School News!

So one good news on top of another...I can take classes in the Spring!! There were two or so other people that the Liberal Studies counselor had told not to take classes in the fall and to wait until spring, so that helped my case!! So they made a "code" to put on our spring apps, and by using that code, the apps will be accepted! So that's a wonderful blessing!

Baby Grace News!!!

Last night from 9-12 pm I had contractions, which got me to 1 cm dilated and 80% effaced. The day before I had had an ultrasound and wasn't dilated at all for that and my cervix was long, so it wasn't thinning at all. So within 4 hours!!! I went to the Labor & Delivery today to be monitored, and will do it again Tuesday. She might come this weekend!!! I kept telling Brad I was having contractions but he didn't believe me, and I actually was. He keeps expecting the hard ones, but that's not till I'm dilated to 5 cm. So we are going on a walk again tonight, which has definitely been helping!! I'm getting excited!! Also lightheaded, nauseated, and dizzy, which the doc says is all signs of labor coming soon!!!

CSUS is crazy

Well, I have applied and was accepted into Sac State for the Fall semester but then found out I was pregnant and she's due 3 days after school starts, so there's no way I can take courses. So I planned on taking classes in the Spring. Well, I just found out they aren't accepting applications for the Spring because somebody there doesn't know how to budget!! They had a "budget crisis" and so they are closed for Spring enrollment (me). So I called a dean and poured my sad story on her...I think it helped that I said I only have about three years left and don't want to have to wait a year...she laughed at me until I said "what? I'm about 80 % through my Liberal Studies Degree, and need only 3 classes more for a sign language minor!" Then it clicked in her head how important it was that I don't wait until next fall to be able to take classes! She thought I was just some incoming freshmen that wanted in. But NO! I'm coming in as a transfer Junior level and NEED TO TAKE CLASSES IN THE SPRING! So hopefully she will be able to do something to help me so I can take classes in the Spring. I called the admissions office and they said "if you want to be seen as an ongoing student, take at least one unit and then you can take classes in the Spring." Yeah right, what planet do you think I'm from???? If I only take 1 unit, I still have to pay the full $3000 for that semester!

So as of now, something could go really good for me, and I could be able to take classes. But I also signed up for 4 classes just in case they can't do anything...and I don't know what I'm going to do about the baby...maybe having a baby on their campus in the middle of a class will show them that they should have worked with me! Ug...this has made a huge problem in our life...the plan was for me to stay home in the fall, and then go to school in the Spring for 2 days a week...I hope and pray that's how we can continue it...I don't want my newborn away from me at daycare because the stupid school couldn't work with me...

So close to those doors!

Today we went and got all the items we needed to go to the Temple...I am so excited!! It was wonderful to finally make that step, so that we are one step closer! I just finished packing my temple bag :) Now I'm ready for the 15th! And we also went shopping for maternity things, so now I'm ready for that as well! I still need to pack my bag for the hospital though....baby diaper bag is ready but mommy is absolutely NOT ready!! But that's okay! We still have a few weeks. Ahh...it feels good to live righteously and do the right things; it brings such blessings to your life.

Headed to the Temple!!

I had to pick a really beautiful font to write something as important as this!!

I am going to be sealed to my wonderful husband in the Oakland Temple on August 15th, 2009! Isn't that the most beautiful sentence you've ever read!! Yeah, I just made the appointment for my endowments, which is at 10, and then after is the sealing! So that is definitely a blessing for the two of us! As well as for Baby Grace, because she will be born in the covenant!!

So I must say, this year has been a year of fantastic accomplishments, and I am so excited to be able to walk through the Temple and know that I am now able to be there whenever I can. And I am also excited because Brad and I can now work on my family names, which have been sitting in a binder just WAITING to have temple work done on.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful moment with me!

Baby Grace...she is definitely a girl :)

Hello there! So an update...by the measurements taken from the ultrasound, Baby Grace is 5 lbs. 7 ounces! So that's what she's supposed to be.. We don't know yet if she's growing right...I'll know on Thursday after I meet with my doctor and she goes over the ultrasounds. But she looked beautiful on that screen! And at one point she stretched her leg straight out and we got the perfect view! While we were looking at her she was practicing her breathing, which was beautiful to see. And yes...she's definitely a girl!! We were able to see that perfectly! So until Thursday...

Tomatoes up the wazoo!

Well, this weekend I finally got some use out of all the tomatoes I had!! I had about 25 of them, and the biggest 3 we kept for hamburgers :) but the rest I made spaghetti sauce with. So I have 14 small jars of that! They are the same jars I used for my freezer jam :) So that worked out great. And of course I never gather up enough cherry tomatoes for salsa because they end up in my mouth before they get into the house! But that's okay!

Beautiful Song

Hey readers :) I found some piano sheet music and worked on it for about half an hour trying to figure it out but can't really get the tune...if anyone knows this song or has the song and can get me the song, I would be forever grateful!! It's called "My Mother's Love" and it's by Jean Erikson Barnes.

It's so beautiful, and want to learn to play it for my husband's kids.

Thanks for the help!