Christmas Rewind

We've been terrible about posting anything lately. We're pretty out of our normal routines so blogging has taken a back seat. Here are a few photos from our many Christmas gatherings.

Christmas #1 with the Manson's

With Great Grandma Healy

Christmas #2 with the Beasley's
Us with Grandma Polly, Grandpa Clyde, Merideth & Erin

Christmas #3 with the Martin's
Our niece Emily, loving the play tube

Jason with our other niece Abigail

Home to the Snowy Northwest

We made the move home safe and sound! We were supposed to leave last Saturday morning but decided to try to beat the storm that was going to hit all the passes, so we left SoCal Friday night. We stayed in Bakersfield the first night and then drove all the way to Portland the next day and got in about 1am Sunday - we hit snow and ice on the passes and knew that if we stopped for the night again that we might be there for a few days. We woke up Sunday morning to about 3 inches of snow, and the wintery weather hasn't stopped since then!

We had to buy chains for our car and for our Uhaul to get them across town to Jason's parent's house where we're staying. We got the Uhaul unloaded and into storage on Monday and now we're just going to interviews and trying to get into some sort of routine - which is hard to do when you really can't drive anywhere! There are so many people that we want to see and really haven't been able to see much of anyone due to the ice and snow!

It snowed all day yesterday, there are at least 7 new inches of the white stuff on the ground and to top it off there is ~1/4 of ice on top of it from the freezing rain last night. We're pretty home bound for the next couple of days, that sure makes running last minute Christmas errands difficult to do!

Baby Bump

At the request of a few of you I am posting another belly picture...it really is an odd concept to be celebrating getting fat! :) The baby has been moving up a storm, I started feeling her at about 18.5 weeks, and I'm 20 weeks now. her movements and kicks are getting stronger each week. Jason has even been able to feel her kick quite a few times which has been really exciting!
On another not so fun pregnancy note - I am on an emotional roller-coaster and I'm not loving that! I've never really been an overly teary person but my gosh it doesn't take much to bring it on...we were in church and I saw a cute little girl lighting the candles and welled up with tears - I mean come on, get it together! I can swing the other way at the drop of a hat too...I don't like to be grumpy but it just seems to come out of no where! Between the stress of moving and dealing with his psycho wife I don't know how Jason is surviving! Oh the joys of hormones!

Done with boards!!!

Hooray I am done with all of my board exams! I took them all in record time....ultrasound physics, vascular physics, OB/Gyn, Abdomen and Breast. My friend Sara and I studied our butts off together...all through school we studied for everything together, so it was a challenge to figure out what to do when she moved to Las Vegas...well we used Skype and studied for hours each day before and after work and it worked wonderfully! We finished taking them in record time, and I truly couldn't have done it without her! I am now officially an ARDMS Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer and Registered Vascular Technologist! It feels SO odd to not be studying!

Thanksgiving...it did happen!

It's been a little crazy around here, and needless to say I have been very lacking in the blog department! I have quite the backlog of things to post, and I have a moment of spare time so I guess I better do it before something comes us.

Well...Let's start way back with Thanksgiving. I had to work actual Thanksgiving day, so we made our own little dinner the weekend before. I got a free turkey from the hospital so that was our inspiration. We made a big dinner completed with turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, sparkling cider, and lemon meringue pie! It was fun to make and delicious to eat!

US Pictures Sonographer's Will Appreciate

What do ya think Dr. Davis?

These pictures were for my sonographer friends....I posted the cute ones earlier for the rest of you to enjoy - these are just for us geeky lovers of ultrasound.

We had our official ultrasound last Friday. We had it done at Loma Linda and my friend Amanda got to scan me, but first played a little trick on us. I used to help teach the junior class "scan lab" - basically a hands on class where they can learn to scan and just use each other as models (any time they aren't in scan lab we usually just use patient's as test dummies...it's great!), anyway, so we walked into the exam room and about 8 of the new class of students who only have about 2 months of hands-on experience were sitting there in chairs like it was a class. Amanda said "ok we never get OB's at scan lab, so you are model today. Since you used to teach scan lab you get to teach this one" then she walked out the door and left them with me. I was in a little bit of shock but was like "ok let's do it"....so as the patient laying there and teacher on the fly I am trying to tell someone that has never scanned an OB what to do...it was pretty comical until Amanda walked back in about 5 minutes later and said "just kidding". It was a funny trick, she had Jason and I fooled - good one Amanda.

She loves to show off her profile

Here are a couple new pictures of our little peanut. She is actually about the size of a large pomegranite and weighs a whopping 6 ounces...lol! She's still a girl and is growing just like she should be. I can't feel her move yet, but am looking a little pregnant. Much to my dismay, and Jason's entertainment, my dumb belly button is sticking out already! I've always had kind of a finicky belly button that thought it wanted to be half inny-half outy, well now it's letting it's true colors show, and it's actually a bit embarrassing. I guess there are worse things in life but I may have to buy stock in band-aids to hide the thing for a bit.

Showing off those long legs

Getting a little baby bump