Boy this needs an UPDATE!!!

Quick update:

Roxy was born on Feb 27th 2009 (my epidural worked this time -- magic)

Kendall graduated from medical school on May 15th 2009

We moved to San Francisco, CA on May 16th 2009 (hopefully the last move for a long time)

Kendall completed his "year of trustee" this June and no longer has 300 AMA emails a day!!!!

We are now the proud owner's of a wii and guitar hero world tour thanks to the AMA Board's parting gift. YAY

That's the past few months in a nutshell. We love San Francisco and I never want to leave! Hopefully Jared and Kellie will be up here soon -- even more reason to love it here.

Zane loves having a new little sister. He likes to make her laugh and he LOVES to scare her. We're working on that one. His new thing is to find the dirty binkis (from the floor or in my purse etc) and hang them on various light switches. It totally cracks me up. I'll go to turn a light on or off and there will be a binki hanging there. Silly kid. He keeps me on my toes.

Update

Well, we had a wonderful Christmas. I was thinking on New Year's how crazy this year is going to be. Kendall is finally graduating from medical school, we're starting residency who knows where, and to top it off we're having a baby. 2009 is sure to be full of adventure and fun.

Zane started soccer. It's pretty hilarious. It was hot out today and he got overheated so about 30 min into it he was bright red and barely chasing after the ball. He decided his time was better spent sitting, doing sommersaults, and walking the lines of the field. He's only 3 so who cares right? It was pretty funny to watch all the other kids running around and he not even noticing unless they got in the way of his line following. Last week he got sick of not having the ball so he found an extra one and just ran around with it. Smart kid, why chase the ball all the other kids are playing with when you can just go find one of your own. He's so much like I was.

Kendall is still on the AMA assignments and residency interview trail. He's been gone this week for AMA stuff and in 2 weeks he interviews at University of San Francisco. I think that's his last interview, he's cancelled all the rest. Right now our #1 is hovering between USC and Portland. I know...we've been Portland, Portland, Portland for 2 years and now suddenly LA? The prospect of trying to live comfortably in LA still scares me, but the program is really awesome. I guess we'll see. There are still some unknowns that will make or break the USC decision that will be happening within the next few weeks. I still want to go to Portland, I feel like I belong there, but maybe that's for after residency. Who knows?

I have a new little venture. I started an AVON business. It's something I can do while Zane's awake so it doesn't interfere with my billing job. Hopefully it'll end up being something fun and fruitful for me. I've only been doing it for a week so I haven't received any orders yet, but I'm hopeful and it's fun just to be doing something different. We'll see.

I think that's our news. I'll post some pictures of soccer when I finally remember to take the camera. At least today I remembered my chair, that was all that counted.

Catch Up

I've been meaning to get around to an update, but haven't been able to until today. First of all, we're back in Arizona until April. We found a house in Goodyear and are super close to my parents, which will be great when I go into labor. (we can just drive 2 minutes and drop Zane off)

At the beginning of November we went to Orlando, FL for the interim AMA meeting. We had a lot of fun. Kendall finally talked me into taking Zane to Disney World on the 4th day we were there. He happened to have a whole afternoon free so we bit the bullet. I wasn't too keen on going, but once we got there I was so happy we did. Disney is such a different experience when you have a 3 year old with you. I was about 12 the first time I went to Disneyland and although it was great, it had lost some of the magic by then. Zane was in heaven. It was so fun to watch his face as we went through all the rides. He hated the one roller-coaster Kendall took him on. It was the first ride he rode and it was a Goofy coaster, but he got off and said, "Mama, I am NOT doing that again!" He liked the rest of everything though. He got to "drive" the Indy cars all by himself, twice. This is the highlight of his existence I think. He kept asking to go again and again and now that we're back in AZ he asks to find some race cars for him to drive about once a week. The best part was watching him meet Mickey and Minnie. He was so excited and when it was finally his turn he just walked up and hugged Minnie. He was really shy, but he couldn't wipe the huge grin off his face. They asked him to make a silly face for a picture, and Zane, the kid who won't take a normal picture, very slightly stuck his tongue out. That's it! It's a Small World was a totally different experience. It's always been the ride that you have to go on because it's tradition but its really kinda creepy and boring. Not anymore, we got the most reaction out of Zane on It's a Small World. He kept grabbing our faces and turning them this way and that to show us everything. He was all smiles. We're really glad we went. Zane got a big Pooh Bear that he sleeps with now as a souvenir.

Other than that, Orlando was just Zane and I sitting around the pool waiting for Kendall to get a break. It was a lot of fun to see all our friends, and Zane was really excited to get to hang out with Steve and Alisa after 2 whole weeks of missing them. When we got back home, he thought it was time to move again and suggested we move in with some other friends who live in Chicago. Poor kid, he still asks us every once in a while if we're going to get to stay in our house for a "long time."

Kendall's been busy interviewing for residency. He's been gone all week and gets back on Saturday, he'll be back for 2 days and leave again. We have a busy month. He's also taking Step 2 of the US Medical Licensing Exam on the 30th so he gets to hit the books and never look up for a few weeks. Everything's going to be super busy until March then things will calm down until the baby's born and then we'll be looking for houses where-ever we match for residency. Okay now I'm freaking out a little, I need to just think about getting through today. :)

I almost forgot. While we were in Portland we were able to go out to Cannon Beach aka Goonies pirate ship sailing scene. Yeah, super cool. We also went up to Mt. Hood and had a snowball fight with Zane and built a snowman. Zane has surprisingly good aim and nailed me many many times. We had a blast. We were able to go to Sauvie Island and pick pumpkins for Halloween, and Kendall and Zane each carved a jack-o-lantern. Ahhh. The good times. I really hope we match in Portland. It really is the land of wonderfulness. :)

New Car

We were driving the other day and Zane pipes up, "I think we need to get a new car." (I completely agree.) Keep in mind, it's a really sunny day in AZ. We asked why and he said, "I think we need a new car without a windshield." Kendall and I smiled at eachother and asked why. "Because then we won't have to try so hard to wipe all the rain off." Okay, makes sense to a 3 year old right? So I said, "But if we don't have a windshield we'll all get wet." Giggling, Zane replies, "I won't get wet, just you guys will." HAHAHA He's so my kid.

Fun in Portland

We love Portland more and more every day. It's so beautiful we just can't get over it. We took a little trip on Kendall's day off and went to Multnomah Falls. We had a lot of fun. We took the "sceanic highway" and stopped and took a lot of pictures. We had a great fun day together as a family, which seem fewer and farther in between lately. We're hoping to do some more site seeing at the end of the rotation. We decided to stay a few extra days so we could have some Portland fun. I added a Portland slideshow to check out.

It's a Jungle out there

The condo we live in backs up to a hill and the stairs to get to the front door wind around the back of the building.  The other day we were walking up the stairs and zane said, "I want to go for a walk in the jungle!"  I asked what jungle and he responded, "the one right there!"  Oh...my kid has never seen woods....he thinks its a jungle.  Funny, but sad.  So I told him that it wasn't a jungle that it's woods.  The next day we were driving somewhere and zane excitedly said, "I want to go on a walk through that jungle and find all the monkeys."  Kendall and I laughed and told him there weren't any monkeys in Portland to which zane asked what kind of animals lived in there.  I told him probably some bears and maybe some wolves.  The disappointment was evident, "why do only scary animals live in  there mama?"  Seriously, what do you say to that?  The quick and easy answer, "that's where Jesus wanted them to live", which is always followed by the infamous why?, or the long drawn out explanation of the climate and why certain animals live in certain places, which is again, always followed by why?  

I'll post some pics soon.  I need to take some first, I'm not really sure where the camera is, although I do know it needs batteries.  I'll try to get more on top of things.

The Land of Wonderfulness

We moved to Portland this weekend, and yes, I call it the land of wonderfulness. It's so nice! The weather is awesome, it's so cool! I want to find a park to take zane to tomorrow. It's that wonderful you can wear a jacket if you want, but you don't have to weather (non-existant in AZ). We were driving around today (I was totally lost thanks to bad iphone directions) but it was gorgeous and ever neiborhood I drove through I just kept thinking, "I definitely want to live in this neighborhood." Then I drive a little more and think the same thing.

I found a house for us to rent back in Litchfield for when the Portland rotation is over. I've been trying to get that squared away today so we can move straight in when we get back. Hopefully we'll get it. If not, I guess we're going to have to rent a house based on pictures off the internet, yuck!