first teaching job call!!!

Jeff will probably be embarrassed about this post-- but it's my blog and I'm excited so he gets to just put up with me. :)

Yesterday he had two of his Utah licensure tests. He was actually in a really good mood after he finished both of them, even though his brain felt like scrambled eggs. And besides a disturbing moment when he realized that he had 1 more case study than he thought and only 15 minutes to do it, such that he swore out loud, he felt pretty good about both tests.

On Friday he stayed up in Cedar City all day and night so that he could study with different groups and avoid having to wake up super early to drive up to Cedar by 7:30 am. He had a test in his anatomy class on Friday morning so he turned his phone off. Well right before his 2nd licensure test he saw that he had a voicemail. So he listened to it.

IT WAS A PRINCIPAL FROM TEMPE UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT! She had called when his phone was off Friday morning and he didn't get the message until Saturday.

So when he was driving home on Saturday he told me about the message-- he thought it was a middle school teacher from that school district. Last night he was tired and didn't feel like looking up the school-- he couldn't remember what the message said about what school she was calling from. So this morning I gave him about 15 minutes to be awake and then asked if I could listen to the message.

He put it on speaker phone and it was from a high school not a middle school! As soon as the message was finished I sprinted up the stairs to look up the school. I don't think I have moved that quickly in about 4, or possibly, 6 months. AND it is the closest school in that school district to our house in AZ. It's McClintock High School. AND we looked up their website and the baseball team won the 4A State Championship last year. The funny thing is she is calling about a Science position. I have been teasing Jeff that they will want him to teach physics or something. My guess is they need an Anatomy teacher but she wasn't specific. The other cool thing is on the District website this position was just barely posted Friday, when she called.

I think I may start nagging Jeff to check his messages every couple of hours over the next couple of weeks because today until tomorrow morning until he can call her back may be the longest 20 hours I've endured for a long time.

So, needless to say, I am pretty dang excited right now. I'm hoping we'll be using our rapid rewards flight credits at the end of this week to go down for him to have an interview. Jeff starts his student teaching on May 5th so it would be great for him to have at least one interview done before that starts.

The other fantastic news is he only has 2 more days of commuting to Cedar!

I think I am allergic to KY. Really.

So I am back in UT now after my trip to KY. It was really fun to hang out with my family and my parents house there felt more like their house this time around. I didn't leave all freaked out and upset like last time-- so that it good. However, I have come to the realization that I am allergic to the state of Kentucky. Or at least something floating in the air. When Jeff and I went to visit in November I got sick and was taking every possible medication I could get my hands on to stop my throat from hurting and nose from running and to help me sleep through the night. (found out about 2 days after I got home that I was pregnant-- sorry little baby!) So then this time around I got there on Friday and by Wednesday afternoon I started feeling crappy. I didn't think it was allergies because I am not usually allergic to anything except for cats if I live around them for over 2 weeks. . . but then I remembered that the same symptoms appeared the last time we visited-- so I guess I am allergic to something there. The only difference being that this time around I was pregnant so I wasn't able to down Tylenol PM like candy. (I am however, addicted to TUMS- Assorted Berries flavor).

So after being a miserable snotting mess for almost a week I went to the doctor yesterday for my 28ish week visit and he said that I could take sudafed. THANK THE HEAVENS FOR SUDAFED.

At the doc appt. they had me drink the glucose drink and an hour later they drew my blood. So here's for hoping that I don't have gestational diabetes.

I'll write more about the KY trip later-- gotta go to enrichment night in about 2 minutes.

why oh why?

So I am sitting in the airport on a layover before the last leg of my trip to KY. It's 5 in the morning Utah time . . . and I haven't slept yet since I woke up about 22 hours ago.

Why?

Because I spent the night on a plane. A plane experiencing turbulence. A plane whose last seat on the aisle was occupied by me. A plane with two squacking flight attendants who were incapable of shutting their mouths in the back the entire duration. A plane with a lot of passengers who needed to make use of the bathroom facilities during turbulence thus coming in contact with the last row aisle seat passenger, aka- me. Also, the man in the last row middle seat next to me thought that it was appropriate to use both arm rests-- so my left arm was stuck in the no mans land between my fat belly and being held straight up in the air. Oh, did I mention he ate something before the flight that didn't agree with him and so I was able to experience his belching throughout the flight? Fantastic.

As a last resort I opened up my laptop and listened to the hypnobirthing track I have on my computer, thinking that if the relaxation exercises are good enough to get women through labor-- they could get me through the flight. And it worked-- until the turbulence was so bad that a metal coffee pot came flying up the aisle and the lady next to the window yelped.

The good news-- we landed safely with the pilot pulling some crazy rights wheels only, left wheels only, then both right and left wheels landing. The one benefit of being on the back row aisle seat is I was able to get up twice without bugging anybody and it is pretty amusing to watch 180 heads jerk and sway side to side in unison as the plane bobbed and weaved.

Yay for a short 45 minute flight and then getting to hang out with my family for over a week. :)

off to KY

So I spent today doing laundry so that I had clean clothes to pack for my trip to KY. Hopefully Jeff can make it over a week without having to do laundry again. I am flying out late tomorrow night- through the night- and will get there Friday morning. Crossing my fingers that I am not comatose by the time the plane lands.

I'm excited to go spend time with my parents and my sis is there with her girls until Monday so it will be good to see them, especially cause I don't know that we'll see each other again until after our babies are born. So crazy.

For some reason the idea of me with a belly cracks my mom and sister up. They both just laugh.

Speaking of which, the other day my brother in law asked me "what it felt like to not be skinny anymore."

Awesome. Still got 3 months to go.

first digital scrapbook page

So I thought that digital scrapbooking would be a good idea for me because it takes me many many hours to complete one scrapbook page regularly. Well, digital scrapbooking still takes me a long time. Just not AS long and there isn't such a mess to clean up. So I'm thinking that when we move back to AZ I will just mix the two somehow. We'll see.

baby shower group picture. . . finally

It's sort of a blurry picture-- but at least we were all smiling and our eyes were open. :)

trip to slc

So all last week I was wanting to post but seriously there was nothing excited going on. AT ALL. Except maybe that my sister is having a girl too-- but that is more her exciting news than mine. Jeff and I went up to SLC to spend the weekend with his grandparents. We hadn't ever gone up to just see them so it was good to spend some one on one time with them at their house. The guest bed is a full size bed and somehow we managed to make it through 2 nights without either of us wanting to file for divorce-- so if for no other reason than that, it was a good trip! On Saturday a few of my old roommates/friends from the U got together for lunch/baby shower for me. It was a lot fun to see them all, it had been YEARS in many cases since we'd seen each other so it was great to get together again. Thanks Lori for setting it all up! I got a few pictures on my camera, but they all ended up being just me with the gifts, so even though I know you're dying to see me with a diaper genie box, I'm gonna wait until Lori has a chance to send me the pictures from her camera and then I will post more about the shower then. :)

This was the first time since Jeff and I have been married that I have managed to get him up to SLC to hang out with my friends and their husbands. Pretty pathetic after over 3 years but I guess it's better late than never.

It may sound strange but I love driving in the car with Jeff. Even when I'm almost 6 months pregnant and we have to stop 5 times. It's nice to just have that time uninterrupted to talk and laugh. I especially like it when his friend gives him a guilt trip about making his pregnant wife drive so I only end up having to drive about 1/4 of the way. It's the best.