When you're having a baby, people are really eager to give you or sell you stuff for cheap. It's been good, since a lot of baby gear is so expensive, when it's all said and done. We already have a new free crib coming to us, a traveler system stroller (car seat included) offered to us for cheap, and were given a free crib mattress with covers ( Read more... )

After discovering alternate blogging sites other than livejournal, I decided to create a blog on wordpress a few months ago. I pretty much wrote once and left it sitting though, but I finally went back and messed with it enough to understand how it works. So now it's actually up and running. I plan to write more in there than I do here. The beauty ( Read more... )

I have to say, I am really happy about the way everybody in our family has taken this pregnancy. Both our families have been very supportive and excited. I guess I just feared some sort of scolding or negativity, but there has been none of that. (When we got married there was a bit of that.) But it's been just happiness and a lot of support ( Read more... )

( open for a surprise )

This is my percussion instructor from high school. I just thought this video was rad - it's not only about what he's playing, but his technique and fluidity. And no, I can't do that.

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...and I have a lot to be thankful for! God's timing is perfect...

Hope you all have a great thanksgiving ;)

I'm not quite done with this semester yet, but I'm already looking at next semester. Just 3 classes left and I graduate...it's going to be a chill semester compared to this one. The teachers I chose seem like good picks as well ( Read more... )

...but it isn't necessarily stagnant. We always say, 'what's in the past is passed.' And yet for a second time my past has come up - but not in a negative way at all; in a positive way. There are two separate but major incidents in my past where people have hurt me and affected my state of stability involving relationships all around. My self worth ( Read more... )

I think we take forgranted the coolness of aquariums. (I personally blame Tri-City Christian School summer camp ( Read more... )

Today was so distracting. Why did two of my teachers decide to have tests the day after elections? It's 2 a.m, I'm drinking coffee and I'm trying to study biology, but it's been a little hard to focus on biology. :-p ( Read more... )