The One with the Gender!

It's not just a Mini Cooper; it's a Minnie Cooper!! We think we're going to call her Cora though :)

Look at her cute little nose! I love it!!

She's perfect! And perfectly healthy. So far, so good. Wish I could say the same for myself!

The One with the Announcement

I can't believe I haven't posted this to the blog yet!! It's actually the reason I haven't posted much recently.

I guess I let the cat out of the bag with the last post anyway. We find out the gender today. Super excited!!!

The One with the Pair o' Docs

Justin passed his dissertation defense today! Woo hoo!!! He was amazing!!

It's a tradition in his research group to open a bottle of champagne and toast the new PhD. The new grad then writes their name on the cork and hangs it from the ceiling of their group office. It's a big moment! So proud of him!

This is the white board outside his office. Earlier it read " It's almost over Justin!"

Oh yeah, this was sparkling grape juice. 

Nonalcoholic for the pregnant and Mormon :)

Dr. Cooper!!

Update: I took Justin to Ruth's Chris steakhouse to celebrate. We even dressed up; it was so fun! FYI- they are the place to go to celebrate. We told them Justin just defended his PhD and we are expecting our first child. Our waiter was awesome, the food was perfect, and they gave each of us a free dessert.

Congrats to Justin for graduating!

And congrats to me for getting pregnant! Let's be honest, that's the hard one ;)

The New One (Finally!)

This won't even be a very good new one, sorry. I've been thinking about blogging a lot lately and just haven't done anything about it. My last real post was before Thanksgiving so I haven't even covered the holidays, yikes! For the time being, here are a few recent thoughts/updates for y'all :)

For six(!) years now I've heard about "Spring in Utah." This is in reference to the seriously crazy weather patterns we get March-June. Temps in the 70's followed by a snowstorm. Seriously. We got married Memorial Day weekend 2010 and I was terrified because it snowed 5 days before. It was a beautiful 65 degrees for us, thank heaven! Anyway, I think this is actually the first time that the weird Spring weather has been visualized by our car:

Here's Justin loading up for a bike ride. Notice anything unusual?

Yep, that's a ski rack on top. We were up on the mountain just 9 days ago. Crazy!!

Here's a new "Funny Justin" story. We were walking to lunch today when a rollerblader, yes rollerblader, zoomed by. Justin said "Wow, I almost got taken out by 1992!!" Bwahaha!!

The One with the Check-out

I used the self-scan at the grocery store today. The assistant said she hopes I feel better.

I guess it was obvious.