torture

the smell of roast in my crockpot stinks so bad i want to vomit and leave the house. thankfully its a cool day (55 degrees) so i can have the windows open. its not good enough though.
oh the joys of pregnancy. i am happy, i am. :D

update: so far so good

So the baby is 6 weeks old tomorrow (I am 8 weeks pregnant). Its still unreal that we have made it this far together. I am so thankful. And, progressively more sick. No puking still, thankfully, but definite nausea today for the first time. So this is a good sign they say.

I have been busy making little baby quilts to give or to keep, I dont know. I just pieced one top and am now working on a second. I've been listening to a delightful novel while sewing. :D This makes me miss my sisters a lot. I think I have an extra dose of emotionalism these days to make it worse. The book is called North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell. Jody advised me of it and I downloaded it from www.librivox.org , for free as are all the recorded books found there, they are all in the public domain. yay!

Shawn's laboring away faithfully. God has blessed our endevour to pay down the debt thus far and we are thankful.

Well, I feel I must eat again. Good night!

HEARTBEAT!

116 beats per minute.



Here you can see the sack and on the bottom right edge the yolk sack with the baby.

I'm feeling sick these days. Cheese is my friend.

Shawn is working. I am cleaning up the house. It shouldn't take long, small areas don't.

I can't believe this is real. Ok, I can, but, woah.

New Years Resolutions

I looked at the top ten new years resolutions and found that I could call some of them my own for 2009.



1) Get out of debt, we'll make it this year.
2) Learn something new, Spanish, I'm already on chapter 4!
3) Help others, maybe by doing volunteer work or making quilts for people? i quit my job. yay, freedom.
4) Quit drinking, I just found out that I'm pregnant! Pray for the baby that it would live and be healthy!

Museum

So we decided to be tourists on Saturday. We went to a fancy museum.
We couldn't take any pictures inside or outside of the Medieval torture display, so this is all we have for that. It was horrific. People are so mean. All of us.

There was a huge sphere that had a bunch of projectors playing all at once. Pretty cool.


We were kind of exhausted after the torture, so Shawn took a nap in the biggest couch ever.

There was a display of icons. The first one is ST Liz and the baby looks a bit like Watson when he was a bit smaller.




There was a lot of weird art, these are just a few.

We had fun.

the pool

more pictures

Houses near by with blue pond.

Our front yard.

Our apartment.

Shawn studying hebrew in the living room. The Lannings car top storage thing in the corner.

Perfect for my machines and for my cutting mat.

The smallest kitchen ever. With a dishwasher! I haven't used it yet, we dont have enough dishes to justify it. When they are dirty they need washed immediately as there is no room for them to pile up anywhere, and we need them for the next meal, so, the dishwasher is kind of useless, whodathot.

The wardrobe.

Notice the covered windows, yep, Shawn needs darkness to sleep. :D To the left there is another double bed.

update

So I still haven't taken pictures. But these are similar to our apartment in Mission, TX, they just need to be inverted.

Yep, we're in Mission on a mission. Shawn's working as a traveling nurse here temporarily, at this point he has an 8 week contract at a local hospital here. We're seeking to bust debt so he can go to seminary full time and not have to work full time at the same time!

So, things are good. We're looking for a church to fellowship with while we're here. Because Shawn had to work last night we'll just be going to an evening service tonight. While he slept most of the day I watched a few video sermons online and read a bit of a book on prayer by Bunyan. Its so easy to go through the motions of prayer and not actually do it sincerely, which is VAIN. I am such a religious person, I am repenting.

corry to be continued

pics

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preview of more to come when i get back from the reunion!

three legged race