Weekend Trip

Vance is currently on his way back from a 3 day trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma. I miss him a lot. He placed first at BYU's Mechanical Engineering Oral Guard Presentations two weeks ago, where students present the research they are doing. So he advanced to regionals in Oklahoma. He made it to the final round and received 4th place!!

This is a picture of some of the buildings on Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK. This is where the competition took place. Vance explained to me that this Christian university has buildings whose height represent the same height, length, and width of Noah's arc. I thought that was very interesting.

Vance will be graduating with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering next month. He has been working so hard, and putting so many hours into his classes and research. His capstone project has taken a good portion of his time.  His team has created a prosthetic device for a woman who has lost her fingers and feet due to septicemia. This "hand" will be able to help her perform the functions it takes to run a household. The device will hopefully be able to button shirts, pick up nails, or other things we do with our hands. Vance has helped me realize how incredible not only are hands are, but are bodies as well. We are 99% sure about attending Purdue University this fall in West Lafayette, Indiana. Vance will begin his master's degree in Mechanical Engineering. We are looking forward to this fun adventure.

Although I am missing Vance, I have been able to bake cinnamon rolls, run a 5K race, plan to make a boppy pillow for the future, watch the New Moon while enjoying Panda Express last night, clean the bathroom, floors, vacuum, visit good friends, etc. As far as making this boppy pillow, I want to use an indoor canvas material with some type of gender neutral baby print, but spent an hour in JoAnn Fabrics today without any luck. Any ideas? Work has been great. Two students last week were released from speech and language therapy! A highlight was helping one girl say the /r/ at the beginning of words for the first time. I love to see childrens' excitement and feeling of accomplishment.


We are now 13 1/2 weeks into this pregnancy. Our baby should be between the sizes of a peach and a fist :) According to a fabulous book, What to Expect When You're Expecting, his vocal cords are developing this week (although I haven't heard a peep from him yet!:) Once I get a real baby bump, pictures will be posted, and hopefully regularly throughout this pregnancy. Following the 5K race this morning, I saw two adorable 4-5 year old twins. They both had a tooth or two missing, and were the cutest and blondest kids. Since Vance and I are blonde haired with blue eyes, I'm pretty sure our baby will have snow white hair early in life and likely have blue eyes. Or who knows, maybe a red head with green eyes.