Our month has been super busy which is one of the reasons for the lack of updates on here.We started out the month with a pinewood derby contest at BYU. Jeff made a car for my nephew a few months ago and re-did it a bit for this one so he could race it. It did really well and won the "Best of Show" and took 8th place out of 28 cars so he did pretty well. I thought it was really fun to go to (it was my first one to see that I can remember) and I was proud of Jeff for doing such a great job. After that we headed up to Morgan for a Carter reunion for some good times.
The next week we spent every day packing and cleaning and preparing to move. We moved on the 15th and are so grateful for all the help we received from family and friends since I wasn't much good. We had a baby shower that same afternoon with my side of the family and it was so great to see everyone. I had another baby shower with the Carter side of the family the following week. We are blessed to have so much support from both sides of our families and appreciate everything we received to help us prepare to welcome Landon.
Since I am still working in Provo we have been staying at Carter's during the week so my commute is not so horrendous. Jeff takes me down to work a couple of days a week which I love--it's better having his company and it's nice that I don't have to drive. I didn't think it would be that big of a deal to commute for a few weeks but I have to be honest, it's wearing me down pretty good. It is really hard spreading our lives over 90 miles of Utah (work in Provo, sleep in Centerville during the week, live in Ogden on the weekends). I basically feel like we have no home but it's been nice to still have something to do during the days...I would have gone insane if I was just home all day every day.
I also celebrated my birthday on the 20th. I don't get that into birthdays--to me it's just another day of the year--so I worked the day of my birthday but Jeff took me out to dinner that night, my mom took us out to dinner the night before and Carter's took us out that weekend. All in all it was a good birthday.
I am now 1.5 weeks away from my due date. I had Jeff take a new picture today so we can document it and I look severely massive, yuck! I feel pretty good, just large and ready to have him. My feet swell so it feels like I have bruises all over my feet all the time. I get sick a couple of times a week still and pray that it doesn't continue after I have him. But I've been blessed still the same--my BP is great, my weight gain is perfect (even though I feel it's too high...but I had lost a pound at my last appointment so that was good), and I am still up and moving around. Can't complain at all about that.The most exciting thing that has happened to us this month, though, is that Jeff got an internship! We waited all Spring/Summer for him to get one but no one was hiring. Then this week he was offered 3! This is a huge deal for us because it has been the only thing holding him back from graduating so now with this he will officially graduate from BYU in December (yeah!) The one he decided to take is in Salt Lake (so now he'll have the long commute which I feel so bad about). It is working for a place called BD Medical that designs medical equipment and there is a possibility at the end of the internship that it could turn into something permanent. One was in New York which I think would have been so great to live there for a short time but it didn't pay enough to even cover our rent so we opted not to do that one.
Life is good.
