I'll admit it, I'm a complete slacker. And I've started to feel pretty guilty. So I'm finally getting around to posting.
I'm not really sure how to sum up our life since the end of November....
We went to D.C. for the first week of Christmas break and spent time with Natalie's family. It was so much fun, especially to see Emmeline for the first time! We loved it and got even more excited to be parents.
It was great to spend time with family. At the end of the week, Kenny's family drove up to D.C. to see Natalie's family and spend the night. That was crazy (adding 10 more people to the house), but lots of fun. Afterward, we drove with Kenny's family down to SC. Natalie learned that an 8 hour car drive is not super fun at 5 months pregnant (now, at 8 months pregnant, I think I would rather die first....okay, that's a bit dramatic). We spent the next week of Christmas break with Kenny's family in SC. Kenny did some manly work in the backyard with his brothers while Natalie watched the old Ramona TV series with Bonnie and Brooklyn (Kenny's little sisters). It was good times.
After Christmas break we flew back and unfortunately started real life again. Kenny is kept ever busy with school. He's planning on majoring in Geospatial Intelligence with a minor in Spanish and learning Arabic on the side. His Arabic class alone takes 4 hours of work a day (at least), but he loves it and wants to learn the language well. Natalie is still teaching high school math. Her kids are lazier than ever (I've never seen such lazy kids in my life--this school has some problems with its policies. They basically encourage kids to put things off), but she still has a lot of great students and is enjoying her job. Below is a couple pictures of what some of Natalie's students like to do with the extra time in class.
It is good to be kept busy until the baby is born, but also exhausting to work full-time (+ extra hours since a teacher always works outside of school hours). She's got a long-term sub set up and will only have to return to school for maybe a week or so at the end of the year...depending on when Adelaide decides to make her appearance. :)
We've got a crib, carseat, stroller, highchair, and plenty of beautiful blankets. We're in the midst of collecting other necessary items. It's getting more and more real. If Adelaide is born on time, we only have 4 1/2 weeks left. We can't wait! Of course we're nervous and we know we're only going to be more tired, but she's coming whether we want it or not.... so we might as well be excited!!
We got released from our fabulous nursery calling (sad life!) and got called to be sunday school teachers for the 13 year olds. We're actually enjoying it more than we thought we would. We've really enjoyed going to a couple BYU basketball games this season and are loving our busy, crazy lives!
Here is Natalie at almost 35 weeks (a week ago):
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