12 Germiest Places

1. Kitchen sink
2. Airplane bathrooms
3. Load of wet laundry (e coli from underwear)
4. Public drinking fountains
5. Shopping cart handles (fecal matter)
6. ATM buttons
7. Your handbag (never put on bathroom floors)
8. Playgrounds
9. Mats and machines at health clubs (staph infections)
10. Office Phone
11. Hotel room remote control
12. Bathtub!!! (This is why I ALWAYS wear sandals in the shower and NEVER EVER take baths, even after being bleached with straight bleach! See, all you who have made fun of me in the past, I am healthier because I am a germaphobe!)

The Best Husband in the Whole Wide World!

The past couple days Jeff has been so sweet! He would hate it if he knew I wrote this about him because it would make him sound less manly, so if you see him in the next couple days and he is walking around flexing his muscles all over the place, you will know he is just trying to re-establish the manlihood I likely took away from posting how sweet he really is.
Yesterday he came home from school early and we spent the afternoon together just hanging out and goofing off and writing one of his school papers together. Then he did the dishes AND made me dinner all without me even asking! Then he had to go out with the missionaries. When he finally got home a couple hours later he had this beautiful bouquet of flowers for me! They smelled so good and really light up our apartment. I made him take a picture last night. I don't think he would admit it, but I suspect he was pretty proud of himself for thinking of this all by himself! I didn't even have to hint that I would like some flowers and there was no reason for him to get them for me except to just be nice and sweet. I love my husband!

Rainy Day

Yesterday Jeff road his scooter to school in the morning. It was mostly sunny still, but by the afternoon, it was pouring down rain. I called him several times to see if he wanted a ride home, but he never called back. By 5:30 p.m., I was starting to get a little worried. Surely he wouldn't ride home in this weather...Then I heard the front door unlocking and opening and here is what walked in! A totally soaking wet Jeff. He must have had literally pounds of water soaked into his clothing, especially his jacket. His welcome home kiss he couldn't feel and was ice cold. His poor frozen lips! I couldn't believe it! You can't tell too much from the first pic because he is totally soaked in this layer, but when he took his jacket off, you can see just how wet he was. And what amazes me most is that he was still smiling! What a great husband! A hot shower was just minutes away and showers always feel so good when you are freezing.
When the shock finally wore off, I asked him what in the world was going through his head!?! Why didn't he just call me and I could go to school and pick him up in a CAR? His reasoning was that it was forecasted to rain throughout the rest of the week and after our scare with the scooter disappearing a couple weeks ago, he didn't want to risk leaving it at school all week. Sooooo, he drove home in rush hour traffic and pouring down rain. What a funny guy!

Random Post of Pics

This is just a random post of pictures and various things we have been doing lately...First, I would like to introduce our brand new armoire! It is the first new thing Jeff and I have ever bought and will probably be the last until we have graduated from dental school and paid off school loans. Did I mention they are raising tuition next year??? How could you NOT be making enough money by charging $56,000 a year in tuition and fees???
Here is Jeff talking to Viddy on the phone...He would be furious if he knew I posted this picture, but he never checks my blog, so I am safe! He was making a funny face, which is one he has made his whole life. I guess somehow his tongue is connected to his left eye, so whenever he looks down and chews or sticks out his tongue, his eye will close. Apparently, his older siblings used to get him to do it and just laugh at him, so I can't get him to do it very often as he is pretty sensitive about his "weird eye." I think it is perfect for a scary Halloween costume!
A pic Jeff took of me just hanging out with my eyes half closed AGAIN! You can also see the neat shelves Jeff hung the other day. Yes, he is the decorator and mastermind behind our interior decorations.
Jeff hanging out on the couch at his brother's house. They just got these comfy couches...Three and a half kids later, dental school, med school and oral surgery school almost under their belts, this is the first brand new furniture purchase of their whole marriage and one to be bragged about! They are really nice couches.

Roz, my sister-in-law, is three weeks ahead of me in her pregnancy, also with a boy.
Jeff practicing changing a diaper. He did so well! The baby is Max, the son of a fellow dental student.
Garrett, Amanda, and Will with Will's three year old birthday cake. Isn't it great!?!? He was so cute. Will didn't really understand it was his birthday, so when everyone would call and sing happy birthday, he would join in and sing Happy Birthday Grandma! I tried to teach him to sing, "Happy Birthday to me!" I think by the end of the evening he finally started to understand that it was his birthday. So so cute!
Jeff reading Harry Potter...he is actually reading, even though it looks like he is sleeping. :) I forgot to mention that this is the first book Jeff has read since high school and the first book he has EVER read for fun with no one telling him he had to read it...Oh, actually he did read the Chronicles of Narnia last year so he could put on his dental school application that he reads. This book has taken him three months to read (and he is still not done), but then again he is reading quite a bit for school. :)

And that is all for now! As you can tell, our life is super duper exciting!

My 7 Month Belly!

I finally had someone assume I was going to give birth in the next month, so that must mean I am getting bigger! Just in the past week I have pretty much had to start wearing all maternity shirts, although this "outfit" is not maternity in any way. Sometimes my belly hangs out, which I think is gross, so I only wear it when I am cleaning or something in my apartment. I have gained about 13 pounds so far and measure perfectly!

The Louisville Zoo

A couple weeks ago Jeff and I went to the Louisville Zoo with Jeff's brother and his wife and family. It was a ton of fun and we saw lots of neat animals! This orangutan was great! Doug, my brother-in-law, kept joking that it was probably the zookeeper in a big costume. Honestly, the animal just sat there posing with everyone!

I played around with this photo in Photoshop. It is Jeff and Garrett, our nephew.
The gorillas were so fun to watch and kind of scary. A big silverback got really mad for some reason. I was really glad we were safe outside the cage. This particular one was also posing. The animals definitely are trained well!
Jeff walking with Garrett and Amanda. Do you notice Jeff with his hands behind his back? If you know Jeff, you know that he claims he is a sweat machine...kind of grosss, I know, but honestly, he sweats at the drop of a hat AND he uses it as an excuse. Like the other night he was doing the dishes (for like five minutes) and claimed he had to take a break because he was sweating so bad and was getting tired and hot. Here he is holding the backpack away from his back because it was making him sweaty. I finally took the backpack from him for awhile. Imagine a 7 month pregnant woman wearing a backpack, holding the hand of a very big strong man...Jeff only let me carry it for about five minutes and then he was either too embarrassed or felt too bad. Really, it was very light and not a big deal, but he has to be the man!
This was my favorite animal...a six month old baby boy elephant named Buddy. He was darling!
Jeff and me and the baby! He sure moved around all day. He does this thing where he kicks his legs out as far as he can and they poke out on the side of my belly. He did it all day! Is it possible to diagnose your child with ADD before he is even born?

Notice they are both laying the exact same way!
Garrett, Amanda, and Will.
I think this is the best pic I've ever taken and it's of a snake! I just love the colors!

Scooter Stolen...???

Jeff and I had a very exciting day yesterday...something finally happened in our life that isn't mundane, although I would have been fine if it hadn't ever happened. Anyway, yesterday evening I finally got home after a looooooonnnggg day with me being grouchy because I had been stuck in traffic for over an hour and got lost and had no idea where I was. Just as I pulled in, Jeff was dropped off by a friend.

Oh, I have to back up...a couple days ago Jeff's scooter broke down. It won't turn over and start. We were lucky enough to be able to get it home. It died when we got it home and we haven't been able to start it since. I called around to some different places to see if we could have someone look at it and all I found out is that we purchased a piece of junk and no one wanted to work on it because it was the worst scooter you could ever buy and very poor quality (why didn't someone tell us this before we bought it!?!?). Anyway, I finally found one guy who said he would just LOOK at it, but didn't know that he would fix it or be able to help us out.

Soooooo, then last night when I drove in, I parked the car and noticed the scooter wasn't where it was parked the last couple nights...My first thought was that Jeff had gotten it started and driven it around the block and just parked it somewhere else. But he hadn't. The scooter was gone. I looked for it and Jeff looked for it and it wasn't in its parking spot. Someone had stolen it! I freaked out (did I mention that I was already having a bad day?) and started bawling. So Jeff called the police department and reported it stolen and called the insurance company to see if our policy covered theft...it didn't and the police man that stopped by said they almost never recover stolen scooters. The only satisfaction I had was that whoever decided to heist our scooter stole a broken piece of junk that we were talking about selling anyway. It would have just been nice to get some of the money out of it to put towards another better quality scooter or Jeff's dream--a motorcycle--or even a tiny car.

Now here is the "funny" part. When we were in the apartment, right after realizing the scooter was stolen, I had the thought that I needed to go back out there and look again. So, I kind of followed the prompting and told Jeff to go out there and look again. He did and came back confirming that it was really gone. So I dismissed the thought and went back to being mad. We were supposed to go over to Doug and Roz's for dinner and to hang out and so we did just to get our minds off of it.

When we got home last night, we parked about in the same spot we had parked the scooter a couple night previous. There was another white car that had been parked way over by the dumpsters and I thought I saw something through the back windows. I walked over to the other side of the white car and sure enough, there was the scooter--OUR SCOOTER! Hidden behind the car and the dumpsters! Now, I don't know if someone decided to steal it or if they just wanted a parking spot so they moved our scooter out of the way to make way for their car. Either way, I couldn't believe it! The funny thing is that both Jeff and I had seen this weird shadow through the windows of the white car before and neither of us had been proactive enough to actually go check it out. Soooo, we have our scooter back! Even though it is a pile of garbage, I am still grateful we still have it so we can get something out of it in order to buy a new one. I will just feel bad selling it to someone knowing it is apparently the worst scooter ever made!

Anyone want to buy a scooter?