Fall Break!

I am so excited to have a few days away from school and catch up on grading papers and house work. Josh currently has the base-board heater from the dining room demolished to try to fix it. I hate that we have to start thinking about turning on the heat already in October! Gas bills are my least favorite...in the winter it is not fun to have an ancient house. This morning I had the great luck of finding water dripping from the kitchen ceiling...have I mentioned that we love living in an old house???

School has been going well...only one problem child (out of 75)...so I can't complain too much. The past couple of weeks have been strange with the large frequency of fights. However, it is a good way to not see the bad kids for a while. We had parent-teacher conferences the past two days and I had a record turn out...10 PARENTS! Yeah, that is like 13%...I don't take it personally, though.

I don't know about anyone else but I think liked my first trimester more than the second! Since I had no morning sickness, only little fatigue, and no food adversions during the first three months, I am a little miserable trying to barely fit into my pants and skirts! It is now that I am dealing with more tiredness and headaches. Maybe I was a little too luckily in the early stages. I am trying my hardest to stay out of maternity clothes as long as possible! My next appointment in next Thursday and I hope everything will continue to be well.

I guess that is enough ramblings for now. I am in my computers class...watch out...I am learning about Microsoft Publisher. I feel like a 2nd grader...

Here are a couple pictures taken today of our crazy family. I guess a tripod wouldn't be a bad purchase in the future! The little gray cat is named Alba (Spanish for Dawn) and the one-eyed chocolate lab is Chloe. We make quite a bunch. Funny story about little Alba...last week she told me that she was lonely and went out and found a friend! Infortunately this "friend" was a black rat snake about 1.5 feet long! The poor little snake was alive, but scared stiff when we came home. Alba would let it slither away a bit and then bat it back to her. She was a little upset when we took her only friend away and released him back into the woods.

First Post!

Okay, okay...here I am with a blog...like I have time to do this...
Actually, I am taking a super boring Grad class called "Computers in Education"...blogs apply, right?

Just a little update about the Shaw family in Vernon and Wattersons in various places...

• We are expecting a new addition to our family at the end of March. (Everyone is saying its a boy...we kind of hope so!)
• I am currently teaching all Freshmen Biology classes at Madison Cons. High School. (I am sure funny stories will follow...or mostly just frustrating ones.)
• Most of my time is consumed to graduate classes at Indiana University Southeast. Right now I have the computer class mentioned above and the hardest class I have had this century...IMMUNOLOGY! Uck!
• Josh keeps himself busy working on our house. He just finished painting the carriage house to match the house. Next is the NURSERY!
• The parents are great...they bought a camper and think that they are going to be snowbirds to Florida in the winter!
• The sister are doing their thing...Shannon with the 4 kids are as busy as ever and Jason will be running uncontested for prosecutor. Yeah...he's big time! Sarah got married over Memorial Day weekend in Niagara Falls to Frank. They live in Chicago.

Here is a picture of the ultrasound. There will be another one near Thanksgiving when we can find out the gender.

The baby looks upside down from this picture. You can kind of see little hands and feet. Plus there is the umbilical cord down below.

Once I start getting a belly, I will post a picture of me. Right now I am holding my pre-pregnancy weight. Though I am sure that won't last for long!

Well, I guess I have taken enough time for now. I will try to get some other pictures up soon. Feel free to leave a comment or the old-fashion way of calling!

Steph