Long time no post

All right, no baby yet. I keep getting emails asking if I had the baby as it's been ages since our last post. Jared is working the Shuttle Mission this weekend so he and Eliza had a little chat and I was forbidden to have a kid before 5 pm tonight when his assent shift ends (NASA controls our life :)

Jared and Erin were back in Iowa for 10 days in late May for a wedding and his brothers graduation. They had a great time and I got so much done around the house while they were gone. In the first three days I pretty much got all the necessary things checked off the list, which was good because our AC was out for four days.

I had some time left over to take a stab at a baby quilt for a fellow Iowan (who thought you could find pink John Deer fabric in Houston?) We were only a few weeks apart in our pregnancy and their baby was delivered 12 weeks early due to lack of growth, She weighed a little over 1.5 pounds, but is gaining weight and doing excellent.

Jared and Erin arrived home just in time for me to leave to spend three days at Youth Conference with 200 teenagers. Friday night of Youth conference we were toilet papered, always a tradition in our ward to "wrap" (The southern term for t.p.) the leadership houses. They really did a poor job on our house, but Erin was very intrigued and kept asking why the trees were growing toilet paper. She then told me "bad people did it".

As always YC was fun, but with two nights of staying up after 2 am, doing a door-to-door food drive in 90 degree heat and being extremely active (not that I was helping wrap houses or anything), by Saturday night I was so tired I didn't think I would make it to my front door. I figured Jared would find a large pregnant woman passed out like a drunken sailor on the front lawn with a too small t-shirt that read "Virtue - is it in you?"

I woke up Sunday morning still not in labor (if Youth Conference didn't put me in labor, this kid is not coming) and Brittany and Jared's dad pulled into town as we were leaving for church. Brittany will be attending Baylor College of Medicine in downtown Houston for the next 4-6 years for her PHD, so naturally we are excited to have a family member down here. She is staying with us a few weeks until she finds an apartment and furniture.
Erin sporting her pool outfit..... or lack thereof

Yesterday Britt and I FINALLY finished the nursery, although she is bunking in it for the time being. I started painting over a month ago and all that is left is Jared needs to paint one more coat of oil on the doors. The paint was "honeydew" and was not nearly as bright on the sample. I did three walls green and the wall with the window white. We had to tone it down a bit so my kid doesn't develop ADD from the overwhelming color. I am really happy with how it turned out. I also decided it was time to dig out the cloths and start to get things ready.

I am now 38 weeks and am starting to feel the icky side of pregnancy. Last weeks I gained 6 pounds in a week - mostly water retention. We've had a heat index of over 100 part of this week and I feel like a balloon. My feet are so swollen the only thing I can wear are my adjustable chaco sport sandals. Jared kindly calls them my hobbit feet.