Moving Time

So the latest update is that Scott and I are moving to Vancouver, WA near his family. We will start our twenty-hour drive on Tuesday, stop by a hotel in Boise, and finish our drive on Wednesday this next week. We will be staying with his parents during March and part of April while we snag a job and get an apartment. Our stuff is still in Rexburg, so Scott and his Dad will be driving there and back once we get settled into an apartment. Before we head out, we are going to celebrate my Mom's birthday early while we are here. We are also celebrating with our friends, the Robinsons, for Aaron's birthday.

Things that Scott has been doing:

-applying for jobs in Vancouver, WA

-enjoying his enormous new monitor

-enjoying his expensive/free mouse and keyboard that he got from reviewing on Gamesplash

-working for Jon

-chasing after our little sunbeam, Eli, who we suspect might have adhd

(and yes, Scott's list is a lot more succinct than mine, lol)

Things that I've been doing:

-Every Sunday, I work with Brielle, a little three-year-old girl in our sunbeam class who has autism. I've really enjoyed working with her, and I feel like I've learned a lot. It's almost made me consider going into special ed. Working with her came naturally for me, and it feels good to help her cope with the outside world. I will be sad to leave her.

-I went to a late Valentine luncheon and learned how to make gourmet Cuban flan. It's a very delicate process. The caramel is made by cooking sugar in a pan, but the sugar can not be stirred until the bottom of the sugar has reached a perfect golden brown. The pans must be warmed in the oven before coating them with home-made sugar caramel because the caramel will harden too quickly otherwise. Instead of putting the flan straight in the oven in the bread pans, you have to fill a cookie sheet with water and then put the bread pans filled with flan on that. This creates a sort of double boiler effect. Anyway, that was fun.

-I've become addicted to shutterfly, which my friend Janae introduced me to. I'm making a book covering the British Literary Tour I went on for a month before I was married. It's really hard to cram it all into one book. There are so many random pictures I want to put on there like candy bars and signs etc. I'm ending up having a lot of collages as I slap pages together. I figure I can go back, delete, and refine later.

-I'm pregnant again. Oh yeah. I'm about six weeks along (I think). Lol. Feel shocked? I just figured it would be easier to tell everybody this way. We're going to get a kick out of who finds this little tidbit first. Rick visited Colorado for the past few days. Scott was having such a hard time not telling him. We did get pregnant again quickly after our miscarriage in December. I initially wanted to wait longer, but it just felt right. And who can argue with the spirit? I have to admit that there is a certain disillusionment that you feel after having had a miscarriage. We no longer feel invincible. There's sort of a scary excitement to trying again. I wonder if we will struggle with more miscarriages, or if our first will be our only time. I'm attempting to not think too much about how far along I am so that we can get past the first trimester without too much worry, but we are happy and hopeful.