If I could save time in a bottle...

I cannot believe how quickly time is passing us by! It seems like just yesterday Andrew was trying to figure out which schools he wanted to apply to. Now here we are 9 months into his program, with 19 left to go! I'm still not liking it here in Salt Lake, we have no friends in our ward-still. Everyone (well almost everyone) is around our parent's age or older. I miss our place in Springville, mostly because we brought Kaden home from the hospital there, and a lot of his "firsts" were there. Now we have another baby on the way, and find out what we are having next week, exciting! I'm just starting to stress about only having 2 bedrooms here, where the baby will sleep (share a room with Kaden), if it will be the opposite of Kaden and not sleep at night, cry all night and wake Kaden up. But I guess we will cross that bridge when it comes.
 Andrew should be getting his clinical rotation list at the end of this month. Then we will know (tentatively) where he will be the rest of the program. I say he, because we have decided it would be too hard to move all our stuff, a baby, Kaden, and I around to several different states, about 3-4 times within 16 months. That also made us realize we won't be able to afford rent at 2 different places, so now I'm stressing about that too. He told his clinical coordinator that I'm due in October, and she said his first rotation would be around here somewhere. Which is a good thing, because there is no way I could have a baby by myself without Andrew here. I'm too big of a wimp! We are toying with the idea of moving Kaden, and I, and the baby in with Andrew's parents. They have plenty of room, and it would be nice to have help. It wouldn't be for too long, and if it would ease the financial burden a little, that would be a relief! So for now we are just praying that his rotations won't be too bad, that he will get a couple of the out of state rotations he wants, and a bunch around here. (One guy in the class ahead of Andrew has been out of state since September, and only gets his last 5 months here in Utah with his family.)
I am becoming a stress ball with all of these huge changes coming up, including how to handle 2 kids instead of 1. But I know that if we pray and have faith, everything will come together the way it should. So for now I just need to try to be positive, and focus on being excited to find out if this little peanut is a boy or girl! :)

Thanksgiving and Christmas 2012

Wow! Life has been flying by these last few months! This is a quick update of what we have to up to since I blogged last. (I just like to look back every once in a while and see what we were doing a year or two in the past.) We hung out with the Roylance's for Thanksgiving-Phil and Megan were in town. For Christmas, we opened presents at home first, then headed down to Utah county.  Jacob and Natalie were down for Christmas-well, Jacob was leaving Christmas afternoon to go back to Texas to work-so we hurried to open gifts with them.  We then spent the day with my family, ate at my grandma's, and went back to Andrew's parents in the evening. I can't remember for sure, but we might have slept there, Natalie and I went shopping the day after Christmas and got some good deals! Kaden finally got a "big boy bed" for Christmas, and loves it, now he can come in and out of his room whenever he wants. Mom and dad don't love that so much! He got lots of toys, and had a good time hanging out with cousins. Well, gotta run we're meeting Andrew for dinner at his school. (He practically lives there, especially when it's time to study for finals.) I'll update more for this year later.