Baby Classes

Stephen and I just got all signed up for our how to have a baby class. Hopefully it will ease more worries than it creates! We'll get a tour of the birthing facility, learn pain management and relaxation techniques, learn what drug options there are, and baby care. I'm excited, and strangely nervous. I guess as much as I know I am having a baby (and have the belly to prove it!) sometimes it is easier to forget than others. Well, classes start tomorrow night. Wish us luck!!!

Great News!

Stephen just got his acceptance email! He was accepted into the OSU College of Pharmacy!!! This is really, fantastic news! He will start grad school in September 2009 and should graduate (if I understand right) June 2013. We will be in Corvallis for the first two years, then in Portland for the next one. The final year of Pharmacy school is a bunch of rotations, it's like residency for pharmacists. We don't know where that will be, hopefully in the Portland Metro area. But we'll jump that hurdle when we get there! It's also great news because now Stephen's grades for the rest of the year don't matter as much. He needs C's or better, which is a lot more lee-way than the A's he was looking at needing, especially since there is going to be a little one around soon being all distracting :) I'm so excited and you should all be excited too!!! YEY!!!

Thankful Thursday

STEPHEN GOT AN INTERVIEW FOR PHARMACY SCHOOL!!!!!!!

Pharmacy School Interview!!!

I have very exciting news! Stephen got a letter today informing him that he has been offered an interview for the College of Pharmacy here at OSU! This is such great news! The interveiw is Friday October 10th at 8:30am. They have scheduled 3 hours for the interview. Keep Stephen in your thoughts and prayers, that this interveiw might go well. We should hear within a few weeks the results of the interview.

Back to School!

Ok, so it's been a little while since I last posted anything. Sorry. In that time Stephen and I moved from Wauna (the paper mill), spent time in Oregon City or Sara's wedding, moved back to Corvallis, and then moved across town! We are finally mostly settled down. The kitchen is in functional order, most the furniture is where it belongs, but the baby's room is still full of boxes and stuff. Looks like we still have some work to do! Last Thursday Stephen and I went to the OSU/USC football game. Apparently USC was ranked first in the nation (? don't quote me on that) and OSU is not a team to shout about. USC was projected to bet OSU by 25 points. Well, for any of you who didn't hear, OSU won by 6. It was an exciting game and we had a lot of fun. We are going to try to go to more too.
Today was the first day of school. Stephen is taking Bio-Chemistry, Calculus for business majors, Spanish, and Anatomy. I am taking Mass Transfer Operations, Senior Lab for Chemical Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering, and Relaxation. Usually Stephen and I both have an hour free around lunch time so we can eat together. Not this term! You can pretty much bet that if he is in class, I'm not and if I'm in class, he's not. We couldn't even take an institute class together. :( At lest we get to see each other at home.
And a quick baby update: she is about 2 pounds and 14 1/2 inches. Comparable to a head of cauliflower!

Nursery Blues

I know it is really silly, but I very much want to get a crib set for the baby. Yes, I know she wont care what she sleeps in. I just want one little set that I can make her bed up all cute-like. The problem is, well one of the problems is, I am being very picky as to what I want it to look like. Even though we have been told we are having a little girl (and I feel like I'm having a little girl) I don't want a frilly pink set. I want something soft and muted and neutral (which would allow us to use it again if we have a little boy). And I don't like cartoony animal prints and I don't want yellow. So, what do I like? Here's the other problem. I found this amazing, darling crib set at Baby's 'r us. It's called Bunny Meadow by Kidsline. Here are some pictures of it:

It is a soft sage and brown, perfect for a little boy or a little girl, and it has a cute silhouette of a bunny and a dragonfly. But it is $180 (it is a 6 piece set including duvet cover and insert, bumper, dust ruffle, fitted sheet, valance and diaper stacker, but still).

I found a similar set, it is made by the same company. It is almost a cute. It is called Willow:

It is $130 but only 4 pieces (duvet cover and insert, bumper, dust ruffle, and fitted sheet).

Upon further looking, I could mix and match. There is a bunny blanket that is really cute as well as sheets and I could pair it with a plain sage set.

Unfortunately, we would still be looking at $100+

I guess we'll figure something out. Feel free to pass on any ideas! But aren't the bunnies just so darn cute!

Thankful Thursday

1. Stephen's pharmacy application being in. It's one less thing we what to worry about.

2. Only 5 more days at Georgia-Pacific!

3. I bought one of my textbooks online for $35. It is selling for $110 at the bookstore!

4. We are going home to Corvallis this weekend!

Pharmacy School

Three letters of recommendation, two essays, and lists of activities later, Stephen's Pharmacy school application is finally in (thank you tons and tons to Sara)! Now it's time to wait (I hate this part). Everybody keep your fingers crossed. Early decision is a pretty quick process. I think Stephen will know by the end of October if he is in or not. It's out of our hands for now.

September!

I'm so excited that it's finally September. The place Stephen and I have been living in this summer is fine, but it doesn't feel like home (plus, it's so far from the grocery store that Stephen has to stop for groceries on his way home from work. It's been weeks since I've gotten to go too!) But we get to go home in just a few more days (11 to be more precise)! There's so much to do! I have another doctor's appointment this next Monday, so we are going to move some of our stuff back to Corvallis this weekend. I don't know how we did it, but our stuff has multiplied! And then next weekend is Sara's wedding, so we have to have everything out and the place cleaned up Friday night. But then we are free!!! Well, free from the paper mill. When we get to Corvallis (to stay!) we are moving out of our old apartment to a two bedroom a couple miles away. Our new kitchen will be a little bit bigger (I think) and there's lots more storage space (yey for closets!) and there is the extra room to turn into an office/nursery! It's in a new ward, which is exciting. When we moved to the mill, we didn't send our records because we knew we were only going to make it to church in the ward about half the Sundays. But right after we moved, the University wards in Corvallis were dissolved. A YSA ward was created, and all us married students were sent to the family wards. So our records have been with a ward in Corvallis that we have never been to! I think it's kinda funny. The elders quorum presidency called us a few weeks ago to ask if they could come over and visit. We told them they were more than welcome, but that they'd have to drive to Claskine! They didn't come :) All the ward hopping has been fun, but I am looking forward to settling down into a ward again.

By the way, the baby is the size of a large mango... 11 inches long and just over a pound!

Baby Update

I get these great weekly baby updates in my email. They tell me all about how my baby is growing week to week. And, of course, they always compare my baby to a food! This week she is a spaghetti squash! If she is an average baby, which, let's face it, isn't likely, considering who her daddy is, she would be 11 inches long and weigh 1 pound. And she is starting to look like a tinny, weeny newborn! She is covered in wrinkles that will get filled in with cue baby fat! She likes to entertain me with acrobatics. She'll flip and flop and kick and wiggle for a while, and then not move (at least that I can feel) for a few hours. Then we get to start again! I'm just glad that she hasn't gotten so strong that she's hurting me yet!
The email also referred to my growing belly as a "hand magnet." I am very glad to say that only one person has been bold enough to pat my belly (and she was such a tiny, little, old lady that I didn't have the heart to stop her). Lots of people eye-ball it, though! I wonder why it is that some people think that a big, pregnant belly is open to the public? My thought is, "it's my belly, and if I say you can touch it, you can. If not, hands off!" :)