Wednesday, June 24, 2009

updates from california

It's F-ing hot today! (104 degrees currently... and we haven't reached the hottest part of the day). I was packing boxes and slowly preparing for the craziness in the months ahead, until I could do nothing more than play on the internet and post blogs in front of the air conditioner.

Summer for us is very busy. This weekend we are driving down to LA with a friend of ours to help her move. (I keep praying for a change of weather, since we will be driving through the desert in a U-haul).

The weekend of the 4th of July we are going up into the mountains with a few couples from church and their young children, which should be fun.

Then Kelly Eversole will show up and we will tour around SF with her.

Following that, we are off to Maui with the Schaff family for a week long vacation. Dietrich has plans to climb Mount Mouna Kea, which is actually the tallest mountain in the world base to peak, it just happens to start at sea level.

We'll get back from Hawaii with a week or two to find a place to live and make arrangements to move before we head to Michigan for the wedding. We'll be flying in to michigan on Monday August 3 and will stay until the 17th. This will give us time to help with the wedding and do stuff for the business.

After that, back to Cali to finish packing our house to move cause we have to be out of here around the 30th of August.

Adventures, adventures.

Sunday, June 07, 2009

Count down....

10 days till we have our ultrasound and find out whether little moo will come with a set of frank and beans or not. They won't let us film the ultrasound (bastards) but we might try to sneak something to post on Facebook anyways.

The last week or so has been filled with little signs of life. I felt the very first faint movements after eating a bowl of ice-cream. The baby got reved up like it was on speed or something and I could feel something like a tiny motor spinning around inside of me. Today, I wore maternity clothes for the first time. They are starting to fit and man I have a feeling that I am going to get huge.

Life otherwise is pretty calm. Ulrich is finishing work at the lab and will have the summer off to look for a job. I have been working to transition out of my role at the church so that the community remains strong without my leadership. It seems to be going well as new leaders are starting to emerge and things are clicking into place.

I will be traveling a bit over the summer. Looks like I have a pretty good chance of being in Michigan the week of the 22nd. Then, we may be renting a house in the mountains for a church retreat the weekend of the 4th of July. After that, Ulrich's family is planning to take a trip to Hawaii and we might tag along and enjoy one more nice vacation before reality really sets in.

Then comes wedding season - Adam and Kelsey kick off a series of 4 weddings that we will (hopefully, if baby is agreeable) attend from August till October. Which will take us to November when little moo will grace us with his presence.

Somewhere in there we are going to have to move (maybe twice), Ulrich will find a job, Chris will head to San Diego, and we will prep for the NAR show. Buckle up, keep arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times, this should be a fun ride.