Aj At home in Ct

So the first pics are at the Bronx Zoo. the first one is when aaron convinced aj to eat a leaf. see his cute little look "i trust you daddy" he'll learn not to listen to daddy when in comes to putting things in his mouth soon, i hope

Sleeping with Max

Going for walks. aj loves to walk the dogs. i dont think they are quite as big of fans of him controlling the leash

The mexican hat dance. i dont know why he started doing this i think he just likes to hear the sound of his feet stomping or something. everytime he gets really excited he stomps his little feet like crazy.

Pictures Pictures And More Pictures!!

So i finally went and got a new cord for our camera so i can post all of the many pictures we have. to show off this wonderful state. honestly though i really

havent taken any since aaron left so i will have to get some of him in his uniform on sunday so i can show him off

so here is aaron's graduation. ignore the huge hawaiian dress i was wearing i was wicked sick that day! but doesnt aaron looks so hansome in his cap in gown

This is Aaron and aj driving the boats at the mystic aquarium.

So this was our trip to boston. the pictures are of aj at the park they had a row of bronze ducks and all the kids could sit on them and take pictures on it. the other pic is our first ride on a subway.

We're having...

Sunday Aaron and i were able to open our envelope together and the vertic is....
A GIRL!!!!
we are both just soooooo way excited. She will be named Amellia Sue or Amelia Sue i cant decide. if you heard my last talk before we moved from rexburg i would like to now happily say im NOT crazy! She will be named after her two great grandmothers Nancy Amelia and Margret Susan. well that is all for now just a quick blog to let you all know!

18 Weeks today

so i am 18 weeks today...and what some crazy weeks it has been. i am sure this baby must be a girl just cuz of all the drama she has caused. from the day we found out we were prego if its not one thing its another. well today i had an ultra sound. i didnt really tell anyone but the results from my blood test showed that our risk of having a baby with down syndrome was much higher then it should be so the dr suggest an ultra to get more info. i am happy to say that the results were good and although the risk is still there it is significantly lower (about 1 in 250). well let me tell you this was just about the most uncooperative baby i have ever seen. i was rolling from side to side and the tec was practically jabbing me in the gut trying to get a good pic of the baby. two of the major things they need to see was the nasal bone and the arm bone (i dont know what its called) but of course this little bugger had her hand either behind her head or covering her face. apparently she is camera shy although she doesnt get that from me! the dr was able to find out the sex but aaron and i decided to wait till we could both be there to find out, so we had her write it down on a paper and seal it up. then on sunday aaron and i are going to open it together. Gayla has been holding it for safe keeping. i tried to convince her to let me peek and i promise i would act just as suprised but she wouldnt budge. UGH! im not good at being patient. i would like to again thank all of you that did know about this impending ultra and all the prayers and fasting that you have given on our behalf. i can promise you that i have felt the love and comfort given by the Lord and by you.

i am hoping for a girl...as im sure all of you know...expesially cuz we only have a girl name picked out but i figure since this is already being a difficult child it will probably be a boy and then we will have to sturggle to pick a boy name. we have had some ideas but nothing has seemed right enough to settle on yet. Ugh i dont think i can make it till sunday!

oh funny story so my belly button (which if you have ever seen it is as deep as a crator) has partially popped out. now i dont mean that it is half as deep, i mean the top half has popped and the bottome half is still sunk in, it looks really weird. i took a pic on my phone to show aaron on sunday and wanted to post it but i couldnt figure out how to get pics from my phone to the computer...im sure you can pic the weirdness though!

old pics i never put up

so these are kinda old pics that i just never got around to putting up. aaron emailed me and said he can look at the blog so i thought i would add some more pics. we packed up our camera cord with the move so i cant add any new ones but here is some stuff before we moved that i dont think i ever posted

Aarons Gone...sniff sniff

so sad day...aaron left for OCS last saturday. it was really hard to let him go. when we went to drop him off we didnt even really get to say goodbye. i was trying really hard not to be emotional or make a big scene because i didn't want him to be made fun of for having a crazy wife, but the whole goodbye was so quick i didn't even have time to cry. i was a little disappointed. i haven't heard from him yet, i carry my cell phone with me religiously, but am hoping to hear from him on sunday. they say they will let them go to church on sunday (we just dont know if its one of those you have to earn it things) so Gayla, Aj, and i are going to go up to the Rhode Island ward on sunday hopeing he'll be there. it would be nice if i could see him on sundays. i know i'm beeing a big wimp about it, most women dont get to see there husbands at all for the whole twelve weeks.

I've been talking to some of the ladies here who's husbands went through OCS (only those who go stright in as an Officer do the 12 weeks) and this is what i have found out...

its they're goal to work you so hard that you throw up the first day

they make you do everything the same including shaving their head the first day (in fact as we were leaving we took one more peek at aaron and they had made the whole group roll up their pants i dont know why it was kind of funny)

most loose about 20lbs by the end and come back wicked ripped (one lady say her husband looked like he was in a concentration camp because his head was shaved and his face was so thin that you could see all his bones, but with a big hunkie body)

Ironiclly aaron will have lost like 20lbs by the end and i will have probably gained it....wahoo.

I am excited for the big fancy dinner they have at the end before graduation.

Just under a year ago they broke ground for a supply school up in Rhode Island (same base) so we are hopeing it will be done by Jan so that we can stay up here by family and not have to move down to Georgia. Everyone i talked to here says there are huge bugs in Georgia which i am not looking forward to!

Updates

I'm sorry to say i will have another pictureless post. mostly when we moved we brought our camera but not the cord to put our pics on the computer...smart hun?
Well we are all settled here in Ct. if you ever thought about moving to the new england area DONT! it is so unbelievably wicked hot!! unless you have air conditioning then its ok. i dont think i have ever wished for an Idaho winter so much in my life.
What have we done so far...lets see...most of my activities has revolved around food, weird i know. we went to boston and did some of the things on the independace trail. we also went to this huge park its like central park of boston aj really liked that part. we have also gone to New Haven which is where yale is. it is a beautiful campus all the buildings look like cathedrals so pretty. we also went to Pepe's pizza which is so stinking good. i ate six slices without even taking a breath. it would be totally worth it to fly here for just the pizza alone it is that good. it is in the little italy of new haven just down the street from it is this little italian pastry shop that place was good too. in fact i got an eclair while we waited in line for the pizza and then again after we ate some pizza. i blame the pregnacy although i know i'm really just a pig!
last week we went to the Bronx zoo. it was good but we went on wendsday (which is a donation only day) so everyone and there mother was there and let me tell you it stunk soooo bad. seriously everyone there stunk like pee!

My most exciting news: first i have started to potty train aj. i'm not really trying that hard i just sit him on it after his nap. he wants to sit on it sometimes and sometimes he'll go. he almost always goes after his nap. he has been teething the last two days and has been sick from it so we took a break and will start up again today. it was soo cute the first time he sat on his potty he had to hold my hand the whole time till he was done.

well thats about it for here. aaron will be leaving for OCS at the end of the week. i'm way bummed and am going to miss him like crazy but it will be a good to just get it over with.