By the way...

We moved again... a week and a half ago. We're in Tucson now for another two weeks and then we're off to Portland woohoo!!! I have a bunch of pics to update, but I haven't uploaded them yet. A little anticipation never hurt anyone... :)

Off the Chair!

Kendall and Zane were leaving to go swimming and as I was working in the back of the house I yelled, "Bye Ziggy!" Zane's reply? "Bye Mama. Have fun. Don't fall off the chair!" I must say, normally this would make sense as I am a clutz, but I don't think I've fallen off a chair in quite a while. This kid comes up with the funniest random things to say. I guess he is a lot like me...he has an extremely vivid imagination and a really random mind.

Newport, Oregon trip

After much schedule swapping and negotiation, we were able to go to Steve and Alisa's wedding on the Oregon coast this last weekend. We're so happy we were able to go. It was absolutely beautiful and freakin' cold. Portland was in a hot spell and drawing all the cold weather off the ocean into the coastal towns. Basically it was really foggy and cold and we did not have the right clothes for it. Luckily I had checked the weather patterns and we took the warmest clothes we had, but it was still pretty cold. Friday we flew into portland and then drove the 2hours and 45 min to Newport. We went and hung out with Steve and some of the other guys until the rehersal dinner. We froze at the rehearsal dinner until they finished rehearsing and moved the dinner indoors. Later that night we went to a bon-fine on the beach. Zane's first. He had a blast. At one point he did try to jump in the fire but we caught him. We got to eat s'mores and just relax. Saturday we hung out in our room and then went and played at the beach w/ Steve and the rest of the non-getting ready wedding people and zane of course got soaked. We went to the wedding, which i must say, is one of the coolest weddings I've ever been to. Woke up at 3am and drove to portland to catch our flight at 7. All in all, it was a really quick trip, but totally worth it. We really needed a little vaca. Here are some pics from the weekend. We're even more excited to go to portland for kendall's rotation in september and we're going to be living w/ Steve and Alisa so we're going to have blast, as long as they can stand living with a prego and a 3year old. :)

The view from our hotel balcony.

At the bon-fire.

Zane having a blast, he's up to his knees in sand. :)

I think Zane might have taken this, we gave him the camera to keep him quiet.

View from our hotel room the second day after the fog dissipated a little.

Zane playing with his new best friend, although he can't tell you her name.

There's Steve-O (as Zane calls him)...

and Alisa.

Good News

So as some of you know, and most of you don't, I'm pregnant! Whoohoo! I'm about 8 weeks, the due date should be around March 10th or so. We've actually known for a while, but at my first check up they didn't think "things were developing as they should." So we were finally able to get someone to give me a one time ultrasound here in Denver and there's a little baby with a big head and a heartbeat. Yeah! It's so exciting. After the miscarriage in April and then my ob's nurse practitioner doing a crappy ultrasound we were pretty worried. It's kinda funny though, it finally feels real and I'm thinking, crap, I'm going to have another baby, can i handle that? I guess that's why the Lord made a 9 month gestation period...to get you ready for the baby. We're really excited though. I'm not really having morning sickness like I did with Zane. Kendall's hoping that means it's a girl. We'll see. I got my way with Zane, kendall wanted a girl then too. Maybe he'll get his little girl.

We moved again!

We're in Denver now. We live in this quirky little house/apartment thing. It's one of those huge old houses that's been turned into 6 apartments. Since it's been turned into so many apartments, it has a really weird layout and has some funny "updates." In the one bedroom upstairs, there is a toilet and teeny-tiny shower in a closet, and the sink is on the other side of the room, just out in the bedroom. It totally cracks me up. The best part is the downstairs bathroom. The shower was installed under the stairs, so it's only about 4 feet tall, you'd have to be a midget to shower in there. The sink is so low that zane can wash his hands without a stool. It has a much larger kitchen than I expected, but the dishwasher is one of those hook up to the sink kinds. I didn't even know those existed, but I must say, it's the best dishwasher I've ever used. It's a great apartment though and it's fun. It has all these really funny cabinets and tiny doors in the most random spaces. It was built in 1906, and I've got to hand it to those guys, they know how to get storage in just about anywhere.

Zane's having a blast with all the stairs, and loves to go into the basement to do the laundry. We have to go down the "old stairs" as he calls them to get to the washer and dryer. He keeps asking me, "why are these stairs so old?" I just keep saying, "this whole house is old." "But why Mama?" The "why" question. He drives me nuts asking why. Hopefully he'll grow out of it soon, or maybe I'll get some patience with it. I never seem to be able to give him a good explaination of anything.

Back to Phoenix --- Chicago Trip

Well we moved back to Phoenix. We're living in Litchfield with my parents right now. Zane is starting to show some wear from moving around so much. He's been an absolute terror for the past two days. Hopefully he'll calm down while we're living here...then we'll move to Denver in 3 weeks and start the process over again. Zane's having a blast swimming in Mamar's pool and having the undivided attention of his Mamar.

Well the Chicago trip. We went to Chicago from Jun 10th to the 18th for the AMA's annual meeting. We had so much fun. The little slideshow above is all the pictures from that trip. Zane and I were able to go to the Shedd Aquarium, Sear's tower (although we didn't go to the top, it was an hour and a half wait), the Lincoln Park Zoo, a boat tour, and lots of AMA events and great dinners.

The Lincoln Park Zoo was so cool. It's the only free zoo in America. It had gorillas! I had never seen a gorilla in person. It was really eerie. It felt like I was looking at a caged human, their eyes are just way too human. It made me sad, but Zane loved it.

I absolutely loved the boat tour. I got to learn a little about Chicago's architecture and history. Zane thought it was pretty cool at first but he was done the last half hour. I ended up getting the "she must be an abusive mother" look because zane wouldn't stop screaming, "that's not nice mama" at the top of his lungs. I still haven't figured out what I did that wasn't nice, I think it was just the first thing that popped into his head.

The Shedd Aquarium was a little disappointing to me. They had some beluga whales and some dolphins. Zane thought the sharks were cool. He also liked it when the dolphins jumped, but most of the dolphin show was educational and there weren't many big tricks.

As a family, we were able to go to a cubs game at Wrigley field. I even thought it was awesome. It's so different from a diamondbacks game. Everyone, and I mean the whole stadium stayed until the game was over! To top it off, everyone in the stadium stood up at the end and sang this country cubs song together. It was crazy. The stadium was still full 15 minutes after the game. Those are some die hard fans. If I lived in Chicago, maybe i would be, too. Who knows.

We went to a white sox game, too. That was okay, not nearly as fun as the cubs though. We went with a bunch of medical students and all wore matching voice for the uninsured shirts. I felt like I was in 3rd grade on a field trip, but it was for a good cause.

I was supposed to go home on Sunday, without Kendall and woke up sick so we changed my flight to just fly home with Kendall on Wednesday. I'm so glad I was able to stay those few extra days. I was able to go to the inauguration of the new AMA president. That was so cool. Zane actually slept through it so I was able to pay attention. The president, Nancy Neilson, is a great speaker and seems like she has a great plan for where to have the AMA headed over the next year. Kendall's really excited to work with her on the board. It was also great to hear Dr Davis (the president last year) speak. He's a wonderful speaker and once again Zane slept through it so I was able to listen.

Overall, it was a great trip. We had a lot of fun dancing, eating ridiculously expensive dinners and just checking out Chicago. I can't wait to go again. It's definitely on the top of my favorite cities list.

Catchin' Up -- Zane's Birthday

Zane turned 3 on June 5th. It was a fun day. I made him a completely eatible Spongebob cake. He wouldn't eat any cake (he had an unfortunate eposide on kendall's birthday of coming down with the flu right after eating birthday cake), but he really was excited to look at his cake. After we let him play with his presents for a while we headed to Phoenix so kendall could be at an Arizona Medical Association meeting the next day. After that meeting Kendall and I went to a super fancy dinner at the top of the Chase building so Kendall could receive an award for a "Distiguished contribution to Medicine." He was one of three to receive it and the other two were companies. Yeah Kendall. It was a really fun evening and Kendall was really honored to have been nominated and chosen for the award...especially since he isn't even a doctor yet. After that we headed back to Safford for a day to pack for Chicago...to be continued in the next post...