh at all the cute little baby things. It seems like the closer we get to a due date the further we get from a name we both love. So, that's all the news on that.

I guess that's it! Time to go home and take a nap.

Two months and counting...but who's counting?

Well, my loyal blog readers, yesterday marked exactly TWO months until my "official" due date. To you, that means yet another tiny little infant to look at pictures of and hold every once in a while. To me, it means that in two months or less or a little more, mine and Chad's lives will be completely and forever changed. I don't know what it is about the two month mark that has made it so real for me and has kicked me into high gear about needing to be ready...maybe it is the fact that I personally know several people who have had their babies 1-2 months early, so it's the realization that he could literally come at any time and I really DON'T have two months left.

Aside from the fact that we won't be able to teach at Blue Haven this summer which still makes me sad to think about, I feel like this pregnancy has been perfect timing with my job. At 7 months pregnant, I'm just getting to the point where things are getting pretty difficult to do. By the end of the day at work, I'm tired from lugging around the extra 30-or-so pounds, and it seems like every day I have to figure out what outfit still fits that is appropriate to wear to work and what will go with the two pairs of comfortable shoes that I have left. Unfortunately, my knit yoga capri pants and tank tops do not fit into this category...and this is my go-to outfit every day when I come home. I am really happy that for the "homestretch" I don't have to lug myself around school every day and I'll really only have to try to look somewhat presentable a few more times in the pregnancy...all other times I'll be at home concentrating on staying cool. I think I will probably take Emma's lead and buy myself a little pool to lay around in in the backyard.

Three more days of school! :)

Baby's room

One of the questions I get asked a lot nowadays is what the "theme" of our baby's room is going to be. I don't feel like we really have a theme; in fact, we are not even painting his room a different color. It is a khaki color that we painted two years ago when we moved to our house, and with the recent painting Chad has done in the rest of the house, no one really felt like painting that room again. I'm totally fine with that though; I like the color or else I wouldn't have chosen it in the first place. We also already had a deep red area rug and red curtains in the room, so I wanted to use the color red so we wouldn't have to redo everything. When I first started looking at bedding, before we knew whether we were having a boy or girl, I didn't really get too excited about anything I saw. I'm not a fan of all the pastel baby stuff that's out there, and I wanted some of the bedding to "grow" with our child so we wouldn't have to buy new stuff when the baby wasn't a baby anymore. So, I found the perfect bedding:

I ended up getting the quilt, the sheet, and the bedskirt, all a gift from my mom. I am using a bumper that my sister gave me that is just a blue denim color. Although I love the bumper that comes with the bedding, I felt like it was a lot to spend on a bumper, and it turns out they're not selling the bumper anymore so it's just as well I didn't want it. The thing I love about this bedding is all the different colors that are in it...not too "primary" and not too pastel. Also, we think we'll probably keep this room as the nursery, which means whenever we have another child, this little boy will move to the green room (those of you who have been to our house know what I'm talking about), and I think the quilt will still work in there. I will be stealing Pottery Barn's idea of hanging the quilt on the wall, probably opposite the crib. Above the crib, my sister-in-law Emma, who just happens to be a very talented artist, is doing some paintings from images on the bedding. She will paint one square as the frog, one as the helicopter, and then the middle painting will be rectangular and will have our child's name (using the letter styles from the quilt, once we pick a name!) in the middle with more of the little objects around the border. I can't wait...I think it is going to turn out so cute. I had the bedding shipped directly to Emma and she says that it's even cuter in person than in the pictures, so that got me even more excited.

Coming soon...Chad has been working hard on a below-ground irrigation system for our garden, which he plans on doing as a raised bed this year. I'll get some pictures soon to show the progress.

31 weeks and ultrasound pictures

Today marks the end of my 31st week, so it's time for more pictures. Also, we went for another ultrasound today (probably the last) and they said everything looked good, and it's still a boy. The baby weighs approximately 3 lbs. right now, which according to them is in the 26th percentire. He was being a little uncooperative about showing us his face, but we got a couple of okay pictures. He is breech right now but just a couple weeks ago at the dr. he was in the head-down position, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens when the time comes. He has a few more weeks to swim around in there.
We did the 3-d ultrasound just because I asked the lady if we could, and it was pretty cool. The first one is of his TOTALLY ADORABLE little foot. Seriously, baby's feet might be the cutest thing ever. And I might be mistaken, but he MAY have his mom's long 2nd toe. Ahh, the legacy lives on. The second and third are of his totally adorable face with his forearm and hand covering up his mouth and chin. Anyone want to start speculating as to who he looks like? And finally, me at 31 weeks.

It's a huge blessing to know that everything is as it should be as far as our child's health and my health are concerned, and I know it has everything to do with God's grace and him taking care of us, and the many prayers being offered up for us. I am so thankful and humbled to think about the many blessings in our lives.

That's it for now.

A breakthrough

Well, the official countdown is 11 more school days until the year is over. So, I have once again begun to start packing up my stuff in my classroom. The last time I did this it was different. I was moving to another teaching position, so naturally, I needed to take all of my teaching stuff (turn-in trays, posters with "inspirational" sayings, etc.) with me so I would have them at my new job. But now, I am not going to another teaching job. In fact, I'm not going to any job at all except to my house. So everything has become this big dilemma of whether I should keep it or not. I realize I don't need my turn-in trays or inspirational posters, but what about if/when I go back to teaching? Where will I be? What will I be teaching? Where am I going to put all this stuff until then? Do I really want to start all over again collecting materials if I decide to leave everything here for the next person?

So in the past, when I packed up my belongings, I've just thrown everything into a box to be dealt with later, because I'm sure I'll need it eventually. This time, I'm not so sure. Everything is a big WHAT IF????? I think, WHAT IF, 8 or so years from now, I think back to this handout I threw away instead of keeping?

I had no idea when I came to work today and decided to start cleaning out my stuff that my day would be full of so many decisions. So far, I've packed three tubes of hand lotion, three books, and some yarn. I did finally throw away two lesson plan units I wrote my senior year in college. Forgot I had those.

Sometimes typing out my thoughts on a blog can be so therapeutic. I have realized through all this fretting, that there is no way I will ever be able to find a handout that I once used. I mean, I just threw away notes from a media writing class that I took in college that have been sitting on my classroom bookshelf for two years that I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I HAD. So I guess the moral of the story is if I've forgotten by now that I have it, I'm not going to ever use it, so I should get rid of it.

Thanks for talking me through it, blog readers.

Random updates

What!? Another week is over?

This week has flown by. Maybe it's because I didn't go to work until Tuesday, and the yearbooks came in Wednesday, and we distributed them today, so I have been busy at school. We've gotten some really good feedback so far, and I haven't had any bad parent phone calls yet, so I would say it's been a successful yearbook distribution so far.

Chad officially started his graduate classes, including a business statistics class. I don't think he's going to have so much fun with that one.

I went to the doctor yesterday. He said that right now the baby weighs about 2.5 pounds and everything looks good. The baby's mother is gaining plenty of weight too. We went ahead and made all my appointments until the due date...only 7 more to go! And that is if I make it the full 40 weeks. We are getting really excited about how quickly the time is passing and how soon our little boy will be here. Also, the soft, comfy chenille glider armchair we ordered a couple months ago is finally in, so we get a new piece of furniture tomorrow. Woohoo!

I hope everyone has a good weekend. I for one will be sleeping late tomorrow and turning the air conditioner way down.