Parker and Jazz

Out in front of the Mission



Parkers Choir Singing at the Mission



Holli, Jake & Parker at Seaport Village

This was a great weekend. My brother Parker came down to San Diego on choir tour and Holli and I were able to go see him sing with his choir at Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala (California's oldest church). It was really cool. The choir, along with the acoustics of the chapel, made for an amazing performance. They really sounded great.

Also, after we saw him sing, we were able to go hang out at Seaport Village with him. It was fun to hang out with him.

And for icing on the cake, after we hung out with Parker, we went to my friend Dave's house and watched the Jazz dismantle the Rockets. I am so hoping that this is their year. If it weren't for Michael Jordan, I wouldn't have had to wait so long for the Jazz to win an NBA title, but I guess there are several people that say that (see Patrick Ewing, Reggie Miller and Charles Barkley). Sometimes on my way to or from school in the morning or afternoon I'll listen to 710 AM KTLA before the analysts make me too sick, but they are all the biggest Laker homers and I hate it. But I guess that they are trying to get good ratings seeing as how they are in LA. Anyway, I was listening to them yesterday on the way to Dave's house to watch the second game and they were talking about the Lakers as usual and they brought Tim Legler in for an interview (Legler is an NBA analyst for ESPN and well respected for his knowledge). Anyway, the LA analysts were asking him about how he thinks the Lakers will handle the Jazz in the next round - sounding really confident. Legler wouldn't give them anything; I was loving it. He basically said to them that Utah's gonna be real tough to beat.

Hopefully Utah can live up to those expectations.

8 Months

I am definitely noticeably pregnant these days, but with the growing bulge also comes a lot of new things...for example:
The water slide tank bladder - you know at the water park those slides that you race some one else down. They have that tank that fills up slowly, and then once its filled up it shoots the person down the water slide, then as soon as it has emptied its self, it immediately starts filling itself up again for the next rider to get the gush of water to push them down the slide. Well, that's my bladder. We were at the grocery store the other day and I swear I went like 5 times (while we were there). I would run to the bathroom, come back and start going down an aisle, and realize that I had to go again. I can only imagine my insides working like that water slide tank, because I think I've emptied it, and literally a few minutes later its totally full. Oh to have a normal body again!!!

Jake and I finished our birthing classes last week (we went once a week for the past 6 weeks). Jake thoroughly enjoyed himself. I swear he was like a 13 year old during a few of those videos and conversations. Seeing as the baby could really come anywhere in the next 5 to 9 weeks, we are just starting to get eager to get it out of me. My mom keeps telling me to get ready for a rocky road for the next little bit, since that is what preps you to do the whole crazy labor thing, so I am just hoping this time goes by fairly quickly...though I dunno if its quite hit either of us that there is a real life human being in there that we are going to be totally responsible for. SCARY!!!

Jaxon is my little buddy during the week. I've been going up to my parents house a few times a week while Jake goes to school and studies, and as finals come up spending a little more time there so he can just focus on school. Well Jaxon has had an infatuation with bellybuttons for a while now, so he always wants to find mine (or really anyone's for that matter). We have been telling him that there is a baby inside my tummy, and I think it has started sinking in too, because now after he finds my bellybutton he will just hug and kiss my tummy and say baby. Jaxon is going to be a great uncle :)