Busy, busy, busy...

Oh my gosh, I know it's been a long time. I need to update everyone on what's going on, though. I've been really busy. For about 2 weeks, I was staying with some friends of ours here in Fort Collins, Sharon and Jamie. They are awesome people, and so much fun to live with!! I had the opportunity to stay longer with them, but I needed to find our own place. The sooner I could get settled in and get my cats from Charlie (my brother), the better. So I found a great 2 bedroom place on the NW side of town. It is bright, sunny, and has a great feel to it. I am loving it already. The past two weekends were spent moving stuff out of storage and into the new place. The weekend before last was also New West Fest in Old Town. That was so much fun. Lots of good music, food, and vendors. The belly dancers were mesmerizing.

So now everything is moved in and mostly unpacked. Every day I get closer to having it the way I want it. I have been working at my previous job in the preschool. I'm spending every morning (4 days a week) cooking for 60 kiddos. It is a good job. I am riding my bike to and from work, about 5 miles round trip. I don't do it all week, because my boss is great about letting me borrow a van if I need to.

I found a great midwife. She is an apprentice for another midwife, so we actually get two midwives at the birth. They have an assistant as well, Lia. Lia is taking a course to become a Labor Doula, and our birth will be one of her certification births. My last appointment with Kim (the midwife), Lia and Lynette (the second midwife) were there. It was great to have all of them together. Kim also has a portable jacuzzi that we will be renting from her for our waterbirth. I'm so excited for that!!

So other than biking and working and going to appointments (midwife, chiropractor, dentist, etc.), I've been just trying to relax and take it easy. Lots of warm baths and reading. Just got internet set up a few days ago, so I've been catching up on emails and talking to people.

The baby is VERY active still. He doesn't have enough room to get a good kick in, but he stretches a lot. Both the midwife and the chiropractor say he is in the perfect position. I really think that the Hypnobirthing visualizations and affirmations helped, as well as stretches from spinningbabies.com.

I am so grateful to have such wonderful friends. They have done so much for me in the past month. So everyone who has helped me move, let me crash with them, and given me support, THANK YOU.

A good friend of mine, lisa, and her beautiful dog Clementine are on their way to my door right now to stay the night. I think I will go prepare for them!! Take a look at our flickr for some pics of the new place (still a little rough though).

The weekend so far.

I went to Tim's promotion breakfast Friday. It was pretty cool but I felt really out of place. I was just about the only one there not in uniform and I was the only civilian. I know this because Tim knows this. Tim also happens to know that a few of the higher ranking people were extremely concered about my earrings. My earrings are slightly gauged you see. 14 or 16 gauge, I think. They were trying to figure out whose outfit I was in. :P Pretty funny to me. I knew it was going to happen eventually. I'm surprised something like it hasn't happened sooner in fact. I keep wondering when some officer is gonna come up to me and give me crap about not having shaved or some such. It was a good time. Afterwards, I hung out with Tim and our friend Mike. Good times. Today I also hung out with Tim and roleplayed. Much fun was had. Afterwards, we went to Sunghye's and she made some dinner for us. Very delicious Kimbap. Kimbap is kind of like sushi but sometimes they use ham and various other things you would never see in Japanese sushi. Generally good though. We watched "The Rocker." Fun movie. Pretty predictable but a good time for sure. It has Rainn Wilson in it. He plays Dwight on the office if you didn't know. Hilarious actor. Check it out if you get the chance.