Flying!

In February, Rachel and I flew on a lovely airplane to Utah for my friend Erika's wedding. We flew without Andrew, but things went pretty well.


Rachel liked looking out the window. I'm not sure what she was looking at, but she was looking.


Rachel in the thing that always makes me sing, "We'll put on the armor of God!" (See this clip for what in the heck I am talking about, at about 10:00 the song begins, but the part I always sings is at the very end.)


Rachel sitting in our seat on the airplane.



We survived the plane ride! Rachel was very good. She was hungry when we were taxiing, but I wanted to feed her when we took off. Oh well, I gave her the binky and she was just fine. When the businessmen saw us on the plane, they all rolled their eyes. But after the flight, they all said, "Oh, what a good and cute baby you have!"


After the wedding, we went back to Washington to be back with Andrew/Dad. Our flight got delayed by an hour and a half. It was bedtime.


Rachel enjoyed the delay and took a great nap.



After another successful ride. She slept (was passed out) the whole flight until I started moving around to get our things.

She is destined to travel the world. Hopefully I will be with her.

We Are Not Dead

We are very much alive. We are moved in and have been living here for almost a month--crazy! I have a lot of pictures of Rachel and our adventures since then, but we only have the laptop at our house and I don't want to go through the hassle of uploading pictures here and on our desktop later. So. We are living in two places, which is cool and inconvenient but less expensive than breaking our contract early.

Are you ready for some happy news? I am wearing my pre-pregnancy jeans and they are tight but they are better than my other jeans which fell off constantly. This is good news. I have also been doing much better with running. Once I run consistently, I begin to enjoy it. I am enjoying it more and more each run. Pushing Rachel in our new jogging stroller is tough. One of the great things about our house is that I just have to put the stroller in the garage when I am done running. I don't have to drag it up to the third floor. YAY! I am also doing hot yoga for the month and I haven't decided if I like it because it is yoga or because it is hot yoga. I'm thinking that I like it because I like yoga. It is so freaking hot. But that is cool because I am already quite flexible and I become even more flexible. So the point is, I can wear my old pants.

Are you ready for some sad news? My leopard gecko Grendel died this week. I was waiting for him to die for a few months because he stopped eating. I was sad about that. But when me, Andrew, and Elise had his funeral, we all said nice things, and I remembered that he was a cool pet and I think he is probably happy in lizard heaven. I made a little bed in a macaroni and cheese box and slid it into a fruit snack box. I think it was one of the nicest coffins I have ever made.

I have so many books. It is ridiculous. We only have three bookshelves. And that is ridiculous for the amount of books we have. I think it wouldn't be so bad if we could fit them all on bookshelves. Right now, all the books for my master's thesis are on the floor of our room. Andrew said in a few years we might build some shelves under the window in our room. Until then, I have to figure our where to put all the books. I also went through and pulled out the books that I will probably never look at again. I collaborated with Amazon and divided them between books that would be worth my time to sell and books that are going to Goodwill. I will be getting rid of 25ish books. And that hardly even made a dent.

Rachel grabs her toes. It is super cute. I cannot put into words her cuteness. She is also a pill sometimes. She was yesterday. And today she is kind of a stinker, but not too bad. She is getting better at not freaking out in the jogging stroller.

Anyway, I hope to post again soon!