It's been a year!

On November 11 Tom and I celebrated our one year anniversary. I can't even begin to express how odd it seems to think that I have been married for an entire year. I was always the girl who would tell people I wasn't going to get married until I was in my thirties...and kids...well I couldn't even imagine! Oh how life likes to take you for ride! You think you have your whole life planned out and wham! Something entirely better comes along. I guess that's what makes life so interesting though. If it were as predictable as we all planned it out to be, we really wouldn't learn much in the process. I think I'm one of those people who believes that you can't really make mistakes in life. We all make different decisions throughout our lives that lead us down different paths. Eventually we all end up somewhere on the other side...hopefully happy to be where we are. I guess if there are mistakes they would have to be those negative experiences we repeat over and over again without learning anything from.

So the little bear is growing like mad everyday. When he moves now it actually feels like a little person in my tummy trying to make more room for himself. He likes to move in the early mornings during my statistics class and then late at night while Tom and I are usually watching a movie. Immediately after all of his movement he gets really still and starts hiccuping. He does this pretty much every night and it's really cute. I can't wait to see what he's like outside of the womb. I'm doing pretty well except for the sleepiness, sore hips, swollen ankles, sore back, tired feet...uhhh...basically everything that goes along with pregnancy. I only have three weeks left of class and am so thankful! Sitting for two hours discussing the difference between cause and manner of death isn't agreeing with my level of concentration anymore. My stupid switch is in the on position permanently. I'm hoping this is due to the high level of hormones surging through my body...hopefully! =)

Little Bear

*Sigh* Another visitor has come and gone and we are now left to deal with the bleak winter of Central Michigan by ourselves. Tom's mom spent the last week with us and once again I put my homework on the back burner. This weekend will inevitably be full of stats, murder, and skeletal trauma. Anyway, Tom's mom took us shopping and we now have a very cute bassinet, a baby swing, and new clothes (for the baby of course). Tom was complaining that the baby has a bigger wardrobe than he does and the baby isn't even here yet. We have been calling him little bear lately, due to the fact that he feels like a little bear moving inside my tummy. So we have been buying him clothing with bears on it. He'll be so cute! Wow...listen to me...did anyone ever think I would be saying things like that?

I finally had a doctors appointment last Monday and everything is going great. The little bear is healthy and has a strong heartbeat. We have been approved to make the long car trip down to Mississippi for Thanksgiving as long as I drink tons of water and get out and walk every hour and a half. That is going to make one long trip!

Winter has finally come to the Lansing area. We had our first snow yesterday! It didn't stick around very long but it was cool to see it snow so early. Most of the leaves have fallen off the trees so the landscape is looking rather dead. Snow makes everything look better.