It's been awhile...

Well, it's definitely been a long time since my last post. 15 weeks to be exact (it's easy to know that when you're pregnant). It seems like a lot has happened between now and my last post too, but Jared and I are still doing well, and we are anxious for our little girl to get here.

So I am at 35 weeks now, which means only about 5 left. I really just hope that I can make it till June 11 or 12 so that I can get through my first two summer classes. I'm done with my spring semester of school and am done working now too, so overall I'm feeling really good. Working with preschoolers was hard on my pregnant body, so it's nice to be able to be at home, especially because I'm able to spend time getting things ready for Julie. She really likes to move around a lot, and it is fun watching my belly roll and move around.

Both Jared and I ended the semester doing really well in our classes. We both got one B and the rest As. Jared got an academic award from the UW Chemistry Department too, so that's great! I am taking four summer classes (2 are the first two weeks in June, and 2 are the first 2 weeks in August), but I need them to be able to do my student teaching and to graduate in December. So even though it could be an interesting couple of weeks in June, and a hard couple of weeks in August, I'm just glad that I'll be done in December and get to stay at home with my little girl after that. Jared isn't taking any summer classes, and is pretty bored staying at home, so he's currently looking for a job. He's signed up for 16 credits in the fall though and is hoping to be a TA for some chemistry classes. I'm going to be doing my student teaching at Spring Creek Elementary School in 3rd grade, and I'm getting excited for that too.

In the last week we've also moved into a new apartment, which was a lot of work too. We really like our new place a lot, and almost everything is unpacked too. With my brother not living with us anymore, we found a smaller less expensive place. It is really close to our old place, but we are in a new ward. It made it pretty easy to move things, and luckily Jared had a lot of help from some great guys that we know. Both of our families also helped out a lot too.

My brother got his mission call and will be going to Anaheim, CA. He enters the MTC on July 7th, so we're excited that he'll still get to meet Julie. We go to the temple with him next weekend. I'm really excited for him and proud of him.

Well other than that, our life is pretty much just waiting for Julie to get here. We spent some time in Riverton this week and are having a birthday party for my brother this weekend in Laramie, so we're glad that we can spend a lot of time with family.

We hope you are all doing well and finally enjoying the springtime! I'm grateful for all the wonderful family and friends in my life and for all the blessings Heavenly Father continues to pour out to our family!