Jono turns 28

Today is Jonathan's birthday. He's the big two-eight. Sadly, as I sit here typing this he is asleep in bed. He has been there for about 3/4 of the day. Yesterday he started feeling yucky and is definitely still in the process of recovering. I don't think there is such thing as "good timing" when it comes to getting sick, but I can't think of much worse timing: birthday, full work schedule, less than two weeks before the baby comes (maybe?). If you feel so inclined, pray for a speedy recovery for the Jonnycakes. Poor guy!

We did get to go out and celebrate on Friday night together, though. We went to a steak place in Couer d' Alene and enjoyed a great meal. It's wild; every date we ask ourselves, "will this be the 'last' time before our lives change forever?!" I know we will have many date nights in the future, but it's just really weird to play this waiting game. Over dinner we came up with our semi-final baby names for both sexes. I suppose it could change but we are 99% sure:). We brought the camera and somehow this is the only picture we managed to capture...

This afternoon, despite feeling under the weather, we made it up to Jonathan's parent's for a family gathering. Again, we failed in the camera department and didn't take any pics of our time together. On the way out the door, though, we took a quick prego pic of me & Anna. Anna (Jonathan's sister) is due in September and just had her ultrasound on Friday. They are having a girl! Will there be girl cousins, or boy/girl cousins? Only time will tell...

Amy -38 weeks Anna -19 weeks

I had another appointment Friday and I'm 1 cm dilated & 80% effaced. Although I haven't had an ultrasound since 18 weeks and have been nervous about a breech baby, my doctor said she could feel the head -so we're hoping she's right:). I guess all of this means I could go into labor tonight or I could walk around like this for another three weeks. We shall see:)!

Leavenworth Weekend

I have lived in Spokane for most of my life but have somehow made it thus far without visiting the darling town of Leavenworth. It is pretty ridiculous given the fact that it's only a three hour car trip away. This past weekend, the last weekend of my spring break from teaching, my family went on a two-night excursion to the Bavarian town. It was a glorious weekend of SUNSHINE (which has been a long time coming), family, food, and fun!

We spent two mornings on the 18-hole miniature golf course. In true Vaughn family form we played for caramel apples and ice cream. I am sad to say I won nothing, even on the second day when we had both male and female winners (my sister ousted me from the top by a good five strokes). Sad. My mom, though at the bottom of the list, got the only hole-in-one. We definitely celebrated:)! Here we are on hole #8, her lucky hole...

We also enjoyed some swimming (my first time since being pregnant - it was great), shopping, reading, napping, eating, March madness basketball games, and some pretty intense raquetball (the boys). It was a lovely break - especially after my week of cleaning!

As you can see - I am getting humongous! I can definitely tell that the baby is running out of room. Less than a month now to go (maybe. hopefully). At 35 weeks...

Spring Cleaning/Nesting

This year marks the first Jonathan-less "spring break". We have been in mourning many times this year over the reality of a non-teacher/student work schedule. Since we both grew up with teachers as parents, we were very much used to the winter break, spring break, summer break thing. Sadly (but for good reason, I suppose), physical therapy does not follow this pattern. So...this past week of break for me involved lots of cleaning (or you could call it nesting, I suppose). I did all kinds of silly things like: deep clean every square inch of the bathroom, scrub the refrigerator/freezer + reorganize all food products, move ALL our clothes to our closet and out of the baby room, etc. It was tiring, but in the end, it was a great feeling. I am still feeling a ways away from being "ready" to bring this baby into the universe, but I feel much more ready now. Since I haven't really ever posted many house pictures, here is our newly cleaned & reorganized home:)...