Hello everyone -
Yesterday (Wednesday) I had my first visit with the doctor, a little late I know, but such are things. I was there for 1 1/2 hours, the nurse went over all the tests that could be done, and everything that had to be done, how much weight I need to gain over the pregnancy (30 lbs!), nutrition and all that. The doctor examined me and said everything is progressing normally, and that I was one of the healthiest pregnant women he had seen (hooray!). I also got to hear the baby's heartbeat, which was 159, but we won't know if it's one or two for two more months. (For those of you who don't know twins and triplets run in my family) Tomorrow I will be officially done with my first trimester and I'm really excited about that - the neasua is starting to decrease and the back aches are beginning :)
Tonight I am teaching a free exersice and health workshop for the city, I have about 30 people signed up so I'm excited about that and I hope it will have an impact on somebody's life.
I am close to being done with my 3rd semester of grad school, which makes it offically half way done! I'm hoping I can finish most of my classes before the baby comes so I'm slightly looking forward to having the computer to myself when Brian is at Basic Training. I should be completely finished by Oct/Nov and I will have to go to Vermount in June of 09 for one week to take a final class and offically graduate.
It has been rather cold here the past few days -40 with the windchill, today looks like it may be a bit warmer at -20 and by the weekend we should be in the positive digits again :)
I hope everyone is doing well!
Meredith
Thursday, January 31, 2008
An Update
Monday, January 28, 2008
Recent updates around wisconsin
Ok so friday i went to eau claire to the recruiters office and signed a contract for my job. if nothing better or atleast worthwhile comes up i will be leaving in may, i believe. my job will be integrated avionics which basically means i will be working with the computer controlled flight systems aboard one of the three bombers the b1 b2 and b52 (if you want a deeper explaination go here http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforceenlistedjobs/a/afjob2a5x3.htm). basic training is in san antonio texas after basic i will go to tech school which is 34 days in san antonio and up to 90 days in witchita falls texas which is near oklahoma. from there possible locations are texas nevada florida north or south dakota virginia idaho and ohio and maybe another i'm not sure.
as for baby news meredith goes to the doctor on wednesday and we'll find out from there.
as for random things the temperature today was 47 degrees. it was odd i went to sleep and it was in the 20's and i woke up around 5 for some odd reason went to the bathroom and looked outside at the thermometer and it showed that the temperature was 40 and i came back to bed and asked meredith how in the world the temperature warms up in the middle of the night when there is no sun out but i guess its possible so today it was nice and warm which sounds a bit weird coming out of a native from mesa az but after you have felt -20 50 is really actually rather warm. the other odd thing about it being 47 today was that just a few days ago like thursday or maybe even wednesday is was down at -20 but oh well i don't get to determine the weather.
until next time brian
Sunday, January 20, 2008
The Snow In Durand
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I took these pictures in the beginning of December When we got our first big snow fall
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Welcome
I'm starting this blog because a lot of stuff has been happening and not everyone is up to speed and i'm sure they would like to be. So those that would like to know more about what is going on you can just look here and find out. Also a few other reasons are that when you call me you usually only get grunts out of me and i don't always think of everything that is going on, two my wife can post here as well so you can get all of the story, and pretty soon, God willing, i'm going to be in the air force and i'll be gone for six weeks to basic training so i won't be able to talk to anyone and we'll be moving around a lot and lots of stuff will be going on in our lives. So thats the gist of it. i Guess i'll do a little update on the past few months.
Meredith and i got married in July we then moved to Wisconsin. Meredith started a dance studio and has been doing well with it. I worked for an Agricultural Research Farm as a Farm hand but found that it wasn't a sufficient enough job to support a family. I've enlisted in the air force and hope to be shipped off soon so as to be able to complete training asap as we found out in december that meredith is pregnant and is due in august. i'd like to be done with training because i'd like to be present when she delivers.
so that is the gist of whats happening with the coverts
Brian
