J's Visit to Oklahoma

J was able to come in for a short visit this week and go to a couple of Dr. appointments with me.  More on those will be posted in the fraggle blog.  We have lots of pictures to show from his trip, but I need to borrow Bryant's laptop to get them off the camera.  For now, I have two pictures of the welcome J got from Sophi.  When we got to the house, I asked Nichole and Bryant to leave their dogs inside and I let Sophi outside to greet J.  If I had known what would happen, I would have recorded it!  She was very scared of him at first.  She didn't recognize him at all.  She barked and growled and tried to run away from him until he said "Sophi SIT!".  She sat and then realized it was him and loved all over him for a long time!!!  Once we figured out what happened, Bryant snapped a couple of pictures on his phone and sent them to me.  Here they are!

On another note, J has a pretty good lead on a job here.  He drove around the Monday he was here because I had to work and they ended up stopping by another University here in Shawnee.  When he talked to the Human Resources person, they ended up calling him in for an instant interview with the VP who was actually headed out for vacation, but decided to stay and talk to J first.  It seems real encouraging, but we're trying not to get our hopes up.  This would be Justin's dream job.  He wants this job so bad he can't stand it, and it would get him here in plenty of time for the baby to come!  Please pray that this job works out for him for many reasons!

Last Day of Work

Today is my last day at Wright State University.  They were nice enough to throw me a little party and give me well wishes!  Here are some pictures.

It's Official!

Well, it's official.  I've accepted a job at Oklahoma Baptist University.  Yes that's right.  We're moving to Oklahoma!  We're both extremely excited about this.  I'm honestly pretty sure Justin is more excited than me if that's possible!  I'm glad to be close to my family as I go through my first pregnancy and child!  I start the new job May 21st and I will be living with Nichole for a while.  Justin is going to stay in Ohio until the house sells.  It'll be tough to be apart, so please pray for a quick sale!  I just told my boss and I've been crying all morning because I feel awful like I'm leaving her suddenly, but I have to remember that this is God's plan for me and He will work everything out according to His will.

We're having a baby!

We are having a baby!!  The baby is due 11/5/2012!  I kept a pregnancy blog while it was a secret, but didn't do as well as Karale did back in the day!  If you want to check out the pregnancy blog it's meetthefraggles.blogspot.com.  Here's a pic of the baby waving hello!!

Well...now I feel like an idiot

Justin decided not to do the March Madness sandwich thing.  We couldn't make it the day we thought and it got tough for us to get away for lunch before the deadline, so he just gave up on it.  So, no pictures to post!  Sorry!  I've been taking some of us riding the scooter, so I'll try to post those soon!

Justin's March Madness

Well...I don't know how I feel about this yet, but there is a sandwich place here that holds a competition during March Madness.  They have people time how long it takes them to eat a 16-inch sub and the winners from each location all join together and compete against each other.  The winner gets a free sandwich a week for an entire year (and they are really great sandwiches).  If you've ever eaten with Justin, you know he INHALES his food.  We've always said he would be good at something like this.  So, this year he's decided to try it.  Please pray that he does not choke on this sandwich!!!  I'm going to have to make sure there's someone there that can help in case he does!  The plan is to go today and log his time for the sandwich.  I'll post pics as soon as he competes!

Big 3-0!

Well, I'm 30 and I don't feel much different.  I joked around with Jeremy because he asked if I felt old yet, and I said yes because we had gone to visit some friends only to find out in the middle of the night that our air mattress had a hole in it.  So, yes...after sleeping like that I did feel very old!  Apparently this is a trend for me, because the same thing happened at Nichole's house a couple of weeks ago!  We didn't do much for my bday. Justin had decorated my office the Friday before my birthday (which I forgot to get a picture of) and my old office took me out to lunch.  One of the people that went wasn't aware of my "fear" of attention and had the waiters sing to me.  This usually results in tears on my part, but I held it in okay.  One guy said it looked like I was about to cry, but I didn't actually cry so that's good.  Here's a pic of that:

My friend Andrea (who took my old job) bought me this super cute birthday cake that we ate later that afternoon:

On Saturday, we got up and drove to Lexington, KY to visit some friends.  We spent the weekend eating lots of food and playing Mario Kart.  They bought me this really scrumptious ice cream cake and then we went and bought Sophi a new collar!  I love it!

My dad always talks about how it snowed the day I was born.  It started snowing on my birthday, so I took a pic of it for my dad!

Best of all I got cards from both sets of grandparents and a card from Rosy!  I also got this super cute picture from her!

All of these pictures are from my phone, so they probably aren't great quality.  I'm going to post about riding the scooter soon and we took those with the actual camera so hopefully they'll be better!