In other news, we are busy as ever. We are in the waiting stage of being approved to be sealed in the temple sometime this summer and we just finished our temple prep class for church. We had amazing teachers, the Goodmans, who are leaving on their mission in a few months. The class really strengthened my testimony of how important the temple is for our family. It will be an amazing day and I am really excited to be there with Caleb. :)
I have been working nights, which has been really hard on my thyroid, and thus hard on our baby, so starting tomorrow, I get to work the day shift until this baby girl gets here. It is a huge blessing! I already feel healthier sleeping at night. Not to mention, my pregnant body is a lot more comfortable on a normal schedule!
We have had a lot going on in our family. Ashlyn is finishing up her first and last year of preschool and getting ready to start another soccer season! She is excited to go to the lake with the Seaman family this year and she is even more excited to be a big sister! "Baby sister" gets a lot of kisses and many conversations - including whispered ones that even I don't get to hear. It is pretty sweet to watch. I can't wait to see how that little relationship unfolds. And Ashlyn is dying to share a room with "baby sister"... I told her to let "baby sister" get here first and then we would look into bunk beds. :) In the meantime, Ashlyn gets new sheets for her big girl bed and lots of time with Mom at the park. It is a good compromise for everyone!
Caleb is busy with mortgages at the bank and trying to endure his one class this semester: anthropology. If any of you are familiar with Flagstaff, it is a very liberal town, especially in the academics world. He didn't like the class before, but his distaste increased even more after the conference talk about our creation: "If a printing press exploded, would it create a dictionary?" Regardless, he is enduring the class and we will all be glad when this semester is over and he can get back to crunching numbers. He has been a great sport while I work the night shift. The dishes get done and dinner is usually provided when I wake up from sleeping. We are both excited to be back to the same schedule again.
Speaking of General Conference, we started our camping season on Friday night before Conference. We spent the night at Beaver Creek, just an hour south of Flagstaff, and we were lucky to dodge the sporadic snow storms hitting Flagstaff lately. It was perfect weather and we enjoyed s'mores and playing in the creek together. I think Ashlyn wanted to stay just because there was no regulation of Dorito intake and she got to eat s'mores for breakfast! We were glad to have her around and as always, we thoroughly enjoyed her company. She is a crack up! I'll have to write down some of our conversations someday...she is one inquisitive kid and she definitely keeps me humble and on my toes! We love her and I'm glad she's excited to have another female around our house!
Ashlyn enjoying Beaver Creek
This picture is my favorite. She was all dressed for camping and she had her flashlight, hat and sleeping bag all in tow. She was so excited and I think camping lived up to her expectations!
My favorite big sister!
My mom bought two matching outfits for Ashlyn and "baby sister"
I don't think Ashlyn has stopped grinning about that.
And Ashlyn has the girls' outfits planned for the ride home from the hospital.
WE CAN'T WAIT!!! :)
