Ten Years

It finally feels like the end of the year, since this week the temperature dropped and it's no longer in the 90's. In January, Kip and I will have been married for 10 years. A decade! Wow. I've been thinking back on the last 10 years a lot lately. I've spent:

10 years being married.
9 years in this apartment. 9 years!!!
8 years since Kip realized what his dream job was and how much work it would entail.
7 years in Primary in one calling or another.
6 years playing Settlers (and other games).
5 years with my friends from my pregnancy and parenting boards.
4 years as a mother. Really? Only 4 years? Feels longer.
3 years penny pinching through Kip's school/internship/starter jobs. That feels longer, too. ;)
2 years with Jack.
and 1 year enjoying my first ever brand new car.

It was an era. Things are changing so quickly around here, a new era is about to begin. There's major potential for a new job, a big move, and our last day at 1st Ward (which we've been attending for 9 years) is this Sunday. It's funny that this new phase of life is happening at almost exactly the 10 year mark.

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Our back yard may not be the prettiest, but it does make for some great puddle splashing on a rainy day! I only wish I had more than my cell phone camera with me.

Me and baby Jack

Looks like Jack has a little brother on the way!

Here he is, laying on his tummy.


We had the ultrasound yesterday. Everything looks great! He's about 5 1/2 inches long, head to rump. The baby wasn't cooperating as far as giving us good shots, but the ultrasound tech said she was 90% sure it's a boy. He was laying face down and was sucking his thumb. It's so amazing to watch the baby move around in there! There are two kinds of ultrasound pictures - cute profile, foot, and hand pictures, and then there's blobs and scary alien pictures. Because of the way he was positioned, we got the latter two. So, without further ado, here is our scary alien baby:

Documenting the pregnancy

For comparison, here's a shot taken at about 4 weeks.


Here's a shot taken yesterday, at 18 1/2 weeks. I don't feel like I look very pregnant this time around since I'm carrying this baby so much higher than the others.


And for further comparison, here's a shot of Jack, taken at just 10 weeks - a full two months earlier!

Cell phone pictures

I always leave the pictures on my cell phone there for way too long. These go back to July. Ooops.

I'm not the only addict:


An evening at the park in Burbank:




It's not often I randomly park next to another Kia Rondo that looks just like mine. I see them everywhere now.


This is a picture I took while I was leaving Kip's work for my trip to Utah. There are fields of these just outside of the mountain pass that leads to the fire station.


Jack, checking out the garden in Utah:

Randomness

It's amazing what random things you can see driving around Los Angeles. We were on the way back from lunch and saw this bison head in the back of a pickup. Click on the photo to get a larger view.