The Olympic Rings

Jon's 26th birthday came right during the Olympics, so I got the idea to make his birthday cake like the olympic rings. It's my favorite cake that Ive made so far. Kinda symbolic, too, b/c this was the Olympics that Jon was hoping to qualify for when his high jumping career was at it's peak. Poor guy. He was still hoping for that dream to come true when we started dating, but soon after he realized that he would never fully recover from his knee injury enough to compete for the Olympics. That's okay, though, b/c there is no way we would have made it into dental school if he had been a full-time athlete at BYU. So, at least he got to keep one of his dreams and that was of becoming a dentist. Back to his birthday... we invited some friends over and played beach volleyball and then came back to our place for food and games. Catch Phrase is always our favorite. The best. Always a good laugh.

We're Pregnant!


Did I already post the news? I can't remember. Well anyway, I am 12 weeks along and due in April. We will find out the gender around Thanksgiving, so stay posted. We're both dying for a girl. But if we're having a boy, then that's okay b/c we just bought the family a little girl kitty. This photo shows the two tests I took to confirm that I was pregnant. Jon took a test, too (lol). He wanted to represent the 'control' group in our experiment. We actually found out when I was only 3.5 weeks along. Obviously we were trying and it wasn't a surprise pregnancy. Haven't had one of those yet. That would be hard. Ahh honey, we're pregnant. No, I like it better this way.

Lincoln Candids

Huge bandaid! Okay, so Lincoln was climbing on one of our chairs in our photo gallery and it was unstable and moved, thus he slipped and his forehead went crashing into a very pointy coffee table (that I got from Rachelle). I rushed to his side and saw a HUGE goose egg. It hadn't started bleeding, but had cut through the skin. Lincoln was freaking out. Luckily, I have inherited good genes from my dad when it comes to reacting in critical situations, so I barked to Jon to get the children's motrin and barked to my mom to get a bunch of ice. We laid him in my lap on the couch and held the ice to his forehead for a good half hour. Lincoln finally stopped struggling to get the ice off after 15 minutes and calmed down until we were done. We questioned whether we should go to the ER to get stitches, but we decided it wasn't deep enough. We applied neosporin and some butterfly bandaids, and then this monster bandaid. My mom thought it would take months for it to heal (lol), but just after a week or so it was good to go. I should get a close-up of his face to show everyone how great a medical team Jon and I make. We would make our own dads proud. :0)

This lady at the zoo just walked up to us randomly and gave us these free ride tickets. We used them to take Lincoln on the carousel and a pony ride. He did so well on the carousel by himself. He didn't need me or Jon to hold on to him. He's such a coordinated little kid.(Okay, so his hair. Get this... I grew it out all summer to see what it would do. I wanted to see if it could look cute long, like the popular style two years ago. But it didn't work. His hair wasn't thick enough on the sides to weigh down his curly frizzies, so I finally buzzed them off. Unfortunately, I only had time to cut the sides. So now, his hair looks like the popular style from back in the 80's with Vanilla Ice as our hair model. It's so long and curly on the top and can make the best mow hawk. It's pretty goofy. I hope to bring it back to current styles here soon. The funny thing is is that Lincoln has no idea how he looks, and gosh does his hair make a difference. I can't stop laughing. I don't want him to look back at his kid photos and be embarrassed of his haircuts. Maybe I should enroll myself in beauty school. Maybe there's hope for me yet...

I can't explain how proud I am of Lincoln. He rocks. This kid had no inhibitions getting up on the horse. He grabbed right on to the saddle and didn't even need me to hold on to him. He loved it. Totally got right into the rocking, as if he was dancing. (Okay, side note--again! But I'm totally laughing because yesterday at church as we go to start singing the hymns, the kid starts rocking out on the pew and moving his arms and head and body around like we just put on Beyonce. It was so great. Jon and I couldn't stop laughing. He's such a great dancer. Anytime he hears music he'll totally start dancing. Oh, it's the best thing for me. It makes my heart soar with pride. I've always wanted Jon to be able to dance like Usher (lol) and now I got my wish with Jon Jr. Oh, it's so great.) Okay, back to the pony ride... so I was so super impressed with Lincoln during the whole ride and I kept on thinking how he's gonna be just like me and my dad in the sense that he's a natural at so many things. Gosh, I sound so conceited. Let me explain. When I was a kid, I could pick up any sport and do well. I was just really good at learning new things. Same with my dad. He's super good at sports (except now his body's old, old, old). I think it's in our genes, and Lincoln got it. Yea! Now we just need to teach him how to use crayons. He might be good at dancing and riding ponies, but he sure has no interest in drawing. He'd rather organize. Gosh, do all firstborns turn out like their moms? I love to organize!

Sewing Nightmares

So, I used my first pattern to make a dining room valance. As you can see in my face, it didn't work out so well. Gosh! It took me so much time to make--so much time. It broke my heart that it ended up being to narrow for the window. It was awful. I think in order to correct it I'm going to have to add more material to the sides, without taking appart the whole valance. It's gonna be a little tricky. Hopefully it'll turn out alright or you'll be seeing some tears next. Who knows when I'll muster up the motivation to fix it, or even start on the other one. Sob...

Jon & Linc

Jon was throwing Lincoln so high up into the air. Lincoln just loved it. He was laughing the whole time. It was kinda a struggle to get a picture of him in the air, though. Lincoln loves playing with his daddy.

The Dental Club

Here are some of the LDS dental wives in our class year. There are 11 LDS students in our class, which comprises a whopping 10% of the entire class. Pretty crazy since Saints aren't nearly that much of the general population. The dean of admissions says he really likes Mormons because they are so professional and very responsible. Yeah! It's all in the mission. Dentistry is definitely a popular career for Mormons. It's great having so many of us together doing the same thing.

Here are the guys. They're a fun bunch. In the picture below I asked them to look in one direction, and this is what I got. Lol! Definitely professional...

Date Night

Yea! We finally went out on a date. We'll do the whole date night thing at home with a movie and la, la, la. But it's way more fun to go out on the town and run around. We had a great time and only spent a whopping $5! We cruised in the Vue to downtown (took some back roads and explored a bit all the while singing as loud as we could to our favorite jams of the 90's), then we parused downtown not knowing where we were going or where we had parked. Indy has a war monument that has the craziest sculptures. There were bears chained up in handcuffs, etc. This is a picture right in front of one of the fountains.

Can you see the American flag? Isn't that rad?! Another highlight of the night a missionary experience we had. I randomly wanted to go check out the motorcycles and search for a Ducati. The one I found happened to belong to the boyfriend of an investigator. I totally snuck up on her and we got to catch up a bit. She got a good job that makes her work during church, so she hasn't been able to come, unfortunately. But, I'm going to see what kind of activities I can still invite her to, at least. I'm glad we know that God doesn't make coincidences.

Jon promised me that every year on our dating anniversary that he would get me that number of roses. So, this year makes 4 whole years of dating non-stop. Wow! That actually blows my mind. Good job Dorsey and Jon. The roses were beautiful. Here's some pictures Jon took. I think for our official wedding anniversary we're gonna try to go to the Chicago temple and spend a day there kid free. Very exciting.

KT V

Terrie taught us how to make her famous pie crust, which she learned from her daddy. She also taught me how to make the best buttercream icing. I'm so so relieved. For our entire marriage I've totally bautched all the cakes I've made. It's been really discouraging. I used to be so good at baking. Hopefully this will help.

I love Jon. He's such an involved husband. He does a really good job helping me out with the house. Plus, he enjoys helping with the cooking and the baking. One night while I was napping he totally made cookies for me. What a yummy surprise.

So, we found this basketball hoop for free and love to play shooting wars on it. It was girls against guys, and by the look of Jon's face, I think you can figure out who won. We did that with his parents and our neighbors Jenny and Cris several times. It was great.

KT IV

What a beautiful picture.

Lincoln's TV face. Check out his hand. I haven't seen him do that before. And in the picture above you can see how one set of toes are up and the others are down.

K&T Visit III

Where's all the photos of Kraig and Terrie? I don't know. Somehow Kraig ended up taking a lot of us. Sorry...

What a striking photo of Romeo.

Lincoln and Grandma. Terrie made me paranoid by not ever putting Lincoln's shoes on. Right where Lincoln's stepping in the picture with Romeo was where I stepped directly on a nail. But, I admit, it's good to let the kid feel what it's like to have the grass between his toes. Having a love for nature is an important attribute.

Kraig & Terrie's Visit II

Our vegetable garden. It hasn't grown too well because it has been raining way more than usual here and my plants have been way too soggy. Needless to say, my gardening experience is a lot harder and less successful than my first time, unfortunately. But I still have hope and keep on praying for my little buggers to be able to produce some fruit/veggies. We have been fortunate to enjoy our green beans, butterleaf lettuce, and strawberries, though.

They bought Lincoln all kinds of balls. He loves his football the best. Dad's favorite color yellow.

What a great shot by Kraig on the photo. What a great shot by Jon with the ball... hopefully.

Kraig & Terrie's Visit

Jon and I are figuring out what dinners, out of the ones we love to eat, that we wanted to make for his parents. Terrie was such a nice mother-in-law by totally hooking me up with her own collection of recipes. I keep the ones I make on a regular basis written out on index cards, so she spent a couple of hours copying her own recipes on index cards for me to keep. I'm so grateful and so excited to have more of a selection to pick from. Tomorrow I'm going to make my favorite of Terries: Cabbage Chicken Salad. It's sooooo good. But it makes you fart like crazy. he he.

I wanted to see if Jon's nose shape comes from his dad. And guess what... it does! Kraig's isn't as defined, though. Just some goofy little things that we, or maybe I, had fun with.

Jon and his dad pretending to be some hill-billy golfers. They got to go golfing twice in 5 days. I'd say that's pretty good. I love Jon's faces. He's so much fun.

Too bad this is a side shot. Their faces were hilarious!