First of all, things are going well with the pregnancy. I've had a couple OB appointments that have gone well thus far, and we scheduled our appointment for next Friday to have another ultrasound to tell us the gender. We're beyond excited!! Woohoo!
Second, I got invisalign braces! They're not exactly invisible, as you can still basically see brackets on my teeth, but it's only for about 5 1/2 more months so I just smile a big 'ole smile and bear it! :) We got an unbelievable deal on them through the university, and we just couldn't pass up the opportunity. They're scheduled to come off at the exact time that the baby comes, so we'll see which one ends up coming first.
Third, we're moving! Again, we're getting an unbelievable rent on a three-bedroom home that we just couldn't pass up, so we're moving this Friday into a new (to us) place here in Iowa City. It's a little closer to the school, has a backyard with a deck, and most importantly, has three bedrooms! This is also a shameless plug for any of you who will be in town on Friday to come help us out if you find yourself bored to death and wondering if there is anything for you to do. Why, yes, there is! This is going to be our first house that we'll live in. No more apartments! Yay! (Did I also mention it has three bedrooms? Eek!) I promise to post pictures of our new place when we get all settled in!Between all this excitement, Joseph's family has come into town for a reunion of sorts, so we've been spending time with them over the past week, which has been wonderful. I can't seem to find my camera right now, so I'll post pictures later, but we have really enjoyed being with his family.
Whew! Where has the summer gone? Joseph and I are hoping to get a couple of days where we can just lay around and enjoy the lazy days of summer before he goes back to school. I don't know if that will happen! At least we've been able to spend some great time with family and each other.
When we got our car taken care of, we drove all day and met the rest of my family in Denver. We stayed in Denver overnight, then drove to Utah and got there late Friday night. On Saturday, we hit up the Stadium of Fire at the BYU football stadium and saw Carrie Underwood live in concert! It was AMAZING! We went with one of my best friends from college and her husband, as well as my brother and some of his friends.
On our way out, some lady stopped one of my brother's friends and asked him if he wanted to go to a party. He obviously was a little wary at first, but when she said it was an after party with all the producers and performers of the show, and then he gave her tickets for all of us to get in, we didn't hesitate!! Apparently this lady's husband was part of putting together the show, but she didn't want to go so she just handed them to us! I know what you're all wondering, so let me just tell you that Carrie Underwood wasn't there...much to our dismay. But everyone else was, and we got free food and dancing! Although, mostly we just hit up the free food and left. I know, we're getting lame in our old age... But we did feel very VIPish.
We also spent some time in southern Utah seeing some of the amazing national parks down there.
I think Jake liked riding the buses around the parks more than anything. Every time a bus would come, his face lit up and he would start yelling, "BUS!! BUS!!" You can imagine his misery if that bus was not the one we wanted to take at the time and it left without us on it...
Luckily, his tears stopped immediately as soon as we stepped on the right bus. Also, I should note that Jake has started picking his nose whenever we take pictures. Please say this is just a phase...
After all this excitement, we drove back to Iowa and arrived a few days ago. Whew! We're back, and I need a break!! But we had a great time and loved being able to see lots of people that we rarely get to visit with.