Sadly, our Hawaiian vacation has come to an end. Despite the fact that our basement flooded the day we left and we spent an unwelcome amount of time dealing with that from 6,000 miles away we had an amazing time. We feel like we saw and did just about everything there is to do on the islands we went to. We got plenty of rest, ate some wonderful food and spent some great time together just the two of us. I can't really say that the 16 hours of travel back home and immediately having to deal with a destroyed basement has left me feeling "rejuvenated" but it was nice to get away for a while. Tomorrow we go back to work, start the work in the backyard to fix this nagging flooding problem, move the office and start making it a nursery...all in about 6 weeks before Todd deploys :/ I think I'm going to need another vacation!
Here is the link to just a sample of the HUNDREDS of pictures we took this week! I'll add more once we develop our underwater camera which has pictures from white water rafting in Jackson, WY and our kayaking adventure in Kauai.
Aloha for now!
Monday, May 30, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Quick Update
Just a quick update on life...
Todd is still in Abilene for FIC (Flight Instructor Course) where he is becoming a B1 instructor. He gets back on Saturday and then 4 days later we leave for Hawaii!! SO EXCITED!!
News has finally spread among my co workers and it has actually gone better than I thought. Most seem genuinely happy and one even brought me some books so I'm feeling much better about work knowing.
I had my 14 week appointment yesterday. It was pretty uneventful. Check weight and blood pressure, pee in a cup. Dr Diehl said everything looked good. I did finally get to hear the heart beat on the doppler which was exciting! Todd was bummed he missed that one. My next appointment isn't for 5 weeks for the big anatomy scan ultrasound! I'm very excited that my sister is going to be in town that week and go with us to that appointment. I originally wanted to be Team Green and not find out the sex but Todd has never wanted to be Team Green so our compromise was to not find out during the ultrasound and have the technician write it on a piece of paper and then my sister gets to be the lucky one to know first and will make us a cake that will be either pink or blue and that weekend we'll have friends over and all find out together. I was still on the fence for this plan but now I'm getting excited to find out.
Overall I'm feeling really good. The second trimester truly is MUCH better than the first! My energy is back, my appetite is back and I'm *starting* to actually look at least questionably pregnant and not fat. I did finally cave and wear maternity pants to work today purely for comfort. My clothes still fit but my work pants have been getting increasingly uncomfortable and being on my feet/moving all day doesn't really make using the Bella band convenient because I was constantly having to adjust it. I definitely didn't come home and immediately change into sweat pants like I had been doing so I guess I'll embrace the elastic pants!
Once we get home from Hawaii it will be full force conversion of the office to the nursery!
Todd is still in Abilene for FIC (Flight Instructor Course) where he is becoming a B1 instructor. He gets back on Saturday and then 4 days later we leave for Hawaii!! SO EXCITED!!
News has finally spread among my co workers and it has actually gone better than I thought. Most seem genuinely happy and one even brought me some books so I'm feeling much better about work knowing.
I had my 14 week appointment yesterday. It was pretty uneventful. Check weight and blood pressure, pee in a cup. Dr Diehl said everything looked good. I did finally get to hear the heart beat on the doppler which was exciting! Todd was bummed he missed that one. My next appointment isn't for 5 weeks for the big anatomy scan ultrasound! I'm very excited that my sister is going to be in town that week and go with us to that appointment. I originally wanted to be Team Green and not find out the sex but Todd has never wanted to be Team Green so our compromise was to not find out during the ultrasound and have the technician write it on a piece of paper and then my sister gets to be the lucky one to know first and will make us a cake that will be either pink or blue and that weekend we'll have friends over and all find out together. I was still on the fence for this plan but now I'm getting excited to find out.
Overall I'm feeling really good. The second trimester truly is MUCH better than the first! My energy is back, my appetite is back and I'm *starting* to actually look at least questionably pregnant and not fat. I did finally cave and wear maternity pants to work today purely for comfort. My clothes still fit but my work pants have been getting increasingly uncomfortable and being on my feet/moving all day doesn't really make using the Bella band convenient because I was constantly having to adjust it. I definitely didn't come home and immediately change into sweat pants like I had been doing so I guess I'll embrace the elastic pants!
Once we get home from Hawaii it will be full force conversion of the office to the nursery!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
My Husband's Awesome Job!
Many of you know that Todd' squadron recently launched the first ever US based air attack. They literally were told on Friday afternoon that they were sending jets to Libya to support Operation Odyssey Dawn that Sunday and Todd was selected as one of the 5 crews. It was a whirl wind weekend with the worst possible weather conditions but very successful in the end. This is just a short "highlight video" from the weekend. You can briefly see Todd in his camo flight suite just after the start of the Sunday section. I am so incredibly proud of Todd and the other members of the 34th Bomb Squadron and what they do to protect our freedom.
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