Sam

Maybe I should just make a page just for Sam...in the middle of the night on Tuesday-Wednesday, Sam started having stomach pain and shortness of breath, so she went to the hospital, and it turns out she was having contractions (She's only 25 weeks pregnant) So they admitted her and put her in a labor and delivery room, and although it took them a long time to stop the contractions, they finally figured it out and she's doing better now. She's coming home today, unless something happened between last night and this morning. They put her on bed rest, which is going to be hard for her, and ordered her to eat more red meat because she's anemic. But baby is healthy. She was hooked up to a monitor for the baby's heart, so we got to listen to his heart beat all day on Wednesday, and every time he moved it made a loud noise. It was reassuring to hear his heart and his movements so strongly. Usually on Thursdays, me, my Eric, Sam, and her Eric huddle on the couch and watch Grey's Anatomy together. So Sam convinced her nurse last night to let us stay until 10, even though visiting hours ended at 8, so that was nice.
Not a whole lot else is going on, except for time flying and the wedding coming up pretty soon. I only have 4 more Montessori weekends! This past weekend, we couldn't stay on campus so instead of paying $75 a night for a hotel, I went and stayed at Janelle and Ryan's house. It was fun, we watched MTV and went to Meijer to get food. Their dog is kind of annoying but it was still fun. They are about a 45 minute drive from Adrian, which is kind of far but cheaper than a hotel and closer than the hour and a half drive to get home, so I might be doing that for the next few Montessori weekends.
This week is Walled Lake's mid winter break, and the family I work for is in Florida so I've had the whole week off...which was extremely boring and I can't wait to get back to work. I guess I'm one of those people who has to have a job, no slacking for me!

Condo

We got to go see our condo last night! Go see the Our future home page to check it out.

Condo

Yestedray Eric didn't have class so we went after work to check on the progress of our condo. It was the first time we've been able to go inside of the one we're REALLY going to live in, it was so exciting! They put in our cabinets, and the tile in the bathroom already, and the frame for our wrought iron balcony thing. (that was an upgrade, it comes with solid wood balcony, but with our view, we would be crazy to not get the wrought iron!) Don't forget that clicking on the pictures will enlarge them for your viewing pleasure!
The first picture is the living room, taken from the top of the stairs. You can see the frame for the wrought iron and the beautiful view. Just to the left of where I was standing is a little window seat facing the woods. It was such a peaceful view.
The second picture is taken from the living room. Underneath the hanging lamp is the dining room, and into the kitchen. The counter you can see is the 'breakfast bar' so stools fit under it on the other side. You can see the little pantry and the space where our fridge will go. The open door near Eric is our laundry room.

The third picture is the kitchen. the open space on the right will be the microwave on top an oven, and the space on the left will be the dishwasher.
The fourth picture is the bathroom. They have the tub put in but not the toilet. I love the tile we picked!

Sam

Just a little update on Sam...she's 22 weeks pregnant now and in the last two weeks has just gotten soo big! He's moving around and kicking and growing like crazy. So I just thought I'd share.
We're having a lot of fun planning for my very first nephew. Baby boy clothes are oh so cute!
The kids I nanny for are FINALLY getting better after a couple of weeks of being really sick. Kaylee had a bad cold and an ear infection, and David had a bad cold that turned into pneumonia. I survived that week...I've been taking vitamins and sucking down Airborne...but this week I'm getting stuffy and my throat is sore so I'm afraid I may be getting sick now.
Only 6 more Montessori weekends to go! I'm coming home early for this coming weekend because my Grandma Ruth will be in from Florida and we're doing a bunch of family stuff.

Ikea is Awesome

We bought a table and chairs last week! I know we have to stop buying this so we still have stuff to register for but certain things we fell in love with, like this table and chairs and they ran out of tables at the Michigan store so we had to send Eric's wonderful Aunt Chris and Uncle Howard in Pennsylvania to their store to pick it up for us. So we decided not to wait on the chairs either, just in case. We close on the house in 17 weeks!!! I'm getting very excited...even though I don't get to move in until after the wedding...it will be nice to have a home, and to be able to put our stuff in it, instead of taking over my room, the spare bedroom, Janelle's bedroom, and a good portion of the basement. (it has been wonderful to get gifts from our registry for our birthdays, Hanukkah, and Christmas, but we didn't think about having to store everything until after the holidays when we had piles of appliances, house decorations, and towels all over the place.)

A break in the action

Now that the holiday craziness is completely over, and the wedding is less than 6 months away, its time to really buckle down and get planning. We're also planning for Sam's baby who is due in just about 20 weeks now. I got to go with her to her ultrasound on Thursday, it was so amazing, we got to see the heart beating and the bones moving and...its a boy!!! The ultrasound lady said he weighs about 3/4 of a pound and about 7-8 inches long. We finally had to go yesterday to get her some maternity pants, luckily they make cute maternity clothes these days. We're getting really excited!

I survived!

The Fall semseter is over and I survived! I got an A in both of my OCC classes bringing my GPA up to a 3.864 =) At Walsh I got an A in the Process Reengineering class and a B+ in the online Information System Security Class bring my GPA to a 3.75 which got me on the President's List (kind of like the honor roll)!. Things are going great though, next semester I am expecting to be taking Professional Communication online and Interpersonal Communication on Friday night. The Professional Communication class is just to transfer to Walsh but the Interpersonal Communication class is the 2nd to last class for my CIS degree at OCC =) All I will have left is Data Structures which I would have taken in the Winter but it conflicted with a class at Walsh. As for Walsh I am hopefully going to be taking Business IT Architecture on Tuesday night and Software Engineering I on Wednesday night. I havn't heard if the Friday night class has enough people to run at OCC yet and the BIT Architecture class only has 5 people enrolled so far so I am not sure if Walsh will run it or not.

Work is going great as well, we are just finishing up the busy time between semesters and are hoping for a smooth Winter semester start.

Thats all for now, I'll drop by later and update when I know about my classes next week.