Baby Girl

So despite our predictions, we are having a little baby girl and we are really excited about that. I guess the old wives tales are all a bunch of hooey. Sorry to all of you who want us to name her Herkamer; Courtney absolutely forbids it, for some strange reason. There was talk of putting up a couple more ultrasound pictures, but most of them were kind of awkward pictures to figure out her gender and I can predict our little girl becoming a horrified teenager seeing those pictures in public view. But we do promise to put up other pictures of the expanding belly soon.
We both like the name Whitney Anne. Unless something strange happens to make us change our mind, that's going to be her name; she will be Annie for short. Courtney's boss gave her some extra clothes and a swing and a bouncer. And we have managed to pick up the big baby things we need along the way without spending our own money. It is amazing what people will do when they know you are poor starving college students. We cannot really fix our spare room in our apartment, so the nursery won't have many colorful decorations. Oh well. We are still just so excited to be having a baby girl. Courtney cannot wait to buy little dresses and cute pink things.

a few pictures

here are a few ultrasound pictures that we have, we don't know the gender yet, but intend to find out soon.

and here are a few more



hope you enjoyed that

a few pictures

Waiting for baby

So we have just entered the second trimester of our pregnancy and decided we felt safe enough to announce the big news on our blog. Courtney just went to her first official doctors appointment and was able to hear the baby's heartbeat; that was very exciting. We have our first ultrasound next week. We have been slowly accumulating baby supplies: a crib, a bouncer, a stroller, a swing. Now we just need about 1000 diapers and we should be set for awhile. Courtney has been feeling up and down, but she hasn't thrown up in over a week and is pretty excited about that. Maybe all the morning sickness and headaches will just magically disappear. We won't know until the end of October whether we are having a boy or girl, but both of us are predicting a boy. But we shall see. Any good pregnancy or baby advice would be appreciated.

We are two

We celebrated our second anniversary at the end of August, and what an eventful month it has been.

It started off with a trip to Moses Lake to play at the community pool with the Anderson family, and it was pretty cool. There were lots of slides, a little surfing area, a lazy river for floating, and diving boards. We had a great time, except for getting sunburned, and we brought Zach back to Cheney with us so we could drop him at the airport.

The same day that we took Zach (Courtney's younger brother) to the airport, my family flew up to visit us. Courtney could not get off work during the day to hang out with us (myself being unemployed had no problems getting that time off) and we visited some sights in Spokane and Couer'D alene. then my family set on down the road to visit other family members and go to a family reunion.

Next, we got set back up for a trip to Pasco to see Erin's wedding (Courtney's younger sister). It was a great trip, it was fun to see everyone again, and the wedding was a fabulous affair. We made off with tons of soup, bread bowls, otter pops, M&M's and a few other great things for us.

After all that traveling we decided to spend the rest of the month quietly. We went to see the new Harry Potter movie and we spent our anniversary eating at Chilli's, and we had a great old time.

Summer is almost up and I'll be heading back to class and my internship in Spokane, but life has been fun here, who knows where we will be next summer

The 5 dollar movie

This will take a little explaining...

Since moving away from Provo, Courtney and I have been hard pressed to find cheap/free dates. So eventually we had a brilliant idea, and this is the brainchild of it.

It was decided that we would go to the local dollar store with 5 dollars and pick up some random objects, with these objects would produce a movie... about something... so here is that movie. We bought a bag of gummi worms, a bag of army men, a bag of pipe cleaners, a can of silly string, and a monkey action figure. We used a few other things that we had lying around and quickly produced and edited this movie. When all was said and done, we were very happy with the result, we hope you will enjoy it as well, so get out your popcorn for the debut of the (4 minute) 5 dollar movie!!

the new apartment

here is a video of our new apartment. We moved in two weeks ago and are really feeling settled. School has let out and it is summer time. Courtney is still working at the day care and I am on the job hunt, and all goes well in cheney.

we should have another cool video post coming up in the near future

happy april fools day

Last week I planned a little activity for courtney after she got home from work. I ... well ... maybe you should just watch

The quarter endeth

well, the second quarter officially ended today. I finished with four more classes at Eastern Washington University. I got placed for my practicum, I will work at SCAN, a parent and child support place in Spokane, I'll have to drive or bus in three days a week, but it will be OK. This weekend Courtney and I will drive down to Pasco to spend some time with her family, so we are looking forward to that.

I just finished taking a social work with groups, social work in a diverse society, bio-psycho-social aspects of social work, and an interviewing skills class. I don't have any grades back, but I did well on all my assignments, so I expect high marks. I'm not sure what classes I take next quarter, but I have them both on Mondays.

We've been keeping up on the office, survivor, and the amazing race. we've both filled out march madness brackets, I picked conn to go all the way, but I don't remember who Courtney chose, winner get a movie rental from blockbuster.

I'm working my last day at the copy center on campus, and it was alot of fun to work there, I'm sad to be leaving it, its a good job with good co-workers and a good boss. unfortunately my schedule will simply not allow me to keep working here. Courtney is still working at the daycare and works with babies most of the time, so that is less stressful. My laptop gave us a scare, it now has a colored line that runs right down the middle of the screen, but otherwise it seems alright.

The social work classes are cool, I've learned alot of neat things in them, the practicum will be a good deal of work, but the future looks bright. Our car is working flawlessly, for which we are very grateful. the cold weather has finally subsided here in Cheney, although the snow is not entirely gone, it is supposed to be in the 60s next week.

I hope all is going well all over the rest of the world where my family and friends are planted. I think about all you guys often, and I miss ya. I'm going to try to post a bit more often that every three months, so everyone else can know what's going on with us.

The Case of the Toyota

Just a little news about our faithful little Toyota. I went out one day to pick up Courtney from work and the car's alarm light was blinking madly, and my tiny remote would not unlock the car.

My key would not unlock the doors either. I was locked out and could not open the hood to read the owners manual, and I had the key!! I called Courtney and she got a ride home, and after tinkering for a few more minutes we gave up and called AAA.

They showed up 15 minutes later and got into our car with surprising (and disconcerting) ease. Once inside we popped the hood and something had gone wrong with our battery. They gave us a jump from their portable battery, and recommended that we check out our electrical system and get some new keys cut from the dealer, since ours were worn down almost smooth. (they still worked in the ignition, but not the doors). After close inspection I determined that I left the lights on after I last used the car. (I never leave the lights on)

but this is only half the story, the AAA guy says Toyota will cut new keys if you have all the right paperwork (which we do). So I scooted down to the Toyota dealership in Spokane and requested a new set of keys. After the clerk disappeared in to the mysterious "back" for some time, he returned with two new keys that resembled the ones we had but much newer and shinier, and he gave them too me free of charge. Probably because I looked very much like a poor college student with a junky old car. All's well that ends well I suppose. Go Steelers