Bath Time!

I got Kevin some new camera equipment for Christmas. We are enjoying experimenting with it and our new subject. This is a shot of Chloe's first sponge bath at home. She absolutely loved every minute of it. I hope that means when we can give her tub baths she likes em just as much. I know I'm biased, but isn't she just adorable?

Our Christmas Baby

It all started at 4 am, actually, it all started about 9 months ago. But this chapter of the story started at 4 am when Amy's water broke. Yes, I was out cold, and then suddenly, I was wide awake, especially when the contractions started about 10 minutes later, and never let up. We packed and made it out the door to the hospital. The hospital staff was great, we got checked in and started the waiting game. Amy was dilated to about 3 cm when we arrived at around 6:30 am, and finally hit 10 by about 2:45-3:00 pm. Thankfully Amy decided an epidural was a good idea about 20 minutes after we got to the hospital. Her contractions were so strong and so close that she never got a break, neither did my hands. I left when they administered the epidural to get some stuff from the car, and when I came back, Amy was all smiles.

It came time to push around 3:00 or so, and Amy did great. So did Chloe. Delivery was pretty fast once she started pushing, and we were blessed with a wonderful Christmas gift. The best one I've ever gotten anyway.
After her initial check out and clean up we got to hold her. It was one of the most beautiful things I've ever experienced in this world. She is so precious. Her little chin quivers when she cries and makes her little voice shake. It's so cute. When she came out at 3:41 pm, she weighed 7 lbs 5 ounces, and was 20 1/4 inches long. All about average. We'll get a video posted once we get the chance, but in the mean time, I want to get back to spending time with mom and baby. This is for sure the best Christmas ever.

A Little Update

Well, it sure has been a complete turn around here with Kevin's job. Before, he was gone 24/7. Now, he gets up for PT at 5:20 to be there by 5:45. He is home by 7:15 and he showers and we have breakfast together. He then has a 9 am formation and is usually released for the rest of the day after 10 or 15 minutes. A few times he has had to stay until 10:30 or so, but that's not very often. We have been enjoying all the time we get to spend together. In his off time we go shopping, to the movies, read books together and have been getting ready for the baby. We have also been playing a little Super Mario Cart, which is fun, but I am really bad at it.

Kevin got the bike going. He rode it yesterday. He just needs some cosmetic work really now, besides a mirror and front turn signals. Its been warm out. We have been seeing pictures of home with tons of snow... we are usually in the 70s everyday. Its weird using the ac a week from Christmas. Today it is 77.

My tummy has been getting bigger. Strangers tell me all the time I look like I'm ready to pop. I feel like it! 37 weeks down, hopefully not too many left to go. The doc said the longest he will let me go will be 41 weeks and 6 days. Hopefully it isn't that long!

Kevin came home yesterday with his arms overloaded with vinyl for me. He stopped at a sign company and they gave him all these "scraps" for $5! One man's trash is a scrapbooking woman's treasure! I asked him why he didn't wait to give it to me on Christmas, and he said he was just way too excited to wait. He was as pleased with himself as I was with him! He loves to make me happy. I think I will make some new decals for his motorcycle since he repainted it last year it's been without.

'Tis The Season

We FINALLY got our Christmas Tree on Monday. We had to borrow a truck for it and drive into Enterprise to get it and let me tell you, waiting so long leaves pretty slim pickens around here. Its not like you can just trudge into the mtns and pick one out. But, we ended up with a 6' fir and it only cost us $10! How I love Lowes. Kevin and I spent our FHE decorating with the fire DVD on our TV and Christmas music. It smells lovely in here now.

Yard Sales In December

So... here at Ft Rucker, the housing company allows yard sales the first sat of every month. I wasn't sure how many there would actually be in December, but I talked Kevin into going with me. While most around here start about 6 am, or earlier, (we are at a military instillation right?)but we didn't manage to make it out of the house until around 8, which was as early as I could drag Kevin out of bed. I don't think he'll ever say "no" to going with me again.

Since we only brought one car and Kevin's motorcycle with us, we have been toying with the idea of buying a scooter/moped for Keri to use when she gets here in January to help out with the baby. Well, we pulled up to one yard sale and saw a bike sitting out, and I jokingly said, "oh, its for sale, lets buy it for Keri!" Kevin replied with a "right..." It turns out it was for sale, a 2004 Kawasaki 250 Ninja, and they guy only wanted $300! It needed some work, but Kevin figures to make it "perfect" which it wont need to be, we could put $500 into it, and it books from $1200-$2500! And the cool part is that it only has a little over 2k miles on it. So far, Kevin has put in $49 for a new battery and he has been cleaning the carbs today, and it is up and running. Hope Keri enjoys the bike while she's here! And I don't think I will ever let Kevin complain about going to yard sales ever again! I'll post some finished project pics when he gets done.

Kevin's An Officer Now...

Today Kevin finally graduated WOC school and swore in to the Warrant Officer Corp this morning. I thought it was neat that I was able to pin his WO1 rank on.

Here was his first time getting saluted, rather than saluting someone else because they were an officer. Unfortunately, the guy in front of him walked right in the way at the same time, so I missed the picture!

Isn't he a handsome officer? It is so nice to have him home. He gets to be home for the rest of our time here except for a short 3 week school. YAY!

Educational E-mails with REAL backing

I just want to thank all of you for your educational emails over the past year. Thanks to you:

1. I no longer open a public bathroom door without using a paper towel.
2. I can't use the remote in a hotel room because I don't know what the last person was doing while flipping through the adult movie channels.
3. I can't sit down on the hotel bedspread because I can only imagine what has happened on it since it was last washed.
4. I can't enjoy lemon slices in my tea or on my seafood anymore because lemon peels have been found to contain all kinds of nasty germs including feces, and cause tooth decay.
5. I have trouble shaking hands with someone who has been driving because the number one pass-time while driving alone is picking your nose
6. Eating a Little Debbie sends me on a guilt trip because I can only imagine how many gallons of trans fats I have consumed over the years.
7. I can't touch any woman's purse for fear she has placed it on the floor of a public bathroom. Yuck!
8. I must send my special thanks to whoever sent me the one about poop in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet sponge with every envelope that needs sealing. I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.
9. I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.
10. I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me
11. I no longer eat KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers.
12. I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a pregnant water buffalo on a hot day.
13. Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward an email to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.
14. Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains.
15. I no longer can buy gasoline without taking someone along to watch the car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm pumping gas.
16. I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr Pepper since the people who make these products are atheists who refuse to put 'Under God' on their cans.
17. I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer. And thanks for letting me know I can't boil a cup of water in the microwave anymore because it will blow up in my face...disfiguring me for life.
18. I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.
19. I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.
20. I no longer receive packages from UPS or FedEx since they are actually Al Qaeda in disguise. I no longer shop at Target since they are French and don't support our American troops or the Salvation Army.
21. I no longer buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have their recipe.
22. Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my butt.
23. And thanks to your great advice, I can't ever pick up $5.00 dropped in the parking lot because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.
24. I can no longer drive my car because I can't buy gas from certain gas companies!

Milk Cures Crying

Milk is a new cure for crying... when it comes to onions that is. I discovered it on my own last night as I was cutting up a huge lot of them. I decided I was going to dehydrate some to make cooking easier/quicker/cleaner. So, 10 HUGE onions, one hour of chopping into 20+ cups, a sharp knife, 3 glasses of milk, no tears, 9 hours in the dehydrator and making the neighborhood smell like an onion field only yielded me about 4 cups of dehydrated onion. Yay!
You would think that I would have ended up with more final product when I started out with huge bowl of chopped. I guess onion is more water than onion. (So to make the milk thing work, when you start to feel the sting coming on, just gulp milk and you'll be good to soldier on!)
Oh, and a few relatives have complained they can't comment without having an account, so I changed my preferences so you can comment and choose "anonymous" so let the comments roll on in family members.

Another Bitter-Sweet Sunday

Well, Kevin will move in to "Senior Status" on Friday, meaning he'll have more privileges and he finally got to use his phone for 30 min last night. Not much really, but hey, that's better than nothing, that's for sure. Here we are outside our ward building in Ozark this morning. Doesn't he look great? I guess i'm really starting to have a pregnant tummy now.

Wedding Memories

So... I've been putting off scrapbooking our wedding for two years now. I still can't believe that it has been two years already, but that is beside the point here. I have been putting it off for later because I am not the greatest scrapbooker there is, but I enjoy it. And, our wedding, for obvious reasons, is very important to both of us and I wanted it done right. Well, I finally decided this week that it was now or never. With that being said - here is my first completed wedding page. The colors are actually the same, not sure why they turned out so different in the pic, the one on the right is true color.

"Get Your Punkin On"

Well, here is my Halloween "costume." Tonight was the church Fall Festival and trunk o' treat. I have never had my tummy rubbed or touched so much in my life before tonight. And by little kiddies i don't even know... I even had one child do a head bang against my pumpkin gut and i don't even know who he is either! It was weird. That little girl sure is making my me have a bigger belly huh?

The Fun Week with Family and Friends

Monday i finished a blanket for the baby. I'm not sure that i actually did it right even, but oh well, i suppose if it stayes together it should keep her nice and warm. I also made some bibs too. My book says I'll need at least 12 of them! Gesh.

I headed out to Rachael Dillin Duncan's house on wed, she lives about 2 hours away and stayed with her wed and Thurs night. We had a blast shopping and catching up, we hadn't seen each other in over 2 1/2 years. I helped her make and put up a wall vinyl. It kinda looks crooked in the pic, but its not.

On Friday, I drove the rest of the way to Atlanta, GA and met up with Pam Hartman Thompson and her newlywed husband Bob. They are so cute together. We had fun eating out and going to the movies. Which, The Express, BTW is a very good movie. On Sat, we dilly dallied around a little then made it over the the temple. It was really nice. Then I headed the 4-4 1/2 hours home from Atlanta.

About 7 or so, Rebeca and her daughter Ashley came over from Florida to spend the night because her husband is in the same class as Kevin in WOCS and she can see him at church, but staying over saves them from getting up at 5 am. We went to the Extreme Bowling here on post. That was fun, only my tummy could only take two games, so then Ashley bowled in my place, and managed to get bowling balls stuck in the gutter. I have never seen this happen. They would go so slow that the bar would come down and stop them in the gutter and they would just stay there, so by the time we were done, all 5 of our balls were hanging out in the gutter!

Of course on Sunday, I got to see Kevin, which is what it feels like I live for right now. He got to see the video of the 4-d ultrasound. It was awesome. We are half way over with this junk, 3 Sundays left, and the last one he has an all day pass. YAY! I meant to take the camera, but i forgot. Next week i hope to let you guys see how great he looks, minus being tired.

4-D Ulatrasound Finally Here!

This was so much fun! I would definitely recommend it to everyone that is having a baby. I was a little apprehensive, i mean, we aren't supposed to know what she looks like till she's born right? But still, its way cool.

Here she is sucking on the knuckle of her thumb. Her hands were by her face the whole time, except of course we looked at her feet and her hands went straight there, and then back to her face again when we went to look there too.

You can see her eye open here. The placenta is kind of covering the left side of her face somewhat. I looked at my baby picture and it is the same nose! But i think her lips are more like Kevin's.

What amazing technology we have in our time!

This is one of my favorites because the technician was pushing on my stomach to make her move around a little, and she got a big frowny face and scrunched her nose and this is the picture she was able to get from it.

Her eye open again... almost kind a creepy.. but it's still cool. They gave me a VHS of the actual movement she did and I'm going to get it transferred to a DVD so i can put that up too.

And here is my baby picture... what do you think? Is daughter like mother?

Kevins Crazy School Upadate

This is straight from his letters:

"Our mornings are usually crazy. Wake up is 5:25 now. No earlier or later. It's considered cheating if you do. And we have to make our beds, set up our rooms for inspection, (by the measurements) brush teeth and shave and be down in formation by 5:37 usually. Then PT, but after it gets crazy. We usually come up at 7:10-7:12. Have to shower, put on clean ACUs (and put on all patches and rank) and clean the barracks for common area inspection, i.e. dry showers and sinks, polish drinking fountains and such, and be back down to formation by about 7:30 or so. Then chow and classes all day. And then it gets pretty crazy again at night."

The letter from this week:

" We took our first exam. I got a 90%, which was pretty good for the class average. We had leadership reassignments to day. Unfortunately I am now Candidate Platoon Seargent. Not too big of a deal really, just have to stand out in front of the formation and eat last."

"I volunteered to call cadence while marching once the other day. Now I'm one of the favorites, sort of. At least one of the few who can do it. Unfortunately I've killed my voice so i can't really call it now anyway"

I think overall he is doing very well, given the type of environment the guys in charge are creating for all wocs. PT sounds kinda ruff for all the guys and classes are kinda boring, but its almost 3 of the 7 weeks over. The hardest thing it seems is they have ridiculous time constraints that they expect them to get things done in, and it would be impossible for anyone to do. Next week he goes to the field. He should get phone privileges this week or next week, which I am very much looking forward to, as you all can imagine. I'll try my best to keep you updated.

Updated Picture Wall

Now, I normally wouldn't be blogging about so many little mundane things as I have been, but since Kevin's gone and I'm all alone, this is the only way to share the things I do with someone I care about, and it also makes it seem more worthwhile too, I'm not sure why...

Updated Picture Wall

The Latest Project

I found a cool directions to make a hooded baby towel, and I added flannel on the outside. this was the my first experience with binding, and I like how it looks.

and no Michelle, i didn't get a new machine, i found a thing for $8 that sits behind the machine that is for holding the spool

Addresses and Tuesday Night Creativeness

Per Skips Request:

Kevin & Amy Cederquist
24 Dunn Drive
Fort Rucker, AL 36362

Melissa Cederquist
PO Box 571
Kenai, AK 99611

Here is the latest of my projects, a wedding present for a friend:

And a "Hooter Hider" (i.e. nursing cover up) for my friend Jessica:

What do you think?

Life is Bitter-Sweet

Well, today I got to head to church an hour early and spend 45 min pre-sacrament meeting, sacrament meeting and Sunday school with Kevin. Then say good bye again. It was wonderful and awful at the same time, when I knew we only had a short time together. But it was definitely better than not seeing him, that's for sure. As he put it today, only five more Sundays, and the last two he'll have passes, so really he thinks of it as only 3 more Sundays.

He told me about his training and it is so by the book. They have a standard operating procedures manual, and they have to follow it or they get demerits. They aren't told how to do it right first, they have to figure it out on their own, or they are demerited. After 25 demerits, they have to write an essay. He said that he likes that public profanity gets you automatically 25 so he can go around telling people to cut out the cussing and they will listen, unlike any other part of the military him and I have both been involved in. But this is ridiculous, his shirts have to be folded in a 7"x7 " square, his bed has to be 2" away from the wall and folded exactly right. His locker has to be a certain measurement from his bed and the wall and at night his door has to be open exactly 2". Everyday there is a 3x5 card that is outside his room that has to have the date in correct form and a few other things on it. the margin on the left side has to be two inches. He got his room one demerit because he put Oct 07 instead of Oct 7. I think this would drive me nuts! This is like movie stuff that you don't really ever think actually happens. They aren't even allowed to put their rank and name tapes on their uniform the night before or have their watches wake them up early to get prepared for the day, which lasts from 4:30 to lights out at 10:45. At that time he finally has a few min to read his scriptures by flashlight, which would get him a lot of demerits and say his prayers. So he's only getting about 5.5 hours a night. I'm glad it's him and not me that's for sure.

I Love my Cricut

This is my first attempt at using vinyl with my cricut cutter. It actually took me all evening really to figure it out, but next time I think it won't take so long. I'm planning on putting up family pictures over it, just don't have them up yet as I just finished making this tonight, I guess I'm just to excited to share my work.... I'll re post when i get the pictures up.

I'm Pregnant

What is wrong with me? This morning I watched a Sarah Pailin speech and got more choked up over that than I did when Kevin left. These emotional highs and lows caused by this little girl of mine can be mind boggling.

Well... he's gone

Well, here is the last image of Kevin before he undergoes his transformation to a warrant officer. I snapped this picture then dropped him off at his warrant officer candidate school (WOCS) in-processing on Wednesday and tried my best not to cry, which was amazing only a few tears slipped out seeing how I am all emotionally pregnant and stuff. He has had his phone the past few days, but he hasn't been allowed to use it, so of course he has called me everyday - if not twice a day.

Tomorrow the real training starts and his in-processing will be done. His phone will be locked away for good and he has his first PT test tomorrow, and he told me last night that he might name our daughter during it so he can think of her to help him do his best possible... I told him (sarcastically) I'm sure he wouldn't try to name her Chloe, which he has been trying to do ever since before I got pregnant. And just so everyone knows, I am now leaning towards that name too ;). I think I've done well staying busy the past few days, lets just see if it's something I can keep up for the next 7 weeks. But good news is that I will get to see him and sit with him every Sunday during church in Ozark.

Also, on a side note, the tire problem turned out to be a small deal compared to what came later that day when we were in the middle-of-no-where Kentucky. We were driving along listening to our audio book and then all of the sudden all these lights and buzzers went off on the dashboard and when we pulled over we discovered that our lower radiator hose was blown off and we had six gallons of coolant everywhere but where it belonged. We had to wait 3 hours on the side of the freeway for a man to come and patch us up. So when we planned on getting to our hotel by 8 pm that night, we didn't check in until after midnight.

U-Haul

We are sitting in our hotel room in Illinois at 9 am waiting for U-haul to come and change a tire on our car dolly. I'm so glad we got up at 7 to get an early start today. Who knows how long we'll have to wait for them to come. When we went out this morning, the tire was missing a huge section of tread all the way down to the radial.

This picture only really shows about half of the damage too.

We probably could have made it to the nearest u-haul dealer, but why chance it? It looks like its ready to blow at any second. Its a real blessing it didn't last night when we were driving all over the place on a detour through the middle of St. Louis looking for the right way to go. Between Kevin relying on the GPS and me relying on signs and the atlas, finally we found our way and made it to the hotel right outside St. Louis across the Illinois/Missouri boarder.

On a funny note, last night when we were fueling up, the pump we were using would shut off at $100. So Kevin put our card back in and it shut off at the second $100. He decided he would completely fill it up, and put the card back in a third time, however, it kicked off at 5 cents! It was hilarious. So we have $200.05 in the gas tank. (and on a sad note, it only gets 6.5 mpg...)

MOVING!!!

We got a call Friday morning saying we have to be in Alabama in less than one week for Kevin's flight school to start. We weren't supposed to go until November, but here we are, frantically gathering all of our stuff and tying off loose ends and we'll be out of here and on our way by Tuesday... hopefully.

Baby... Girl???

We had our 3rd ultra sound yesterday. It was so cool. This time "she" did not move around so much as last time, unfortunately. So we now "think" our baby is a girl instead of an it. She was kind of jackknifed in there and breech... her head and feet were at my belly button, so it made it hard to tell if the "external plumbing," (as Kevin calls it) was there or just hidden around a corner. So it would have been nice to have her move around a bit instead of being difficult. The tech did say that she didn't see any evidence of a boy though. Since the heart was also hidden and the tech couldn't get the measurements she needed on it, we get to go back for a 4th ultra sound and maybe we will be able to be more sure. I already bought a really cute little sleeper though, and mom bought her a pink one... so hopefully we wont be needing to take them back. ;)



In this video you can see her head on the left side with her arm reaching up with her hand near her eyes or so. You can also see her little body and her ribs. Towards the end you can even see her heart beating in her chest!

Everything we could see looked good to the doctor. She weighs about 13.5 oz and is right on track for all her measurements so far. Maybe soon we'll go get some 3-D pictures, but I'm still not exactly sure how I feel about those things.

Zimmerman Family Reunion

Well, I'm just getting around to posting some stuff from the family reunion. We had a blast of course, always love family reunions. We flew up to Moscow on Wednesday the 23rd of July and stayed with Michele and Jesse, and then flew the rest of the way to Bonners the next morning. The flight was good, though kind of rough on the southern portion. Amy got a little sick, but luckily didn't have to puke. Flying sure beats driving, so much faster, and a heck of a lot more fun.

Friday we didn't do a whole lot, I took a few people flying in the morning. We basically just enjoyed relaxing. We had dinner out at Twin Rivers with the Zimmerman family, it was good to see everyone, met a few of the new in-laws that I haven't really met before. Then the next morning I took Brannen flying, he got a little sick, but it's all good. Then we went back out to Twin Rivers and started our 5 hour float trip. That was awesome. It was fun tying all the rafts together and eating until we couldn't eat anymore, then waiting for two minutes, and finding something else to eat. I can't believe how much food we had. I suppose the whole lot of us could have gotten lost and easily survived for 2 weeks on the junk food we had.

The river was fairly cold, but a lot of people went swimming anyway, and of course, there was jumping off the bridge. Roberta decided at one point to get in her daily swim, and so jumped out to swim along the raft, naturally she couldn't keep up, so she got up on the shore and decided to run to catch up, that would have worked, except she got back in the water too soon. Eventually we had to drop anchor and wait for her, not that we complained, who's in a hurry anyway?

After getting back to Twin again, we had another HUGE dinner, which is convenient because everyone was already full from the float. Nevertheless we all stuffed ourselves some more. When I took a few more people flying that night I'm suprised we even got off the ground (just kidding). Then, after dinner, we headed back up to the Winn's for a bonfire and more junk food. What fun.

Finally on Sunday Amy and I mostly hung out with the Cederquist family. Charlie and Adrianna came up with Jimmy's kids (Jimmy wasn't there) and Michele and Jesse came up with the boys. We had fun eating fish they cought in Alaska when they were up there a few weeks before, and we got to go watch the new little colt Melissa's horse, Wakina, just gave birth to on the 23rd. I took Jesse flying that afternoon, the air was really rough, and at one point while Jesse was flying, we hit some super bad turbulence and I smacked the crap out of my shin. It hurt like nothing else. Oh well.

It was so much fun being able to see everyone. The flight back on monday we pretty smooth, we stopped in St. Maries and got gas, (cheapest on the trip at $4.95) and then again in Mccall for lunch. Finally the last leg of the trip back to Nampa, which was tough because it was so hot up there that we had to circle around just to get enough altitude to get over the mountains. Hopefully we can plan another trip up north before we head to Alabama in November.

I posted a slide show of pictures from the trip, I hope it works for you. Let me know if you see any pictures of you/your kids/other family members, that you might want copies of and I'll e-mail them to you. We have a ton more that we took, so let me know what you want, I'll see if we got a picture of it.

2nd Ultrasound

This one was so much more fun that the last ultrasound. Melissa came, and it was a joy to have her there as well. The reason it was so much more fun: last time it sat like a bump on a log, this time the little thing was bouncing around like crazy! It was kicking and the cutest was it had its fingers in its mouth most of the time. The tech told us that it is not often she sees a fetus sucking its fingers at this early stage, and hopefully for us it means it'll be a good baby as it is already learning to pacify itself. It even kinda waved (OK, i know not on purpose) and it was cool to be able to see all five fingers spread apart. Also, it go the hiccups during toward the end and that was cool to see too.

Sorry this isn't so clear... on the screen it was much more defined. The tech pointed out the black spot on its stomach and said that now the baby is swallowing amniotic fluids. Then a second later it took a huge gulp and we could see it swallow! It was exciting. Still 7 more weeks before we know what "it" is. But we are way excited because the office will give us a DVD of the whole ultrasound... perhaps that means I can figure out how to post it here for everyone to see! I was checking out the different wives tales on if its a boy or a girl... and i came across a study that found that a woman's premonition of the baby's sex is 71% of the time true... so we'll see if I'm right or not when i say i think its a boy.

Alabama

Well, we just found out today that Kevin will start warrant officer school on Oct 19th. So, that means we'll be moving before the baby is due.... but at least now we know when we're going. And this is the beach that we'll be headed to on the weekends! This is an areal of Panama City Beach off the coast of Florida, only about an hour drive from where we'll be stationed. Doesn't it just look awesome?

Flying!

Well, this is my first entry into the blog. So it will probably be short, and relatively uninteresting, but hey, at least I'm doing it. Things in this Cederquist abode are quiet, except for when Amy has to make a mad dash for an appropriate puke safe place. She hates morning sickness, but I know deep inside it makes her happy because it means she's pregnant. Yes, she has the glow.

I've been flying a lot, have over 30 hours now, already did my "big" cross country flight. Flew to Twin Falls, then to Baker City and back. It was great fun. The picture is actually of my first solo. Jesse took it when they were down here. I did instrument hood flying with "foggles" today, it was pretty easy, and then I spent almost 2 hours practicing short and soft field take offs and landings. I passed my FAA knowledge exam earlier this week, got a 90, and I'm planning to take my practical on the 3rd of July, if I'm ready. We want to be able to fly up to the Zimmerman Family Reunion the end of July, but because we have AT the 12th - 24th, I won't have time to take the exam after AT starts. Wish me luck.

Morning Sickness?? I think It needs an official Re-Naming, How about ALL DAY SICKNESS??

When I went to the doc she asked me if I was peeing more, and I'm not really sure why that was important. Now I think she would be more interested in whether or not I've been vomiting every other day, or too dizzy to stand, or at the mention of food or it's smell would make my stomach flip, but then again, I'm not the doctor here. Maybe Maggie can give me some insight?

People at work ask me everyday how I'm doing. It usually goes something like this, "Bad." "Better than yesterday." Or the one that seems to get different reactions out of everyone, "Well, I haven't thrown up yet today, so pretty good." What stinks about all this morning sickness is that while it feels like the flu, it is much worse in the fact that with the flu, the worst case scenario it would last a few days. Now with this morning sickness, it could be done in a week, two months or last until January, which so many people fell the need to tell me that theirs "lasted the whole nine months." Is this supposed to make me feel better?

p.s. i think blogs are more interesting if they have pictures, but i don't think you would want to see my latest vomit of licorice and peanuts!

I LOVE Craigslist...(and my husband)

Kevin bought me the most amazing gift today. It's my dream camera, a digital SLR, this one happens to be the same camera I used at John and Amber's wedding a few weeks ago. Kevin got me an awesome deal off craigslist, which i recommend to everyone for anything. Now, i can take awesome pictures for my forthcoming blogs! I'll for sure be keeping everyone updated on where our life is taking us. And hopefully better detailed ones of the baby than seen below. And I especially want to show off the beautiful white Florida beaches in the gulf where we hope to be spending many relaxing weekends.

The First Picture!

We, the baby and me, not Kevin of course, got an ultra sound on wed, and no, it's not a boy, (but i guess it could be!), those are legs everyone! Our new due date is January 10Th. We'll be taking bets on how early or late this arrival will be. We'll have another one in 4 weeks from now to show off. Maybe we need to start a brag book for grandparents. Mom(s) say us having this baby is like dangling a carrot in their faces, as we tell em they'll be getting a new grand-baby, but we're moving it to Alabama with us! Oh well, it'll be a great excuse to see the Gulf of Mexico right?