Baby and School

Here are some awesome pictures that I neglected to put in the previous post. These were all taken a while ago:

This is us at the oh-so-fancy Melting Pot enjoying our chocolate fondu

Breck was chillin' in the back of the helicopter and taking pictures

Co-pilot Alisha reporting for duty!

There was a random/cool octopus tree that we had our picture with

Breck makes a good-looking best man!

Mt. Hood from my window seat in the airplane ride to Portland

Yay for an exciting week!We certainly started off this year with some big new changes. By far the most exciting news this week was we found out that we are having a GIRL!!! We are both so excited. Breck came to the appointment with me and was holding my hand throughout the ultrasound. What a sweet and supportive husband! He was squeezing my hand like crazy when we found out that it was a girl. *Smiles all around * It was so much fun to see her kicking on the ultrasound and to feel it at the same time. She was so good and fairly cooperative.

In other news: as many of you may already know, I am student teaching this semester. My first day was on Tuesday. Right off the bat we had a faculty meeting and I was slightly intimidated. I was completely surrounded by older and more experienced teachers. They were very nice though. The students are pretty good and they were all interested when I introduced myself. I am simply amazed at all the technology that my cooperating teacher has! She has a smartboard (that can do powerpoints, and many other amazing things), I-clickers (automatic voting buttons on questions), and many test software programs so that her tests are on the computer! Wow... I had the impression that schools were still using overhead projectors... some probably still are, but I'm glad that I'm being exposed to so many things.

Here is a picture of my first day of school and the day of the ultrasound :)

Catching Up

Well, here we are at the beginning of a new year! *Sigh* I bet you can guess what one of my resolutions will be...

I figure before I can move on and do this regularly, I need to do some catching up. Our last post was about my many many field trips. After that semester ended Breck and I took a vacation-ish trip to Oregon. The real reason we went was for Breck's high school friends wedding. It was so awesome. Not only was it a beautiful wedding, but they had it in an aerospace museum and the reception was under the Spruce Goose. That was pretty awesome.

We did some pretty awesome things like go to a world-famous aquarium, visited some cool sites on the beach, went to a market place in Portland and ate at the Melting Pot. Yum. I must admit that my favorite thing though was our helicopter tour of Mt. St. Helens. That was thrilling to say the least.

A new semester started in September and with it the news that Breck and I were/are expecting our first child :) It was wonderful news, but I must admit that being pregnant made last semester ridiculously hard. Breck took it easy only having two classes, but the purpose of that light load was that he would be able to find a job. I don't know why all the jobs suddenly disappeared, but they did so as soon as he started looking. He's been looking for months!

*Sigh*

The most recent occurrences happened over the Christmas break where much awesomeness ensued. For most of the break here Breck and I took a much needed rest and relaxed ourselves silly. We were also able to go down to Utah and visit my family. Yay family!!! We both had so much fun seeing everybody and going to the various parties.

In closing, I am so thankful for Breck, my various family and loved ones, friends and for the opportunity we have to be at BYU-Idaho for our education. To those who still read this blog... thank you so much and we love you!

*PS if anybody wants to see pictures here as opposed to facebook, just let me know! I don't have a whole bunch, but they are still pretty cool. *