First Day of School

The first day of school has come and gone. We started the semester off with Spiritual and Ministry Formation, which is the class I am most excited about. Jacob is excited about all his classes, but I am especially excited about this particular class because it is oriented toward the couple. The professor and his wife meet with each couple/student at their house once during the semester to help them determine where God is calling them in their ministry lives. Since Sunday (the day before classes started) was spent celebrating Jacob's birthday, I didn't have time to surprise him before he left for work/class on Monday so decided to surprise him after class on Monday night. Here are a few pictures of his surprises.

Don't worry if your not an artist... I certainly am not one

Included: favorite candy, pencils, yo-yo, sanitizer and some chips.

  I raided Target's dollar bin for some items and found some good sales on the other items to make this for Jacob. I have been reading stories from wives about doing something special for their children on their first day of school and decided that I was going to do something special for Jacob on his first day of fall classes. I love doing surprises like this but have a feeling when Alethea arrives the little gifts and notes will be few and far between. Hopefully some of you can use this as inspiration to surprise your husband.

So this is what happens....

... when you get up at 5am:

-a bowl of cereal bright and early (this means I will most definitely be having second breakfast today)

-responding to messages on facebook, that have been there for almost a week

- becoming creative and all of a sudden feeling the need for a new blog template and design (what do you think?)

- a new blog post (twice in a week who would have thought?)

- a new page on our blog! You should go check out the NEW and UPDATED "about us" page

What next, I'm not sure. Since it is not yet 7am on a Saturday I have no idea what I will be up to next. My loving hubby is sleeping next to me in bed while Wallace is curled in between (his favorite spot). There is a lot I can do today, but most of it involves making noise and since I am not inclined to wake my husband, or everyone else in our apartment complex I think I might catch up on some blogs, reading, or just browsing for baby stuff on the computer.  Anybody have some good ideas for the time when they wake up 3 hours before they usually do? This is a new occurrence to me, and something that NEVER use to happen. I use to wake up, look at the clock and happily fall back asleep until I HAD to get out of bed. Now I seem to wake up, go the bathroom, glance at the clock and think "really I have how many hours until I can wake up?!?!?".  But alas, today I got up super early. Maybe that means I will fall back asleep soon and take a mid-morning nap? I'm not sure, we will have to see. Anyways, since I have rambled on enough in this blog, bright and early on a Saturday morning, I will leave you to the rest of your day, or start of your day if you are just waking up. :)

29 weeks!

7 months pregnant! I still can't believe that 7 months ago we found out that we were having a child. This day seemed so far away at the time and now it is already here and moving fast. Although our baby is not due until the end of October, it is in both of our minds that she could come any day now. I have been working on organizing the house a bit more in hopes that it will be easier once she arrives, while Jacob has been studying like crazy for his Hebrew exam. Alithea's crib is set up as well as her swing and car seat. We are so excited for her arrival but are praying that she doesn't arrive for another 10 weeks. 

Total Weight Gain:  not sure I really want to say this anymore...

Maternity Clothes: All the time

Gender: Girl!!

Movement: I have been able to kinda figure out her schedule and when she is awake or asleep based on her movement. There are now certain times during the day when you can see her moving inside my belly. So exciting!

What I miss: being able to move around quickly

Cravings: Chocolate!! I can't believe how much I have been craving chocolate! I could eat it all day for every meal, I just can't get enough.

Symptoms: Not sleeping to well, and being hot ALOT! but other then that things have been great.

Best Moment this week: Going to our Drs. apt and getting to see Alithea on the ultra sound. :)