Belly Update

I'm loosing track of the weeks now but I'm about seven months now, due January 30th. I've been feeling really great on my days off, but working is killer lately. Luckily I have the most wonderful husband who gives me many foot massages and does many favors for me. I'm loving being pregnant It is so rad feeling her moving and kicking all the time.

More PICTURES! (eat your heart out Mom)

Sexy Nicole and Diana pics......there is nothing sexier than a 7 month pregnant lady doing that pose....

We went to the Farmers Market one morning and decided to stop by a free museum Jon had heard about. Turn out the museum was more of a gift shop with a couple of pictures on the wall, but it was still fun to walk through.

Of course we had to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. It was already a cold and foggy day, but it is always 10 times foggier and windier on that bridge.

We did the classic Lombard street and when we were walking back to our car Nicole spotted this open house! It was soooo amazing. We wanted to see inside a SF house. I can't remember how much the guy said it was selling for, but it was so much that I couldn't comprehend it.

Then we made our traditional stop at Bob's donuts.

Nicole and Casey went and checked out some sights the morning they arrive while I was taking a nap because I had worked the night before.  Casey found this sign in one of the house's......man it would be annoying to live there and have people stopping by your house and taking pictures all the time.

My favorite tourist thing to do in San Francisco is visit/watch the sea lions.  They are sooo  funny. We watched them for at least 15 min. They push each other off the docks and fight and crawl all over each other. Pure entertainment for me.

Jon, Casey and Nicole took the ferry out to Alcatraz and took a tour around there for a couple of hours.

When they got back after we ate dinner we watched The Rock. And we were tying to think of all the movies set in San Francsico......how many can you think of?

I love these GUYS!

Nicole and Casey came to visit us in SF. It was so good to see them. I actually didn't think it would ever really happen since they are so busy with school and work. But it did and it was awesome!

 We got a new Wii game Just Dance....wow it's a workout and super hilarious to watch each other. 

 We did some classic tourist things which is always fun to do because Jon and I forget to do that on our own.

Ate at some yummy places.

Halloween Tradition

 Our good friends Kristine and Jason are so nice to always put on a Halloween carving, eating, and movie night for the "first years". I know these guys are in their third year now, but I will still always think of them as first years.

 Kristine as usual put on a banquet feast that was SOOOOO delicious! Our group consisted of Taisja and Brady, Rischel and Jon, Kristine and Jason and Ben, and Me and Jon of course.

 The Couch family

 While pumpkin carving was going on Ben helped me take some pictures of his dad.....

...... and Jon...who he calls "Non"

 The final products

 The gang getting ready to watch So I Married an Axe Murderer.

 I think it's so cute how much Ben loves Jon. He was all snuggled up on his lap and once again it made me excited to see Jon with our girl.

 I'll have to say this group carves the best pumpkins I've ever seen!

 This was Jon's. He was so tired he gave up at the end and I helped him finish it....he did all the hard parts though. Isn't it amazing? It's a ship if you can't tell.

CONGRATULATIONS JON!

So Jon and I decided that he would apply for a special scholarship. It's called the National Health Service Corps.......it's super hard to get into.........and HE GOT IT!!!!!!

What this means is that our next two years of dental school will be paid for as well as a stipend that will help with our rent. This of course takes a lot of pressure off me to be the sole provider, although I do still intend to work after the baby. 

The whole point of the scholarship is that after Jon graduates, he will work for two years in an under served community. This could be somewhere like an inner city or the boondocks of Nebraska. Either way we are super excited. Jon will be working with/for another dentist and will be able to improve his skills and speed during those two years. And my favorite part is that we don't have to decided where to settle down for a couple more years after school......because we still have no idea where we want to live. Once you pick a place to set up a practise and get clients it isn't very easy to move around when ever you want......which is what we seem to do.

So anyway good job Jon! I am so proud of you and the hard work you do. And of course a special thanks to my sister Rachel who is always there to support us with essay questions and revisions!

To Jill and anybody else who cares....

Yes we are having a girl! I am due January 30th.......so I am about six months now. Can't believe how soon it is coming up!

Summer Vacation in Utah

The first few days in Utah we hung out with the Brownings. We went on a fun/beautiful trip up the canyon. We road the lift up to the top of Sundance and then hiked the rest of the way up to Stewart Falls. It was actually more of a hike than any of us expected but it was still beautiful.

It was nice seeing the changing colors. It really felt like fall. The trees in San Francisco always stay green so I kind of forget what season it is.

This was the first time Gary and Joan had ever been to Stewart Falls.

Later that week we went to Zions with my sister and brother-in-law and niece. We stopped in Beaver which is a tradition of the Ligairi's because they broke down there on the way back from their honeymoon.

Zoe absolutely loved the gigantic rocking chair as you can imagine.

We went on a few "walks" for the boys and "hikes" for the pregnant ladies. It was soo hot and pretty.

Zoe was so cute with Uncle Jon. Always holding his hand. It made me really excited to see him with our little girl.

On one of our hike/walks there was a rad waterfall that you could stand under. It felt super to get sprayed a bit because of the heat.

When we got back to our campsite a squirl had eaten our watermelon. You could even see little teeth marks. Zoe was lovin it.

We hiked up the beinning of the narrows and walked in the freezing water. Again, it felt great seeing as how it was a billion degrees! Zoe was such a good little hiker!

The two afternoons we were there we made it tradition after our hikes to get slurpies and go to the park. Little Zoe would run around and we would sit in the shade trying hard not to melt.

Jon had gone down to Zions earlier in the morning with some of his buddies to grab us a campsite because they were going quick and Rachel and Josh still had some work to do. He hiked up Angel's Landing.....which looks totally freeky to me.

.......And they also hiked up the narrows through all that freezing water.

The preggos

These squirrels were crazy tame, they were. I was bending down bcause I wanted to pet them, but Jon said I better not because of rabies and stuff.............what would I do without him...........probably have rabies.

catchup time!

So I have some major catching up to do. I am just going to dump all these pictures here and be done with it!

This is the view I get on my way home from work in the morning. The picture doesn't do it justice, but I love looking in my mirror and seeing the bay and the fog.

This was months ago (actually when I first found out I was pregnant).  We love going to the Maxfields to play games. I think there was some girl talk goin' on inside so the boys headed out to play their Frisbee game.

I think they said they try to throw it to each other and then catch it without moving their feet. It's actually kind of funny to watch.

I can't wait until we someday have our own yard!

 We played this super fun game called Mexican Train Game. It's a domino's game and is soooo much fun!

 And this is Rischel just sittin' pretty.

 Very intense....

Ok, next is a sign in the elevator in the hospital where my mom had her hip surgery in L.A. I just love how it says "Should the elevator doors fail to open or the elevator become inoperative: please do not become alarmed. PLEASE USE THE BUTTON MARKED "ALARM"..... I don't know why I thought this was soooo funny.

 We had a bunch of Giant's game fun with the Couches this year. We always happened to go on the sunniest, hottest days ever. And seeing how theses days are rare here in San Francisco end up going home crispy and exhausted.

 This one truly was FOREVER ago, but I was meaning to post it because I thought it was such a funny sight.

Our friend Jason had invisalign put on by his dad and has to change the retainer thing every so often. The way these things work is you put some hard stuff on the tooth in a certain spot (Jon don't hate me for my lack of dental terms) that matches up with a part in the retainer thingy. I don't know if that makes any sense, but then that somehow moves the teeth a certain way.

 Since Jason's dad lives in Sacramento he decided to do it himself, or have Jon help him. I thought the whole setup was ghetto. If you look at the previous picture Jason is wearing a napkin held on with hair clips.

 And then at one point the hard things they put on the teeth need to be dried so.....Jason brought his son's little fishy toy that squirts air as the dryer! I was laughing the whole time.

 This is a sweater I knitted and little Ben modeled it for me and Kristine...somehow he always ends up as my model for my projects.

 This is what Jon does on road trips to entertain himself.

 One day I came home to this......a whole bunch of guys in my livingroom playing mario cart. I think it was during their lunch break. They were soooo into....I don't know if you can tell.

 This is one of the cutest little girls in the world. My dad and Sister and niece came to visit a long while back. Zoe is actually wearing the first coat (outterwear) I ever made. She loved rided on "Crampa's" shoulders.

 This was a text I recieved after I had given Jon some crap about parking crooked......turns out I'm a hippocrate.

 This was one of the funniest things I have ever seen driving home from work. I don't know if you can see very well, but they are towing a scooter!

 This is Lucy who was modeling a sweater that I knit for Anisha's cute little baby Max. He won't be able to wear it for a while, but it took me soo long that I wanted him to be able to wear it more than a couple of weeks before he grew out of it.

 This was the goodbye part at the end of last year all the dental students left after completing their fourth year.

 Taisja,Anisha,me, Rischel, Kristy

 They Might Be Giants came to play a show for FREE in a park near our place. We rode our bikes down with our good friends Jon and Rischel. It was the perfect way to go because it was hot and they had free valet parking for our bikes! That's San Francisco for ya!

One afternoon I was sitting on our couch minding my own business. All of a sudden I see this out of the corner of my eye! I guess that answers the question of how they clean the outside windows up here on the third floor!

Sorry for the vomiting of old pictures, but..........it had to be done.