About that change...

A lot has happened in the past 8 months.  We haven't updated much; a point so eloquently pointed out by Holly in her last comment to us about how much she loves that we're already getting into the Christmas feeling by putting up a festive title & picture.  I didn't have the heart to tell her that, although we love Christmas, the "Merry Christmas" title of our blog was, sadly, from 2009 (I've taken it down, probably in time to put up a new one at the rate I'm going).  But here we are, almost to Christmas 2010, and a lot has happened and we haven't had the ability to update for a while.  Sorry.  Somehow I know your heart has gone on.  Ours have. :)

So we moved.  Get over it.  We moved from Ogden to Logan after I was offered a job at my Alma Mater, Utah State University.  I'm still a recruiter but having a much better time at it and I feel I'm not lying to students when they ask me if I like it where I work. :)  We moved into my brothers empty house in Smithfield, just north of Logan.  The house has been on the market for a while but hasn't sold, so we get to live there and help stage the house for potential buyers.  So we grudgingly decided to move in.  It's a 3-story, 5 bedroom, 4 bath, on 1 acre house next to a golf course with nothing but mountain by us.  Feel bad for us.  But seriously, we have been very spoiled to live there but may have to move if the house sells, which is very plausible after a family began to make preparations to buy it.  So now we get to pack up (YEAH!!!) and move again.  After this place, we're going to have a hard time finding a place to top it.

My office, whilst on road trip to our Distance Education Sites. 

Oh, and Katie's pregnant.  Sorry we didn't tell you, but if you keep up with us on Facebook this isn't a big surprise. (P.S. Is blogging dead?  Discuss.)  After being told we probably weren't going to be able to have kids, we were surprised to find this:

After three tests to be sure, we took a picture for future proof. :)

And this is how Katie told me she was pregnant. 

I hadn't seen her in two weeks and she found out while going to Disneyland.  So she had to sit on that little secret for two weeks until I went down to Vegas to recruit.  We are SO excited for the little one to join us AND we found out three weeks ago that we're having a little boy.

1st Ultrasound

2nd Ultrasound.  Katie was POSITIVE it was a girl.  Nope!

However, after being told by the doctor that we wouldn't have any kids, Katie and I got into a major funk and tried to figure out what we should do about our family.  This was our immediate answer:

Yep, a little pug named Lilly!  We picked her up on Katie's birthday in January and now she thinks she owns the place. Such a cute little doggie who, at first, was very mindful and quiet.  Now, she's a very.... um.... sassy (?) dog who talks back and doesn't understand why she can't eat whatever you're eating.  WHATEVER you're eating.  Hot dogs, chicken, slurpee, root beer, gummi worms, chips, fruit; you name it, she wants it.  Including the wrapper in the trash: it's fair game.  And now, apparently, lollipop sticks.

Like I said, she'll eat anything that we do and don't.

When I tell her to sit she usually talks back before doing it too, which is FANTASTIC!  It's like having a 16 year old already.  She also likes to run away from me gleefully when I take her to go outside, especially when I don't have any socks or shoes on or just wearing a garment top on as a shirt.  SO FUN!  Lilly adores Katie, but Lilly and I have a love/hate relationship.  I tend to win.

She's starting to hate the car.

 So now our little, cute pug is sort of a terror.  She does mind when she wants to or if you give her a treat.  When Katie's out of town I usually go through a jar of peanut butter (her favorite) to bribe her to leave me alone so I can get some quality time in with the Xbox.  Of course, about a month after we got Lilly we also found out that we'll have a little guy in the house too, so we hope dog and kid get along.  If not, anyone want a trash-talking pug?


We also found out that our new Suzuki didn't have a ton of room.  By "ton of room", I mean "room for a car seat".  So we sadly had to trade her in.  Good little car, but I always felt like I was driving a Geo Metro because (I don't know if you've noticed) I'm sort-of a bigger guy.  So I wasn't sad for long because now we're driving in style in this:

LOVE IT!!!!   So fun!  Its a 2003 Nissan Murano (fully loaded, mind you) and it cost the same as our Suzuki so our payments only went up a little.  We've nick-named it Murry (think Flight of the Conchords...it even has ginger colored leather). But tons more space and way more fun to drive, not to mention the leather seats and the Bose system makes the drive to Vegas a ton better.

So that's about it!  We love Logan and love where we're at in life right now.  Katie's doing well with the pregnancy, the kid is about 7 inches now and we're about halfway through the 2nd trimester, which reminds me, I don't know how to be a dad yet, so I better start reading up on that.  I have just 15 credits left in my masters program and then I'm thinking of a PhD, but have NO idea what I want to get it in.  Any ideas?