Flying Solo

We continue to love our new place.  Our landlords are sweet people and continue to bring us over citrus from their trees.  I have about 32 oz. of juiced grapefruit in my freezer and yesterday morning Ryan and I finished off our gallon of freshly squeezed (squozen is not a word for those of you who still think it is) orange juice.  I made some pretty amazing creamy lemon bars last week with some fresh lemons.  I love citrus!  I'm so excited for the fruits and vegetables coming up in the next couple weeks.

Ryan is out of town this week.  He's getting training for his new job.  While this job is indeed a blessing, it's always hard to have him gone.  I have plenty of unpacking to continue doing here, but I can only take so much of that and Zoe can only take so much of her signing videos too.  She is learning so much and communicating to us so well also.  I think she's had her first full on sentence as well: "I want two."  She has this little quirk where if you give her one piece of orange, she has to have one for the other hand as well.  She does that will all things: carrots, licorice, string cheese, etc.  She is developing into quite a little person.  She ate asparagus tonight on her own too.  I was surprised to see that.  What a joy she is to our family.  Ok, look at some pictures and I'll meet you further down.

Dancing on Mommy and Daddy's bed.

Look at those eyes!

She loves to get messy!

Walking in the snow with Daddy.

Christmas morning.

These are the YW I taught in Idaho.  I didn't realize, when uploading this picture that this was our "silly shot."  Ok, so only half of us are making silly faces.  I miss these girls and hope they're doing well.

Playing in the puddle in her Jedi outfit.

I guess, from looking at this picture and noting the gender-neutral shirt, I can understand why some people ask if she's  a boy or a girl.  Maybe this gives us an idea of what Nickel #2 will look like.

Playland somewhere.

Zoe loves flowers!

More flowers!

Playdate with our friend Kate.

My pregnancy continues to go well.  I feel so blessed to have such enjoyable pregnancies.  I've talked to a few women lately who are sick throughout their entire pregnancies.  I feel so blessed.  Ryan and I have recently gone back to the gym and one thing we do at the gym is go swimming.  The gym we go to has an outdoor pool and it's kind of cool to be there in the morning, before the sun comes up, and just enjoy the serenity in the pool.  We went everyday this past week and now this coming week neither of us will be going because Ryan is out of town.  We go early in the mornings and no one will be here with the toaster if I go, so we're taking this week off.  I want to make sure we get back on schedule though because I know that the better shape I'm in, the better my delivery and recovery will go.

We LOVE our new ward at church.  It has been such a welcoming new ward.  Heck, the first Sunday there we got a box of boy clothes from a sweet mother who was on her last kid and having a girl!  We continue to meet wonderful people and just appreciate how welcoming and friendly everyone has been.  We met with our bishop today and he seems like a wonderful man also.  One of my new friends has even offered to throw me a baby shower!  Yay!

We were supposed to have gone to visit Ryan's family this weekend.  His grandmother is not doing well and his mom has been taking care of her and Ryan's dad who recently tore a ligament that holds the quad and the shin together.  Ouch.  We were going to take the train down this time and have just a kick back time.  However, due to the parking ticket machine at the train station, we were late missing our bus which was taking us to meet our train.  Bummer.  I was looking forward to seeing my in-laws.  They are such great people.  We determined though that things worked out better this way because we were able to spend some quality time together before Ryan went off for his week of training.  Heavenly Father has a plan for everything!

Well, it's time to take care of other things.  Ta ta for now.